The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-11-06
GARRISON DUTY.
Faithful Service viii Surely be
Rewarded.
We Must Do Our FUN Duty Where God
Has Placed Us-The Heroes OF
the Home VIII Not be
Forgotten.

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Rev. DR.. Talmage preached his latest
sermon to an immense audience in
Washington His subject, Ordinary
Duties in Ordinary Places" was full OF
encouragement for all who are faith
fully trying to do their duty. His text
can be found in !. Samuel xxx. "a;
"As his part is that goeth down to the
battle, so shall his part be that tarrleth
by the stuff.
If YOU have never seen an army
change quarters, you have no idea Oh
the amount of baggage twenty loads'
fifty loads, hundred loads OF baggage.
David and his army were about to
start on double-quicl1 march 1or the
recovery of their captured families
from the Amalel1ites. So they left by
the brook Besor their blankets, their
llnapsaclzs, their baggage, and their
carriages. Who shall be detailed to
watch this stuff? There are sick sol
diers, and wounded soldiers, and aged
soldiers who are not able to go on,
swift military expedition, but who are;
able to do some work, and so they are,
detailed to watch the baggage. There
Is manv soldier who is not strong
enouph to march thirty miles in day
and then plunge into a ten hours tight,
who is able with drawn sword Lifted
against his shoulder to pace up and
down as a sentinel to keep Off an ene7
my who might put the torch to the
baggage. There are two hundred OF
those crippled and aged and wounded
soldiers detailed to watch the baggage
, Some of them, suppose, had bandagess
across the brow, and some OF them mad
: their arm in sling, and some OF them
i walked on crutches. They were not
towards shirking duty. They had
= fought in many fierce battle for their
country and their God. They are now
part of the time in hospital, and part
of the time on garrison duty. They
almost cry because they cannot go with
a the other troops to the front While
;" these sentinels watch the baggage, thu
I. Lord watches the sentinels.
There is quite different scene being
=. enacted in the distance. The Amalc
!, kites, having ravcged and ransacke'
n and robbed whole countries, are cele
: brating their success in roarini
e' carousal. Some of them are dancing
on the lawn with wonderful gyratio
of heel and toe, and some of them ar
examining the spoils of victory-th
finger rings and ear rings, the necl
laces, the wristlets, the headband
diamond-starred, and the Golfers wit
coronets, and carnelains, and pearl
and sapphires, and emeralds, and
the wealth of plate, and jewels, an
decanters, and the silver and the go
banked up on the earth in princel
profusion, and the embroideries, al
the robes, and the turbans, and tt
cloaks of an imperial wardrobe. III
banquet has gone on until the pa
oueters are maudlin and weak and
sipid and indecent and loathsome
drunk. What time it is now
David and his men to .swoop on thel
So the English lost the battle OF Ba
! nockburn, because the night beto
they were in wassail and bibulous ce
bration, while the Scotch were
PRAYER. So the Syrians were ov'
. thrown in their carousal by the lsra
ties. So Chedorlaomer and his arr
were overthrown in their carousal
A Abraham and his men. So, in our cl
DI war. more than once the battle
q lost because one of the generals
& drunk. Now is the time for David
his men to swoop upon these carousl
. Amalekites. Some of the AmaleSi
d are hacked to pieces on the spot, so
q of them are just able to go stagger
3 and hiccoughing off the field, some
9l them crawl on camels and speed OF
n the distance. David and his Il
gather together the wardrobes,
Jewels, and put them upon the bael
. camels, and into wagons, and Il
. gather together the sheep and ca
that had been stolen, and start b
!. toward the garrison. 4onder t
:. come, yonder they come. The limp
men of the garrison come out and g.
-. them with wild huzza. The bible
E. David saluted them. That is, he as
= them how they all were. "hoN
vour broken arm?' How is J
= fractured jaw?" HAS the stiife
. limb been unlimbered?" "Have
-. had another chill?" "Are you get
-. better?" He saluted them.
:. But now came very difficult tn
:. the distribution of the spoils OF
-. torv. Drive up those laden cal
- now. Who shall have the spoils? '
49,, some selfish soul suggests that !
80. treasures ought all to belong to t
=. who had been out in active ser
=. 1--WE did all the fighting while t
=. men stayed at home in the garr
=. and we ought to have all the treasl
- Rut David looked into the worn
- of these veterans who had stage
!. garrison, and he looked around
saw how cleanly everything hao
- kent. and he saw that the baggage
...' all safe, and he knew that
-. wounded and crippled men v
-. gladly enough have been at the
-.J If they had been able, and the
-. general looks up from under his hi
49, and saws: mo, no, let us have
-. play;n and he rushes up to one OF
-. men and he says: "Holdyour han
-. " gether," and the hands are he
49,. gether, ind he fills them with S
...'' And he rushes up to another man
..... was sitting away back and had nj
,..' of getting any Of the spoils'
.....- throws a Babylonish garment owe
ond A1ls his hand with gold. A
- rushes up to another man who ma