The Brookhaven leader., 1888-08-09
TALMAGES SERMON.
a Discourse on "The Martyrs of
Everyday Life"
wes Rewards Awaiting Those Who,
Through TribuIations aud Trials,
DO Thor whole Duiy-Coro-
nation Day in Heaven.

hNcrE-uaN tslteF To an immense con-
course IL people at Lakeside, O. His
text was.
Thou therefore endure hardncss.-IL limo
Gy,2
Historians IRE not slow to acknowledge
the merits of great military chitftaius.
We have the full-lengih portraits of the
CTOmwells, the WaShinrtons, the Napo-
Icons and the Weiliugtons of the world.
History is aot 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 blcached 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. blew no buglc blast conquered no
cities, chained no captives to their chariot
wheels, and vet, in the great day of eterni-
", will stand higher than those whose
names started the nation; and seraph,
aud rapt spirit, and arrhnugcl will tell
their deeds to listening universe.
mean the heroes OF common, everyday
life.
In this role, in the first place, find all
che heroes OF the stck.room. When Satan
had failed to overcome job, he said to
bones and his flesh, and he will curse
Thee to Thy face" Satan had found OH
what we have all found out, that sickness
is the greatest test of ones character.
man who can stand that can stand any
thing. To he shut in room n fast as
though il were a baStile To be 50 pcry-
Gus You can not endure the tap Of u
Child's foot, To have luxuriant fruit
which templS the appetite of the robust
and healthy, excite our l"atting and dis
gust when it first APPEAR on the platter.
To have the rapier III pain strike through
the side, or eCross the temples, like
razor, or to put the foot into a vice, or to
throw the whole body into Q blaze of
fever. Yet there have been men and
women, but moro women than men, WHO
have chcerfully endured this hardness.
Through years of eXhausting rheumatism
md exCruciating hpuralgias they have
gone, aud 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. Tie Cr,hccr ate
away her FIFE from week 20 week and day
20 dav, and she be came weaker and weak
er, and every "good night" was feebler
than the "COOd night" befOre-yct never
sad. The children looked up into her face
aud saw suffering transformed into q
heavenly smile. Those who suffered on
the battle field amid shot and shell were
not so much heroes and heroines as those
who, in the field hospital and In the asy-
lum, had fevcrs which no ice could cool
and no surgery euro. No shout of a COM
rede to cheer them, but the numbness
and aching, and homcsickuess 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
heroines. They shall reign for ever and
ever.
Hark! l catch just one note of the
eternal anthem: There shall be no
more pain" Bless God for that
In this roll l also find the heroes OF toll,
who do their work uucOmpiainingly. 1t
is comparatively easy to lead q regiment
into battle when YOU know that the whole
nation will applaud the victory; it is COM
parativaly easy to doctor the sick when
YOU know that your skill will be appre-
ciated by large company of friends
and relatives; it is comparatively easy
TO address an audience when, in Ihc
cleaning eyes and the flushed cheeks, you
know that your sentiments are adopted:
but to do sewing where you expect that
the employer will come and thrust his
thumb through the work to show how I'M
perfect it is, or to have the whole gar
ment thrown back on YOU to be done over
again; to build wall and know there will
be no one to say Won did it we'll, but only
swearing employer hOwlug across the
scaffold; to work until your eyes are dim
and your back aches, and your heart
faints, and to know that if You stop be-
fore night your children will Starve. All!
the sword has not slain so many IS the
needle. Tho great battle fields Of the
last war were not Gettysburg, and Shiloh,
and South Mountain. The great battle
helds of the last war were in the arsenals,
and in the shops, 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 of
my God, this day, enroll their names
among those of whom the world was not
worthy. Heroes Of the needle. Heroes Of
Heroes OF the cellar Heroes and heroiues.
Bless God for them.
In this role / also find the heroes who
have uncomplainingly endured domestic
iniustices. There are men who for their
toll and anxiety have no sympathy in
their homes. Exhausting application to
business gets them q livelihood, but an
unfrugal wife scatters it, He is fretted at
from the moment he enters the door until
he comes ont of it. The exasperations of
business life augmented by the exaspera-
tons of domestic life. Such men are
laughed at, but they have q heart break
ing trouble, and they would have long ago
gone into appalling designations but for
the grace of God. Society to-day is
strewn with the wrecks of men, who, I'M
der the northeast storm of domestic in
felicity. have been driven on the rocks
There are tens of thousands of drunkards
in this country to-day, made such by
their wives. That is not poetry That is
prose. But the wrong is generally in the
opposite direction. You would not have
to go far TO find a wife whose life Is a
perpetual martyrdom. Something heavier
than a stroke of the fist; unkind words,
staggering home at midnight, and con-
slant maltreatment, which have left her
only wreck of what she was on that
day when, in the midst Of a brilliant as
semblage, the VOWS were taken and full
organ played the wedding march, and the
carriage rolled away with the benediction
of the people.
What was the burning of Latimer and
Ridley at the stake compared with this!