[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":22},["ShallowReactive",2],{"library-daily-strength-for-daily-needs-1204":3},{"id":4,"date":4,"session":5,"title":6,"blocks":7},"1204","","December 4",[8,11,14,17,20],{"type":9,"text":10},"scripture","Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called.--I TIM. vi. 12.",{"type":12,"text":13},"verse","Oh, dream no more of quiet life;\nCare finds the careless out; more wise to vow\nThy heart entire to faith's pure strife;\nSo peace will come, thou knowest not when or how.",{"type":15,"text":16},"attribution","LYRA APOSTOLICA.",{"type":18,"text":19},"paragraph","Who art thou that complainest of thy life of toil? Complain not. Look up, my wearied brother; see thy fellow-workmen there, in God's Eternity; surviving there, they alone surviving; sacred band of the Immortals, celestial body-guard of the empire of mankind. To thee Heaven, though severe, is not unkind; Heaven is kind,--as a noble mother; as that Spartan mother, saying while she gave her son his shield, \"With it, my son, or upon it.\" Thou too shall return home in honor; to thy far-distant Home, in honor; doubt it not,--if in the battle thou keep thy shield! Thou, in the Eternities and deepest death-kingdoms art not an alien; thou everywhere art a denizen. Complain not.",{"type":15,"text":21},"T. CARLYLE.",1790042087908]