This has also been the sustaining power of all the adventurous spirits of mankind, of Abraham who went out not knowing whither he went, of Moses who renounced the ease of Pharaoh's court, of David who magnanimously spared the life of his chief enemy. These and their like who put their fortunes to the hazard for an idea, for a God-given impulse of liberty or compassion or chivalry, did so because they felt they could leave their destiny in sure keeping. So it was with the heroes of a later age; men like Frobisher who braved the perils of fog and iceberg to explore the Nonth West Passage; like Living-atone whose burning heart contended with the fever-stricken swamps of Africa; like Lincoln whose soul was the pivot for the tragic uncertainty of the Civil War; like Dostoyevsky who was forced into the company of criminals in Siberia at the opening of his literary career. These and' bow many more kept a heart of peace in every kind of peril because they were conscious of an over-ruling Hand.
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