Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-06-07
DAILY LIFE HEROISM
DIR. TALMAGE breaches ON COMMON
DUTIES AND REWARDS.

words of announcement and Cheer
For Those who Toll and struggle.
Heroes and Ueroincs of Everyday
Experiences.
WASHINGTON, June 3.--Dr. Talmage,
who is now preaching to large audiences
in the great cities of England and Scot.
land, sends this discourse, in which he
shows that many who in this world pass
as OF little Importance will in the day Of
final REIMBURSEMENT be crowned with high
honor; text III Timothy ii, 3, "Thou
therefore endure hardness
Historians are not slow to acknowl.
edge the merits of great military chief
tains. We have the full length portraits
of the Cromwels. the Washingtons. the
Napoleons and the Wclingtons of the
world. History is not written in black
ink. but red ink of human blood. The
gods of human ambition do not drink
from bowls made out OF silver or gold or
precious stones, but out of the bleached
skulls of the fallen. But | am now to
unrol before you scroll of heroes that
the world has never NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
who faced no guns, blew no buglc blast,
conquered no cities, chained no Captivcs
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 archange will tell their deeds to
listening universe. | mean the heroes OF
common. everyday life.
In this roll, in the first place. ! find all
the heroes Of the sickroom. When satan
had failed to overcome Job, he said to
God, Put forth thy hand and touch his
do nj hn W i'll tlpp
10 thy face" Satan had found out that
which We have all found out, that sick.
ness is the greatest test OF ones charac.
ter. = man who can stand that can stand
anything To be shut in room as fast
rs though IL were n bastie, to be so
nervous You cannot endure the tap o.
Ctilds foot; to have luscious fruit, which
tempts the appetite Of the robust and
healthy, excite our loathing and disgust
when it first appears on the platter to
have the rapier Of pain strike through the
side or across the temples like a razor
OF to pu. the foot into n wise or throw
the whole body into blaze of fever, yet
there have been men and women, but
more women than men, who have cheer
fully endured this hardness. Through
years OF eXhausting rheumatsms and ex-
circulating neuralgias they have gone and
through bodily distress that rasped the
nerves and tore the muscles and paled
the checks and stopped the shoulders. BY
the dim light of the sickroom 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 cho us of the angels.
Heroes In sickness.
The cancer ate away her life from
week to week and day to day, and she
became weaker and weaker, and every
good nigh was fcehlcr than the good
night" before. yet never sad. The chill
dren looked up into her face and saw suf
fering transformed into heavenly smile.
Those who suffered on the battlefield
amid shot and shC' were not more heroes
and heroncs than those who, in the field
hospital and in the asylum. had fevers
which no ice could cool and no surgery
cure. No shout Of comrade to cheer
them, but numbness and aching and
homcsickness-yet willing to suffer con-
fdent in God, hopeful of heaven. Heroes
OF rheumatiSm llerOcs OF neuralgia. He
roes of spinal complaint Heroes of sick
headache. Ilorocs of lifelong invaldism.
Heroes and hcroines. They shall reign
forever and ever. Hark, | catch Just
shali be no more pain Bless God for
that!
In this roll | also find the heroes Of toll