Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-01-19

and what bells we ring and what can
nonades we fire! But do we do justice
to the stay at homes? David, who was
worth 5000 Of those who went out 10
meet the Lords enemies IN the woods OF
Ephraim that day did ais work in re-
tirement.
Oh, the world needs day of judg-
ment to give many of The stay at homes
proper recognition. In the different
wars the sons went 10 the front and on
ships deck or battlefield exposed their
lives and earned the admiration of the
country. But how about the mothers
and fathers who through long years
taught those sons the noble sentiments
that inspired them 10 go and then gave
them up. when perhaps few words of
earnest protest would have kept them
on the farm and in the homestead? The
day of final reward will reveal the self
sacrifice and the fidelity of thousands
who never In all their lives received one
word of praise. Oh. ye unknown, We
faithful and Christian and all enduring
stay at homes. have no power now to
do you justice, but tell you of one who
has the power, and of the day when He
will put it forth. II will be the day
when the thimble, and the ladle, and the
darniDg needle, and the washtub, and
the spinning wheel, and the scythe. and
the thrashing machine. and the ham
mer, and the trowel. and the pillow, will
come to as high an appreciation as q
74-pounder, or the sword, or the batter
ing ram that pounded down the wall.
or the flag that was hoisted on the
scaled parapets.
The warrior David of my text showed
more self-control and moral prpwess in
staying at home than he could have
shown commanding in the field He
was a natural warrior. Martial airs
stirred him. The glitter OF opposing
shields fired him. He was one'of those
men who feel at home in the saddle.
Some of the greatest Sedans and Aus
terlitzes have been in backwoods
Kitchens or in nursery with three chill
dren down with scarlet fever, soon to
join the two already in the churchyard.
or amid domestic wrongs and outrages
enough to transform angels into devils,
on IN commercial life within their own
counting-rooms in time of Black Fri
day panies, or in mechanical life in their
own carpenter shop, or on the scatluld-
ing Of walls swept by cold or smitten by
heat. No telegraphic wires reported
the crisis of the conflict. no banner WAS
ever waved TO celebrate their victory,
but God knows and God will remember,
and God will adjust, and by Him the
falling of tear is as certainly noticed
as the burning of world and he hut-
ter of sparrow's wing as the flight of
the apocalyptic arohangel.
Oh, what a God we have for sma.
things as well as big things! David
no more helped al he front than helped
at home. The four regiments mobil-
lied for the defense of the throne of
Israel were right in protesting against
David's exposure of his life at the front.
Had he been pierced of an arrow, or
cIoven down with u bait leaX or fatally
slung from snorting war charger what
a disaster to the throne of Israel! Alb
solom, his son, was d low fellow and I'M
Fit to reign; his two chief characteris-
tics were his handsome face and his
iohS 81 lOllS lHdl Wucn ne ndu i
cut that which was scissored off
weighed 900 shekels after the kings
weight" and when q man has nothing
but handsome face and an eXuberance
of hair, there is not much of him. The
capture and slayingof David would have
been calamity irreparable. Unneces-
sary exposure would have been crime
for David, as it is crime for you.
In nine cases Out of ten the fatal.
ties every day reported are not the
fault of engineers or brakemen or con-
ductors or cab drivers, but of the stu
pidity and recklessness of people at
street or railroad crossings. They
would like to have the Chicago limited
express train, with 300 passengers, ad-
vertised to arrive at certain hour il
a certain city. slow up to let them get
two minutes sooner to their destination,
not one farthing Of their own or any
one else's welfare dependent on wheth-
er they arrive one minute before 12
O'Clock or one minute after. You ought
to get permission from a railroad super
intendent to mount beside the engineer
on locomotive to realize how many
evils of recklessness there are in the
world-funeral professions whipping
up 20 get across before the cowcatcher
strikes the hearse; man of family. with
wife and children beside him in a wag-
on. evidently having made close calcu-
lation as TO whether a stroke from the
locomotive would put them backward
or forward in the journey to the village
grocery; traveller on a railroad bridge
hoping that he could get TO the end of
the bridge before the train reaches il.
You have no right to put your life in
peril unless by such exposure some
thing is to he gained for others. What
imhecility in thousands of Americans
during our recent Americo-Spanishw war
disappointed because the surrender
came so soon, and they could not have
the advantage OF being shot At San
Juan hill, or brought down with the
yellow fever and carried on a litter
to transport steamers. already so mauy
floating lazarettos. instead Of thanking
Tod that they fpnf No va,-a,