Or perhaps He will not work them, and I shall die, because thus His ends will best be forwarded.

At the least I go in faith, fearing nothing, for what has he to fear who knows the will of God and does it?
But to you who doubt, I say--leave me!" The man spread out his hands in deprecation; his thick lips trembled a little, and something like a tear appeared at the corners of his eyes.
"Father," he said, "am I a coward that you should talk to me thus?
I, who for twenty years have been a soldier of my king and for ten a captain in my regiment?
These scars show whether or no I am a coward," and he pointed to his breast, "but of them I will not speak.

I am no coward, else I had not gone upon that errand of yours.

Why, then, should you reproach me because my ears are not so open as yours, as my heart has not understanding?
I worship that God of Whom you have taught me, but He never speaks to me as He does to you.

I never meet Him as I walk at night; He leaves me quite alone.