October 13

Thou hast given a banner to them that feared Thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth.— Ps. lx, 4.

Unfurl the Christian Standard, and follow through the strife The noble army who have won the martyr's crown of life; Our ancestors could die for Truth, could brave the deadly glow;

And shall we let the Standard fall, and yield it to the foe? FRANCES R. HAVERGAL.

Yes, better 'tis to die Than from the strife to fly— Be thou a hero on the field, With arm close bound to duty's shield; Aloft the standard hold Among the true and bold. Turn not ignobly back A traitor on life's holy track; But fall on valiant ground, And be with honor crowned. A rank among the faithful claim, And leave to earth a blessed name That kin and kind may hold Above the price of gold.

ANON.

Wherever a man has placed himself thinking it the best place for him, or has been placed by a com- mander, there in my opinion he ought to stay and to abide the hazard, taking nothing into the reckoning, either death or anything else, before the baseness of deserting his post.

M. AURELIUS ANTONINUS.