The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-11-07


who. moving so often night bv night
| with light in her band through the hos
, pitals. was calle by the wounded tha "ladv
| OF the lamp" Your reward will be lust as
great as that o. Mrs. Hertzog. who built and
endowed theological seminary buildings.
| Your reward will be Just rs great as that OF
Hannah More. who by her excellent books
won for her admirers Garrick ard Edmund
| Burke and Joshua REYNOLDS. Rewards are
not to he given according to thu amount of
| noise YOU make In the world nor even
according 60 the amount of good you do.
but according to whether YOU work TO your
full capacity. according to whether or not
vou do your full duty in the sphere where
God has placed YOU
Suppose you give to two Of your children
errands. and they are to go off to make pur-
cbases. and TO one YOU give 81 andto the
other YOU give S2n. DO you reward the boy
that you gave $40 Go for purchasing more
with that amount OF money than the other
noy purchased with 81? OF course notl II
God give wealth or social position or elo-
quence. or twenty times the faculty to man
than He gives TO the ordinary man, IL He go-
ing to give to the favored man reward be-
cause he has more power and more inhuence2
On. no. In other words II YOU and were
to do our whole duty. and you had twenty
times more talent than 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 ofthe text who
tainted by the brook Besor didtheir whole
duty. They watched the baggage they took
care OF the stuff. and they got rs much OF the
spoils OF victory as the men who went TO
the front. GAS his part Is that goeth down
70 the battle. so shall his part be that tar
rieth by the stuff"
There is high announcement in this for
all who have great responsibility aud little
credit for what they do. You know the
names OF the great commercial houses OF
these cities. Do you know the names OF the
confidential clerks-the men who have the
key 10 the safe. the men who know the COM
bination lock? A distinguished merchant
goes forth Mt the watering place. and he
flashes past. and YOU sav, "Who is that2"
"Oh. replies some one. "don't YOU know
That is the grest importer: that IL the
great banker; that Is the great manufac-
turer' The confidential clerk has his week
OF. Nobody notices whether he comes or
goes. Nobody knows him. and after
awhile his week IL done, and he sits
down again nj his desk. But God will
reward his fidelity Just rs much as He recog-
nizes the work of the merchant philanthro-
pist whose investment this unknown clerk
so carefully guarded. Hudson River Rail-
road. Pennsylvania Railroad. Erie Railroad
New York aud New Haven Railroad-jusi-
ness men know the names of the Presidents
ofthese roads and Of the prominent directors
but they do not know the names of the en-
gineers, the names OF the switchmen. the
names OF The fagmen. the names of the
brakemen. These men have awful re-
sponsibiitics. and sometimes, through
the recklessness OF an engineer
or the unfaithmlness OF switch.
man. 1t has brought to mind the falthfulness
OF nearly all the rest Of them. Some men do
not have recognition OF their services. They
have small wages and much complaint l
al Ia INg. n
often ask thequeston. rs we shoot around
some curve or under some 10 Ice of rocks.
How much wages do YOU get(" And am
always surprised to find how little for such
vast responsibility. Do you suppose God Is
NOT going to recognize that fldelity2 Thomas
Scott. the President Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, going up at death to receive from
God his destiny. was no better known In
TINT hour than was known last night the
brakeman who. on the Erie Railroad. was
iammed 10 death amid the car couplings.
'As his part Is that goeth down to the bat
tie. so shall his part be that tarrleth by the
stuff"
Once for thirty-six hours we expected
every moment to 90 to the bottom OF the
ocean. The waves struck through the sky
lights and rushed down into the hold Of the
snip and missed against the boilers. II was
au awful time. but by the blessing of God
aud the faithfnlness OF the men in charge we
home. Each ons before leaving the shin
tdanSed Captain Andrews. Y do not think
there was mau or woman that went OF
that ship outthauSing Captain Andrews,
and when, ye1rs after. head OF his death
I was tmpelled to write letter OF con
doence To his family in Liverpool. Ev-
eryDody recognizsi the goodness the cour-
age. the kindness of Captain Andrews. but
II occurs to me now that we never thanked
the engineer He stood away down in the
darkness. amid the Kissing furnaces. doing
his whole duty. Nobody thanked the engi-
neer. but God recognized his heroism and
his continuance aud his fidelity and there
will be Just n high reward for tho engineer
who worked out OF sight "a the Captain VINO
stood ON the bridge Of the ship in the midst
OF the bowling tempest As his part l. tha.
Soeth down to the battle. 50 shall his part
be that tarreth by the stun
A Christian woman was seen going along
the edge Of II wood every evening. aud the
neighbors in the country did mt understand
now mother with so many careS aud ankle
ties snould waste so much time as to be idly
sauntering out evening by evening. Ii was
found out afterwari that she went there
TO pray for her household. AMI white there
one evening she wrote that beautiful hymn.
famous in all ages for cheering Christian
hearts;
l love to steal awhile away
From every numbering care
Aud spend the hours OF setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.
Shall there he no reward for suca unpretend-
ing. yet everlasting service?
Clear back in the country tders Is boy |
who wants to so to college aud get an edu- |
cation. They call him n bookworm. Wher- |
ever they find him-ln the barn or In the
house-he Is reading book. "Wnat pity |
1t is. they say, THAT Ed cannot ger an edu-
caton!' His father work as hard as he
VIII, can no more than support the family |
by the product OF the farm. One night
Ed has retired to mis- room. and there Is u
family conference about him, The sisters
say: Father, / wish you would send
Et to college. II you will. we will work
harder than we ever did, aud We will
make our old dresses do The mother
says eyes; L will get along without any
hired help. Although am NOT as strong as
used To be, think | eau get along without
any hired help" The father saysi "Well,
| think by husting corn nights / can get
along without any assistance" Sugar is