Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-18

accoralng to whether or not Won do vour
1o1 duty in the sphere wbsra God ha.
placed you. w" 60
p you give to two of your children
efranos, and they are to go off to make
purchases, and to one you give one dollar
ana 20 the other you give twenty dollars.
twos you reward the boy that you gave
w" :Hn.y dollars to for purchasing more
y. - 'nat amount of money than the 9TH
Ct ooy purchased with one dollar? OF
course not. IT God gave wealth, or social
or eloquence, or twenty times the
slaoul'y 10 a man that he gives to the or.
Is He going to give to the
favored man a reward because he has
4ore wv and more influence! Oh. no.
Ia ocner words, if you and 1 do our whole
aucy, and you have twenty times more
Salent than l have, you will get no more
uiVine reward than I will. Is God going
W reward you because He gave you any
mat would not be fair; that would
not be right. These two hundred men of
1ne text who tarried by the brook Besor
dld their whole duty; thew watched the
baggage, they took care of the stuff. and
1ney got as much of the spoils of victory
as 'ne men who went to the front. Gas
MS part Is that goeth down to the battle,
so snail his part be that tarrieth by the
stuff"
ihere is high encouragement in this for
all who have great responsibility and little
credit for what they do. You know the
names of the great commercial houses of
these cities. Do you know the confidential
clerks-the men who have the kew 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 saw:
"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 manufacturers" The confden-
tlal clerk has his week off. Nobody no.
tlces 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 philanthropist whose invest
ments 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
hagmen, the names of the brakemen,
These men have awful responsibilities, and
sometimes, through the recklessness of an
engineer or the unfaithfulness of q switch.
man, is brought to mind the faithfulness
of nearly all the rest of them. Such men
do not nave recognition Of their services.
They have small wages and much COM
plant. l very often ride Upon locomotives,
and l very often ask the question as we
shoot around some curve or under some
ledge of rocks: "How much wages do you
get?" and l 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 atdeath to receive from
God his destiny was no better known in
that hour than was known last night the
brakeman who on the railroad was damned
to death amid the car coupling. Gas 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 Kissed 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. 1 do not
think there was a man or woman that
went off that ship without thanking Cap
tain Andrews, and when years after I
heard of his death I was impelled to write
q letter of coincidence to his family in
Liverpool. Everybody recognized the
goodness, the courage, the kindness of
Captain Andrews; but it occurred to me
now that we never thanked the engineer.
He stood away down in the darkness amid
the kissing furnaces doing his whole duty.
Nobody thanked the engineer, but God
recognized his heroism and his continu-
ance and his fidelity, and there will be
just as high reward for the engineer who
worked out of sight, as the Captain who
stood on the bridge Of sthe ship in the
midst of the bowling tempest. GAS his
part is that goeth downsto the battle, SO
shall his part be that tarrieth by the
stuff"
A Christian woman was seen going
along the edge of a wood every eventide,
and the %neighbors in the country did not
understand how a mother, with SO many
cares and anxieties, should waste so much
time as to be idly sauntering out evening
by evening. 1t was found out after ward
that she went there to pray for her house
hold, and while there n evening she
wrote that beautiful hymn, famous in all
ages for cheering Christian hearts:
"Ilovo to steal q while away
From every numbering care,
And spend the hours of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer"
Shall there be nc reward for such I'M
pretending, yet everlasting service?
Clear back in the country there is a
boy who wants to get to college and get
an education. They call him a book
worm. Wherever they find HMM the
barn or in the house-he is reading a
book. "What a pity it is" they say,
"that Ed can not get an education" His
father, work as hard as he will, can no
more than support the family by the
product of the farm. One night Ed had
retired to his room and there is a family
conference about him. The sisters say