Milford chronicle., 1888-08-03

The Martyrs Of Everyday Life-The Sword
Has Not Slain so Many as the Needle.
The Majority Of Martyrs Are Women.
The Heroes of Christian Charity.
LAKESIDE, O., July 29.-For many years
an assembly of the Chautauqua type has been
held at this point. Tho leading professors,
scholars and clergymen of this and other
lands have addressed the audiences. The
Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage, D. D., of Brook
ivn, is now here. He lectured yesterday
Saturday and preached today, to throngs
1 innumerable The subject Of his sermon to-
day was: "The Martyrs of Everyday Life. "
He took for his text: Thou, therefore, en-
dure hardness ~ Timothy ii, g. DR..
Talmage said;
Historians are not slow to acknowledge the
merits of great militery chieftains. We have
the full length portraits of the Cromwells,
the Washingtons, the NapoleOns and the
/ Wellingtons Of the world. History is not
written in black ink, but with red ink OF hui
man 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
| 10 unroll before you a scroll Of herOes that
| the world has never acknowledged; those
who faced no guns, blew no bugle blast, con-
/ uuered no cities, chained no captives to their
! chariot wheels, and yet, in the great day of
eternity, will stand higher than those whose
names startled the nations; and seraph, and
rapt spirit, and archangel will tell their deeds
| 10 a listening universe. mean the heroes of
common, 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 thy hand and touch his bones and his
aesh, and be will cSrse 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 a bastile. To be so
nervous YOU cannot endure the tap Of a
child's foot. To have luxnriant fruit, which
tennis the appetite of the robust and
healthy. excite our loathing and disgust
when it first appears on the platter. To have
the rapier of pain strike through the side,
or across the temples, like a razor, or to
1 put the foot iuto a wise, or throw the
whole body into blaze Of fever. Yet there
have been men and women, but more women
than men, who have cheerfully endured this
hardness. Through years of exhausting
rheumatisms and excruciating neuralgias
they have gone, and through bodily dis
] tresses that rasped the nerves and tore the
muscles and paled the cheeks and stopped the
shoulders By the dim light of the sick room
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 day to day, and she became weaker and
weaker, and every ''gOod night was feeblel
than the ''good night before-yet never sad
The children 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 and heroines as those who in the
field hospital and in the asylum had fever'
which no ice could cool and 10 surgery cure
No shout of cOmrade to cheer them, but
numbness, and aching, and homesicIness-
vet willing to suffer, confident in God, hope
full of heaven Heroes of rheumatism
Heroes Of neuralgia. Heroes of spinal com
/ psaint. Heroes of sick headache. Heroes o.
lifelong invalidism. Heroes and heroines
They shall reign for eyer and ever.
Hark l catch just one note Of the eterna
anthem: 'There shall be no more pain
Bless God for that.
In this roll 1 also find the heroes of toll
who do their work uncomplainingly. 1t il
comparatively easy to lead regiment int
battle when you know that the whole nation
will applaud the victory; it is comparatively
easy to doctor the sick when you know tina
your skill will be appreciated by large com
pany of friends aud relatives; it is compare
lively easy to address an audience when il
the cleaning eyes and the flushed cheek
nHn
but to do sewing where you expect that tn
employer will come and thrust his thumt
through the work to show how imperfect /
is. or to have the whole garment thrown
back on you to be do done over again
TO build a wall and there will b
no one to say you did it we'll
but only a swearing employer howlini
across the scaffold; to work until your eye
are dim and your back aches, and your hear
faints, and to know that if you stop befor
night your children will starve. Ahl tn
sword has not slain so many as the needle
The great battlefields of our last war wer
not Gettysburg and Shiloh and South Noun
tain. The great battleields of the last wa
were in the arsenals, and in the shops and il
the attics, where women made army jacket
for sixpence. They toiled ON until they died
They had no funeral eulogium, but, in tn
name of God, this day enroll their name
among those of whom the world was no
worthy. Heroes of the needle. Heroes Of tn
sewing machine. Heroes of the attic. He
roes of the cellar. Heroes and beroines. Bles
God for them.
In this roll / also find the heroes who hav
overwhelmingly endured domestic injus
tees. There are men who for their toll an
anxiety have no sympathy in their homes
Exhausting application to business gets ther
a livelihood, but an unfrugal wife scatter
it, He is fretted at from the moment he en-
ters the door until he comes out OF it. Tn
exasperations of business life aug
mented by the exasperations Of dome:
tic life. Such Taen are laughed at, bu
they have a heartbreaking trouble, an
they would have long ago gone into al
palling dissipations but for the grac
Of God Society today is strewn with th
wrecks OF men who, under the northeas
storm Of domestic infelicity, have bee
driven on the rockA There are tens OF thoT
sands of drunkards in this country today
made such by their wives. That is nC
poetry. That is prose. But the wrong
generally in the opposite direction. 70
/. would not have to go far to find VIII
= whose life is a perpetual martyrdom. Som'
thing heavier than stroke Of a fist; unkin
words. staggerings home at midnight, an
constant maltreatment which have left be
only wreck Of what she was on that de
when in the midst of brilliant assemblag
: the vows were taken, aud full organ playe
q the wedding march, and the earring
i rolled away with the benediction {
!, The people. What was the burnin
. - r .t.,o- a,,d Ridley nj the stalye con1paro