The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-17

viii make our old dresses do" The mother says:
Yes, will get along without
any hired help, although l am not
get along without any hired help The father
says, We'll think by working nights can get
along without any assistance" Sugar is ban
ished from the table, butter is banished from the
plate That family is put down on rigid yea
suffering economy that the boy may go to col
lege. Time passes on. Graduation day has
come Think not that | mention an imaginary
case. God knows it happened. Commencement
day has come, and the professors walk in OF the
stage in their long gowns The interest of the
occasion is passing on, and after awhile it comes
to a.clmax of interest as the valedictorian is to
be introduced. Ed has studied so hard and
worked so well that he has had the honor con-
ferred upon him. There are rounds of applause,
sometimes breaking irto vociferation. 1t is a
great day for Ed. But away back in the gal
eries are his sisters in plain hats and their faded
shawls, and the old-fashioned father and mother
dear me- she has not had a new hat for six
years; he has not had new coat for six years
and they get up and look over on the platform,
and they laugh, and they cry, and they sit down,
ana they look pale and then they are very much
flushed Ed gets the garlands. and the old
fashioned group in the gallery have their full
share of the triumph. They have made that
scene possible and in the day when God shall
more fully reward self sacrifces made for Others
ne 81 VIII give grand and glorious recognition
''As his part is that goeth down to the battle so
shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff"
THE UNAPPRECIATED WILL BE REWARDED.
There is high encouragement in this subject
also, for those who once wrought nigh thy for
Christ and the church. but through sickness, or
collapse of fortune, advanced years. cannot
now go to the front. These two hundred men of
the text were veterans. Let that man bare his
arm, and show how the muscles were torn. Let
him pull aside the turban, and see the mark of
battle axe. Pull aside the coat, and see where
the spear thrust him. Would it have been fair
for those men-crippled, weak and old, by the
brook Besor-to have share in the spois of
triumph! Do you think my Lord is going to
turn OIL His old soldiers because they are weak
and worn! Are they going to get no part in the
spoils of victory? Just look at them. Do you
think tn ose crevices in the face are wrinkles?
No; they are battle sears They fought against
sickness, they fought against trouble they
fought against sin, they fought for God, they
fought for the church. they fought for the truth,
they fought for heaven. When they had plenty
of money their names were always on the sub
scription list. When there was any hard work
to be done for God. they were ready to take the
heaviest part of it. When there came a great
revival, they We're ready to pray all night for the
anxious and the sin-struck. They were ready to
do any work, endure any sacrifice do the most
unpopular thing that God demanded of them.
But now they cannot so further. Now they
have physical nfirnlities; their heads trouble
them. They are weak and faint by the brook
Besor. Are they to have share in the tri
umpht Are they to get none Of the treasures
none of the spois of conquest2 You must think
that Christ has a very short memory if you
think He has forgotten their services.
Fret not. we aged ones. Just tarry by the
stuff and wait foryour share of the spoils. Yon-
der they are coming. | hear the bleating Of the
fat lambs and see the jewels CLINT in the sun. 1t
makes me laugh to think how you will be sur
prised when they throw Il chain of gold over your
neck and tell you to 60 in and dine with the
king. | see you backing out because you feel
unworthy. The shining ones come I'D on one
side, and the shining ones come up on the other
side, and they push you on. and they push you
up, and they say, Here is old soldier of
Jesus Christ and the shining ones will rush out
toward you and say, Yes, that man saved my
soul, or they will rush out and say, 'Oh, yes.
she was with me in the last sickness" And then
the cry will 20 round the circle, Come in, come
In, come up come up; we saw you away down
there old, and SICK and decrepit and dis
couraged because you could not 90 to the 'front.'
but as his part is that goeth down to battle, so
shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff"
There is high consolation also in this for aged
ministers. | see some of them here to, day
They sit in pews in our churches. They used to
stand in pulpits. Their hair is white with the
blossoms of the tree Of life Their names marked
on the roll of the General Assembly. or of the
consolation Emeritus" They sometimes hear
a text announced which brings to mind ser
mon they preached fifty years ago on that same
subject. They preached more gospel on $400
year than some Of their successors on $4,000
Some Sunday the old minister is in church, and
near by III another pew there is ahusband, and
wife, and row of children. And after the bene-
dction the lady comes up and says, Doctor
you don't know me, do you" well he says
your face is familiar, but cannot call you by
name" why" she says ''you baptized me-
and you married me, and You buried my father,
and mother, and sisters" 'Oh yes" he says,
my eyesight isn't good as it used to be-"
They are in all our churches--the heroes of 1920
the heroes of 1882, the heroes of 1857 By the
long grave trench that cut through half a CEN
fury they have stood sounding the resurrection.
They have been in more Balaklavas and have
taken more Sebastopos than you ever heard Of
Sometimes they get little fIetful because they
cannot be at the front. They hear the sound of
the battle. ard the old war horse champs his bit
But the 10000 ministers of religion, this day
standing III the brunt of the fray, shall have no
more reward than those retired veterans. "My
Father, my Father, the chariots of Israel and
the hOrsemen thereof" LAS his part is that
goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be
that tarrieth by the stuff"
Cheer mp, men-and women of unarpreciated
services. You will get your reward; if not mere
hereafter. When Charles Wesley comes up to
Judgment, and the thousands of souls which
were waited into glory through his songs shall be
enumerated, he will take his throne. Then John
Wesley will come up to judjment, and after his
name has been mentioned in connection with
lhc Vi illIlollS Oh sous Drought NIOd
through the Methodism which he founded, he
will take his throne But between the two
thrones of Charles Wesley and John Wesley
there will be throne higher than either on
which will sit Susannah Wesley who, with ma
ternal conservation i'll Epworth rectory. Lin
colnshire. started those two souls on their tri-
umphant mission of sermon and song through
all following ages. Oh, what a day that will be
for many who have rocked Christian cradles with
weary foot, and who patched worn out garments
and darned socks, and out of small income
made the children comfortable for the winter
What day that will be for those to whom the
world gave the cold shoulder, and called them
nobodies, and begrudged them the least recogni-
ton and who, weary, and worn, and sick,
tainted by the brook Besor! Oh that will be
mighty day when the Son of David shall distrib-
ute among them the garlands the crowns, the scep-
tres. the charots the thrones And then it shall be
found out that ali who on earth served God in