Enervated by Prosperity

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness…

Amid the luxurious ease of the valley men degenerate, but among the mountains we find a brave and hard race, for there the dangers of the crags and the cold of winter brace nerve and muscle till each becomes vigorous, and men are fit for acts of valour and deeds of heroism. It is in battle and service that veteran soldiers are bred.

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