West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-09
ENDURANCE.
DR. TALMAGEs SUNDAY SERMON.
"Thc Martyrs OF Everyday Lire.n Dc
livered at Lakeside, Ohio.

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Ill Timothy, H., 8
Historians are not slow to ACKNOWLEDGE the
merits OF great military chieftains We have
tne iulllength portraits of the Cromwells the
ingtons OF tho world. History Rs not written
IN black ink, but with red ink OF human
blood The gods OF human ambition do not
arink from bowls made out of silver, or gold
OF precious stones, but out OF the bleached
SKULLS OF the fallen. But am now to unroll
peIore you scroll Of heroes that tho world
mas never acknowledged; those who
biS Sse co mo guns, blew no bugle-
capdves to their chariot wheels. and
yet IN the great day OF eternity, will stand
nigner than those whose names startled the
nations; and seraph, and rapt spirit. and
archangel viii tell their deeds to a listening
everyday life.
In this ron, in the first place, find all the
failed 70 overcome Job, me said e" 20
God; Put forth thy hand and toucb
MS bones and his flesh and he will
curse thee to thy face" Satan had found out
what we have found out, that sickness Is the
greatest test of ones character. A man who
can stand that can stand anything. TO he
smut IN room as fast as though Il were a
t yas'nei 70 DC SO nervous you cannot endure
the tap or q child's foot; TO have luxurjant
Lrmt, which tempts the appetite of the robust
ana healthy, excite our loathin1 and disoust
when &c first appears on the platter; 10
AoNo Aho IupleF OF pain strike through the
side, or across the temples, like a razor. or to
PUT tne loot into vice, or throw the whole
BODY into blaze of fover. Yet there
nave, nave been men and women, but more
ly endured this hardness Tbroneh
years OF exhausting rheumatisms and eS
cruclating neuralgias they have gone and
through bodily distresses that rasped the
nerves, and tore the muscles, and paled the
cneeks and stopped the shoulders. By the
aim light OF the sick-room taper they saw ON
snelr wall the picture of that land where the
dd nnd as, are never sick. Through the
dead silence OF the night they heard the
chorus OF the angels. The cancer ate AWAY
her ire from week TO week and day 10 dav
and she became weaker and weaker and
the the ..od gSod night, night was feebler than
sad The children looked up into
ner race and saw suffering trans
FORMED INTO 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 fevers which no ice could cool
anu no surgery cure. No shout OF comrade
10 cheer them, but numbneSs, and aching.
and Inconsistencies yet willing SO suffer-
Sonndent IN God, hopeful OF heaven
Heroes of rheumatism Heroes of
HI sroasg :, Heroes seE Of spinal complaint
lIeiong invalidism. Heroes and heroines
1hey shall reign forever and ever
harkl catch just one note of the eternal
M. 80 theie snail De no more pain"
In this roll also find the heroes OF toil. who
90 their work uncomplaiRingly. It Is conipar.
aIlvely easy 10 lead a regiment into battle
"hen you know that the whole nation will
applaud the victory; it is comparativelv aas,
70 doctor the sick when you know that yonr
skill VIII be appreciated by a large company
OF friends and relatives; Il is comparatively
easy 20 address an audience when i'm the
cleaning eyes and the flushed cheeks Won
know tnat your sentiments are adopted;
out TO do sewing where you expect
t ehao tne employer will come and
now imperfect 1t is, or TO have the whole oar
ment thrown back on you to be done over
again; 70 build wall and know there will be
NO one 70 say you did it well, but only a
swearing employer bowling across scaffold:
70 work until your eyes are dim and your
back aches, and your heart faints and 10
k sh.1S tnat ~, X you stop. before night your
not slain so many as the needle The greet
pattie-helds OF our last war were NOT
Settysburg and Shiloh and South Moun
tam The great battle-felds Of the last war
were In the arsenals, and in the shopa and In
the attics, where women made army iacl,ats
Tor slxpence. They toiled on until thew
died. They had no funeral eulogium. Inf in
the name of my God, this day, enroll their
names among those of whom the world vvas
not worthy. Heroes of the needle Heroes
OF tine sewing machine Heroes of the attic.
heroes OF the cellar. Heroes and heroines
Bless God for them
In this roll also find the heroes who hive
uncomplainingly endured domestic inius.
ticeS. There are men who for their toll and
9nxlety nave no sympathy in their homes
H'N,nauissine application to business gets them
a livelihood, but an unfrugal wife scatters !
II lie Is fretted at from the moment he en- |
bers the door until he comes out OF IL The (
exasperations Of business life augmented by
. sns corporations OF domestic life. Such /
men are laughed at, but they have heart /
breaking trouble, and they would have long
ago gone into appalling dissinations |
t out Tor the grace OF God. Society
so.J strewn with the wrecks OF
men, who under the northeast storm of
domestic infelicity have been driven ON the |
rocks There are tens OF thousands Of drink 1
ards in this country to-day, made such bV /
t tnelr wives. That IS not poetry That L |
prose. But the wrong is generaIIv in fhe on /
posite direction. You would not have To 20 |
Tar 70 ind wife whose life is a rarpatliaI /
martyrdom Something heavier than n 4
ss.roke OF the tist; unkiDd words, staggering 4
nome at midnight, and constant maitreaf /
menu which have left her only a wreck ~ /
what she was on that day when in the midst /
OF brilliant assembiage the vows were takon /
eus iuh organ played the wedding march. /
anu the carriage rolled away with the I
penediction OF the people What was the /
burning OF Latimer and Ridley at the stake I
compared with thisq Those men soon became
unconscious In tho fire. but here is n fffv \
55 cats msrtydom, City years putting to 4
liAiniliks NO Ultter words j
Wneh the roiiicking companions at O'Clock \
IN IN 1ne morning pitch the husband dead drunk 4
mo tne 'front.' entry. No bitter words when \
HIping from the swollen brow the blood 4
4duck out in midnight carousaI /
oehdlng over the battered and
bruised form Of him. who. when he tool \
~ from her fathers home promised love /
81 hihonesS, and protection, yet nothing
~ sympathy, and prayers, and forgiveness Il
D5iore they are asked for No bitter yyorflu
"nen the family Bible goes for rum. and the i
RaWnDroker's shop gets the last decent dresq 4
some Day desiring 10 evoke the story az her
sOffoWsi you say: well how are Won get
sing along nowH and rallying her TREMBLING .
VOC, and quoting her guivering lip sh6 .
eay5i fretty we'll I thank You pretty /
Wsh. she never VIII Tell you IN me de- /
HI5un or her last sickness she NAV
toh al the secrets OF h8r Ifetine 4
but she VIII not tell that. Nos
until The books ~ eternity are opened on the +
thrones Of judgment viii ever be- known /
Wnat she has suffered. OH We who are
twisting O garland for the victor. put ft on /
tnab pale brow. When she Is dead the /
nsignDofs viii bog linen % mike her a .
ehroud, and she will be carried ont fu a niafn /
box with no silver plate ~ tell her YEAR, Tor /
she has lived a thousand years Of trial and /
anguish Tho gamblers and aviudiers who /
destroyed hor husband will not come 10 the I
IuneraL One carriage will be enough /
Aof tnhb iuueral-oue carriag8 % carry tho T
0phans and Tho two Christian women who I
presided over the otseuuiee Buf There b "a .
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