Everyday Duty as Martyrdom by Phillips Brooks

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 26.

Everyday Duty as Martyrdom

By Phillips Brooks

You picture to yourself the beauty of bravery and steadfastness. You let your imagination wander in delight over the memory of martyrs who have died for truth. And, then, some little, wretched, disagreeable duty comes, which is your martyrdom, the lamp for your oil; and, if you will not do it, how your oil is spilt! how flat and thin and unilluminated your sentiment about the martyrs runs out over your self-indulgent life!—Phillips Brooks.