Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-02-09

clothing Tor sixty years, nut expect an
smptyiwardrcbe shortly How many have
but fear that the United States may be
telescoped In some foreign collisionl Oh,
but the taxes have gone upl Yes, but
thank God, it is easier with money
to pay the taxes now that they
are up than 1t was without money to pay
the taxes when they were down. We want
a few men who have faith In God and that
mighty future which holds several things,
among them a millennium. Columbanus
said to his friend, ed e{colus, why are you al
ways smiling?" The reply was, Because no
one can take my God from met" We want
more men to feel that they have a mission
to cheer others and to draw up the corners
of peoples mouths which have long
while been drawn down, more Davids who
can shepherd whole hocks Of bright hopes,
and can play u harp of encouragement.
and strike down Goliath of despair, and
OF whom we can say, 'Thou art worth TO-
600 of u.s.
I admit that this thought OF my text
fully carried out would change many of the
worlds statistics. Suppose a village Is
said to have 1000 inhabitants, and that
one-half Of them-namely. 500-have for
years been becoming less in body, and
through niggardliness and grumbling less
in soul. Each one of these 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 have
maintained their original status and are
neither better nor worse. Then the
entire population of that village is $50.
But suppose another village of 1000, and
500 of them, as the years go by, through
mental and spiritual culture, augment
themselves until they are really twice the
men and women they originally were,
and the other E00 unahopoa6 nd
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 holi-
ness and generosity and conservation, you
are worth five or ten or fifty or 100 or 1000
or 10, 900 others.
Notice, my friend, that this David, war
rior, strategist, minstrel, master of blank
verse and stone singer at the giant, whom
the soldiers of the text estimated clear up
into the thousandfold of usefulness on this
particular occasion, staid at home or in his
place OF temporary residence. General
Joab, General Abishai and General Ittai,
who commanded the boys In the right wing
and left wing and centre, did their work
bravely and left $4,000 of the Lords ene-
mics dead on the field, and many OF the
survivors got entangled in the woods OF
Ephraim and mixed up in the bushes and
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 have been in battle and
on their return what professions we
form and what triumphal arches we
spring and what banquets we spread and
what garlands we wreathe and what ora
tions we deliver and what bells we ring and
what cannonades we fire! But do we do
justice to the stay at homes? David, who
was worth 10000 of those who went out to
meet the Lords enemies in the woods of
Ephraim, that day did his work In retire.
ment.
NOh, the world needs a 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
the admiration of the country but how
about the mothers and fathers who through
long years taught those sons the noble sem
timents that inspired them to 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 tie 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 time when the thmble,
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
plow, will come to as high an appreciation
as seventy. four pounder, or the sword,
or the pattering ram that pounded down
the waa or the flag that was hoisted on the
scaled parapets.
The warrior David OF my text showed
more self control and moral prowess in
SfnvinU at hOn1a than he con Id ha Va ch
commanding in the field. He was 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, patting the neck of IA paw
ing cavalry horse. But hesuppressed him
whom he would like to have commanded.
Some of the greatest Sedans and Aus
terlitzes have been in backwoods kitch-
ems or III nursery, with three children
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, or
In commercial life within their own count
ing rooms in time of Black Friday panics,
or in mechanical life in their own carpen-
ter shop or on the scaffolding of the walls
swept by cold or smitten by heat. No tele-
graphic wires reported the crisis of the
conflict, no banner was ever waved to cele-
.NA~ 'A~SoAyt puS OSN hhoVS, ouU
God will remember, and God will adjust,
and by Him the falling of tear is as GER
tainly noticed as the burning Of world,
and the fiutter of sparrow's wing as the
flight Of the apocalyptic archangel.
Oh. what God we have for small things
as we'll as big things! David no more
helped at the front than helped at home.
The four regiments mobilized for the de-
fense 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
disaster for the throne Of Israel! Absalom,
his son, was Il low fellow and 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 scissored off weighed 1900 shekels,
after the kings weight,p and when man
has nothing but handsome face and an
exuberance Of hair there is not much OF
him. The capture or Staying OF David
would have been calamity irreparable.
Unnecessary exposure would have been q
crime for David, as it is a crime for you.
Some people think 1t is a briH ht thing to
put themselves In unnecessary peril. They
like to walk up to the edge Of a precipice
and look of, defying vertigo, or GO among
contagious when they can be OF no use but
to demonstrate their own bravado, or with
gle0 drive horses which are Onlv harm aaaed