St. Landry democrat., 1888-08-11
T..LNAGE'S SERMON.
4 Discourse on "The Martyrs OF
Everyday Life"
The Rewards Awaiting Those Who,
Through Tribulations and Trials,
Do Their Whole Duty-Coro-
nation Day In Heaven.

The Rewards Awaiting Those VINO,
Through Tribulations and Trials,
Do Their Whole Duty-Coro-
nation Day In Heaven.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage delivered the
following discourse on ''The Martyrs OF
Everyday Life" to an immense con-
course of people at Lakeside, Q. His
text was:
Thou therefore endure hardness. IL Timo-
thy, 3
Historians are not slow to acknowledge
the merits of great military chieftains.
We have the full-length portraits of the
Cromwells, the Washingtons, 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
Of human ambition do not drink from
bowls made of silver, or gold, or precious
stones, but out of the bleached skulls of
the fallen. But am now to enroll before
you scroll Of heroes that the world has
never acknowledged; those who faced no
guns. blsw no bugle blast, conquered no
cities, chained no captives to their chariot
wheels, and yet, in the great day of eterni-
ty, will stand higher than those whose
names startled the nation; and seraph,
and rapt spirit, and archangel will tell
their deeds to listening universe. I
mean the heroes of common, every day
life.
In this role, in the first place, find all
the heroes of the sick-room. When Satan
had failed to overcome Job, he said to
God: t'Put forth Thy hand 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 any
thing. To be shut in room as fast as
though it were a bastile. To be SO nerv-
GUS you can not endure the tap of
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
razor, or to put the foot into vice, Or to
throw the whole body into 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 rheumatism
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 never sick. Through the
Head silence Of the night they heard the
chorus of the angels. Tae cancer ate
nv h ar To ali dau
to day, and she became weaker and weak
er, and every 'good night" was feebler
than the s'good night" before-yet never
sad. The children looked up into her face
and saw suffering transformed into a
aeavenlyA smile. Those who suffered on
The battle- field amid shot and she'll were
not so much heroes and heroines as those
who, in the field hospital aud in the asy-
lum, had fevers which no ice could cool
and no surgery cure. N shout of a COM
eade to cheer them. but ths numbness
and aching, aud home sickness-yet will
ing to suffer, confident in God. hopeful Of
Heaven. Heroes Of rheumatism. Heroes
of neuralgia. Heroes Of spinal COM
plant Heroes of sick headache. He
roes OF lifelong invalidism. Heroes and
oeroines. They shall reign for ever and
ever.
Hark. l catch just one note of the
u rrnal anthem: ''There shall be no
more lain" Bless God for that.
IN this roll also find the heroes of toll,
sao do their work uncompiainingly 1t |
5 comparatively easy to lead a regiment |
nto battle when YOU know that the whole |
ration will applald the victory; tits COM
easy to doctor the sick when |
7ou know that your skill will be appre-
,iated by large company Of friends
ind relatives; it is comparatively easy |
% address an audience whea, in The I
.leamin eyes and the flushed cheeks, you
NOW that your sentiments are adopted; |
nut to do sewing where you expect that
he employer will come and thrust his
humb through the wo.'S 20 show how i'm
perfect it is, or to have the whole gar
uent thrown ba k OF you to be done over
gain; to build wall and know there will
70 no one to say yeu did it well, but only
swearing employer bowling across the
caffoid; to work un il your eyes are dim
md your back aches, and your heart
aints, and TO know that if you stop be-
ore night your children will starve. All!
he sword has not slain SO many as the
leedle. The great bat.le-felds Of the
asst war were not Gettysburg, and Shiloh, 4
md South Mountain. The great battle