The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-06-09
EVERYDAY HEROISM.
DR.. Talmage breaches on Common
Duties and Rewards.
Words of ENCOURAGEMENT and Cheer
for Those Who Toll and strug-
EIe-HerOes and Heroines
of Daily Life.
copyright, 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l
---- WaRhIngton. Iune &

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, the 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 blearhed skulls OF the
fallen. But l am now to unroll before
you scroll of heroes that the world
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
higher than some of those whose
names startled the nations, and SER
aph and rapt spirit and archangel will
tell their deeds to listening universe.
! mean the heroes Of common. every
day life.
In this ROLL in the first place, i find
all the heroes of the sick room. When
Satan had failed to overcome job. he
said to God: PUT forth Thy hands
l.; n,,I ;a nd
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 room as fast
as though ii were n 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 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 rhcuma-
tisms and excruciating 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 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
week to week and day to day. and She
became weaker and weaker, and every
goodnight" was feeber than the
goodnight" before, yet never sad.
The children looked up into her face
and saw suffering transformed into
n heavenly smile. Those who suffered
on the battlefield amid shot and shell
were not more heroes and heroincs
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 nunbncss 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 / catch just one note
Of the eternal anthem: There shall
he no more paint" 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 regiment into battle when you
know that the whole nation will APP
plaud the victory; it is comparatively
easy to doctor the sick when you
know that your skill will be apprec
ated by n large company of friends
and relatives; it is comparatively easy
TO address an audience when in the
cleaning eyes and flushed cheeks you
know that your sentiments are adopt
ed. But to do sewing when you ex-
pect the employer will come and
'hi iiS tHc NOIh
TO show how imperfect it is or to have
the whole garments thrown back on
you, to be done over again; to build
Il wall and know there will be No one
to say you did it WELL but only a
swearing employer bowling across the
scaffold; to work until your eyes are
dim and your back aches and your
heart fain,s, and to know that IL you
stop before night your children will
starve-ah. the sword has not slain
so many as the needle! The great
battlefields of our civil war were not
Gettysburg and Shiloh and South
Mountain. The great battlefields
were in the arsenals and in the shops
and in the attics, where women made
army jackets for a sixpence. They
toiled on until they died. They had
no funeral eulogium, but, in tie 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 ma
ch:ce! Heroes Of the attic! Heroes
OF the cellar! Heroes and heroines!