Article January 25, 1930 Issue

Our hardest conflicts are not fought in public; our hardest...

W. L. Watkinson

Our hardest conflicts are not fought in public; our hardest conflicts are on a hidden field. There is no one to rejoice when we are conquerors; no one to hear the tidings of defeat. And yet these hidden conflicts of the heart, which we imagine to be so unobserved, get themselves written out upon the character, and clothe us at the last as in a garment. . . . Thy speech betrayeth thee—thy look is telltale—if not to-day it will be by and by. And at the last no victory is secret, though it be won in solitude and silence.

W. L. Watkinson

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