Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-09

terlng 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 i'll 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 I'M
pretending, yet everlasting service?
Clear back in the country there is a
boy who wants to 60 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
book. ''What pity it is. !" they say,
that Ed cannot get an edueationp' His
father, work as hard as he 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
1udhC JILL OAb III cnHto w. It's
says: Eyes; will get along without
any hired help. Although l am not as
strong as | used to be, l think can get
along without any hired help" The IA
ther says, "Well, think by hnsking
corn nights / 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 that the boy may
go to college. Time passes on. Com
mencement day has come. Think not
that l 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 it comes to a climax Of
interest as the valedictorian is to be in
troduced. Ed has studied SO hard and
worked SO well 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
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 are
very much flushed. Ed gets the garlands,
and the old fashioned group in the gall
lery have their full share Of the tri-
umph. They have made that scene pos
sible, and III the day when God shall
more fully reward self sacrifices made
for others he will give grand and glor-
ious recognition. ''As his part is that
goeth down to the battle, SO shall his
part be that tarrieth by he stuff. A"
The Has Beens.
There is high encouragement in this
subject also for those who once wrought
nightly 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 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 i'll the Soldiers hospital
in Paris and / saw there some Of the
men of the first Napoleon, and l 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. " Another man
said, 81 was in the awful retreat from
Moscow. +" Another man said, ~ was
at the bridge of Lodi" Some Of them
we're lame, they were all aged Did the
Wrench government turn off those old
soldiers to die in wantY No Their Last
days were spent like princes. Do you
think my lord is going to turn off his
old soldiers because they are weak and
worn and because they tainted by the
brook Besor? Are they going to get no
part Of the spoils Of the victory? Just
look at them. Do You think those crew
ices in the face are wrinklesf No They
are battle scars They fought against
sickness, they fought against trouble,
they fought against sin, they fought for
God, they fought for the church, they
fought for the truth, they fought for
heaven. When they had plenty Of mon
ey their names were always ON the sub
scription list When there was any hard
work to be done for God they were
ready to take the heaviest part OF it.