Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-09-18

A well-known Methodist divine, in some
recent remarks, said that he believed the
world was growing better every day; and.
n spite of all the constant cry rs TO the
Generalization of society. it does really
seem as if the sweetest and tenderest feel
lngs of humanity have still firm root in
he heart of man. In this work-a-day life
OF ours there are not the same opportuni-
ties for courage and heroism which might
be found in lands where men have had 10
struggle bravely to resist the encroaeh-
ment, of oppression and tyranny. Wal
lace, Tell and Kosciusko are names which
thrill the heart like trumpet peal, and
are constantly used us examples of un-
shrinking courage and devoted patriotism
And yet these men had something to in
spire them in their work. They knew that
the power of their opinions was to be tried,
and that on their success or failure de-
pended the fact whether those who believ-
ed in them would be strengthened in their
lth or break their covenant. But no such
feelings inspire those who move along un-
noticed and unseen in the bumblest walks
of life, doing their duty manfully. and not
even sustained by the hope that their
names will ever be heard Of beyond the
narrow circle in which they move, or that
their deeds will blossom in crowns of glo-
ry.
Yet there are thousands ofsuch unknown
heroes among us. and it is onlv when
some unusual circumstances arise that the
world recognizes their presence. When u
fire breaks out in some large city and /,
cry of distress comes up from homeless,
starving men and women, there is a ready
response. There is no need, then, that
homiies should be spoken from the pu pit
on the necessity of giving; lone .ouch of
nature makes the whole world kim" and
the pureSt emotions are called into being
by the knowledge that there is suffering to
be alleviat:'d. The yellow fever scourge,
by which several of The cities in the south
are prostrated, has called forth as noble
exhibitions of self sacrifice rs any that
blize in the pages Of history, or have en-
titled men TO Il niche in the worlds Wal
halla. Women have moved around through
fever-strcken cities like whte-robed min
listers of mercy; doctors, recognizing the
fact that =" an epidemic is the battlefield of
Il true physician" have cheerfnlly entered
the lists and fought step by step the insidi-
Gus advance of the plague; and the people
in the distant north, forgetting all section
al differences, have gladly given of their
means to relieve The general distress. Tel
egraph operators have clung bravely to
their posts, and even poor newspaper re-
porter, sent to Grenada, writes as follows
My specials are written tonight in IL
house where there is one corpse and four
are down, and l am so worn out rs not to
be able to write connectedly. What you
get is authentic, written on the spot, but
in few days you may wipe me off the
map" The famous sayings of brave men
dying for their country do not better de-
serve embalming than these simple words,
which have about them the true ring of
heroism, even if the writer never stormed
the imminent, deadly breach" or march
ed up detiantly 10 the mouth of the cannon.
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