The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-30


The hclpfulness that comes through the
honoring of the humbleat deeds OF yalor Is
beginning to be recognized.
"A great Englist artist" we read PRO
poses to commemorate the herolsm OF
| tumble life by series of sculptures and
frescoes set along an open gallery In a
public park in the east end of London. He
| and his friends Will take the simple an
| nails of the poor and illustrate the devo-
| ton. the self-sacrifce. the willing martyr
dom, the splendid courage there record
ed. The first picture Will be that OF a
| shop girl who gave her life in a tenement
| house fire to save her nelghbors. These
stories In carving and color will make 1t
| plain that 1t Is not necessary to go out
with guns to kill men in order to be
| heroic"
Yes. the world Is coming to a better
| estimation OF the worth and meaning OF
deeds OF peaceful herosm More medals
are being struck Off each year in recogni-
ton of the high courage shown In the ex-
igiences OF peace. Tall shafts are being
planted to the worthiness of peaceful
valor. The elevator boy who evaded the
vigilance OF the police and ran his elevator
into the flames OF the burning Windsor
hotel and died at his post to save others.
viii have his memory perpetuated in
Greenwood. And oven today a new prece-
dent is being established by the adms-
sion to the Nations capital of monu-
ment TO Francis willard the heroine OF
peaceful campaign of social beneficence
We are coming to see that the battles
of peace often require a keener temper
OF courage and tougher fiber OF will
than do the battles of smoke and shot.
There is little of that excitement which
intoxcates men with "the enthusiasm OF
the supreme occasion" There is no mar
tial music, no summons of the drum and
bugle, no impetus of march or charge, nor
voice of shouting. The battles of peace
are made doubly hard by their dull and
uninispiring monotony. And more than
THAI. they are often fought alone
| The man stands forth by himself before
! the enemy. He is neither supported nor
| thrilled by the electric touch OF "elbow
to elbow as in the line of battle where
| courage and endurance are magnined by
| the conscious tread of a mighty army. Like
| a solitary outpost alone at night threat
ened by unseen dangers, uneneouraged by
the companonship of his fellows, and
| without the prospect of relief--so must
the picket soldier of peace often stand
| alone through the long campaigns of moral
| warfare
Like those splendid specimens of man
hood in that municipal court room In
Jerusalem Of which we read this morning
so must the warrior IN a moral cause often
slahd alone before congresses and legisla-
lures OF adverse interests and ask simlly
and inslstenty Whether fl be rIght. .
And so, as we all know. must every man
hght out the moral battles within himself
alone. And often and often he falls do
leated before the enemy Just because he
Is alGne, Many q man who when sur
rounded By his friends finds 1t easy
enough 10 answer whether 1t be right
TO do the dishonest thing. the mean thing.
me unjust or the unClean thing Is am
pushed by the insidious tempter and
shared ana taken and miserably van
uulshed because he Ia alone Society Is
) fnll of the manned and wounded lives
: that have fallen in their solitary battle
! WIN the devil and surrendered their
souls to defeat like towards. because they
, were lighting alone.
) Ana then again, the battles OF peace arc
lhterminable They 20 on without end
- The engagements Of war are for The most
g part sharp and Of short duration In A
Y iew hours the day Is won or lost. Dct
o these moral battles go on forever "Thoi q
o is no discharge in that war; No cam
Q pulSn ever ends it, Temptations mover
rest. The forces Of evil never offer truce
$ we know how 1t is so OF the inror war
h iarei the same hard contention with Al
q ugly temper, the same struggle with A
q commenting appetite, the came hard strlf,
Z win the Incidence, the meannoss tho sol.
hshness, which seem TO be very part o
: us. day after day and year after year ",
must be at u, and tie only peace for us fl
"a ire shameful peace Of surrender. "Ther,
10 Is no discharge in that war"
ANA so 1t Is with the wider battlefield
q Neere the moral interests of the city Ct
The Commonwealth are being fought GU
10 win the ever active in erosts Of evil
ID n al,
II ing watohfulness and skirmishing engage
70 II cns "Oh, what world this would soor
be, eXclaima one who speaks from AZ
rs abundant experience, III the perseverance
i OF saints We're made OF as enduring stut
l. as the perseverance OF sinners!" II th,
lie moral campaigns OF peace could be tough
pr out 10 a finish; II the p1wers of RICH
Is could meet forces OF wrong in ono decsiv
4 battle and the war closed,
ISL This slow, monotonous, interminahl
10 contest requires a strength OF patience an,
Of stubbornness OF courage that is not oftei
IS called for In tho ordinary powder ant
Is musket warfare, 1t has been said tina
rs every good cause begins in the heart of on
l. good man. All the great reforms of his
II tory have at some time, and often 70
10 generations, been kept alive by the patien
y nsistency of weak and despised AM
prosecuted minority. Tho best that cai
"A be reasonably looked for in one gensNtiol
" is the planting of a standard and the win
le ming OF lighting existence. The best hop
&c Ia that wisdom will be justified OF her chill
= dren, and that reinforoements will com
from generation yet unborn shd N
good cause Is ever SO completely won tina
at Il can be maintained without the watchfu
IS guarding and lighting OF a standing army
-, There Is no discharge in that war
y such are some of the conditions whic
" characterize the cmpaigps of moral war
80 iare--whethor they be wag6d on the mel
oil of the personal life or on the broad plaI
l. OF social llfe--more often than not they ar
lonely, tedious and interminable The 81
OF preme thing in the personal life is mas
ii terry. To be master of oneself and an en-
lie listed volunteer in good cause is to liv
no as God intends man 10 live And tina
ID mastery means victories npw--it means do
Il. ing the common things aud learning tn
SO daily lessons masterfully by refusIng to b
he daunted or defeated by the difficulties c
40 them
er Think you that the Victories and defeat
IA In the class room bear no vital relation
OF ship to the greater Interests OF your life
IN On the contrary. they are the aurest EVIL
ef dences We can have OF the mastery q
N seryitnde OF all the years that follow.
show me the youth who carries IN
~ masterful and conquering spirit into hi
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