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A Lenten devotional, J. Howard B. Masterman’s Aspects of Christian Character looks at the Beatitudes in a common sense way that also displays depth of thought. Masterman—through his reflection on the Beatitudes—illustrates the power and reasonableness of the Christian character as the antidote to an age of moral confusion.

of many men when he impeached the slave-morality of Jesus. But he was wrong. It needs more courage to be meek than to be arrogant, it needs more strength to be merciful than to be vindictive; self-sacrifice is nobler than self-assertiveness; it is a manlier thing to serve with Jesus than to conquer with Thor. It is accepted The angry defiance, The challenge of battle! It is accepted, But not with the weapons Of war that thou wieldest! Cross against corslet, Love against hatred, Peace-cry for war-cry!
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