Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-07-13
EVERYDAY HEROISM.
DR.. Talmage breaches on Common
Duties and Rewards.
words of Encouragement and Cheer
for Those Who Toll and strug-
Hie-Heroes and Heroines
of Daily Life.
Copyright, 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l
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 inn
portance will in the day of final read
lustment be crowned with high honor;
text, III. Timothy H., 3: 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 bleached skulls OF the
fallen. But l am now to unroll before
you scroll of heroes that the world
has never ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 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. man
who can stand that can stand any
thing. To be shut in a room as fast
as though 1t were a bastile; 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 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-
have gone and through bodily distress
that rasped the nerves and tore the
muscles and paled the cheeks 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 feebler 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 heroines
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 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 invaldism. Heroes and her
Dimes! They shall reign forever and
ever. Hark catch just one note
of the eternal anthem: "There shall
be no more paint" Bless God for
that!
In this roll / 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
easv to doctor the sick when you
know that your skill will be appreci
ated by large company of friends
and relatives; it is comparatively easy
70 address an audience when in tho
cleaning eyes and flushed cheeks you
know that your sentiments are adopt
ed. But to do sewing when you eX-
meet the employer will come and
thrust his thumb through the work
IN show how imperfect it is or to have
the whole garments thrown back on
Won TO be done over again; to build
wall and know there will be No one
70 saw YOU did it WELL but only a
swearing employer bowling across the
scaffold; to work until your eyes arr
dim and your back aches and your
heart faints, and to know that IL you
stop before night your children will
atorve-ah. the sword has not slair
80 many as the needle! The great
battlefelds of our civil war were moi
Gettysburg and Shiloh and South
Mountain. The great battlefeld'
ware in the arsenals and in the shops
and in the attics, where women made
army jackets for sixpence. They
toiled on until they died. They hat
no funeral eulogium, but, in the name
of INV God, this day, enroll theil
names among those of whom thu
world was not worthy. Heroes of thu
needle! Heroes of the sewing ma
chine! Heroes of the attic! Heroes
of the cellar! Heroes and heroines
Bless God for them!
In this roll l also find the heroes
who have uncomplainingly endured
domestic iniustices. They are mel
who, for their toll and anxiety, hav'
no sympathy in their homes. Elk