The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-06-09
EVERYDAY HEROISM.
DR.. Taimage Preacher On Common
Duties and Rewards.
Words Of Encourage ment and Cheer
for Those who Toll and struR-
gle-Heroes and Heroines
of nAily Life.
copyright. LOO. by Louis Klopsch.I
WaahinOfou

TO large audiences in the great citi
of England and Scotland, sends tn
discourse, in which he shows that man
who in this world pass as of little in
portance will in the day of final rea,
justment be crowned with high honor
text, ii. Timothy H.. 3: Thou Their,
fore endure hardness"
Historians are not SOW to ackpow
edge the merits of great military CHIEF
tains. We have the full-length Dol
traits of the Cromwells. the Washing
tons. the Napoleons and the yelling
tons of the world. History is no
written in black ink, but red ink o
human blood. The gods Of human am
bition do not drink from bowls mad
out of silver or gold or precious stones
but out of the bleached skulls of tn,
fallen. But l am now to unroll before
you scroll of heroes that the worlc
has never neutrality-suspicious. who
faced no guns, blew no bugle blast
conquered no cities, chained no cap
tives to their chariot wheels and yet
In the great day of eternity will stand
names startled the nations, and SER
aph and rapt spirit and archangel will
tell their deeds to listening universe.
i mean the heroes of common, every
day life.
In this roll, in the first place, find
all the heroes of the sick room. When
Satan had failed to overcome Job, he
said to God: Put forth Thy hands
and touch his bones and his flesh, and
he will curse Thee to Thy face" Satan
had found out that which we have all
found out, that sickness is the great
est test of ones character. a man
who can stand that can stand any
thing. TO be shut in a room as fast
as though it were a bastileS to be so
nervous you cannot endure the tap
of child's foot; to have luscious
fruit, which tempts the appetite of
the robust and healthy, excite our
loathing and disgust when it first APP
pears on the platter; to have the rapier
of pain strike through the side or
across the temples like razor or, to
put the foot in wise or throw the |
whole body into blaze of fever, yet |
there have been men and women, but |
more women than men. who have |
endured this hardness.
Through years of exhausting rheuma-
tisms and excruciating neuralgias they
have gone and through bodily distress
that rasped the nerves and tore the
and paled the cheeks and
stopped the shoulders. BY the dim
light of the sick room taper they saw
IN their wall the picture of that land
where the inhabitants are never sick.
Through the dead silence of the night
they heard the chorus of the angels.
The cancer ate away her life from
week to week and day to day. and she
'ecame weaker and weaker, and every
goodnight" was feebler than. the
good might" before, yet never sad.
The children looked up into her face
md saw suffering transformed into
heavenly smile. Those who suffered
N the battlefield amid shot and shell
we're not more heroes and heroines
han those who, in the field hospital
nd in the asylum, had fevers which
o ice could cool and no surgery cure.
10 shout of comrade to cheer them.
ut numbness and aching and home
ickness-yet willing to suffer, conf
ent in God, hopeful of Heaven. He
oes of rheumatism. Heroes of neu-
algia. Heroes of spinal complaint.
Leroes of sick headache. Heroes of
felong invalidism. Heroes and her
ines! They shall reign forever and
yer. Hark! l catch just one note
the eternal anthem: "There shall
e no more paint" Bless God for
haiti E
In this roll I also find the heroes of
I'll who do their work uncomplain-
lgly. 1t is comparatively easy to !,
ad a regiment into battle when you :,
now that the whole nation will ap- .
laud the victory; it is comparatively
lsy to doctor the sick when YOU
now that your skill will be appreci
ed by large company of friends ,
Id relatives; it is comparatively easy
address an audience when in the !,
canning eyes and flushed cheeks you =
low that your sentiments are adopt :,
!. But to do sewing when you ex- -
ct the employer will come and :.
rust his thumb through the work =,
show how imperfect it is or to have -
e whole garments thrown back on -
~, to be done over again; to build :,
wall and know there will be no one :,
say you did it we'll but only a :,
'earing employer bowling across the ~
affold; to work until your eyes are 9.
m and your back aches and your
art faints, and to know that if you -,
Up before night your children will CT
lrVe-ah, the sword has not slain n,
many as the needle! The great u,
ttlefields of our civil war were not n,
ttysburg and Shiloh and South w
'untain. The great battlefelds a
re in the arsenals and in the shops n
in the attics, where women made nv
ny jackets for a sixpence. They SO
led on until they died. They had hi
funeral eulogium, but, in the name nj
my God, this day, 1 enroll their IN
mes among those of whom the in
rid was not worthy. Heroes of the do
sdlel Heroes of the sewing ma wi
mel Heroes of the attic! Heroes tn
the cellarl Heroes and heroines! do
IS God for them! in
n this roll also find the heroes tic
o have uncomplainingly endured it!
nestle injustices. They are men
o, for their toll and anxiety, have de-
sympathy in their homes. Elk CT,
sitting application to business gets Jo
m a livelihood, but an unfrugal an
e scatters it. He is fretted at from cut
ynornent ba antars tba do,, mill -.