I
would do the best I could, and leave the result with God, and it has
been a wonderful help to me.
"We Will Never Surrender."
There's a story told in history in the ninth century, I believe, of a
young man that came up with a little handful of men to attack a king who
had a great army of three thousand men. The young man had only five
hundred, and the king sent a messenger to the young man, saying that he
need not fear to surrender, for he would treat him mercifully. The young
man called up one of his soldiers and said: "Take this dagger and drive
it to your heart;" and the soldier took the dagger and drove it to his
heart. And calling up another, he said to him, "Leap into yonder chasm,"
and the man leaped into the chasm. The young man then said to the
messenger, "Go back and tell your King I have got five hundred men like
these. We will die, but we will never surrender. And tell your King
another thing; that I will have him chained with my dog inside of half
an hour." And when the King heard that he did not dare to meet them, and
his army fled before them like chaff before the wind, and within
twenty-four hours he had that King chained with his dog. That is the
kind of zeal we want. "We will die, but we will never surrender.
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