Section 141. HERO WORSHIP. II.
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Blessed[1] and ennobling is the feeling which gathers round a wise teacher or[2] a great statesman all the more earnest, high-minded, pious youths of his generation[3]; the[4] feeling which makes[5] soldiers follow the general whom they trust, they know not why or whither, through danger[6], hunger, fatigue, and[7] death itself; the[4] feeling which, in its highest perfection, made[8] the Apostles forsake all and follow Christ[9], saying (S. 111, N. 6): “Lord, to[10] whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life,” and which made them[11] ready to work[12] and to die for Him whom the world called the Son of the carpenter, but whom they, through[13] the Spirit of God bearing witness with their own pure and noble spirits, knew[14] to be the Son of the Living God.—Charles Kingsley, “The Water of Life.”