Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-11-15
love to steal awhile away
From every cunoer,ng care
And spend the hours OF setting day
In humble. grateful prayer.


Shall taere benoreward for such unpretend-
ing, yet everlasting service?
Clear back in the country there is boy
who wants to go to college and get an edu-
cation. They cal him oookworn. Woer-
ever they find him in the barn or IN tne
house-ae is reading book. "Wna: pity
it is" they say, "that Ed cannot get an eiu-
cationw His father, WORK as har1 as he
will. can no more than support tae family
by the product OF thu farm. Ons nigat
Ed has retired to his room, aud there IS
family conference about him. The sisters
say: Father, [ wish you would seni
Ell to college. If you will, we will WORK
harder than we ever did, aud va VIII
make our old dresses do. The mother
SAYS: eyes; 1 will get along without any
hired help Although [ an not as strong az
fused to De, think can get along without
any hired help" The father says: DWELL,
think by husking corn nights 1 can get
along without any assistance" Sugar IS
banishei from the table. butter is oanished
from the plate. That family is put down on
rigid-yea. uffering-economy that the COY
may go to college. Time passes Cd. Com
mencement day has come. "hink not that
l mention an imaginary case. God KpoW5
1t happened. Commencement day has come,
their long gowns. The interest OF the oc-
casion is passing Oh, and after awhile ii
comes to climax of interest as the
yaledictorian is TO be intro iuced.
Ed has studied 50 hard and worked
so we'll that he has had the non
o. conferred upon him. There arc rounds
of applause, sometimes breaking into vo;ifer-
alton. 1t Is great day for Ell. But away
back in the galleries are his sisters IN their
plain hats and their faded shawis, and the
old fashioned father and mother-dear me.
she has not mad new hat for six years; ne
has not had new coat for six years and
thew get up and look over on the platform
and they laugh and they cry. aud they Sit
down. and they look pale. and then they are
very much flushed Ed gets the gariands,
and the old fashioned group in the gallery
have their full share OF the triumph. Tney
have made that scene possible, and III the
day when God shall more fully reward sell
sacrifices made for others He will give grano
and glorious recognition. Gas his pars is
that goeth down to the battle, so shall his
part be that tarrietn by the stuff.
There is nigh encouragement In this su9'
iect also for those who ouce wrought mignt-
ilv for Christ and the church, put tnroug1
sickness or collapse OF fortune or advance
wears cannot now 90 to the 'front.'. Ine5e eWv
hundred men Of the text were veterans. ue
that man bare his arm and show how tue
muscles were torn. Let him put aside the
turban aud see the marx OF battleax. Ful,
aside the coat and see where the spear tDrus'
him. Would it have been fair for those men
crinnled weak and old by the brook Besor
~ hava no share in the spois OF triumph!
Vac in the Soldiers hospital in Paris and
7 cow thara some of the men OF the frs
Nanoleop. and asked them where they nac
fonohf under their great commander. One
nan caid az was at Austeritz." Another
man said ar was at thu Pyramids. Another
n,an said "I was in the awful retreat from
Moscow Another man said ~ was at thC
bri5oe Of Lodi" Some Of them were lame
tbav were all aged. Dill the French Gov
eminent turn off those old sole-s7S TO die il
want2 No. Their last Gays were spent like
nrinces. Do You think my Lord is going to
turn off His old soliiers because they are
weak and worn and because they tainted by
the brook Besor? Are they going to get nc
nars of the spoils otths victory? Just look
Of them. Do YOU think those crevices in the
faoa are wrinkles? No They ara battle
scars They fought against sickness. they
fomoht against trouble. they Tough
against sin. they fought for God
they fought for the caurco,. the.
fought for the truth, they fought To-
heaven. When they had plenty OF money
| their names were always on the subscription
| Hst When there was any har WORK to b'
! done for God they were ready to take TIL
heaviest mart of II. When there came {
o,reot revival thew were ready to pray al