Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-30
EVERYDAY MARTYRS.
DR.. TALNAGES ELOQUENT GHATAUQUA
SERMON.
Thou, Therefore, Endure Hardnsss-fhs Little Sacri-
fees Of Everyday Home Liis-A Noble Roll Of
HOnOr-PeOpls Who are Content 10
Serve That They Nay Lead.

HOnOr-Pcpls Who are Content 10
Serve That They Nay Lead.
Special Tslecra,a 10 tie Register.
LAKESIDE, O., July 29.-For many
years an Assembly of the Cbsutsuqus
type has been held at this point. The
leading professors, scholars and clergymer
Of this and other lands have addressed the
audiences. The Rev. T. De Witt Tolmage
D d, of Brooklyn, is now here. He lee
tured yesterday Saturday and preached
to-day, TO thropgs innumerable. The sub
ject of his sermon to-day was 1.-THE
Martyrs of Everyday Life" He took fol
his text: "Thou, therefore, endure hard
ness. III. Timothy, j., 3. DR.. Talmsgt
said ~
Historians are not Glow to acknowledge
the merits of great military chieftains
We have the full length portraits OF the
Cromwells, the Wsshingtons, the Napo
Icons and the Wellingtons of the world
History is not written in black ink, but
with red ink of human blood. The gods o.
human ambition do not drink from bowls
made out of silver, or gold, or precious
stones, but out of the bleached skulls oI
the fallen. But / am now to unroll be-
fore you scroll of heroes that the world
has never acknowledged; those who faced
NO guns, blew no bugle-blast, conquered
no cities, chained no captives to theiI
chariot-wheels, and yet, in the great day
of eternity, will stand higher than those
whose names startled the nations; and
serapb, and rapt spirit, and srchangel will
tell their deeds to listening universe.
mean the heroes of common, everyday
life.
In this roll, in the fret place, I 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
bon es and his flesh, and he vii
curse thee to thy face" Satan had found
out what we have all found ont, that sick
ness is the greatest test of ones character.
A man who can stand that can stand any
thing. To be shut in q room as fast as
though it were bsstile. To be 60 ner.
vous you cannot endure the tap of q
child's foot. To have luxuriant fruit,
which tempts the appetite of the robust
and healthy, excite our loathing and dis
gust when it first appears on the platter.
To have the rapier Of pain strike through
the side, or across the temples, like ra-
zor, or to put the foot into a vice, or
throw the whole body into blaze Of fever.
Yet there have been men and women, but
more women than men, who have cheer
fully endured this hardness. Through
wears of exbaustipg rheumatisms and ex-
cruciatipg neuralgies 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 never sick.
Through the dead silence of the night they
heard the chorus Of the angels. The can.
Ger ate away her life from week to week
and day to day, and she became weaker
and weaker, and every good night" wsi
feebler than the good night" before-yet
never sad. The children looked up into
her face and saw suffering transformed into
heavenly SMILE Those who suffered on
the battlefield, amid shot and shell, were
not 70 much heroes and herOines as those
who in the field hospital and in the asylum
bad fevers which no ice could cool and nc
surgery cure. No shout of comra6e to
cheer them, but numbness, and aching,
and homesickness-yet willing to suffer
confident in God, hopeful of heaven. He
roes of rheumatism. Heroes of neuralgia.
Heroes of spinal complaint. Heroes OF
sick headache. Heroes of lifelong invalid
ism. Heroes and heroines. They shall
reign forever and ever.
Hark! | catch but one note Of the eter'
nal anthem: There shall be no more
pain" Bless God for that.
In this roll also fiud the heroes Of toll,
who do their work uucomplainingly. II
is comparatively easy to lead regiment
into battle when you know that the whole
nation will applaud the victory; it is com
paratively easy to doctor the sick wheu
YOU know that your skill will be appreci
ated by large company Of friends and
relatives; it is comparatively easy to ad
dress an audience when in the cleaning
ewes and the flushed cheeks you know
that your sentiments are adopted; but Il
do sewing where you expect that the EN-
ployer will come and thrust his thumb
through the work 10 show how imperfect
it ia, or to have the whole garment thrown
back on You to he done over again; t.
build vail and know there will be nc
one to say you did it we'll, but only
A SWEARING EMPLOYER
bowling across the scafold; to work unit
YOUR eyes are dim and your back aches, and
your heart taints, and to know that If yor
stop before night your children will starve
Ali the sword has not slain so many a.
the needle. The great bsttle-felds Of oul
last war were not Gettysburg and Shiloh
and South Mountain. The great battle
fields of the last war were in the arsepsls
and in the shops and in the attics, where
women made army jackets for sixpence
They toiled on until they died. They had
no funeral eulogium, but, in the name o
my God, this day, enroll their names
among those of whom the world was wor
thy. Heroes of the needle. Heroes o.
the sewing machine. Heroes Of the attic
Heroes of the cellar. Heroes and heroipes
Bless God for them.
In this roll also find the heroes whit
have uncomplainingly endured domestic
ipjustices. There are men who for thei
toll and anxiety have no sympathy in thei
homes. Exhaustipg application to bust
ness gets them livelihood, bat an unfru
gal wife scstters it. He is fretted at from
the moment be enters the door until b
comes out of it. The exasperations o
business life augmented by the exaspera
tions of domestic life. Such men an
laughed ct, but they have hesrtbreak
ing trouble, and they would have long ag'
gone into appalling dissipstions but for tn
grace of God. Society to-day is strewI
with the wrecks of men, who, under tn
northeast storm Of domestic infelicity hav
been driven on the rocks. There are ten
of thousands of drunkards in this countr.