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"He Lived for His Faith (a poem)" (posted May 3, 2008)

  Walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
   - Colossians 1:10

So he died for his faith. That is fine--
    More than most of us do.
But stay! Can you add to that line
    That he lived for it, too?

It is easy to die. Men have died
    For a wish or a whim--
From bravado or passion or pride.
    Was it harder for him?

But to live--every day to live out
    All the truth that he dreamt,
While his friends met his conduct with doubt,
    And the world, with contempt--

Was it thus that he plodded ahead,
    Never turning aside?
Then, we'll talk of the life that he led--
    Never mind how he died.

Ernest Crosby



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