Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-08-05

The Majority Of Martyrs Are Women.
The Heroes of Christian Charity.
LMrsIDE, O., July 29.-For many
years an assembly of the Chautauqua
type has been held at this point. The
leading professors, scholars and clergy.
men Of this ana other lands have adj.
dressed the audiences. The Rev. T. De
Witt Talma2e, ID. d.. Of Brooklyn, is
now here. He lectured yesterday tSat.
urday) and preached today TO throngs in.
Vulnerable. The subject of his sermon
today was: "The Martyrs Of Everyday
Life" He took for his text: Thou,
therefore, endure hardness. III Tim. ii,
3. DR.. Talmage said:
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 rel ink Of human blood. The gods
of human ambition do not drink from
bowls made out Of silver or gold or pre-
cious stones. but out of the bleached
skulls Of the fallen. But | am now TO
unroll before YOU scroll Of heroes that
the world has never acknowledged 7;
those who faced no guns, blew no bugle
blast, conquered no cities, chained no
captives to their chariot wheels, and yet,
in the great day of eternity, will stand
higher than those whose names startled
the nations: and seraph and rapt spirit
and archangel will tell their deeds 10 a
listening universe. Imean the heroes Of
common, everyday life.
In this roll, in the first place. | find all
the heroes of the sick room. When Sa-
tan had failed to overcome Job, he said
10 God: "Put forth thy hand and touch
his bones and his flesh. and he viii curse
thee to thy face" Satan had found out
what we have all found out. that sick
ness is the greatest test Of ones chaac-
ter 4 man who can stand that can
stand anything. To be shut in n room
as fast as though il were Lastile. To
be so nervous YOU cannot endure the tap
of n child's foot. To have luxuriant
fruit which tempts the appetite of the
robust and healthy, excite our loathing
and disgust when it first appears on the
platter. To have the rapier Of pain
strike through the side. or across
the temples, like a razor, or TO
put the foot into wise, 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
years If exhausting rheumatism and eX-
crucinting ncuralgias they have gone.
and through bodily distresses that rasped
the nerves. and tore the muscles, and
paled the cheeks. and stooped the shoul-
ders. 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 cancer ate away her life
from week to week, and day 10 day, and
she became weaker and weaker, nrd
every good night" was feohler than the
good night" before-yet never sad.
The children looked up into har face and
saw suffering transformed into a
heavenly smile. Those who suffered
ON the battlefield amid shot and she'll.
were not 80 much heroes and heroines as
those who in the field hospital and in the
asylum had fevers which no ice could
cool and no surgery cure. No shout Of
a comrade 10 cheer them, but numbness,
and aching, and holnesickness-yet will
ing to suffer, confident in God hopeful
of heaven. Heroes Of rheumatism.
Heroes Of neuralgia. Heroes Of spinal
complaint. Heroes Of sick headache.
Heroes of lifelong inyalidism. Heroes
and heroines. They shall reign for ever
and ever.
Hark! ] catch just one note of the
eternal anthem: There shall be no more
pain Bless God for that.
In this roll / also find the heroes Of
toll, who do their work uncomplain-
ingly. 1t is comparatively easy 10 lead
a regiment into battle when you know
that the whole nation will applaud the
victory; II Is comparatively easy 10 doc
tor the sick when you know that your
skill will he appreciated 10y large csm-
pany Of friends and relatives; II Is conf
parativcly easy to address an audience
when in the glegming eyes and the
flushed cheeks you know that your senti-
ments are adopted; hut 10 do sewing
where you expect that the employer VIII
come and thrust his thumb through the
work 10 show how imperfect Il i, or
10 have .he whole garment thrown
back on you to be done over againi to
build a wall and know there viii Toe no
one to say you did it well, lat only
swearing employer howlng across the
scalTold, to work until yuur eyes are
dim and your back aches, nnd your heart
faints, and TO know that II You stop be-
fore night your cijllrcn viii starye' Ali
the sword las not slain 50 many as the
needle. The great lutIlctiCllsof our last
war were not Gettysburg and shiloh and
South Mountain. The great baitlelields
Of the last war were In the arscnals, and
in the shors and In tho atlics, whore
women madonrmy jackets for a =ixpgnce.
They toied on until they died. They
had no funeral culogium, but, In the
namc Of my God, this day enroll their
names among those of whom the world
was not worthy. Heroes VI the needle.
Herocs ~ the sowing machine. Heroes
of the attic. Heroes OF the cellar. he
roes and hcroincs. Bless God for them.
In this roll 4 qlso find the heroes who