CAPE ARGUS - 1939,
January 28
“Never allow
a failure to be your final effort; make it a stepping stone to another attempt.
Accept a defeat as a challenge to your manhood, a call to a renewed endeavor,
to a firmer resolution. Let it be said of you, as it was said of one of the
greatest soldiers of history, ‘He profited by defeat as other men profited by
victory.’” – Colonel Edward H. Joy, Congregational Church, Rondebosch
During the
Great War soldiers were wont to say that it was mental agony to fight an unseen
enemy. To be shot at and not to see your assailant is to be at a tremendous
disadvantage; to see him face to face is to take his measure and to know how to
act. In the great spiritual warfare, which goes on for your soul you realise
that your foes are not flesh and blood but the spirits of wickedness, and in
your constant defeat you cry, ‘Can I overcome?’ Yes, cries the Word of God. We
are more than conquerors through our faith in Christ Who loved us.” – The Rev.
RW Wighton, Baptist Church, Observatory
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