The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-30
III HEROES OF PEACE.
4 Conflict Carried 90 Without Mortal
Weapons.
THERE IS NO DISCHARGE IN THAT WAR;
germon ON This Text Delivered b,
Rev. n. ID. AYES, Rector OF
Christ Church.

ton last Sunday morning. It's publication
IN The Post was requested by number OF
those who heard IT'D
"Therc is no discharge In that war"
Ecclesiastes, s, s.
The man who wrote these words Is
called "the preacher" but he was no re-
cluse dwelling serenely in some seques-
tered solitude, nor was he dreaming
man Of letters sitting in the midst OF his
books and knowing the actualitles OF life
only as he saw them through the screens
OF latticed chamber. No, he was. more
than any other man of his age perhaps,
IN the best sense, man OF the world.
His interests were national and interna
tiunal. War had been his pastme. From
his youth UP no had marched TO the beat
OF drums and thrilled with the fierce Joys
az battle. He had served his time as
soldier for a nation whose every citizen
was a soldier, and whose heroes we're the
heroes OF war upon whom popular honor
was bestowed according to the number
Of their slain in battle.
And yet this soldier patriot has here
in mind another enlistment and another
war than that carried on with mortal
weapons. He Is speaking of the enlist
ment in cause that is eternal If a cause
whose engagements must be fought out
primarily on the native soil of the per-
sonal heart by n1asterful meeting OF the
temptations which war against the soul"
by encountering the devil, by contendng
with the beast passions that are forever
In insurrection against the government OF
the will. He is speaking OF such a war
fare as that described ON the tombstone
OF the old veteran
"Here lies brave soldier whom all must
applaud,
Who fought many battles at home and
abroad;
But the hottest engagement he ever was
Was the battle with self for the conquest
OF sim"
He is referring to warfare that is
interminable, of right against wrong, T."
OF good against evil" OF aggressive
campaigns Of goodness in which peril and
difficulty and hardship are endured for
the sake OF others and where victories and
defeats are the Victories and defeats OF OPP
posing principles
Enlistment here is the enlistment of
moral sympathy and the mastering In is
that of righteous conviction. There liz
no discharge in that war" Even death
does not muster out the man who does
battle in the ranks of such an army. The
influence of this life stu lives and moves
forward with the advancing host.
True 1t is that the work OF war is tn,
work OF heroes and people who hay,
: given for that task their best sons ma,
not think upon It lightly. The man VIII
with calm deliberation offers himself &
meet the charge of the enemy amidst tn,
smoke of powder and The roar OF guns. ad
Nenturlng his life, with the possibilite,
hN an1 80
TO be shot at, must. indeed have a BRAY,
heart But let us bear In mind that tn
war OF peace, the moral campaign of prin
cipio demand a courage and patient en-
durance such as can not be exceiled in an
camp or on any battlefield
It has frequently been declared TO b
virtue OF war that II brings out an
develops the heroic instincts of the race
Tnat may be true--at least that is a Clio
rious fruitage OF war-but 1t is none tn
less true of the henefcent camnaigns a
peace. We need only tn read the recen
history Of Christian missions to assur
ourselves OF that.
There never were so many volunteer
for q hard field as there were for Equa
toTial Africn Immediately after the massa
ere OF Bishop Huntington and his it'll
band and the frequent deaths by feve
Of those who have followed them; and thi
same has been true Of missions In China
NO sooner has massacre of Christian
occurred there than II has been imme
diately followed by great increase q
volunteers to go 10 those same dangerou
localities. And who viii say that this
not heroic instinct as fine and true a
that which prompted a hundred men TO in
stantly volunteer 10 so with Lieutenan
Hopson TO sink the Merrlmac in Santlag
harbor?
The heroes OF history which tho worl
has worshiped for many ages are tn
heroes whose halos have been OF the smol
and dust OF battle And we do not dis
parage either the worthiness or the help
fulness of such homage when we say tina
there is another heroic type OF worthnes
whose honoring appreciation is as worth
and even more helpful to the people--ts
heroism manifested in the battles OF peac
1.-The heroism OF conseerated wisdom, {
patriotic endurance, of selt-denying hard
chip for the welfare OF others.
ON the same page with the words
our text there is given the picture of sue
an uncrowned hero: There was q it'll
city, and few men within 1t; and thei
came great king against II, and besiege
II, and built great bulwarks against 4
Now there was found in il poor wis
lndn, anu ne, ny MS wisdom, delNAred th
city, yet no man remembered that sam
poor man. Then said |. wisdom is bette
than strength; nevertheless the poor man
wisdom is desplsed. and his words are n,
beard" And yet wisdom is better tina
weapons OF war" The worlds lumb,
room of forgetfulness is filled with sue
pictures OF uncrowned patriots
Every boy can recite the recent roll
our naval heroes But who knows. for ir
stance, the name OF Colonel waring, II
peace hero who died the other day OF ye
low fever?
His enlistment was for a. war again
dirt and its retinue of disease and death
TO save life by making a city clean. Thei
was nothing romantic in that campsig
1t was simply hard, unpleasant, thanlue,
work; but he succeeded. and the stSl.
tics OF mortality In New York City 5Astli
his patriotic wisdom by showiuga that 20
600 lives were saved by that uifdramat
and hard campaign.
The worlds battle heroes have been the
who have slain their thousands Here
hero OF peace of whom It may be sal
that he saved his tens OF thousands An
what is his reward? To be abused. r
be turned out OF office. To fall al last /
another campaign against filth In the cit
OF Havana; and then to be all but for
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