Don't Just Stand There, "Cheer!"

“Once, when a great fire broke out at midnight a huge crowd gathered and everyone thought that all the residents had been safely removed. But then, away up on the fifth story a little child was seen crying for help. Up went a ladder, and soon a fireman was seen ascending to the spot. As he neared the second story, the flames burst out from the windows toward the ladder in great fury, and the multitude almost despaired of the rescue of the child. The brave man faltered, and a fellow fireman at the bottom of the ladder cried out to the crowd ‘CHEER HIM!’ Cheer after cheer arose from the crowd. Up the ladder he went, and saved the child because they cheered him! If you cannot go into the heat of the battle yourself, if you cannot go into the harvest field and work day by day, you can cheer those that are working for the Master.” (From a message preached in a 50-day crusade in New York, 1876 by Dwight L. Moody.)