The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-01-14
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
1.-THE New Scroll Of Martyrs" Forms
an Interesting Theme.

The Heroes Who Choose a Sphere Far
Higher, Far Nobler Than Those Which
Rely On the Shedding of Human
Blood for Fame and Glory.
In the course of his recent Western trip
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage visited Detroit,
Mich, and delivered sermon on the above
subject at the jefferson Avenue Presbyte-
rian Church, taking for his ta1t: a
Thou therefore endure hardness-lI limo.
thy, H. 3.
DR.. Talmage said: Historians are not
slow to acknowledge the merits of great
military chieftains. We have the full
length portraits of the Cromwells, the
Washingtons, the Napoleons and the We'll
lingtons of the world. History is not writ
ten in black ink, but with red ink of human
blood. The gods of human ambition do
not drink from bowls made out Of silver or
gold or precious stones, but out Of the
bleached skulls of the fallen. But / am
now to unron before you scroll of heroes
that the world has never acknowledged;
those who faced 20 guns, blew no bugle-
blast, conquered no cities, chained no cap
tives to their chariot-wheels, and yet in
the great day Of eternity viii stand higher
than those whose names startled the ma
tions; and seraph and rapt spirits and
archangel will tell their deeds to listen
ing universe. mean the heroes of COM
mon everyday life.
In this roll, in the first place, / find all
the heroes OF the sick-room. When Satan
had failed to overcome Job he said to God:
"Put forth thine hand now, and touch his
bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee
to thy face" Satan had found out what
we have all found out, that sickness is
the greatest test of ones character. A
man who can stand that can stand
anything-to be shut in room as fast
as though it were bastile; to be SO
nervous you can not endure the tap of a
child,s foot; to have luxurrant fruit
which tempts the appetite of the robust
and healthy, excite our loathing and dis
gust when it appears on the platter; to
have the rapier of pain strike through the
side or across the temples like razor; or
to put the foot into a wise or throw the
whole body into blaze Of fever. Yet
there have been men and women, more
women than men, who have cheer
fully endured this hardness. Through
years of exhausting rheumatism and
excruciating neuralgias they have gone,
and through bodily distresses that rasped
the nerves and tore the muscles, and paled
the cheeks and stopped the shoulders. By
the dim light Of the sick.roorn taper they
saw ON their wall the picture of that land
where the inhabitants are never sick.
Through the dead silence Of the night they
heard the chorus of the angels.
The cancer ate away her life from week
to week, and from day to day, and she
became weaker and weaker, and every
"good night" was feebler than the "good
night" before; yet never sad. The child
looked up into her face and saw suffering
transformed into a heavenly smile. Those
who suffered on the battle field amid shot
and shell, were not so much heroes or hero.
ines as those who in the field hospital and
in the asylum had fevers which no ice
could cool and no surgery could cure. Nc
shout of comrade to cheer them, but numb.
ness and aching and inconsistencies, YET
willing to suffer, confident in God ant
hopeful Of Heaven. Heroes of rheuma.
tism, heroes Of neuralgia, heroes Of spina
complaint, heroes of sick headache, heroe.
/ of long invalidism, heroes and heroines
they shall reign forever and ever. Hark
catch just one note of the eternal an
them: "There shall be no more pain
Bless God for that!
In this roll ! also find the heroes of toll
who do their work uncomplainingly. It il
comparatively easy to lead regiment int,
battle, when you know that the whole ma
.tion will applaud the victory; it is compar
lively easy to doctor the sick, when yo,
know that your skill will be appreciated by
the large company of friends and relatives
it is comparatively easy to address al
audience, when in the cleaning eye!
and flushed cheeks you know that you
sentiments are adopted; but to d.
sewing where you expect that the EN-
ployer will come and thrust his thum!
through the work to show how imperfect i
is, or to have the whole garment thrown
back on you to be done over again; t,
build wall and know there win be no on
to say you did it well, but only to have
swearing employer bowling across tn
scafold; to work until your eyes are dim
and your back aches, and your heart faints
and to know that if you stop before nigh
your children will starve! All, the swor,
has not slain SO many as the needle! TIL
great battle fields of our last war were no
Gettysburg and Shiloh and South Noun
tain. The great battle fields of the las
war were in the arsenals and in the shop.
and in the attics, where women made arm
jackets for sixpence. They toiled on unit
they died. They had no funeral eulogium
but, in the name of my God, this mornin;
enroll their names among those of whol
the world was not worthy. Heroes of th
needle, heroes Of the sewing machine, hi
roes Of the attic, heroes of the cellar, heros
and heroines. bless God for them!
In this roll also find the heroes VIII
have uncomplainingly endured domest
injustice. There are men who for their to
and anxiety have no sympathy in the
own homes. Exhausting application ,
tusiness gets them livelihood, but an III
frugal wifs scatters it. He is fretted ,
hom the oment he enters the door unit
he goes ou Of it, the exasperations of bu,
mess life augmented by the exaspers
tons of domestic life. Such men al
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