Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-01-25

ton that comes to some after the de-
livery of sermon with no seeming re- /
suit, to go home and roll on the floor in
agony.
But to make up for this lack of out
spoken religion there needs to be and /
will be great day when, amid the SO
IDENTITIES and grandeurs Of listening
universe, God will SAY So" No statis-
tics can state how many mothers have
rocked cradles and lowered over infan /
tile sicknesses and brought up their |
families to manhood aud womanhood I
and launched them upon useful and sue
cessful lives, and yet never received one
"Thank you" that amounted to any |
thing. The daughters became queens in |
social life or were affianced in highest /
realms Of prosperity; the sons took the
first honors of the university and became |
radiant in monetary or professional
spheres. Now the secret of all that up
lifted maternal influence must come out.
Society did not say so; the church did |
not say so; the world did not say so, but |
on that day of all other days, the last !
day, God will say SO.
There are men to whom life is grind \
and a conflict, hereditary tendencies to
be overcome, accidental environments to I
be endured, appalling opposition to be
met and conquered, and they never SO
much as had a rose pinned to their coat /
lapel in admiration. They never had a
soing dedicated to their name. They |
never had a book presented to them |
with complimentary word on the fly |
leaf All they have to show for their
lifetime battle is scars. But in the last |
day the story will come out, and that
life will be put in holy and transcendent
rhythm, and their courage and persist
ence and faith and victory will not only
be announced but rewarded. "These are
they that came out of great tribulation !
and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood of the Lamb God
will say sol
We miss one of the chief ideas of
last Judgment. We put into the picture
the fire, and the smoke, and the earth
quake, and the descending angels, and |
the uprising dead, but we omit to put |
into the picture that which makes the
nifty. We omit the fact that it is to be /
day of glorious explanation and COM
mendation. The first justice that mil
lions of unrewarded and unrecognized |
and unappreciated men and women get
will be ON that day, when services that
never called forth SO much as newspa-
per line of finest pearl or diamond type, |
DC 40 inf arcf cl, no led
up for coronation. That will be the day /
of enthronement for those whom the |
world called "nobodies.." Joshua, who /
commanded the sun and moon to stand I
still, needs no last judgment to get jus
tice done him, but those men do need a
last Judgment who at times in all /
armies, under the most violent assault, |
in obedience to command themselves
stood still. Deborah, who encouraged |
Barak to bravery in battle against the |
oppressors of Israel, needs no last judg- /
ment to get justice done her, for thou
sands of years have clapped her APP
plause. But the wives who in all ages
have encouraged their husbands in the
battles of life, women whose names
were hardly known beyond the next
street or the next farmhouse, must have |
God say to them: "You did we'll You
did gloriously. / saw you down in that
dairy. watched You in the old farm
house mending those children 8 clothes. |
l heard what you said in the way of I
cheer when the breadwnner of the /
household was i'll despair. / remember
all the sick cradles you have sung to. I
remember the backaches, the headaches,
the heartaches. I know the story of your
knitting needle as well as / know the !
story of queens scepter. Your castle !
on the heavenly hill is all ready for
you. Go up and take it. p" And turning
to the surprised multitudes of heaven be /
will say, "She did what she could. "
God will say so.
Personal Experience.
And now I close with giving my own
personal testimony, for must not en-
join upon others that which / decline
myself to do Born at Bound Brook, N. |
j., of parentage as pious as the world /
ever saw, attest before earth and heav- /
en- that have always felt the elevating
and restraining influence of having had /
a good father and a good mother, and if I
am able to do half as we'll for my
children as the old folks did for me I /
will be thankful forever. The years of
my life passed ON until, at about Is /
years of age, felt the pressure of eter- /
nal realities. and after prayer and reli- /
gious counsel passed into what took to I
be saved state and joined the church, /
and | attest before earth and heaven 4
that have found it a most helpful and 1
inspiring association. l like the COM /
partnership SO well that cannot be sat |
isfied if / have day less of it than all 1
eternity. After graduating at collegiate T
and theological institutions l had the /
hands of ~ or 2 good men put upon +
my head in solemn ordination, at Belle t
vile, N. j., and / attest before earth and /
heaven that the work of the gospel min
istry has been delightful, and expect I
TO preach until my last hour. Many I
times l have passed through deep water
of bereavement and but for the divine /
promise of heavenly reunion would /
have gone under, but / attest before /
earth and heaven that the comfort of the /
gospel is high, deep. glorious, eternal /
Many times have been maligned and +
my work misrepresented, but all such /
falsehood and persecution have turned /
out for my advantage and enlarged my /
work, and I attest before earth and /
heaven that God has fulfilled to me the
promises. sLol am with you Away"
and THE gates of hell shall not prevail (
against you. =
For the cheer of younger men in all
departments let me say you will come
out all right if you mind your own bust
ness and are patient. The assault OF the
world is only being rubbed down By a
rough Turkish towel, and it improves
the circulation and makes one more Wig
oruus. While the future holds for me
many mysteries which ] do not pretend
to solve. am living in expectation that +
when my poor work il done, / shall go
through the gates and meet my Lord and /