Connecticut western news., 1895-11-07

Ingrsn clergyman. coming to this lana, rouvht from the Earl of Kintore the anne message. Alas, that before got eady to do what he asked me to do the ,ood Earl of Kintore had departed this fife! But that man, surrounded by all ,alatial surroundings. and in distin- ,uished sphere, felt sympathetic with hose who had ordinary duties to per orm in ordinary places and in ordinary ways. A great many people are discour- .eed when they hear the story of Moses. md of Joshua, and of David. and of Luther, and of John Knox, and of Deb- ,rah, 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, I shall never be called to com mand the sun and moon to stand still, l shall never be called to slay giant, l shall never preach on Mars hill, shall never defy the diet of Worms, shall never be called to make queen tremble for her crimes, shall never preside over hospital
 There are women who say, eff had as brilliant sphere as those people had I should be as brave and as grand, but my business is to get children ot 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 the children from being strangulated by the whoop- ing cough, and to go through all the an noyances and vexations of housekeep- ing. Oh, my sphere is so infinitesimal, and 80 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 a 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 noise 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 the sphere where God has placed you
 Another Class of worksrs.
 Suppose you give to two of your chill dren errands, and they are to go oil to make purchases, and to one you give $1 and to the other you give $20. Do you reward the boy that you gave $20 to for purchasing more with that amount of money than the other boy purchased with t1? Of course not. If God give wealth or social position or eloquence. or twenty times the faculty to 3 man that he gives to the ordinary man, is he going to give to the favored man re- ward because he has more power and more influence? Oh, no. In other words, if you and I were to do our whole duty, and you have twenty times more talent than have. you will get no more divine reward than will. Is God going to re- ward you because. he gave you mofel That would not be fair, that would not be right. These 900 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 spells of victory as the men who went to the front. "As his part is that goeth down to the battle, 50 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 commefcial hopses 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 the combination lockf A distinguished merchant goes forth at the VI watering place, and he flashes past. and you say. "Who is thatr" "Oh. ," re- plies some one. "don't you know2 That is the great importer; that is the great banker; that is the great manufactufer. ? 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 he 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 oi these roads and of tho prominent direc. tors, but they do not know tho names ot the engineers, tho names of the switch. men, the names of the nagmen, the names of the brakemen. These men have awful responsibilities. and some. times. through the reckleemess of an en- gineer or the unfaithfulness of . switch
 man, it hes brought to mind the faith fulnces of nearly all the rest of them. Some men de not have recognition o1 their services They have small wagss
 and much complaint. very often ride upon locomotives, and very often asl
 the question, as we shoot around some curve or under some ledge of rocls
 "How much wages do you getr' And am always surprised to find how littls Aoh 0uCh fooe IcDPou5ipAhty. 0O yOt suppose God is not going to recognize
 that fdelity1 Thomas Scott, the presi dent of the pennsylvania railroad. going up at death to receive from God his 6ies
 tiny, was no better known in tlnt houl
 than was known last night the brake
 man who, on the Erie railroad, wa, jammed to death amid the car couplings
 As his part is that goeth down to th<
 battle, 50 shall his part be that tarriett
 by the stun. l"
 Tarryfng by tho Stun
 Onoe for a6 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 missed against the boilers. II was an awful time, but by the blessing of God and the faithfulness of the men in charge we came out of the cyclons, and we arrived at home. Each one be. R<,~.>