That we must carry our flag everywhere; that there must be no dispensation: these are the cardinal points of our philosophy.

Life is a great battlefield, and any hour in the day a man's flag may be challenged and he must stand and justify it.
An idea you hold as true is not to be professed only where it is proclaimed; it will whisper and you must be its prophet in strange places; it is insistent of all things--you must glory in it or deny it; there is no escaping it, and there is no middle way; wherever your path lies it will cross you and you must choose.
Beware lest on any plea you put it by.

You cannot elect to do nothing; the concourse of circumstances would take you to some side; to do nothing is still to take a side.

Priest, poet, professor, public man, professional man, business man, tradesman--everyone will be called to answer; in every walk of life the true idea will find the false in conflict and the battle must be fought out there--the battle is lost when we satisfy ourselves with an academic debate in our spare moments.
This is a debating club age, and a plea for an ideal is often wasted, taken as a mere point in an argument; but to walk among men fighting passionately for it as a thing believed in, is to make it real, to influence men never reached in other ways; it is to arrest attention, arouse interest and quicken the masses to advance.

And wherever the appeal for the flag is calling us the snare of the enemy is in wait.