Strong Souls is a collection of Christian sermons by Charles Beard about Jesus and the qualities that constitute a strong soul and a full and worthy life. Excerpt: "Life is a gift of very unequal distribution. I am not speaking merely of the length of life, though that is an important element in the case: there may be sad and quiet years which do not count: we have known existences which crept on in one dull round, from petty pleasure to petty pleasure…"