St. Landry democrat., 1885-09-12

Suh1l never De caI1eu 10 Hlth6 q queen
tremble for her crimes. shall never pre-
side over a hospital" There are women
who say: 'tIf had as brilliant q sphere
as those people had, should be as brave
and grand; but my business is to get the
children off to school, and to hunt up
things when they are lost and to see that
dinner is ready, and to keep account OF
the household expenses, and to hinder the
children from being strangulated by the
whooping cough, and to go through all
the annoy ances and vexations OF house,
keeping. Oh, my sphere is so infnitesi-
NAL, and so Insignificant, am clear dis"
outraged" Woman, God places you on
garrison duty, and your reward will be
Just as great as that of Florence Nightln-
gale, who, moving so often night by night
with a light in her hand through the hos
pitfalls, was called by the wounded the
'lady of the lamp" Your reward win be
as great as that of Mrs. Hertzog, who
built and endowed theological seminary
buildings. Your reward will be just as
great as that of Hannah More, who by her
excellent books won for her admirers Gar
rick, and Edmund Burke, and Joshua
REYNOLDS. Rewards are not to be accord
ing to the amount of noise you make in
the world, nor even according to the
amount of good you do, but according to
whether you work to your full capacity,
according to whether or not you do your
full duty in the sphere where God has
placed you.
Suppose you give to two of your children
errands, and they are to go off to make
nd IN ono Won olive dollar
and to the other you give twenty dollars.
| Do you reward the boy that you gave
| twenty dollars to for purchasing more
with that amount of money than the 9TH
er boy purchased with one dollar? Of
| course not. If God gave wealth, or social
position, or eloquence, or twenty times the
| faculty to a man that he gives to the or
binary men, is He going to give to the
| favored man q reward because he has
more power and more influence! Oh, no.
| In other words, if you and do our whole
duty, and you have twenty times more
| talent than | have, you will get no more
divine reward than I will. Is God going
| to reward you because He gave you any
more? That would not be fair; that would
| not be right. These two hundred men of
the text who tarried by the brook Besor
| did their whole duty; they watched the
baggage, they took care Of the stuff, and
they got as much of the spoils of victory
| as the men who went to the front. "As
his part is that goeth down to the battle,
so shall his part be that tarrieth by the
| stuff"
j There is high encouragement in this for
| all who have great responsibility and little
credit for what they do. You know the
names o. the great commercial houses of
these cities. Do you know the confidential
cIerks-the men who have the key to the
safe, the names of the men who know the
combination lock? A distinguished mer
| chant goes forth at the summer watering
! place and he flashes past, and you say:
"Who is that" "Oh,' replies some
one, "don't you know that is the great
importer, that is the great banker, that is
the great manufacturer" The confiden-
tial clerk has his week off. Nobody no.
tees whether he comes or goes. Nobody
| knows him, and after awhile his week is
done, and he sits down again to his desk
But God will reward his fidelity just as
much as He recognizes the work of the
merchant phtlanthropist whose invest
lnents this unknown clerk SO faithfully
| guarded. Business men know the names
| of the Presidents and prominent directors
| of the great railroads; but they do not
| know the names of the engineers, the
names of the switchmen, the names of the
/ fagmen, the names of the brakemen.
| These men have awful responsibilities, and
| sometimes through the recklessness of an
| engineer or the unfaithfulness of switch.
| man, is brought to mind the faithfulness
! of nearly all the rest of them. Such men
do not have recognition of their services.
They have small wages and much COM
plant. very often ride upon locomotives,
and I very often ask the question as we
/ shoot around some curve or under some
ledge of rocks: How much wages do you
/ get?n and am always surprised to find
how little for such vast responsibility. Do
/ you not suppose God is going to recognize
/ that fidelity? The head of some railway
company going up at death to receive from
/ God his destiny was no better known in
| that hour than was known last night the
| brakeman who on therailroad was damned
to death amid the car coupling. "As his
part is that goeth down to the battle, so
shall his part be that tarrieth by the
stuff"
Once for thirty-six hours we expected
every moment to go to the bottom of the
ocean. The waves struck through the sky
lights and rushed down into the hold of the
ship and Missed against the boilers. 1t was
an awful time, but by the blessing of God
and the faithfulness Of the men in charge
we came out of the cyclone and we arrived
at home. Each man before leaving the
ship thanked Captain Andrews. do not
think there was man or woman that
went off that ship without thanking Cap
tain Andrews, and when years after
] heard of his death was impelled to write