Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-08-10

Day Life.
LAX SIDE OHIO. July 28-For many years
an Assembly OF the Chautauqua type has
been held at this point. The leading profess
sors, scholars and clergymen Of this and other
lands have addressed the audiences. The
Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage, D. D., Of Brooklyn,
Is now here. He lectured yesterday (Satur
day. and preached to-day, to throngs innu-
merable- The subject of his sermon to-day
was: The Martyrs of Everyday Life" He
took for his text: Thou, therefore, endure
hardness Ill Timothy, H., 3. DR.. Talmage
said:
Historians are not slow to acknowledge the
merits Of great military chleftains. We have
the fullleugth portraits OF the CrOmWells, the
WashingtOns, the NapoleOns and the yelling
tons OF the world. History is not written ia
black ink but with red ink OF human blood.
Tie gods Of human ambition do not drink
from bowls made out of silver, or gold, or
precious 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; those who faced no
guns blew no bugle- blast, conquered no cities,
chained no caDtives TO their charlot-wheels,
and yet, in the great day Of eternity, will stand
higher than those whose names stratled the
nations; and seraph, and raDt spirit, and arch
angel VIII tell their deeds 10 a listening uni
verse l mean the heroes OF common, every
day life.
horrors Of the sick room When Satan had
failed to overcome Job, he said TO
God: Put forth thy hand and touch
his bones and his flesh, and he viii
curse thee to thy face" Satan bad found
out what we have all found out that sickness
Is the greatest test Of ones character.
man who eau stand thaJ can stand ANYTHING.
10 be shut IN q room "a fast as though II
were a baslile. To be so nervous on cannot
endure the tap of cil..,Ps loot. 70 have
luXuriant fruit, winch 3, .IuJs the appetite Of
the ~ObusL AND uc-. ~ excite our lOathing
and disgust en- IT. hTsG appears On the plat
ter. To have The rapier Of pain strike through
the side. or across the temples, like razor,
or to put the loot into vice, or throw the
whole body into blaze Of fever. Yet there
have been men and women, but more women
than men, no have cheerfully endured this
hardness. Through years OF eXhuusJng
rheumaii-ms and eXcruciating neurHlgias
they have gone, and through bodily distresses
that rasped the nerves, and tore the muscles,
and paleu the cheeks and stopped the shout
ders. By he dim light Of the sick room taper
they saw On their wall the picture OF that
land where the Inhabitants never sick.
Through he dead silence OF the night they
heard the chorus of the angels The cancer
ate away her life from week to week ami
day to day, and she became weaker and
weaker, and every good night" was leebler
than the good uight' befOre-yet never sad.
The children looked up into her face aud saw
suffering transformed into heavenly smile.
Those who suffered the battlefield, amid
shot and shell, We're not so much heroes and
herOnes those who in the field hospital and
Ia the asylum had feVers which no Ice could
cool and no surgery cure. No shout OF a
cOmrade TO cheer them, but numbness and
aching, and homes c1ness-yet willing to suf-
fer, confident IN God, hopeful OF heaven.
Heroes of rheumatism. Heroes OF neu-
ralgia. Heroes Of spin complaint He
rOes of sick headache. HerO-s Of lifelong
tnVulidlsm. Heroes and heroines- They snail
reign for ever aud ever.
Harkl ] catch just one note Of the eternal
anthem: There shall be no more pain"
Bless God for that.
In this ron also find the heroes Of toll, who
do their work uncOmplaininglY- It is com
paratiVeiY easy to lead regiment in to battle
when YOU know that the whole nation viii
applaud the victory It is comparatively easy
to doctor the sick when you know that your
skill will be appreciated BY large company
Of friends and relatives; It Is comparatively
easy TO address an audience when in the
cleaning eyes and the flushed cheeks 70 u
know that your sentiments are adopted; but
to do sewing where you expect that the en-
DlOyer will come and thrust his thumb
through the work to show how imperfect it
is, or TO have the whole garment thraWn
back you 10 be done over again; TO build
a wall and know there W II be no one to savr
you did it well, but only swearing emplOye
bowling across the scauOld; to work IN III
your eyes are d IN and Your back aches and
your heart faiuts, and to know that If you
stop before night your children will starve.
ALL the sword has not slain many as the
needle. The great battle belds of last
war were not Gettysburg and Shiloh and
South Mountain. The great battle-felds of
the last where in the arsenals, and in the
shops and in the attcs where women made
army jackets for a sixpence. They toiled on
until they died. They had no funeral
8ulogum, but, in tue name of nv God, this day,
/ enroll their names among those of whom
the world ~ as not worthy. Heroes of the
needle. Heroes Of the sewing machine. He
roes of the attic. Heroes of the cellar
Heroes and herOines. Bless God for them
In this roll l also lind the heroes who have
uncOmplainingly endured domestic lnlus-
tees 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 unfrugaI wife scatters
il He is fretted at from the moment he en-
tiers the door until he comes out OF il The
HHr-Hsa aH Esa fFe I'D ,.
the exasperatiOus of domestic life Such men
are luughed at, but they have heart break
ing trouble, aud they would have long age
gone into appalling dissipations but for the
grace of God. Society to-day is streWn with
the wrecks of men, who, under the north
east storm Of domestic infehcity have been
driven 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 90 FAR 20 mud a wife whose
life is a perpetual martyrdOm. Something
heavier than a stroke of the fist: unlinC
words, aggering home at midnight and con
slant maltreatment which have left her only
q wreck of what she was on that dSy when
in the midst of a brilliant assemblage the
VOWS were taken, and full organ played tn,
wedding march, aud the carriage rolled awal
with the bened lotion Of the people Wha
was the burning Of Latimer aud Ridley at TIA
stake compared with this4 Those men sOOI
became unconscious in the nre, but here is
fifty years martyrdOIn, a nifty years putting
70 death, yet uucom planning. NO DlLLe
words when the rOlieking companions at tW,
O'Clock IN the morning pitch the husband
dead drunk into the 'front.' entry. No bite
words when wiping from she swollen brow tn
blood struck out in a midnight carOusal
Bending over the battered and bruis
ed form of him, who, when he too
her from her fathers home, promised love
and kindness, and protection, yet nothing
but sympathy. and prayers, and forgiveness
before they are asked for. No bitter word
when the family Bible goes for rum and tn
pawnbroker's shop gets the last decent dress