The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-11-09

Suppose you give to two of your
children errandS and they are to 20 of
to make purchases, AMI to one you
give one dollar AMI to the other you
give twenty dollars. Do you reward
the boy that You gave twenty dollars
to for purchasing more with hat
amount of none than the other boy
purchased with one dollar? OF course
not. IL Col give wealth or social
position or eloquence or twenty
times the faculty to n man than he
gives to the ordinary man, is he
going to give to the favored man a
reward because he has more power
and more influence? Oh, no. In other
words, If you and / 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 reward you because he
gave YOU more? That w)uld not be
fair, that would not be right. These
two hundred men of the text who
faint ed by the brook Besor did their
wholeduty; they watched the baggage,
they took care of the stuff, and they
got as much of the spoils OF victory as
the men who went to the front. "As
his part is that goeth down to the
eth 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 CONNER
cial houses of these cities. Do you
know the of the confidential
clerks-the men who have the key to
the safe, the men who know the com
bination lock? A distinguished mer-
chant goes forth at the summer
watering place, and he flashes past,
and you say: "Who is that?"
oh" replies some one, don't
you know? That is the great import
er, hat is the great banker, that is
| the great manufacturers" The conf
dental clerk has his week off. Nobody
notices whether he m or goes.
Nobody knows him, and after awhile
his work is done, and he sits down
again ut. his desk. But God will re-
ward his fidelity just as much as he
recognizes the work of the merchant
philanthropist whose Investments 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 OF
these roads and of the prominent
directors; but they do not know the
names of the engineers, the names OF
the switchmen, the names of the flag
men, the names of the brakemen.
These men have awful responsible
ties and sometimes, through the reck'
lessness Of an engineer Or the unfaith-
fulness of a switchman, 1t has brought
to mind the faithfulness of nearly all
the rest of them. Some men do not
have recognition of their services.
They have small wages and much com
plant. l very often ride upon loco.
motives, and I very often asked the
question, as we shoot around soma
curve, or under some ledge Of rock,
GLOW much wages do you getT'
And l am always surprised tC
find how little for such vast RESPONSE
bility. Do you suppose God is not go
ing to recognize that fidelity? Thomas
Scott, the president of the Pennsyl.
vania railroad, going up at death to
receive from God his destiny, was nc
better known in that hoar than was
known last night the brakeman who,
on the Erie railroad, vas jammed &c
death amid the car couplings. ''As hi.
part is hat goeth down to the battle
% shall b;s mart he that tarrieth h,
the stuff"
A Christian woman was seen going
along the edge of n wood every even
tide and the neighbors i'm 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 wa.
found out afterward that she went
there tn. pray for her household, ant
while there one evening she wrote tina
beautiful hymn, famous in all ages fol
cheering Christian hearts:
Hove to steal awhile away
From every numbering care,
ana spenu sne nours OF setting oaS
Shall there he No rs,r.rd n, such
u-nnretendinc vet everiasting serv
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