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Today's reading was edited and adapted from Love's Way by Orison Sweat Martin, published in 1918.

J.R. Miller once said,

Someday we shall learn that the little deeds of love made unconsciously as we pass on our way, are greater in their helpfulness

and shine more brightly in the life, than the deeds of renown that we think now make a life

great. Never was there a greater mistake than to think that heroism, courage and daring, are confined

to the field of battle. It doesn't matter what post we are assigned to in the Battle of Life.

We have an opportunity to do heroic things every day.

If we have the spirit of love, if we are filled with the love of truth and justice,

if we are determined always to stand for the right no matter what the cost,

we are always battling for the higher things of life.

It is as heroic to take a firm stand for honesty when it may cost you your job,

or to rescue a person from a burning building or from drowning, as it is to go into military battle.

It is heroic to stand for the right when others sneer and condemn you

for doing so. Indeed, it often takes more courage to stand alone for the right, for justice,

for principle, and those about you ridicule and caricature you for your stand, then it would be to walk up to a cannon's mouth in battle.

If you can keep up your courage when others lose heart, if you can keep pushing on when others turn back, if you can smile and wait when others play the coward and

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