Connecticut western news., 1900-06-07
THE ROLL OF HONOR.
DIR. TALMAGE PAYS TRIBUTE TO Ev-
 ERYDAY HEROES.

ERYDAY HEROES.
 In the Final Readjustment They 1 VIII Receive the Crown of valor.
 Self Sacrifice the Most Noble of
 Earthly Victories.
 ! WASHINGTON, June 3.-Dr. Talmage, who Is now preaching to large audi ences 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 importance will in the day of final readjustment be crowned with nigh honor; text, II Tim othy il, 8, "Thou therefore endure hard ness."
 Historians are not slow to acknowl- edge the merits of great military chief tains. We have the full length DOT traits of the Cromwells, the Washing tons, the Napoleons and the Yelling tons of the world. History Is not writ ten in black ink, but with red ink of human blood. The gods of human ann 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 am now to unroll before you 8 scroll of heroes that the world has never acknowledged-thos who faced no guns, blew DO bugle blast, conquered no cities, chained no cap t1ves 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 archangel will tell their deeds to listening universe. I mean the heroes of common, everyday life.
 In this roll in the first place I 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 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 character. A man who can stand that can stand anything. To be shut In a room as fast as though 1t 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 appears on the platter; to have the rapier of pain strike through the side or across the temple like a razor or to put the foot into 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 distress that rasped the nerves and tore the muscles and paled the cheeks 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 chorus of the angels.
 Heroes of Toll.
 The cancer ate away her life from week 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 transformed into a heavenly smile. Those who suffered were not more heroes and heroines than those who, in the field hospital and in the asylum, had levers which no ice could cool and no surgery cure. NO shout of a comrade to cheer them, but numbness and aching and home sickness, yet willing to suffer, confident In God, hopeful of heaven. Heroes of rheumatism, heroes of neuralgia, he- roes of spinal complaint, heroes of sick headache, heroes of lifelong in- validism, heroes and heroinesi They shall reign for ever and ever. Hark! l catch just one note of the eternal anthem, "There shall be no more painv' Bless God for that!
 In this roll I also find the heroes of toll, who do their work uncomplain- ingly. It is comparatively easy to lead a regiment into battle when you know that the whole nation will applaud the victory, 1t is comparatively easy to doc tor the sick when you know that your skill will be appreciated by a large company of friends and relatives, 1t Is comparatively easy to address an audi ence when in the gleaming eyes and the flushed cheeks you know that your sentiments are adopted, but to do sew ing when you expect the employer will come and thrust his thumb through the work to show how imperfect 1t Is or to have the whole garment thrown back on you to be done over again; to h,rf1 x,fII h one to say you did 1t well, but only a swearing employer bowling across the scaffold; to work until your eyes are dim and your back aches and your heart faints, and to know that If you stop before night your children will starve! An, the sword has not slain so many as the needle! The great battle fields of our civil war were not Gettys- burg and Shiloh and South Mountain. The great battlefelds were in the ar senals and In the shops and In the at , ties, where women made army jackets for a sixpence. They toiled on until they died. They had no funeral eulo- gium, but, in the name of my God, this day 1 enroll their names among those of whom the world was not worthy. Heroes of the needle! Heroes of the sewing machine! Heroes of the attic! Heroes of the cellar! Heroes and hero ines! Bless God for them!
 Domestic Martyrs.
 In this roll also find the heroes who have uncomplainingly endured domes. tic injustices. They are men who for their toll and anxiety have no sym. pathy in their homes. Exhausting ap. plication to business gets them live lihood, but an unfrugal wife scatters 1t. He Is fretted at from the moment he enters the door until he comes out of 1t. The exasperations of business life, augmented by the exasperations of domestic life. Such men are laugh ed at, but they have a heartbreakine trouble, and they would have long age