The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
REV. DR.. TALRAGE.
THR EMINENT DIv1NE's SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
subject; The Roll of Honor-A Tribute 10
Everyday Heroes-In the Final Read.
justment They VIII Receive the
Crown of Valor.


copyright 1901
WASHINGTON. ID. C.-Dr. rain.aac. who
IS now preaching to large audiences in
the great cities OF England and Scotland.
sends tins discourse, IN which he shows
that many who in this world pass as of
little Importance will in the day of nna
readJustment be crowned with high honor:
text II Timothy ii, 3, Thou therefore
endure hardness"
b, Historians are not slow to acknowledge
the merits of great military chieftains.
we have the full length portraits of the
Lromwclls, the Washingtons, the Napo-
Icons and the Welingtons of the world.
History is not written in back ink but
with red ink of human blood The gods
OF human ambition do not drink from
bowls made out OF silver or gold or pre-
cious stones, but ont OF the bleached
skulls OF the fallen. But am now to un.
roll before you scroll of heroes that the
world has never acknowledged who
laced no guns, blew no bugle blast, con.
quered no cities, chained no captives 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 seraph and rapt-spirit and
archangel will tell their deeds TO listen.
ing universe. mean the heroes of com.
mon, everyday life.
In this roll in the first place lind all
the heroes of the sick room When Satan
had failed TO overcome job. he said to
God. Put forth Thy hand 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 greatest test of ones char.
acter. n man who can stand that can
stand anything. TO be shut in room AZ
fast as though it were bastile, to be so
nervous you cannot endure the tap OF Il
chld's foot, to have luscious fruit. which
temptIs tho appetite, of the robust and
healthy, excite our loathing md disgust
when 1T first appears on the platter; TO
have the rapier OF pain strike through the
side or across the temple like u razor OF
TO put the loot INTO a wise or throw the
whole body into blaze of fever Yet
there have been men and women, but
more more women than men. who have, cheer
fully endured this hardness. Through
years of exhausting rheumatisms and eX.
cTuciatlng neuralgias they have gone and
through bodily distress that rasped the
nerves and tore the muscles and naled the
cheeks and stopped the shoulders. BY
the du'l light of the sick room taper they
saw ON 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 weel,
to week and day to day, and she became
weaker and weaker and every good
night was feeber than the good night
before, yet never sad The children looked
up into her face and saw suffering trans.
formed into heavenly smile. Those who
suffered on the battlefield amid shot and
shell were not more heroes and heroines
than those who, in c field hospital and
in the asylum, had levers which no ice
could cool and no surgery cure. No shout
OF comrade to cheer them. but numbness
and aching and homesicRness yet willing
TO suffer, confident in God. hopeful OF
heaven. Heroes of rheumatism, heroes OF
ul.,,s. l,,.. l.
roes of sick headache. heroes of lifelong
invalidism, heroes and heroincs! They
shall reign for ever and ever Hark! |
catch Just one note OF the eternal anthem,
There shall be no more pan," Bless
God for that!
In this roll | also find the heroes of toll.
who do their work uncomplalnlngly. II
is comparatively easy to lead Il regiment
into bate when you know that the whole
nation will applaud the victory, it is com
paratively easy to doctor the sick when
| YOU know that your skill will be appre..
ciated by large company OF friends and
relatives, it is comparatively easy to ad-
dress an audience when in the cleaning
| eyes and flushed cheeks YOU know that
| your sentiments are adopted. but to do
| sewing when you expect the employer will
| come and thrust his thumb through the
work to show how imperfect it Is or to
| have the whole garment l..rown back on
| YOU to be done over again; to build II
| wall and know there viii he no one to
| say you did it well, but only swearing
employer bowling across the scaifold; to
| work until your eyes are dim and your
| back aches and your heart faints, and to
know that If YOU stop before night your
| children will starve An, the sword has
| not slain so many as the needle. The
| great battlefelds of our civil war were not
| Gettysburg and Shiloh and South Mount
| ain. The great battetelds were IN the
arsenals and in the shops and in the at
| tics. where women made army Jackets for
| siXpence. 'lhey toiled on until they
| died They had no funeral eulogium. but,
| in the name of my God. this day | enroll
| their names among those OF whom the
| world was not worthy. Heroes OF the
needle! Heroes Of the sewing machine!
Heroes OF the attic! Heroes OF the Gel,
lar! Heroes and heroines! Bless God
for them!
In this roll also find the heroes who
have uncomplainingly endured domestic
injustices. They are men who for their
toll and anxiety have no sympathy III
their homes. Exhausting application to
| business gets them livelihood, but an
| unfrugal wife scatters it, He is tretted at
| from the moment he enters the door until
| he comes out OF it, The eXasperations OF
business life, augmented by the eXaspera-
| tons of domestic life. Such men are
| laughed at but they have a hearthreaking
1
| gone into appalling dissipation but Tor the
| grace of God.
| Society to-day Is strewn with the
wrecks of men who, under the northeast
storms OF domestic felicity, have been
| driven on the rocks There are tens OF
thousands OF drunkards to-day, made such
by their wives. That is not poetry; that
is prose. But the wrong, Is generally IN
| the opposte direction You would not
have to 90 far to find a wife whose life
is a perpetual martyrdom something
| heavier than stroke OF the fist, unknd
words. staggering home at midnight and
| constant maltreatment, which have left
her only wreck of what she was on that
day when in the midst OF brilliant as,
semblage the vows We're taken and full
organ played the wedding march and the
carriage rolled away with the benediction
of the people What was the burning OF
Latimer and Ridley at the stake com
Unconscious in the fire, but there Is q
thirty years martyrdom, fifty years
| putting to death, yet uncomplalnlng, no
| bitter words when the rolhcking compan-
ions at 2 o clock in the morning pitch the
husband dead drunk into the front entry
no bitter words when wiping from the
| swollen brow the blood struck out in a
midnight carousal, bending over the bat
tered and bruised form of him who when
he took her from her fathers home prom
ised love and kindness and protection, yet
nothing but sympathy and prayers and
forgiveness before they are asked for
no bitter words when the family Bible
goes for rum and the pawnbroker's shoI
gets the last decent dress. Some day
desiring to evoke the story OF her sor
| -, ssNoll how arc Vou erpf