Article February 15, 1958 Issue

"MORAL COURAGE IS REQUISITE"

J. LESLIE HADDON

Conservatism often seems to be an inherent characteristic in human nature. It is a trait which strongly opposes any innovation that threatens it. To do things not customarily done, to speak or act differently from the common practice of humans, usually calls for moral courage. To be a declared Christian requires a measure of this courage, but far more is needed to demonstrate the practicality of the Christian religion and to heal spiritually as Christ Jesus taught men to do.

Moral courage is a human quality, although indeed a very high one. It sustains one through mental conflict, wherein material sense gives place to spiritual sense and consciousness makes its decision between right and wrong, good and evil, truth and error.

Moral courage leads up to the point where one definitely aligns himself on the side of good and realizes God as All-in-all. At that point courage, having so well served its purpose, is superseded by spiritual strength, which leads to inevitable victory.

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