THE POWER WITHIN
It is recorded in history that when Julius Caesar was still a youth he was captured by pirates and chained to the oars as a galley slave. While performing these arduous duties Caesar told stories, sang songs and declaimed with endless good humour. Chains; bound Caesar to the oars, but his words bound th;a pirates to himself. Soon his knowledge of ocean currents, coasts and routes of treasure ships caused him to bo u thru ul and made first mato(. He soon won the sailors over, puttii-:; cap!a : n n irons, and ruled the ship like a liing. A 1 iilU* laler lit?
sailed the ship as a prize into a Roman port. Circumstances make little difference to the man who has power within himself. When that inner power is linked with the almighty power of God, he has nothing to fear from life.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 61, 2 April 1943, Page 6
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147THE POWER WITHIN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 61, 2 April 1943, Page 6
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