The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-10
EVERYDAY MARTYRS.
that Was the Subject OF Rev. DR.. TAlmaee,s S.r,
mon at a Chautauqaa Assembly.

An important c~hautauqua assembly was
held at Lakeside, Ohio, at which the leadina
professors, scholars and clergymen ofthis and
other lands have addressed the audiences
The Rev. T. Dewitt TaiYnsge, D. D., o,
Brooklyn, has been there, and preachedto an
immense throES. The subject of his sermon
was, The Martyrs OF Every Day Lisa.p He
took Tor his text, Thou, therefore, endure
hardness. III. Timothy, H., 8. DR., Talmage
said:
Historians are now slow to aek3cwledgeths
merits of great military chieftains. We have
the full length portraits of the CromweIls, the
Washingtons, the Napoleonsand the Yelling.
tons of the world. History is not written in
black ink, but in red ink ofhuman blood. The
gods of human ambition do not drink from
bowls made out of silver, orgold, or precious
stones, but out of the bleached skulls of the
fallen. But l Inn now to unroll before o
a scroll of heroes that the world has
never acknowledged; those who faced
no guns, blew no bugle blast, CON
quered no cities, chained no captiYes 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
TO a listening universe. / mean the heroes OF
common, every day life.
In this roll, in the FIRST place, / find all the
heroes of the sick room. When Satan had
failed to overcome Job, he saidto God. tsPut
forth thy hands and touch his bones 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 a room as
fest as though it was a bastile. To be so
u-TOus you cannot endure the tap of a
chjld'6 foot. To have luxuriant fruit, which
tempts the appetite ofthe robustand healthy,
excite u loathing and disgust when il first
appears on the platter. TO have the rapier
of pain sCrike through the side, or across the
temples, like O razor, or to put the foot into
q vice, or throw the %kola body into a 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 distresses 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 very 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 feebier than the
good night" b~efore--yet never sad. The
children looked up into her face and saw
suffering transformed into a heavenly smile.
Those who suffered on the battlefield, amid
and shell, we're not so much heroes aad
heroines as those who in the field hospital
and in the asylum had fevers which - ice
could cool and no surgery cure. No shout
Of o comrade to cheer them, but numbness,
and aching, and homesicknesg--ye Killing to
confident in God, hopeful of heaven.
Of rheumatism. Heroes Of neuralgia.
Heroes OF spinal complaint. Heroes of sick
headache. Heroes Of lifelong invalidism.
and heroines. They shall reign for
and ever.
HaFki Ieateh Just one note Of the eternal
"There shaa be no more pain"
Bless God for that.
In this roll / also find the heroes of TOT,
who do their work uncomplainingly. II is
comparatively easy to lead q regiment into
battle when you know that the whole ma
ton win applaud the victory; It is compare
lively easy to doctor the sick when you
know that your skin win be appreciated by
compan Of friends and relatives; 1t is
comparatively easy to address an audience
when in the cleaning eyes and flushed cheeks
you know that your sentiments are adopted
but to do sewing where you expect that the
employer will come aud thrust his thumb
through the work to show how imperfect It
is, or to have the whole garment thrown
back on you to be done over again; to build
a wall and know there VIII
be- no one to say you did
It well, but only q swearing em-
ployer bowling across the scafold; TO work
until your eyes are dim and your back aches,
and your heart faints, and to know that
youstop beforenightyour children willstarve.
needle. The great battlefelds Of ourlast war
we're not Gettysburg and Shiloh and South
Mountain. TIE great battiefelds OF the last
war were in the ~areenals, and IN the shops
and in the attics, where women made army
hts for d sixpence. They toiled on until
they died. They mad no funeral euloglum,
but in the name OF God, this day enroll
their names among those Of whom the worla
was not worthy. Heroes Of the sewing ma
chine. Heroes and h~eroines. Bless God LOT
them.
In this roll / also find the heroes who have
~uncomplaingly endured domestic inluetices.
There are men who for their toll and anxiety
have no sympathy I'd their homes. Exhaust
ing application to business gets them Q i've
lihood, but IAN unfrugaA WIG scatlerS ~
The cxasperations Of business life augmented
by the exasperations Of domestic dfe. such
men are laughed 1T but they have 9 heart
breaking trouble, and they would long ago
have gone into appalling dissipation put lot
the grace OF God. Society to-day is streEn
with the wrecks Of men, who, under
east storm Of domestic inieheity, nave Deel
driven on the rocks. There are tens ol
thousands ofdrunkards in this country to-
day, made snch By their wives. Ihat y he1
poetry. That Ii prose. But the wrong y
generally IN the opposite direction. 1oa
would not have to go far To find wlle
whose lie is a perpetual martyrdom. 2olg
times harder taan a stroke Of the fist: unktng
words, straggliags home at midnight en9
constant maitreatmeiit which nave hele
her only a wreck Of what she WAS on bnap
day when In the midst Of brilliant assem-
blage the Vows were taken, and fuil organ
played the Wedding march, n the carriage
rolled away with the benediction ofthe PEG,
PIE. What was Tho burning Of Latimer ane
ridley at the stake compared M4th Ondss
Those men soon became UNCONSCIOUS "a wy
fire, but there Il a so years m~artyFdom, 2
80 years putting 70 death, YET ncomp,a.n.
ing. No bitter words when the rohlchtng
companions at 2 o'clock IN the moEhlnR
pitch the husband dead drunk into the irone
entry. No bitter words when WIpmg lrom
the swollen brow tho blood struck out ~ g
midnight ~carousal. Bending over sne
battered and bruised form o.
him. who whan ho took her