The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-08

I receive the law on Mount Sinai. / shall
never be called to command the sun
and moon to stand still, | shall never
be called on to slay a giant, shall
never preach on Mars hill. shall never
defy the Diet of Worms, | shall never
be called to make queen tremble for
her crimes. shall never preside over a
| hospital" There are women who say:
'If l had as brilliant a sphere
as those people had, l would be
as brave and as grand; but my bust
ness is to get children off to school and
to hunt up things when they are lost,
and to see that dinner is ready, and to
keep account of the household ex-
penses, and to hinder the children
from being strangulated by the whoop-
ing cough. and to go through all the
annoyances and vexatjons of house
keeping. Oh. my sphere is so infinitesi-
NAL and so insignificant, | am clear
discouraged. Woman, God places you
on garrison duty, and your reward will
be just as great as that of Florence
Nightingale, who moving so often
night by night with a light in her
by the wounded the lady of the
lamp" Your reward will be just as
great as that of Mrs. Hertzog, who
built and endowed theological semi
nary buildings.
Suppose you give to two of your
children errands and they are to 60 off
to make purchases, and to one you
give one dollar and to the other you
give twenty dollars Do you reward
the boy that you gave twenty dollars
to for purchasing more with that
amount OF money than the other boy
purchased with one dollar? OF course
not If Col give wealth or social
position or e,oluence or twenty
times the faculty 20 a man than he
gives to the ordinary man, is he
going to give 70 the favored man a
reward because he has more power
and more influence? Oh, no. In other
words, if YOU and | were to do our
whole duty, and you have twenty
times more talent than have, you will
get no more divine reward than | will.
Is God going to reward you because he
gave you more? That would not be
fair, that would not be right These
two hundred men of the text who
tainted by the brook Besor did their
whole duty; they watched the baggage,
they took care of the stuff. and they
got as .nuch Of the spoilS of victory az
the men who went to the front. AS
his part is that goeth down to the
battle. so shall his part be that tarri-
eth by the stuff"
There is high encouragement in this
for all who have great responsibility
and little credit for what they do. You
know the names of the great CONNER
cial houses of these cities. Do you
know the names OF the confidential
clerks-the men who have the key to
the safe, the men who know the COM
bination lock? A distinguished mer-
chant goes forth at the summer
watering place, and he flashes past.
and you say: WHO is that?"
oh" replies some one. don't
you know? That is the great import
err, that is the great banker. that is
the great manufacturer" The conf
Dental clerk has his week of Nobody
notices whether he comes or goes.
Nobody knows him, and after awhile
his work i done, and he sits down
again at his desk. Bat Col will re-
ward his fidelity Just As much as he
recognizes the work OF the merchant
philanthrop:st whose investments this
unknown clerk so carefully guarded.
Hudson River railroad, Pennsylvania
railroad. Erie railroad, New York and
New Haven railroad business men
know the names Of the presidents of
these roads and of the prominent
directors; but they do not know the
names of the engineers, the names of
the switchmen. the names of the flag
men. the names of the brakemen.
These men have awful responsible
ties and sometimes through the reck-
lessness of an engineer or the unfaith-
fulness of switchman, it has brought
to mind the faithfulness of nearly all
the rest of them. Some men do not
have recognition of their services.
They have small wages aud much COM
plant / very often ride upon loco
motives, and | very often asked the
question, as we shoot around some
curve. or under some ledge of rock,
"Eow much wages do you get?"
And am always surprised to
find how little for such vast RESPONSE
bility. Do you suppose God is not go
ing to recognize that fidelity? Thomas
Scott, the president of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, going up at death to
- fe
better known in that hour than was
known last night the brakeman who,
on the Erie railroad, was jammed to
death amid the car couplings. AS his
part is that goeth down to the battle,
so shall his part be that tarrieth by
the stuff"
Once for thirty-six hours we expected
ed every moment to go to the bottom
of the ocean. The waves struck
through the skylights and rushed
down into the hold of the ship, and
Missed against the boilers. 1t was an
awful time. but by the blessing of God
and the faithfulness of the men in
charge. we came out of the cyclone
and we arrived at home. Each one be-
fore leaving the ship thanked Capt.
Andrews. Everybody recognized the
goodness, the courage, the kindness of
Capt Andrews; but it 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
engineer, but God recognized his
heroism and his continuance and his
fidelity and there will be just as high
reward for the engineer who worked
out of sight, as the captain, who stood
on the bridge of the ship in the midst
Of the hnrrlinu famneSt