The Penn's Grove record., 1899-01-13

and strike down a Goliath of despair, and
OF whom we can say, Thou art worth 10.-
900 of us"
1 admit that this thought of my text
fully carried out would change many Of the
worlds statistics. Suppose q village Is
said to have 1000 inhabitants, and that
one4half OF them-namely, 5O0-have for
years been becoming less in body, and
through niggardliness and grumbling less
in soul. Each one oftLese is only one-half
OF what he once was or one-half of what
she once was.
That original 500 have been reduced one
half In moral quality and are really only
$50. Suppose that the other 500 rave
maintained their original status and are
neither better nor worse. Then the
entire population Of that village is $50.
Blu suppose another village of 1000, and
900 OF them, as the wears go by, through
mental and spiritual culture, augment
themselves until they are really twice the
men and women they originally were,
and the other 500 remain unchanged and
are neither better nor worse, then the pop
ulation OF that village is 1900. Meanness
is subtraction and nobility is addition.
According as you rise in the scale of holt
ness and generosity and conservation, you
are worth five or ten or fifty or 100 or 1000
or 10, 600 others.
Notice, my friend, that this David, war
$500 NA''NN"h ANALl0AIJlY bibolOI VI bioIh
verse and stone singer at the giant, whom
the soldiers of the text estimated clear up
into the thousandtold Of usefulness on this
particular occasion, staid Mt home orin his
place OF temporary residence. General
Joab, General Abishal and General Ittai,
who commanded the boys In the right wing
and left wing and centre. did their work
bravely and left q 5000 of the Lords enc
mics dead on the field, and many Of the
survivors got ~entangled In the woods of
Ephraim and mixed up in the bushes II
stumbled over the stumps of trees and fell
into bogs and were devoured of wild beasts
which seized them in the thickets. But
David did his work at home. We all huzza
for heroes who nave been in battle and
on their return what professions we
form and what %triumphal arches we
spring and what banquets we spread and
h garlands we wreathe and what ora
tions we deliver and what bells We ring and
what cannonades we firel But do we do
justice to the stay at homes? David, who
was worth 5000 of those who went out to
meet the Lords enemies in the woods of
Ephraim, that day did his work in retire.
ment.
Oh, the world needs n day OF judgment,
to give many of the stay at homes proper
recognition. In the different wars the sons
went to the front and on ships deck or
battlefield exposed their lives and earned
inc duUlGdllOn OF tine country put now
about the mothers and fathers who through
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 the self
sacrifice and tie fidelity OF thousands who
never in all their lives received one word
of praise. Oh, We unknown, ye faithful
md Christian and NIL aDdurtpp stay at
honest l have no power now to do you
justice, but | tell you of one who has the
power and OF the time when the thimble,
and the ladle, and the darning needle, and
the washtub, and the spinning wheel, and
the scythe, and the thrashing machine,
and the hammer, and the trowel, and the
pillow, will come to as high an appreciation
as q seventy.four FOUNDER, or the sword,
or the battering 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 proves in
staying at home thRn 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 who feel at home
In the saddle, pattlnG the neck of a paw
ing cavalry horse. But he suppressed him
self. He obeyed the command ofthe troops
whom he would like to have commanded.
Some of the greatest Sedans and Aus
terlitzes lave been in backwoods kitch-
ems or in nursery, with three children
down with scarlet fever, soon to join
the two already In the c~hurehyard, or
amid domestic wrongs u 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 earpen-
90 ohan A.. -, tho a.n ffnlItn,r - tl,a tualIa
swept by cold or smitten by heat. No tele-
graphic wires reported the crisis of the
conflict, no banner was ever waved to cele-
brate their victory, but God knows, and
God will remember, and God will adjust,
and by Him the falling OF n tear is as GER
tainly noticed as the burning of n world,
and the flutter OF a sparrow's wing as the
flight OF the apocalyptic archangel.
Oh, what a God we have for small things
as we'll US big thingsl David no more
helped at the front thar helped at home.
The four regiments mo5ilized for the de-
Tense Of the throne Of Israel were 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 battleax or
fatally slung for snorting war charger, what
a disaster for the throne OF Israel! Absalom,
his son, was a low fellow n unfit to
reign; his two chief characteristics were
his handsome face and his long hair-so
long that when he had 1t cut that which
was solssored Off weighed 1000 shekels,
after the kings weight" and when a man
has nothing but q handsome face n an
exuberance of hair there Is not much OF
him. The capture or staying of David
would have been Il calamity irreparable.
Unnecessary exposure would have been a
crime for David, as it is a crime for you.
Some people think it IL a briE hit tn. ng to
put themselves in unnecessary peril. They
like to walk up to the edge of a precipice
and look off, defying vertigo, or go among
contagious when they can be Of no use but
to demonstrate their WI bravado, or with
glee drive horses which are only harnessed
whtrlwinds, or see how closethey can walk
In front of a trolley car without being
crushed, or spring on q rail train after It
has started, or leap Off 4 rail train before 1t
has stopped. Their life is a series of
narrow escapes, careless OF what p.ediea-
sudden taking of OF Of the misfortune
that might come to their business partners
or the complete failure OF their life work,
II a coroner's jury must be called in to de-
eide the style of their exit. They do not
take into consideration what their life is
worth to others. Taken of through
such recklessness they go criminals.
There was not enc man among
those four full regiments OF four
thousand IsrAelites that would have so
much enjoyed being in Il fight as David,
but he saw that he eoulc serve his nation
best by not putting on h met and shield
and sword, and so he tool ne advice of the
armed men and said, lat seemeth to
you best l will do" L 7arrant that you
will die 5000 enough, wi out teasing and
bantering casualty TO Sc u 1t can launch
you into the next world.
CIVILIZATIONS drawback.
Giuseppe Cuzzi RELEASE From Slavery,