The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-07-31
TALMAGE IN THE WEST.
He breaches at a Chautauqua
Assembly on
"THE MARTYRS OF EVERYDAY LIFE"
An Eloquent Discourse by the Eminent
Diyine-Heroes and Heroines in
the Walks of life.

scholars and clergyncn Of this and other lands
have addressed tho audiences. The Rev. 7.
Dewitt Talmage d. D., Of Brooklyn is now
here lie lectured yesterday Saturday and
preached today to throngs innumerable. The
subject Of his sermon today was "The Mar
tyrs Of Every Day Life" lie took for his
text: "Thou, therefore, endure hardness. =
II Timothy, H., g. DIR. Talmaqe said
Historians are not slow to acknowledge the
merits OF great military chieftains. We have
the full length portraits of the Cromwells, tho
Washingtons, the Napoleons and the Yelling
tons of the world. History is not written in
black ink, but with red ink of human
blood. The gods Of human ambition do
not drink from bowls made out Of
silver gold, or precious stones, but out of
the bleached skulls of the fallen. But / am
now to unroll before you n scroll Of heroes that
the world has never acknowledged those who
faced no guns, blew no buglc-blast, conquered
no cities, chained no captlyes 10 their chariot
wheels, and yet, in the great day Of eternity,
will stand higher than those whose names
startled the nations; and scraph, and rapt
spirit, and archangel will tell their deeds 10
listening universe. / mean the heroes Of com
mon, everyday life.
In this roll, in the first place, I find all tho
heroes Of the sick room. When Satan had
failed TO overcom job. he said to God
put forth thy hand and touch ms
bones and his flesh, and he will
cure thee 10 thy face" Satan had found out
what VIC 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 n room fast though 1t were a
bastilc. To be 80 nervous You cannot endure
the tap Of a childs foot TO have luxuriant
fruit, which tcmpts the appetite OF the robust
and healthy, excite our loatlng and disgust
rt,nt tt.lt no fIts. y,ta n I,.,Fa
the napier Of pam strike through the side. or
across the temples, like n razor or 20 put the
foot into vice, or throw the whole body into
blaze OF fever. Yet there have been men
and women, but moro women than men, who
have cheeriully endured this hardness.
Through years Of eXhaustug rheumatsms and
eXcruciating neuralgias they have gone, and
through bodily distresses that rasped the
nerves, aud turo the muscles, and
paled the checks and stopped the
shoulders. by the dim light of the sick room
taper they saw on their wall the picture of that
land wncro tho 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
90 day, and she became weaker and weaker
and every good night WAS teeblcr than the
"eood night beiore-yet never sad. The
children looked mp INTO her face and saw suffer
Ing transformed into IA heavenly smile. Those
who suffered on the battlefield amid shot and
shell, were not SO much heroes and hCroines
as those who in the field hospital and in the
asylum had iCVcrs which no ice could cool and
no surgery cure No shout OF comrade to
cheer them, but numhness and aching and
homescknCss- yet willing 10 suffer, confident
IN God, hopeful OF heaven. Heroes ofleayen.
Heroes OF neuralgia Heroes OF spinal com
plant. Heroes Of sick headache Heroes II
lifelong inYaiidlsm. Heroes and heIoines
They shall reign forever and ever.
Harkl l catch just one note Of tho eternal
anthem: There shall be no more pain"
Bloss God for that
In this roll also find the heroes OF toll. who
do their work uueomplainingly. II is compar-
Atyely easy to lead q regiment into battle
when you know that the whole nation will an
pland the victory 1t is comparatively easy 10
doctor the sick when you know that your skin
viii he appreciated by n large company Of
friends ana relatives IL is comparatively easy
10 address an audience when i'll the cleaning
eyes aud The flushed checks you know that
your sentiments are adopted. but to do sewing
whore You expect that the employer will come
and thrust his thumb through the work to show
how imperfect il Is, or TO have the whole gar
ment thrown back on you 10 he done over
again; 10 huild wall and know there will be
no one 10 say you did 1t we'll, hat only swear
ing employer bowling across the scatfold TO
work until your eyes arc dim and
your back aches, and your heart faints, and TO
Know that II You stop before night YOUR chill
dren will starNo. All the sword has not slain
so many as the needle. The great battlu-Gelds
OF our last war were not Gettysburg and
Shiloh and South Mountain. The great bat
tc'hclds OF the last war were in tho arsenals
Rnd IN the shops, and in the attics, whore wo.
men made army Jackets for siXpence. They
toilod on until they died, They had no fu-
neral oulogiuiu, hut, In the name of my God,
this day, | enroll thvir names among those Of
whom the world WAS not worthy Heroes Of
the needle. Heroes OF the 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 have
lA ~ "A 4
There arc men who for their toll and anxiety
nave no sympathy IN their homes, Exhaust
ing application TO business gets them n lveli-
hood, bur an uniruga wife scatteus It. He is
frctted at from the moment lie enters the
door until he comes out of IT, The eNaspera-
tOnS OF business life apGaGatod 10y the oNas.
pcr0uons Of domestic life. Such mon are
laughed at, but they have n notwithstanding
trouble, and they would have long ago gone
into appalling GisstIaiions hut for the grace Of
God. Society today is strewn with the wrecks
of ncn who, under the northeast storm OF
comestic nieiicity have been driven ON tho
rocks. There af0 tens OF thousands of druuk-
ards in this country today, made such by their
wives That is not poetry. That Is not prose.
But the wrong IS generally In the oppo-
site direction. You would not have TO 20
far 10 tind wife whose life is a
perpetual maytyrdom, Something heavier
than stroke OF the fist unkiud words stay
HcrngH home at midnight, and constant NAL
treatment which have lett her only wreck
ol nat 81" was On llal uaN when IN the midst
OF a brilliant aSsemblagc the vows were taken.
And full organ played the Wedding march, and
the carriage rolled away with the beneaiction
OF the people. What was the burning of lati-
mer and Ridley nj the stake compared with
this2 Those men soon became unconscious in
the tre, but here IS a fifty years martyrdom, a
fifty years putting to DEATH yet uncomplan-
ing. No bitter words when the rollicking
companions at O'Clock III the morning pitch
the husband dead drunk into the front entry.
No bitter words when wiping from the swollen
brow The blood struck out in midnight
carousal. Bending over the battered and
bruised form of him, who, when he took
her from her fathers home, promised love
and kindness, and protection Yet nothing but
sympathy, and prayers, and forgiveness before
they are asked FOR. Nc bitter words when the
family Bible goes for rum, and tho pawn
brokers shop gets the last decent dress. Some
day, desiring 10 evoke the story OF her scfrows
you say Wei, how are You getting along
now = and rallyiug her trembling voice and
quietng her quyering lip, she says Pretty
well, j thank You, pretty well" She never
WILL tell you. Ia the dc.irium of her last sick
mess she may ten all the secrets Of her lifetime
but she Will never tell that. Not until the
books az eternity are opened on the thrones OF
Judgment VIII ever be known what sla hos