Endurance is that quality or attribute combining both physical and mental strength. One may have strength for a moment, or for an emergency, but Continuity of Strength must include the mental and Spiritual states as well as the physical; in fact, "to hold out to the end" under a great strain or stress, is given to but few in human life, and, of course, may sometimes illustrate a culmination along the line toward more perfect attributes.

The Stoics taught uncomplaining submission to whatever ills or adverse conditions life presented; but mere physical endurance or stubborn submission is not the illustration that an Angel would bring into expression. A dogged determination not to yield to either physical or mental circumstances, is frequently found in a person of otherwise inconsiderable force of character; but when coupled with the attributes that illustrate broad lines of unfoldment, Endurance rises to the grandeur of heroism.

Angels of Endurance show the possibilities of what one in human life can bear.

Nor is the illustration one of bearing merely - but of doing as well. It includes so much that must be treated under other names that we pause here for the time until those illustrations are reached.