Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-08-04
REV.DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE's SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: 1.-THE Martyrs of Everyday
Life" preached at Lakeside, o.

TENT: Thou. therefore, endure hardness.
Ill. Timothy, ill.,, S.
Historians are not slow to acknowledge the
merits of great military chicftains We have
Sthe ull-lensth poi ira Is of the Cromwells, the
W1shirgtonS the Napo!eons and the Well
instcns of the world. History is not written
III black ink, hut with red ink of human
blood. The gods OF human ambition do not
drink from bowls made out OF silver, or god,
or rr cious stones but cut of the bleachrd
skulls of the fallen But am now to unro!l
before you a scroll of heroei that the world
has never Acknowledged; those who
faced no guns, blew no bugle-
cartircs 10 their chariot wheels, and
yct. in the great day of eternity, will stand
higher than those whose names startled tho
nations; and seraph, and rapt spirit, and
archanSel will tell their deeds to listening
universe. mean the heroes of common,
everyday life
In this roll, in the first pace, find al the
fl'ied 10 overcome Job, he said 20
God: Put forth thy hand and touch
his Goncs and his flesh, and no will
c,r,c tlea 10 thy face Satan had found out
what we have found out, that sickness is the
greatest test of ones character. y man who
cnn stand that can stand anything. 10 be
shut in Il room rs fast as though it were
tnst IL; TO be so nervous YOU cannot endure
the tap OF child'S fnot: to have luNuriant
fruit, which temptS the appetite of the robust
an. healthy, excite our ioathinS and disgust
when it first appears on the platter; to
have the rap;er If pain strike Though the
81 10, CT across tho temples, like razor, or to
lut the foot into vice, CT throw the whole
toly in:o blaze OF fever. Yet there
have been men anu women, but more
women than men, who have cheerful
~ endured this hardness Through
years of cxhauSting rheumatiSms and en-
circulating ncural3iaS they have gone. AMI
through bodily distresseS that raSpel the
nerves, and tore the muscles, and palcd the
CHECKS, and stopped the shoulders. BY the
din light OF tina s.ci-room tIper they saw Oh
teei: wal the picture Of hat land where the
lnhahtantS are never sick. Through the
dead silence OF the night they heard the
her ii.e from week to week and day to day,
ond she became weaker and weaker, and
every good night was fcebler than
the good night tefore--yet never
sad The children locked up into
hcr face and saw suffering trans
form into Il heavenly smile. Those who
suffered on The hattie field, amid shot and
shell, were not SO much heroes and heroineS
rs those who in the field hospital and in the
asylum had feverS which no ice could cool
end no surgery cure. No shout of comrade
10 CT cor them, Tut numbneSs and aching,
aid inconsistencies Yet willing 50 suffer,
confident in God, hopeful of heaven.
H.:o,s OF rheumatism. Heroes of
II. ura:sia. Heroes of spinal complaint.
Heroes of SICK hee,iache Heroes Of
lifelong irvalidsin. Heroes and heroineS.
hey shall reign forever and ever.
lark! catch Just one note OF the eternal
anth m: There shall tie 10 more pain. y
Fl IS God for that.
In this rcll also find the heroes of toll, who
do their work uniomplai.ngly. Its compar-
aiively easy 70 lead Il regiment into battle
when YOU know that the whole milton will
applaud the victory: it is comparatively easy
TO Doctor the sick when you know that your
skill will tie appreciated by large company
of friends and relatives; it is comparatively
easy to address an audience when. in the
Cleaning eyes and the flushed cheeks, you
know that your sentiments are adopted;
but to do sewing where you expect
that the employer will come and
thrust his thumb through the work to show
how imperfect it is, or to have the whole gar
ment thrown lack OH you to be done over
again: to build wall and know there will be
no Que to say you did it well, but only q
swearing employer bowling across scatioid;
to work until your eyes are dim AMI Your
back echcs. and your heart faints. and to
know that if you stop before night your
children will starve All the sword has
not slain so many rs the ne.o.e The great
battle-f fields OF cur last war were not
Gettysburg and Shiloh and South Noun
ta;n. The great battle fields of tho last war
were in the arSenals, and in tile shops and in
the a.tics, where women nude army jackets
for sixpence. They toiled on until they
died. They had no funeral eu,osiunl, but, in
the name Of my Col, this day, enroll their
names among those of whom the word was
not worthy. Heroes Of the needle. Heroes