The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-01-14

meet the Lords enc mics in the woods Of
Ephraim that day did his work in re.
| tiremeDt.
Oh, the world needs day OF judg'
ment 10 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 TO go and then gave
them up, when perhaps few words OF
earnest protest wound 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, ye
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 II forth. IL will be the DAY
| when the thlmble. and the ladle. and the
darning 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 10 as high an appreciation as a
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 prowess in
staying at home than be could have
shown commanding in the field. lie
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,
patting the neck of a paving cavalry
horse. But he suppressed himself he
obeyed the command of Nthe troops
whom he would like to have command
ed.
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 le
join the two already in the churchyard.
or amid domestic wrongs and outrages
enough to transform angels into devils.
or in commercial life within their own
eounting-rooms in time of Black Fri
day panies, or in mechanical life in heir
own carpenter shop, or on the scaffold-
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 cele brate their victory
but God knows and God will rememb Der,
and God will adjust. and by Him the
falling of a tear is as certainly noticed
as the burning of n world and the fut-
ter of sparrow's wing as the flight Of
the apocalyptic arohangel.
1 Oh. what a God we have for sma h
things as well MS big things! David
| no more helped at the 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. OF
cloven down with battleax. or fatally
slung from snorting war charger. what
n disaster TO the throne of Israel! Alb.
solom. his son. was n low fellow and un.
Sit TO reign: his two chief characteris-
tics were his handsome face and his
long hair-so long that when he had II
cut that which was scissored off
weighed 200 shekels after the king
weight" and when man has nothing
but Il handsome face and an eNuberauce
of hair. there is not much of him. The
captureand slayingo OF David would have
been a calamity irreparable. Unneces-
| xynnlI hnya hpap n ~ ri IA
for David, as ii is crime for you.
In nine cases on, Of ten the fatal.
ties every day reported are not the
fault of engineers or brakemen or con-
ductors or cal drivers, but of the stu
pidity and recklessness Of people at
street or railroad crossings. They
would like 10 have the Chicago limited
express train. with 300 passengers. adj
vertised TO arrive at certain hour ic
certain city. slow up TO let them get
two minutes sooner TO their dest ina ton.
not one farthing of their own or any
one else's welfare dependent on whe,h-
err they arrive one minute before l2
o'clock or one minute after. You ought
TO get permission from a railroad super
intendent TO mount beside the engineer
on locomotive 10 realize how many
evils of recklessness there are In the
world-funeral professions whipping
up TO get across before the cowoa tcher
strikes the hearse; man OF family, with
wife and children beside him in 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 10 the village
grocery; traveller on railroad bridge
hoping that he could get TO the end Of
the bridge before the train reaches IL.
You have no right 10 put your life In
peril unless by such exposure some
thing is TO be gained for others. What
imbecilty in thousands OF Americans
during our recent America Spanish war
disappointed because the urreLdei
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 littei
to transport steamers. already so many
| noatinp laZarettos instead OF Tim m XII NO