Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-11-08

Wnen, years after, hcard OF his death,
1 was impelled to write letter Of con-
dolence to his family in Liverpool. Ey-
erybody recognized the goodness, tho
courage, the kindness Of Captain An
drews, but it occurs TO me now that wo
never thanked the engineer. He stood
away down in the darkness, amid the
Kissing furnaces, doing his whole duty.
Nobody thanked the engineer, but God
recognized his heroism and his continu-
ance 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 bat
tie, so shall his part be that tarrieth by
the stuff. "
A Christian woman was seen going
along the edge Of a wood every even
tide, and the neighbors in the country
did not understand how q mother with
so many cares and anxieties should
waste so much time as to be idly saun-
tering out evening by evening. It was
found out afterward that she went there
to pray for her household, and whilo
there one evening she wrote that beauti-
ful hymn, famous in al ages for cheer.
ing Christian hearts:
love to steal awhile away
From every cumbering care
And spend the hours Of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.
Shall there be no reward for such un-
pretending, yet everlasting service?
Clear back in the country there Is a
boy who wants to 90 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,
thar Ed cannot get an education" HIS
father, work as hard as be will, can no
more than support the family by tho
product Of the farm. One night Ed has
retired to his room, and there is fam
lily conference about him. Tho sisters
say: "Father wish you would send
Ed to college If you will, we will work
harder than we ever did, and we Will
make our old dresses do. " The mother
says: eyes; will get along without
any hired help. Although am not as
strong as l used to be, l think l can get
along without any hired help" The fa-
ther says, "Well, l think by husking
corn nights can get along without any
assistance. Sugar is banished from tho
table, butter is banished from the plate.
That family is put down on rigid-yea,
suffering-economy that the boy may
90 to college. Time passes on. Com
mencement day has come. Think not
that 1 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
o new hat for six years; he has not had a
new coat for six years-and they get up
and lock 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 gal
lery have their full share Of the tri-
umph. They have made that scene pos
sible, and in 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 the stuff. "
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 60 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 sec
the mark Of a 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 in the Soldiers hospital
in Paris and saw there some Of the
men Of the first Napoleon, and asked
them where they had fought under their
great commander. One man said, Il
was at Austerlitz Another man said,
Il was at the Pyramids. Another man
said, Il was in the awful retreat from
Moscow. Another man said, Il was
1t the bridge Of Lodi. Some Of them
were lame, they were all aged. Did tho
French government turn off those old
soldiers to die in want? No. Their last
DAYS were spent like princes. Do you
think my Lord is going to turn of his
old soldiers because they are weak and
worn and because they tainted by tho
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 wrinklesi 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 1t.
When there came q great revival they
were ready to pray all night for the
anxious and the sin struck. They were
ready to do any work, endure any sacri-
fee, do the most unpopular thing that
God demanded Of them. But now they
cannot go further. Now they have phys
ical infrmities. Now their head trou-
bles them. They are weak and faint by
the brook Besor. Are they to have no
share In the triumph Are they to get
none Of the treasures, none Of the spois
of conquest? You must think that Christ
hac q varv short mamorv il Won think lo