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Excerpt from Life of William Edward Collins: Bishop of Gibraltar
Next to this steady concentration of aim, the most marked characteristic of the man was his physical and moral courage. A letter from a layman, who was one of his best friends, lies before me. The writer says The two features of his character must always be the breadth of his mind and his extraordinary personal courage, both rooted in a Simple and unassuming confidence in the Almighty's decrees. Whatever it was to be, it must be right one only goal in front Of him, - to make for it regardless of all, whether on the right hand or the left, so long as the Object aimed at was reached. The courage of which this friend speaks was not shown only in crises of imminent danger, but in the way in which the Bishop at the last deliberately took his life in his hand, and travelled and laboured and ministered when any one else would have retired to the Sick-room. Yet even when most venturesome, he took every precaution that the circumstances admitted, and was never foolhardy or (in these ways) self-willed. That imperious will of his not only undertook heroic tasks, but set itself patiently to use all means that prudence might suggest for their accomplish ment.
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