Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1895-11-08

switchmen, the names of the fiagmen,
the names of the brakemen. These men
have awful responsibilities, and some
times. through the recklessness OF an
engineer, or the unfaithfulncss of
switchman. it has brought to mind the
faithfulness OF nearly all the rest of
them. Some men do not have recogni-
ton of their services. They have
small wages. and much complaint.
very often ride upon locomotives,
and | very often ask the ques-
ton 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 fidelity? Thomas Scott the presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
going up at death TO receive from God
his destiny. was no better known IN
that hour than was known last night
the brakeman who, on the Erie Rail-
road, was damned to death amid the
car couplings. LAS his part is that
part be that tarrieth by the stuff"
Once for thirty-siX 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. 1t was an awful time; but by
the blessing of God, and the faithful
ness of the men in charge, we came out
of the cyclone, and we arrived at home.
Each one before leaving the ship
thanked Captain Andrews. | do not
think there was a man or woman that
went off that ship without thanking
Captain Andrews, and when, years
after, heard OF his death, | was COM
PEELED to write a letter of coincidence
to his family in Liverpool! Everybody
recognized the goodness, the courage,
the kindness of Captain 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. No
body thanked the engineer, but God
recognized his heroism and his con-
tinuanCe 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 AS
his part is that gOeth down to the
BEETLE, 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 mother with
| so many cares and anxietes 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 beau
| tiful hymn, famous in all ages for
| cheering 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 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 a pity it is" they say,
that Ed cannot get an education" 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 a
! family conference about him. The sis
1 ters say: Father, l wish You would
/ send Ed. to college; il you will, we will
work harder than we ever did, and we
will make our old dresses do" The
mother says, Yes, / will get along
without any hired help; although ] am
can get along without any hired help"
The father says, We'll. ] think by
husking corn nights | can get along
without any assistance" Sugar is
banished from the table, butter is ban
ished from the plate. That family il,
put down on rigid, yea, suffering econ
omy that the boy may go to college.
Time passes on. Commencement Day
has come. Think not that / mention
an imaginary case. God knows it hap
| pened. 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
a while it comes to climax of interest
as the yaledictorian is to be introduced
Ed. has studied so hard and worked so
we'll that he has had the honor con-
ferred upon him. There are rounds OF
applause, sometimes breaking into vo-
ciferation 1t is a great day for Ed
But away back in the galleries are his
sisters in their plain hats and their
faded shawls, and the old-fashioned
father and mother-dear me, she has
not had new hat for six years, he has
not had new coat for six years-and
they get up and look over on the plat
form, 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 gallery have their full
share in the triumph. They have made
that scene possible, and in the day
when God shall more fully reward self
sacrifices made for others, he will give
GRAND and oIorious rpcOpnition "a