The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-01-27

meet the LOrG'S enemies IN tuS "ooa> =
Ephraim, that day did his WORK IN retire.
ment.
Oh. the world needs a day OF judgment.
to give many OF the STAY at homes proper
recognition. In the different wars tue sons
went to the front and on ships deck o.
battlefield exposed their lives and earned
the admiration OF the country. but how
about the mothers and fathers whothrouKh
long years taught those sons the noble sen.
timents that inspired them to go and then
gave them up when perhaps a few WORDS
Of earnest protest would have kept them
on the farm and In the homestead? The
day OF final reward will reveal tho sell
sacrifice and tie fidelity OF thousands WAC
never in all their lives received one word
OF praise. Oh, ye unknown, ye faithful
and Christtnn and all enduring stay At
homes! have no power now to do you
Justice, but I tell you Of one who has the
bower and OF the time when the thimble.
and the ladle, and the darnipg needle, and
the washtub, and the spinning wheel, and
the scythe, and the thrashing machine.
and the BANNER, and the trowe', and the
pillow, will come to as high an appreciation
as a seventy-fonr FOUNDER, or the sword.
or the batteYinc ram that nonnded down
tho wall or the tag that was hoisted on the
scaled parapets.
The warrior David OF my text showed
more self control and moral proves in
staying at home than he could have shown
commanding in the field. He was a ma
tural warrior. Martial airs stirred him.
The glitter OF opposing shields fired him.
He was one OF those men wno feel at home
in the saddle, pattine the neck Of a paw
ing cavalry horse. But he unsurpassed him.
self. He obeyed the mmand OF the troops
whom be would like to have commanded
Some OF the greatest Sedans and Aus
t~erlitZes have been in backwoodS kitch-
ems or i'll nursery, with three children
down with scarlet fever, soon to JOIN
the two already IA the c~hurcbyard. &C
amid domestic wrongs and outrages
enough to transform angels into devils. or
In commercial life within their own count
ing rooms in time OF Black Friday panics.
or in mechanical life in their own carpen-
ter shop or on the scaf1olding OF the walls
swept by cold or smitten by heat. No tele-
graphic wires reported the crisis Of the
conflict. 40 banner was ever waved to cele-
brate their victory, but God knows, and
God will remember, aud God will adjust,
and by Him the falling Of a tear is as GER
tainly noticed as the burning OF a world,
and the futter OF a sparrows wing as the
flight OF the apoca!yptic% archaugel.
Oh. what a God We have for small things
as we'll as big things! David no more
helped at the front than helped at home.
The four regiments modified for the de-
Tense Of the throne Of Israel we<e right in
protesting against David's expose of his
life at the front. Had he been pierced Of an
arrow Or clOven down with a battieax or
fatally slung for sn orting war charger. what
a disaster for the throne OF Israel! Absalom,
his SOD. was q low fellow and unfit to
reign; his two chief characteristics were
his handsome face and his long hair-so
long that when he had it cut that which
was scissored off weighed 1000 shekels.
after the kings weight" and when q man
exuberance OF hair there is not much OF
him. The capture or staying OF David
would nave peen q Calamity 1rreparapIe
Unnecessary exposure would have been q
crime for David. as it is a crime for you.
Some people think 1t is q briI ht thing 20
put themselves in unnecessary peril. Thew
Ike to walk up to the edge OF a precipice
and look of, defying vertigo, or go among
contagious when they can be Of no use but
10 demonstrate their " bravado, or with
gree drive horses which are only harnessed
Whlriwinds. or see how close they can walk
IN front OF a trolley car without beinp
crushed, or spring on a rail train after it
has started, or leap off a rail train before It
has stopped. Their life is a series OF
narrow escapes, careless OF what predica-
meht their family would suffer at their
sudden taking Off or of the misfortune
that might come 20 their business partners
or the complete failure OF their life work.
II a coroner's jury must be called in to de.
cfde the style % their exit. They DO not
take into consideration what their life is
worth to others. Taken of through
such recklessness they 80 criminals,
There was not one man among
those four full regiments OF four
thousand IsrAe!ites hat would have so
much enjoyed being in tn. fight as David
out ne saw that he could serve his nation
oest by not putting On helmet and SHIELD
ana sword, and so he took the advice OF the
armed L-"I md said, What eemet to
you best will do" l warrant that YOU
van ne sooa enough. without teasing and
oan'etlng casualty to see il il can launch
you INTO the next world.