Admiral Nelson won the great Battle of Trafalgar against the French during the Napoleonic Wars. The Viscount of Camperdown, who also won many battles during that period, was one of the admirals under Nelson. The Viscount of Canperdown’s family crest had a ship with full sails on it and with two little Latin words: Disce pai—”Lean to suffer.” That is precisely what Peter and Paul and Job and Moses and Jesus would say to you and me as believers in the fallen world. “Learn to suffer.

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