Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-11-13

| noise YOU make in the world, nor even
| according to the amount of good you 10.
| but according to whether you work to toar
! full capacity accor1 o to whether or not
rou do your full 'tusv IN the sphsrV Wh0e
| God has placed von
| Suppose you give ~ two OF your children
rrands, and they are to go Off to make pur-
| bases. and to one you give 81 andto the
| ther you give S2o. Do you reward the boy
hat YOU gave $40 to for purchasing more
( vith that amount of money than the other
10Y purchased with 81? or course not! II
| rod give wealth or social position or elo-
| ,uenre. or twenty times the ia ,ulty to a man
| han He gives to the ordinary man. is He GO
ing 10 give to the favored man a reward be-
.ause he mas more p over and more infiuence9
On. no. In other words. il you and were
20 do our whole duty. and you had twenty
lines more talent than I have. you will get
| no more divine reward than I will. Is God
| going to reward you because He gave you
| more? That would not be fair; that would
not be right. These 200 men of the text who
| tainted by the brook Besor did their whole
| 1uty. They watched the baggage, they took
| .are of the stuff. and they got as much of the
| ,poils of victory as the men who went to
:ha front. "As his part is that goeth down
| 10 the battle. so shall his part be that tar
! cieth by the stuff"
There is high encouragement in this for
! al who have great responsibility and little
| credit for what they do. You know the
names Of the great commercial houses of
| ;hese cities. Do you know the names of the
onfiential clerSS-.he men who have the
| :ev TO the safe. the men who know the COM
| 'nation lock? distinguished merchant
:oes forth Mt the watering place. and he
iashaS past. AMI You saw. "Who is that?'
'Oh." replies soma one. "don't you know?
That is the great importer: that is the
great banker; that is the great manufac-
.urer." The confidential clerk has his week
of. Nobody notices whether he comes or
yoas. Nobody knows him. and after
iwhile his week is done, and he sits
down again at his desk. But God will
reward his fidelity Just as much as He recog-
hzes the work of the merchant philanthro-
pist whose investment this unknown clerk
90 carefully guarded. Hudson River Rail
road. Pennsylvania Railroad. Erie Railroad,
New York and New Haven Railroad-busi-
hess men know the names of the Presidents
pfthese roads and of the prominent direc ors.
ont they do not know the names of the en-
.ineers. the names of the switchmen. the
lanes of the hagmen, the names of the
1raEemen. These men have awful re-
possibilities. and sometimes. through
the reckleSSness of an engineer
sr the unfaithfulness of switch
nan. it has brought to mind the faithfulness
of nearly all the rast OF them. Some man do
aot have recognition OF their services. They
have small wages and much complaint
Tery often ride uDon loco motives. and very
often ask the question. as wa shoot around
some curve or under some lie Ice of rocks
"How much wages do You cety' Aud am
alwavs surprised to find how little fo- such
vast responsibility. Do you suppose Col is
not going to recognize that fidelity? Thomas
Scott, the President of the PennsyIvania
Railroad, going up at death TO receive from
Tod his destiny, was no better known in
that hour than was known last night the
brakeman who. on the Erie Railroai. was
a nod 70 1not kIn
"As his part is that goeth down to the bat
lie. 50 shall his part be hat tarrie.h by the
stuff"
Once for thirty-six hours We exp..tai
every moment to go to the bottom of tina
ocean. The waves struck through the sky
lights and rushed down into the hold of the
ship and hissed against the boilers. 1t was
An awful tima. but by the blessing of G II
and the faithfulness of the men in charge Wa
zane out of the cyclone, and We arrived at
1Oma. Each one before leaving the ship |
thanked Captain Andrews I do not think
here was man or woman that went off
hat ship without thanking Captain Andrews,
aud when, years after. heard of his death, |
was impelled to write a letter of con-
iolence to his family in Li:orpool. Ev- /!
ervbo1y recognized the goodness. the cour- |
age. the kindness Of Captain Andrews. but |
occurs to me now that we never thaukei |
he engineer. He stood ~ down in the |
tqrkneSs, amid the kissing furnaces, doing |
MS whole duty. Nobody thanked the engi- !
1eer, but God recognized his heroism AMI |
MS continuance and his fidelity. and there |
will be just as high reward for the engineer |
who worked out Of sight as the Captain who |
stool on the bridge Of the ship in the midst |
of the bowling tempest. 'As his part is that |
yosth down to the battle, 50 shall his part |
De that tarrieth by the stuff
A Christian woman WAS seen going along
The edge of a wood every evening and the |
neiGhbors in the country did not understand |
how mother with so many car IS and nXie-
ties should waste so much TIM a. to ba iily |
out evening by evening. 1t was
Found out afterwarl that she went thers
% pray for her household. an l while there
Dne evening she wrote that beautiful hymn,
famous in all ages for cheering Christian
nearts: