The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

Oh, the world needs day OF judg.
ment 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 sentiments
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 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 10
do you justice, but tell you of one who
has the power, and of the day when He
will put it forth. 1t will be the day
when the thimble, and The ladle, and the
darning needle, and the washtub, and
the spinning wheel, and the scyt the, and
the thrashing machine, and the ham.
mer, and the trowel. and the pillow. will
come TO 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
sealed parapets.
The warrior David of my text showed
more self-control and moral proves in
staying at home than he could have
shown commanding in the field. He
was natural warrior. Martial airs
stirred him. The glitter of opposing
shields fired him. lie 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 the 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 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
counting-rooms in time of Black Fri.
day panies. or in mechanical life in their
own carpenter shop. or on the scatfold-
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 celebrate their victory,
but God knows and God will remember,
and God will adjust. and by Him the
falling of tear Is as certainly noticed
as the burning of world and the Hut-
ter of sparrow's wing as the flight OF
the apocalyptic arohangel.
Oh. what God we have for smah
things as well as 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, or
cloven down with battleax, or fatally
slung from snorting war charger what
a disaster TO the throne Of Israel! Abb
solom, his son, was q low fellow and I'M
tit to reign; his two chief characters
tics were his handsome face and his
long hair-so long that when he had 1t
cut that which was scissored of
weighed 1900 shekels after the kings
weight" and when a man has nothing
but handsome face and an exuberance
of hair. there is not much of him. The
captureand slayingof David would have
been calamity rreparable. Unneces-
sary exposure would have been crime
for David, as it is crime for you.
In nine cases out of ten the fatal.
ties every day reported are not the
fault of engineers or brakemen or con-
ductors or cab drivers. but of the stu
pidity and recklessness of people at
street or railroad crossings. They
would like TO have the Chicago limited
express train. with 300 passengers, adj
vertised TO arrive at certain hour ic
a certain city. slow up 10 let them get
two minutes sooner to their destination,
not one farthing of their own or any
one else's welfare dependent on wheth-
er they arrive one minute before II
o'clock or one minute after. You ought
TO get permission from 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 cowoatcher
strikes the hearse; man Of family. with
wife and children beside him in way
on. evidently having made close calcu-
lation as to whether stroke from the
locomotive would put them backward
or forward in the journey TO 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 TO put your life in
peril unless by such exposure some.
thing is TO be gained for others. What
imbecility in thousands of Americans
during our recent Americo-Spanish war
disappointed because the surrender
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 litter
TO transport steamers, already so many
floating laZarettos, instead of thanking