Years ago, a young man named George Atley was serving in the Central African Mission. He was attacked by a group of natives. He had with him a Winchester repeating rifle with ten loaded chambers. The group was completely at his mercy. He could have killed every one of them. But as he assessed the situation, he realized that if he killed them, it would do the mission more harm than if he allowed them to take his life. When his body was found in the stream, his rifle was still loaded with its ten chambers.vii He had the weapon to win, but love restrained the use of that weapon. The meek are “those who have weapons and know how to use them but keep them sheathed.”
Included in sermon by Richard Tow entitled "The Meek." Quotation is from Paul Lee Tan, ed., Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations (Rockville, Maryland: Assurance Publishers, 1979), 1176-1177.