The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-11-02
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it most important thing. Discourage
ment, no doubt, settles upon multitude
of minds at the recital the story of
Moses, or Joshua OF a David, or Paul,
or a Luther, or a Knox, or a Deborah,
or a Hannah, or a Florence Nightingale.
People say: That was very brave and
good for those men and women to act as
they did, but l shall never be called of
God to stand on Mount Sinai to receive
the law, or to make the sun and moon
stand still, OF slay giant, or preach on
Mars Hill, or defy the Diet of Worms, OF
make a Queen tremble for her crimes,
or preside over the hospitals" Some
woman says: "If | had such a sphere OF
duty | would fill it, but there is no
chance for me. My business is to get
the children ready for school, and to
mend ripped garments, and to see that
dinner is ready, and to keep account OF
household expenses, and to hinder the
WhOOping cough from stTangling the
children and to hunt up things that are
lost. NV work is so inhnitesimal that
lam discouraged" o, woman! if you
do that we'll which you call Insignificant
Won will have as large reward as Flor
ence Nightingale, who, from going the
rounds of the hospital at night with
lamp in her hands, was called by the
wounded "The Lady of the Lamp. Pe0-
pie are to be rewarded not according TO
the amount of good they do, but accord
ing to whether or not they have worked
up to their full capacity, according 10
the manner in which they do what they
are set TO do. If God gives man wealth
or social influence OF elOquence, and
twenty times more power than to another
man who has only ordinary qualltica-
tiOc. He will not rew.Id lie favored man
because he accOmplisheS more than the
ordinary man. In other words, If you
and do our duty, and you have twenty
times more talent than |, you Will get
no more divine reward than Will. God
is not going to reward you for what He
gave you; it is only for the right use OF
your faculties.
This subject ought to be encourage.
mpnt to men in positions OF response
bility, who get little credit now for what
they do. You know the names OF the
great commercial houses of these cities;
but who are the confidential clerks; VINO
are the men who have the key of the
safe, and know the combination lock;
The merchants are hOnOred on Change
and their names are known the world
over; but the confidential clerk goes and
comes and is unknown. God knows his
fidelity will get as much reward as that
merchant philanthrOpist whose Interests
the unknown clerk peTpetnally guarded.
Hudson River Railroad, pennsylvania
Railroad, New York ana New Haven
Railroad are known the world over; but
can you tell me who are the engineers,
the conductors, the switchmen, the flag
men? No! Yet they have awful respon-
sibilities. They never come to the front
of appreciation, but thousands of lives
are in their hands and millions of dol
lars worth of property. But they shall
have their reward. When Thomas scott,
the President of the Pennsylvania Rail
road, went up to God he was not better
known than the brakeman who, on the
Erie Railroad, was last night killed be-
tween the car couplings.
A Christian woman, at almost every
eyentide, was seen to go out and walk
by grove of trees, and people wondered
why a mother with so many household
duties should waste so much time in idle
saunteTing. All, she went there to pray,
and afterWard wrote out her experience
in the hymn which has strengthened
many souls: