The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-06-09
EVERYDAY HEROISM.
Dr.. Talmage breaches on Common
Duties and Rewards.
words of Encouragement and Cheer
for Those who Toll and strug-
g~le-Heroes and Heroines
Of Daily Life.
copyright, 1900. by Louis Klopsch.1
Washington.

DR.. Talmage, who is now preaching
to large audiences in the great cities
of England and Scotland, sends this
discourse, in which he shows that many
who in this world pass as of little i'm
portance will in the day of final read
justment be crowned with high honor;
text, Ii. Timothy H., 8: Thou there
fore endure hardness"
Historians are not slow to acknowl-
edge the merits of great military chief
tains. We have the full-length por-
traits of the Cromwells, tine Washing
tons, the Napoleons and the yelling
tons of the world. History is not
written in black ink, but red ink OF
human blood. The gods of human am
bition do not drink from bowls made
out of silver or gold or precious stones,
but out of the bleached skulls OF the
fallen. But l am now to unroll before
you a scroll of heroes that the world
has never Observation-Disclosures 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
higher than some of those whose
names startled the nations, and SER
aph and rapt spirit and archangel will
tell their deeds to a listening universe.
l 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 bastile; to be so
nervous you cannot endure the tap
of a 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 a razor or, to
put the foot in a wise or throw the
whole body into a blaze of fever, yet
there have been men and women, but
more women than men, who have
cheerfully 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
muscles and paled the checks and
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light of the sick DON taper they saw
on their wall the picture of hat 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
became weaker and weaker, and every
goodnight" was feebler than the
goodnight" before, yet never sad.
The children looked up into her face
and saw suffering transformed into
a heavenly smile. Those who suffered
on the battlefield amid shot and shell
were not more heroes and he~roiDes
than those who, in the field hospital
and in the asylum, had fevers which
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No shout of a comrade to cheer them,
but numbness and aching and home
sickness-yet willing to suffer, conf
dent in God, hopeful of Heaven. He
roes of rheumatism. Heroes of neu-
ralgia. Heroes of spinal complaint.
Heroes of sick headache. Heroes of
lifelong invalidism. Heroes and her.
Dimes! They shall reign forever and
ever. Hark! 1 catch just one note
of the eternal anthem: "There shall
be no more pain!" Bless God for
that!
In this roll i also find the heroes OF
toll who do their work uncomplain-
ingly. 1t is comparatively easy to
lead a regiment into battle when you
know that the whole nation will ap.
plaud the victory; it is comparatively
easy to doctor the sick when YOU
know that your skill will be appreci
ated by a large company of friends
and relatives; it is comparatively easy
to address an audience when in the
cleaning eyes and flushed cheeks yor
, know that your sentiments are adopt,
ed. But to do sewing when you ex
pect the employer will come auc
thrust his thumb through the worl
to show how imperfect it is or to have
the whole garments thrown back or
you, to be done over again; to built
a wall and know there will be no one
to say you did it well, but only 8
swearing employer bowling across thu
scaffold; to work until your eyes art
! dim and your back aches and your
heart faints, and to know that If yol
stop before night your children will
: starve-ah, the sword has not slair
: so many as the needle! The great
!, battlefelds of our civil wal were mo-
: Gettysburg and Shiloh and Soutl
,, Mountain. The great battlefield.
= were in the arsenals and in the shop.
and in the a~ttics, where women mad,
army jackets for a s~ixpence. They
2 toiled on until they died. They hat
/. no funeral euloginm, but, in the nam,
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