Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-06-13
SERMON
Rev. Or. Caltllas.
Subject: The Roll of Honor-A Tribute to
Everyday Heroes-In tho Final Read
justment They Will Receive the
Grown Of valor.
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Everyooy Heroee-In tho Final Read
justmsnt They Will Receive the
Grown Of valor.
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WASHINGTON, d. Cdr. Talmage, who
is now preaching to large audiences in
the great cities of England and Scotland,
that many who in this world pass as of
little Importance will in the day. of hnal
readJustment be crowned with high honor;
text, II Timothy ii, 3, Thou therefore
endure hardness"
the merits. of great military chieftains
We have the full length portraits of the
Cromwells, the Washingtons, the Napo-
Icons and the Wellingtons 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 OF gold or pre-
cious stones, but out of the bleached
skulls of the fallen. But 1 am now to un-
roll before you a scroll of heroes that the
faced 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
nations-and seraph and rapt-spirit and
archangel will tell their deeds to a listen
ing universe. l mean the heroes of COM
mon, everyday life.
In this roll in the first place find all
the heroes of the sick room. When Satan
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
i acter. A man who can stand that can
| stand anything. To be shut in room as
fast as though it were a 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 end disgust
when it first appears on the platter; to
have the rapier of pain strike through the
| side or across the temple like razor or
| to put the foot into n wise or throw the
whole body into a blaze of fever. Yet
there have been men and women, but
fully endured this hardness. Through
years of exhausting rheumatisms and ex-
| cruciating neuralgias they have gone and
through bodily distress that rasped the
nerves and tore the muscles and nailed the
cheeks and stopped the shoulders. By
the dull 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.
to week and day to day, and she became
weaker and weaker and every. good
night" was feebler 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
shell were not more heroes and heroines
| than those who, in 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 homesickness, yet willing
to suffer, confident in God, hopeful of
heaven. Heroes of rheumatism, heroes of
neuralgia, heroes of spinal complaint, he
roes of sick headache, heroes of lifelong
invalidism, heroes and heroines! They
catch just one note of the eternal anthem
'"There shall be no more pain!" Bless
God for that!
In this roll also find the heroes of toll,
who do their work uncompla.ningly. 1t
is comparatively easy to lead a 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, 1t Is comparatively easy to ad-
| dress an audience when in the cleaning
eyes and flushed checks you know that
your sentiments are adopted, but to dc
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 t..rown back on
you to be done over AGAIN; to build a
!. wall and know there will be no one to
, say you did it well, but only swearing
employer bowling across the scatfoid; to
work until your eyes are dim and youl
back aches and your heart faints,. and te
know that if you stop before night .youi
. children will starve. All, the sword has
not slain SO many as the needle. The
great battlefields of our civil war were not
Gettysburg and Shiloh and South Mount
. ain. The great battlefelds were in the
arsenals and in the shops and in the at
tics, where women made army jackets fol
, sixpence. 1ney toiled on until the,
died. They had no funeral eulogium, but
, in the name of my God, this day. enrol
, their names among those of whom th'
needle! Heroes of the sewing machine
Heroes of the attic, Heroes of the eel
lar! Heroes and heroines! Bless Goo
tor them!
In this roll also find the heroes wh'
5 have uncomplainingly endured domest
q injustices. They are men who for, thei
toll and anxiety have no sympathy il
e their homes. Exhausting application t.
D business gets them livelihood, but al
q unfrugal wife scatters it. He is fretted a
!, from the moment he enters the door unit
j he comes out of it. The exasperations o
tions of domestic life. Such men ar
: laughed at, but they have heartbreakin
: trouble, and they would have long ag
0 gone into appalling dissipation but for tn
e grace of God
q Society to-day Is strewn with tn
storms of domestic felicity, have bee
driven on the rocks. There are tens G
thousands of drunkards to-day, made sue
by their wives. That is not poetry; tina
n is prose. But the wrong is generally i
the opposite. direction. You would no no
- f,r 70 ind tybpSa Inf
r is perpetual martyrdom-somethi
I heavier than a stroke of the fist, unkin
L, | words, staggering home at midnight an
Is constant maltreatment, which have LEI
o her only wreck of what she was on tina
!, day when in the midst of a brilliant a.
semblage the vows were taken and fu
organ played the wedding march and tn
carriage rolled away with the benedictiO
a Of the people. What was the burning {
- Latmer and Ridley at the stake con
U pared with this? Those men soon becam
, unconscious in the fire, but there is
= thirty years martyrdom, fifty. year
putting to death. yet accomplishing, n
bitter words when the rollicking cOmpaI
ons at 2 o'clock in the morning pitch tn
husband dead drunk into the front entr,
r no bitter words when wiping from tn
l- swollen brow the blood struck out in
. midnight carousal, bending over the ba
T tered and bruised form of him who whe
b ae took her from her fathers home prom
L sed love and kindness and protection, "
;, nothing but sympathy and prayers an
u forgiveness before they are asked fol
k no bitter words when the family Bib
goes for rum and the pawnbrokers she
4. gets the last decent dress. Some da
W desiring to evoke the story of her so
rows, YOU say, Well how are YOU ge
O. ting along now?' and, rallying h
2. trembling voice and quieting her quiverir
,v lin. she saws. Pretty well. | thank yo,
:. pretty we'll" She never will tell you.
the dclirium OF her last sickness she ma
is tell all the other secrets of her Efetim
but she will not tell that. Not until Il
books of eternity are opened on Il
throne of Judgment will ever be know
l.. what she has suffered.
find also in this roll the heroes
C Christian charity. We all admire t
2; George Peabodys and the James Lenox
a of the earth, who give tens and hundre
of thousands of dollars to good object
.,ut / am speaking now of those who, O
Of their pinched poverty, help others
~, such men as those Christian mlssionari
II ka xroot xvb, proclaIyn Christ IN