Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-08-10
MARTYRS OF LIFE.
Dow. T. De Witt Talmape
~ coaches to a Chautauqua
Assembly.
.uord Has Not Slain So Many as the
'' veedle-The Majority Of Martyrs
Are Women.

I reside. (Ohio> Chautauqua. The sub
ase, Of his sermon was: The Martyrs
ect rr 70 Life" He took for his
!, - aihou. therefore, endure hard.
eA'.r II, Timothy ii, 8. DR.. Talmage
an MI oriaus are not slow to acknowl-
n, 18th the merits of great military chief
n.y. We have the full length portraits
aI ~ Cromwells, the Washingtons, the
" Icons. and the Wellingtons of the
History is not written in black
" !. Inf with red ink of human blood.
l ha Gods of human ambition do not
INK isl from bowls made out of silver, or
ia or precious stones, but out of the
Y'nsbca skulls of the fallen. But am
,nw 10 unroll before you scroll of
oroes that the world has neveracknowl-
1aed: those who faced no guns, blew
~ buele blast, conquered no cities,
named no captives to their chariot
heels, and yet. in the great day OF
,s1nitv. will stand higher than those
hose names startled the nations; and
araph. and rapt spirit, and archangel
lii tell their deeds to a listening uni
arse. | mean the heroes of the com
mon. everyday life.
In this roll, in the first place, / find
III the heroes of the sick room. When
Eotau had failed to overcome Job he
aid to God: Put forth thy hand and
ouch his bones and his flesh, and he
yjll curse thee to thy face" Satan had
ound out what we have all found out,
hat sickness is the greatest test of ones
haracter. A man who can stand that
an stand anything. To be shut in a
DOM as fast as though it were bastile.
o be so nervous you cannot endure the
ap of child's foot. To have luxuriant
rnit, which tempts the appetite of the
obust and healthy. excite our loathing
nd disgust when it first appears on the
batter. To have the rapier of pain
trike through the side, or across the
empes. like razor, or to put the foot
ntoa wise. or throw the whole body into
blaze of fever. Yet there have been
len and women, but more women than
lrn. who have cheerfully endured this
arlness. Through years of exhausting
heumatisms and excruciating neuralgias
hey have gone, and through bodily dis
lesses that rasped the nerves and tore
he muscles and paled the cheeks and
hoped the shoulders. BY the dim
sht of the sick room taper they saw on
heir wall the picture of that land where
leinhabitants are never sick. Through
he dead silence of the night they heard
he chorus of the angels The cancer
lie away her life from week to week and
lay to day. and she became weaker and
Eeaker, and every good night was
eebler than the goodnight" before
Jet never sad. The children looked up
pto her face and saw suffering trans
omcd into a heavenly smile. Those
tho suffered on the battlefield amid
hot and she'll were not so much heroes
nd heroines as those who in the field
ospital and in the asylum had fevers
Fhich no ice could cool and no surgery
lure. No shout Of comrade to cheer
hem, but numbness. and aching, and
oMesickness-yet willing to suffer,
ontident in God, hopeful of Heaven.
Heroes of rheumatism. Heroes of neu-
hlgia. Heroes of spinal complaint.
heroes of sick headache. Heroes Of
6telong invalidism. Heroes and hero
hes. They shall reign forever and
Yer.
Hank! 1 catch just one note of the
ternal anthem: "There shall be no
pore pain" Bless God for that.
In this roll l also find the heroes of
pill, who do their work uncomplain-
lsly. 1t is comparatively easy to lead
regiment into battle when you know
hat the whole nation will applaud
hevictory; it is comparatively easy to
octor the sick when you know that
our skill will be appreciated by large
company of friends and relatives; it is
comparatively easy to address an audi
nee when in the cleaning eyes and the
ushed cheeks you know that your senti-
nents are adopted; but to do sewing
here You expect that the employer will
ONE and thrust his thumb through the
Fork to show how imperfect it is. or to
ave the whole garment thrown back on
on to be done over again; to build a
Eall and there will be no one to say you
ld it we'll. but only swearing en-
Ployer bowling across the scatfold; to
Fork until your eyes are dim and your
ack aches. and your heart faints. and
know that if you stop before night
our children will starve. All! the
word has not slain so many as the
ee1lc. The great battlefelds of our
ast war We're not Gettysburg and Shiloh
mo- South Mountain. The great battle
elds of the last war We're in the
llsstenals, and i'll the shops and i'll the
'tlcs, where women made army jackets
.AAlSuCc. l. hey GO1leO Oh uulA1 VASS
he'd. They had no funeral eulogium,
Ut. in the name Of God. this day en-
ell their names among those of whom
ne world was not worthy. Heroes OF
ne needle. Heroes Of the sewing-ma-
llne Heroes of the attic. Heroes of
ne cellar. Heroes and heroines. Bless
Pod for them.
IN this roll also find the heroes who
AVE uncomplainingly endured dom este
justices. There are men who for their
vii and anxiety have no sympathy IN
neir homes. Exhausting application to
BUSINESS gets them a livelihood, but an
h1rngal wife scatters it. He is fretted
rom the moment he enters the door
'lll he comes out of it. The eNaspera-
IONS OF business life augmented by the
Aasperations of domestic life. Such
aeh are laughed at. but they have a
Peaf'Dreaking trouble. and they would
tSSe long ago gone into appalling DIS
paelons but for the grace of God. So
1e'y to- day is strewn with the wrecks
men who, under the northeast storm
domestic infelicity, have been driven
- 'lie rocks. There are tens Of thou
"i"S OF drunkards in this country to-
s.' made such by their wives. That is
o' poetry. That is prose. But the
ing is generally in the opposite dlrec-
"l' You would not have to go far to
ma wife whose life is a perpetual
tr ra1, Something heavier than a