The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-11-08

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fulness of nearly all the rest Of them.
Some men do not have recognition Of
their services. They have small wages
and much complaint. I very often ride
upon locomotives, add : very often ask
the question, as we shoot around Some
curve or under some ledge 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 fidelityH Thomas Scott, the presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania railroad, going
up at death to receive from God his des-
tiny, was no better known In that hour
than was known last night the brake
man who, on the Erie railroad, was
jammed to death amid the car couplings.
GAS his part Is that goeth down to the
battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth
by the stuff"
Tarrying by the Stun.
Once for 80 hours we expected 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 Kissed against the boilers. It
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 Captain
Andrews. I do not think there was O
man or woman that went off that ship
without thanking Captain Andrews, and
when, years after, heard of his death,
I was impelled to write letter Of con-
dolence to his family in Liverpool. Ev-
erybody recognized the goodness, the
courage, the kindness Of Captain An
drews, but 1t 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 continu-
ance 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 bowling tempest. Gas
his part is that goeth down to the bat
tie, SO shall his part be that tarrieth by
the stuff.
A Christian woman was seen going
along the edge Of wood every even
tide, and the neighbors in the country
did not understand how a mother with
SO many cares and anxieties should
waste so much time as to be idly saun-
tering out evening by evening. 1t was
found out afterward that she went there
to pray for her household, and while
there one evening she wrote that beauti-
full hymn, famous in all ages for cheer
ing Christian hearts:
love to steal awhile away
From every numbering care
And spend the hours Of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.
Shall there be no reward for such un-
pretending, yet everlasting service?
Clear back in the country there is a
boy who wants to go to college and get
an education. They call him a book
worm. Wherever they find HMM the
barn or in the house-he is reading a
book. "What pity it -is, F." they say,
that Ed cannot get an education |" His
father, work as hard as be will, can no
more than support the family by the
product of the farm. One night Ed has
retired to his room, and there is fam
lily conference about him. The sisters
say: Father, wish you would send
Ed to college. II you will, we will work
harder than we ever did, and 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 l used to be, think can get
along without any hired help" The IA
Their says, "Well, / think by husking
corn nights l can get along without any
assistance. " Sugar is banished from the
table, butter is banished from the plate.
That family is put down on rigid-yea,
suffering-economy that the boy may
go to college. Time passes on. Com
mencement day has come. Think not
that / mention an imaginary case. God
knows it happened Commencement day
has come, and the professors walk in
ON the stage in their long gowns The
interest Of the occasion is passing on,
and after awhile 1t comes to a climax of
interest as the valedictorian is to be in
troduced. Ed has studied so hard and
worked SO we'll that he has had the hon
or conferred upon him. There are rounds
of applause, sometimes breaking into
vociferation. 1t is great day for Ed.
But away back in the galleries are his
sisters in their plain hats and their fad
ed shawls, and the old fashioned father
and mother-dear me, she has not had
a new hat for six years; he has not had a
new coat for six years-and they get up
and look over on the platform, and they
laugh and they cry, and they sit down,
and they look pale, and then they arc
very much flushed. Ed gets the r,rlands,
and the old fashioned group in the gal
lery have their full share of the tri-
umph. They have made that scene pos
sible, and in the day when God shall
more fully reward self sacrifices made
for others he will give grand and glor-
ious recognition. Gas his part is that
goeth down to the battle, SO shall his
part be that tarrieth by the stuff"
The Has Beens.
There is high encouragement in this
subject also for those who once wrought
for Christ and the church, but
through sickness or collapse of fortune
or advanced years cannot now go to the
front These two hundred men of the
text were veterans. Let that man bare his
arm and show how the muscles were torn.
Let him pull aside the turban and see
the mark of a battleax. Pull aside the
coat and see where the spear thrust him.
Would it have been fair for those men,
crippled, weak and old by the brook
Besor, to have no share in the spoils of
triumph? Twas in the Soldiers hospital
in Paris and saw there some Of the
men of the first Napoleon, and asked
them where they had fought under their
great commander One man said, II
was at Austerlitz. Another man said,
II was at the Pyramids. F" Another man
said, II was in the awful retreat from
Moscow. Another man said, Il was
at the bridge Of Lodi" Some of them
were lame, they were all aged. Did the
French government turn off those old