Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-11-08

crippled and unable to 90 forth and lead
in great movements and in the high
places Of the earth, does his whole duty
Just whero he is. Garrison duty as i'm
portant aud as remunerative as service
at the front "As his part is that goeth
down to the battle, so shall his part be
that tarrieth by the stuff. "
The Earl Of KintoTe said to me in an
English railway, "Mr. Talmage, when
you get back to America l want you to
preach a sermon Oh the discharge Of or
dinary duty in ordinary places, and then
send me copy Of it." Afterward an
English clergyman, coming to this land,
brought from the Earl Of Kintore the
same message. Alas, that before I got
ready to do what he asked me to do the
good Earl Of Kintore had departed this
life But that man, surrounded by all
palatial surroundings, and in a distin-
guished sphere, felt sympathetic with
those who had ordinary duties to per-
form in ordinary places and in ordinary
ways. A great many people are discour-
aged when they hear the story Of Moses,
and Of Joshua, and Of David, and Of
Luther, and Of John Knox, and Of Deb
orah, and Of Florence Nightingale
They say. "Oh, that was all good and
right for them, but l shall never be
called to receive the law on Mount
Sinai, shall never be called to COM
mand the sun and moon to stand still, I
shall never be called TO slay a giant,
shall never preach on Mars hill, l shall
never defy the diet Of Worms, l shall
never be called to make queen tremble
for her crimes, 1 shall never preside
over a hospital" "
There are women who say, "If I had
as brilliant a sphere as those people had
I should be as brave and as grand, but
my business is to get children of 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
expenses, and to hinder tho children
from being strangulatcd by the whoop-
ing cough, and to 90 through all the an
noyances and yexations Of housekeep-
ing. Oh, my sphere is so infnitesimal,
and so insignificant, am clear discour-
aged " Woman, God places you on gar
rison duty, and your reward will be just
as great as that Of Florence Nightingale,
who, moving so often night by night
with light in her hand through the
hospitals was called by the wounded
the "lady Of the lamp" Your reward
will be just as great as that of Mrs.
Hertzog, who built and endowed theo-
logical seminary buildings. Your re-
ward will be just as great as that Of
Hannah More, who by her excellent
books won for her admirers Garrick and
Edmund Burke and Joshua Reynolds.
Rewards are not to be given according
to the amount Of noiso you make in the
world, nor even according to the amount
Of good you do, but according to whether
you work to your full capacity, accord
ing to whether or not you do your full
duty in tho sphere where God has placed
you.
Another Glass of Workers.
Suppose you give to two Of your chill
dren errands, and they are to go off to
make purchases, and to one you give 81
and to tho other you give $50. Do you
reward the boy that you gave $50 to for
purchasing moro with that amount Of
money than the other boy purchased
with 81? OF course not. If God give
wealth or social position or eloquence,
or twenty times the faculty to q man
that he gives to the ordinary man, is he
going to give to the favored man a re-
ward because he has more power and
more influence? Oh, no. In other words,
if you and l were to do our whole duty,
and you have twenty times more talent
than l have, you will get no more divine
reward than 1 will. Is God going to re-
ward 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 duty. They watched the baggage,
they took care Of the stuff, and they got
as much Of the spoils Of victory as the
men who went to the front. "As his
part is that goeth down to the battle, so
shall his part be that tarrieth 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 commercial
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 tho combination lock9
A distinguished merchant goes forth at
the watering place, and he flashes past,
and you say, "Who is that:" " Oh, " re-
plies some one, "don you know? That
is the great importer; that is the great
banker; that is the great manufacturer.
The confidential clerk has his week OF.
Nobody notices whether he comes or
goes. Nobody knows him, and after
awhile his week is done, and be sits
down again at his desk. But God will
reward his fidelity just as much as he
recognizes the work Of the merchant
philanthropist whose investment 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 direc-
tors, but they do not know the names OF
the engineers, the names Of the switch
men. the names Of the flagmen, the
names Of the brakemen. These men
have awful responsibilities, and some
times, through the recklessness Of an en-
gineer or the unfaithfulness Of a aswitch-
man, it has brought to mind the faith
fulness Of nearly all the rest Of them.
Some men do not have recognition OF
their services. They have small wages
and much complaint. very often ride
upon locomotives, and very often ask
the question, as we shoot around some
curve or under some ledge Of rocks,
"How much wages do you geti" And l
am always surprised to find how little
for such vast responsibility. Do you
SUPPOSE God is not going to recognize
that fidelityp Thomas Scott, the presi-
dent Of the Pennsylvania railroad, going
up at death to receive from God his des-