Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-06-04
THE RQaL OF HONOR.
DR.. TALMAGE9eAYS TRIBUTE TO EN
ERYDAY HEROES.

VIII Receive the Crown of Va1Or-
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 reimbursement be
crowned with high honor; text, II Tim
Othy ii, 3, ''ThoH therefore endure hard
ness
Historians are not slow to acknOwl-
edge the merits of great military chief
tains. We have the full length por-
traits of the CromwaIls, 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 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 1 am nowto unrOll before
you q scroll Of heroes, that the world
has never ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS who
faced no guns, blew no bugle blast,
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 ~seraph and
rapt spirit and archangei .yyiIl fell their
deeds to Il listening universe. | mean
the heroes of common, everyday life.
In this roll in the first place l find
all the heroes of the sickrooU. 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. \ man WhG can
stand that can stand anything. To be
shut in 4 room as fast as though it
We're n bastile, to be so nervous sou
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 appears on The platter; to have
the rapier of pain strike through the
side or across the temple like Il razor
or to put the foot into a wise Or throw
the whole body into q blaze Of fever.
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 feebIer than
the good night before, yet never sad.
The children looked up into her face
and saw suffering transformed into
heavenly smile. Those who suffered
on the battlefield amid shot ana shell
were net more heroes and heroines
than those who, in the field hospital
and in the asylum, had feyers which
no ice could cool and no surgery cure.
No shout Of 4 c0mrade to cheer them,
but nUInbness 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
-liGism. heroes and heroines. They
sGaIl reign 70: ever and ever Hark!
I catch just C.e 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 uncompIain-
ingly. 1t is comparatively easy to lead
a regiment into battle when you know
that the whole nation will applaud the
victory, it 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. it is
comparatively easy to address an audi
ence when i'll the cleaning 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 it is
or to have the whole garment thrown
back on you to be done over again; to
build a wall and know there will be no
one to say you did it we'll, 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! All, 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
tics, where women made army jackets