Cause of Truth

Visions and dreams were regarded by the superstitious as omens either of good or ill. There were few among even the great men of ancient times who disregarded them. Pyrrhus, however, appears to have despised them, and, when his friends desired to encourage him in the belief that one of his dreams predicted great success in his engagements, he told them that such things might serve as amusements for the vulgar, but that they were too uncertain and obscure for him to trust. He urged them to take their weapons in their hands, remembering, "The best of omens is the cause of Pyrrhus." Those who have no faith in the cause they advocate had better let their tongues be still and their swords rest in their scabbards. No signs or omens can give either the skill or the courage which a certainty of right can bestow. We should not deceive ourselves that our cause is good, though the whole skies are fall of portents, if it is not built upon truth and buttressed by righteousness. "The cause of God and truth " needs none of the adjuncts which men would give to it. It bears its own seal manual, which is that it is divine; and this divinity is enough to ensure its ultimate and glorious success.--Anon