Telegram-herald., 1888-07-30
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day wa ~FAe Martyrs 4 Everyday Life
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Historians are not slo~ 70 acknowledge tas
merits Of great military eeisftains We have
ths fall lsngsh portraits If ths CroDwslls,
The " WAsnsngtas<, tie Sapclscns and ths
WsIlinxsons u TIE world History not
written in biaek iak bat with red iak Of hu-
uaaa blood The gods u human ambition
% net drink from bowls made oGt OF silver.
or god or precloas stonss. bar out ot the
bleaehed skulls OF the f.lien. Bat | an now
- naron before yOu a scroll % beTos that
tbs world has never aoknosiedged, thoss
who fsced 40 guns. blew no bugls blast, con-
quered no cities, chained no captlses 10 their
chariot wheels, and yst, Ia the great day Of
eternity. will salsd higher than those whose
names startled the nations and sraph. and
rApt spsrit. and arehangel viii tell their deeds
% listening universe. l mean the heroes OK
common. everyday life.
Ia this ron, n the frst place, / find all the
hsroes of the siek room When satan had
failed 20 overcsae job he said 70 God. Put
| forth thy hand and touch his bones and his
| flesh, and he viii curse thee 70 thy face.
| Satan had found ear what We have all found
| ont. that sickness Is the greatest test OF ones
| character A man Who can stand that can
stand anything To be shut IN room as
| fast as though It we're a hassils To be -
| nervous you cannot endure the tap OF
| chlla's focs To have iuxnriant fruit. which
tsmpss the appetite Of the robust and
healthy, excite our leathing and disgust
when IL first appears on the platter. To have
the rapisr OF pain strike through the side,
or across the temples, like q razor, or TO
! put the foot int a vise. or throw the
whole body into blaze of fever. Yet there
| have been mes and women. but more women
than nsen, who have oheerfully endured this
hardness Through years Of exhausting
rheumstsms and excruciasfng neuralgiss
they have gone. and through bodily dis
| tresxes 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 whore the Inhabitants are never
sick Through the dead silence Of the night
| they heard ths chorus OF the angels. The
| cancer ate away her life from week 70 week
and day 70 day, and she became wssker and
weaker and every good night was 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 battle field amid
shot and she'll were not so much
heroes and heroines rs 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 70 cheer them, but
numbness, and aching. and homesickness-
vet willing TO suffer, confident in God, hope
| fnl OF heaven. Heroes of rheumatism.
Heroes Of neuralgia Heroes of spinal COM
plaint Heroes Of sick headache. Heroes Of
lifelong invaidism. Heroes and heroines.
They shall reign for ever and ever
Harkl l catch just one note Of the eternal
anthem: There shall be no more pain"
Bless God for that
In this roll also and the heroes Of toll,
who do their wsrk uncompainingly 1t il
comparatively easy to lead regiment into
battle when yoa know that the whole nation
viii applaud the victory; it Is comparatively
easy TO doctor the sick when you know that
your skin viii be appreciated by large COM
lively easy to address an audience when in
the 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 imperfect it
Is, or TO have the whole garment thrown
back on you to be do done over again: +:
to build wall and there win be
no one to say you did n well,
but only a swearing employer bowling
across the scaffold; to work until your eyes
are dim and your back aches, and your heart
faints, and 10 know that IL you stop before
night your children will starve. All! the
sword has not slain so many as the needle.
The great battlehslds Of our last war were
not Gettysburg and Shiloh and South Noun
tain. Tue great battlcfelds of the last war
were IN the arscnals, and in the shops and in
the a:tics, where women made army Jackets
for .ixpenca They toilei on until they died.
They bad no funeral eulogium, but. in the
name sf God, this dsy / enroll their names
among those Of whom the world was not
worthy Heroes of the needle. Heroes of the
sewing manhine Heroes Of the attic. He
roes OF the cellar. Heroes and heroines. Bless
God for them
In this roll / also find the heroes who have
uncoupla4ningly endured domestic injus-
tees. Thsre are men who for their toll and
anxiety have sympathy In their homes.
Exhansting application to business gets them
livelihood. but an unfrugal wife scatters
IT, He is frefted at from the moment he en-
ters the door until he comes out ~ IL. The
corporations OF business life aug
rncBeed by the sxasperations Of dones-
| tic life. such men are laughed at, but
thsy have a he.rthreaking trouble. and
tsseT would have long ago gone into ap-
| pailing dissipations bat fr the grace
Of God Society today is Strevn with the
WRECKS Of men who. under The northeast
storm of domestic infelicity, have been
driven On tie rscks. There are tens Of thou
ssads of dranksrGs IN tsis country today,
made such sy their wives That Is not
poetry. That is pro~e. But the wrong Is
| reuer,lIy in the opposite direction. You
would not have 70 20 far to fad wife
whose IL. is a perpetual usartyrdor. Some
tsinx beaver tear stroke q fst, unkind
words. staxxsrings home st rnidnisht and
constant msitrsa trpsnt -stcn have left her
erIy wreck of what she was on that dsy
When In the midst of hrillisst sssemelss.
the vos~s v~re tsksr. and faa orgsn played
zee w-ddinx march. and the oarrlsgs
rogl~d away rish the benediction ol
~ pso7l~ WHIST vas The burnir :
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vish s6fs1 Thozs usn soon hrczrae uncon
sr1oas IA zoe Gre. bus beTs y hfrT yesrs
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vps ancc~npiaiaing No hitter ~oTfis vher
ts~ rotEirkiBr carnpsnioue a. o'cio-k n th'
ra1rri-c risrs th~ hEIstsnd 5~si drsnk irtr
tie front entry. No bitssT woris ~her
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