The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-07-12
EVERYDAY HEROISM.
N. ralmage breaches on Common
Duties and Rewards.

s. cf announcement and Cheer
..r Those who Toll and Strug-
sIe-Heroes and Heroines
of Daily Life.
fcopyright, 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington,
Dr. Talmage, who is now preaching
!. large audiences in the great cities
- england and Scotland, sends this
DISCOURSE, in which he shows that many
~bo in this world pass as of little inn
nortance will in the day of final read
iustment be crowned with high honor;
text, II. Timothy H., 3: "Thou there
fore endure hardness"
Historians are not slow to acknowl-
.dOe 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,
hut out of the bleached skulls of the
fallen. sBut l am now to unroll before
ron scroll of heroes that the world
has never neutrality-suspicious. who
faced no guns, blew no bugle blast,
conquered no cities, chained no cap
lives 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, find
oil 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
<will curse Thee to Thy face" Satan
% found out that which we have all
sound 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 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 ap-
pears on the platter; to have the rapier
Of pain strike through the side or
across the temples like razor or, tc
put the foot ID 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 distres.
that rasped the nerves and tore thu
muscles and paled the cheeks anG
stopped the shoulders. By the din
light Of the sick room taper they saw
on their wall the picture of that lant
where the inhabitants are never sick
Through the dead silence of the nigh
they heard the chorus of the angels.
The cancer ate away her life from
week to week and day to day. and sh
became weaker and weaker, and ever,
goodnight" was feebler than tn
goodnight" before, yet never sad
The children looked up into her fac
and saw suffering transformed int.
. Heavenly smile. Those who suffere,
on the battlefield amid shot and shel
we're not more heroes and heroine
than those who, in the field hospita
md in the asylum, had fevers whicl
10 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
raigia. Heroes of spinal complaint
heroes of sick headache. Heroes Q
lifelong invalidism. Heroes and hel
ONES! They shall reign forever an
ever. Hark! I catch just one not
OF the eternal anthem: "There sba
oe no more paint" Bless God fo
thatl
In this roll also find the heroe
.no have uncomplainingly endure
uomestic injustices. They are me
VINO, for their toll and anxiety, hay
40 sympathy in their homes. E.
nansting application to business gel
saem livelihood, but an unfrug,
we scatters it. He is fretted at frol
sne moment he enters the door unit
e comes out of 1.-THE exasperatior
e business life augmented by til
1ssperations of domestic life. Sue
men are laughed at, but they have
1eartbreaking trouble, and the
would have long ago gone into a.
aiilng dissipation but for the graz
of God.
society to-day is strewn with IL
recks OF men who, under the nortl
sst storm of domestic infelicity, ha,
ven driven on the rocks. There Al
ems OF thousands of drunkards {
, made such by their wives. Tn,
Z. not poetry; that is prose. But Il
fong is generally in the opposite 4
ction. You would not have to