The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
DAILY LIFE HER0ISM
Or, Talmage breaches on Gem
mon Duties and Rewards.
WORDS ENCOURAGEMENT
and Cheer ror Those VINO 'o''
and Struggle. Heroes and
1eroines Everyday Ex-
periences.


DR.. Talmage, who is now preaching
to large audiences in the great cities OF
England and Scotland, sends this dis
course, in which he shows that many
who in this world pass as Of little IN
portanee will in the day of final read
jussment be crowned with high honor;
text, II Timothy ii, 3, Thou therefore
endure hardness.
Historians are not slow TO acknoTl'
edge the merits Of great military chief
taips. We have the full length port
rats of the Cromwells, the Washing
tons, the Napoleons and the Yelling
tons Of the world. History is not writ.
ten in black ink, but red ink of human
blood. The gods of human ambition
do not drink from bowls made out Of
silver or gold or precious stones, but
out of the bleached skulls Of the fallen.
But I am now to unroll before you a
scroll of heroes that the world has never
acknowledge6-those who faced no
guns, blew no bUgle blast, conquered
no cities, chained no captives to their
chariot wheels and yet in the great day
Of eternity will stand higher than some
of those whose names startled the ma.
tions, and serph and rapt spirit and
archangel will tell their deeds to a
listening universe. l mean the heroes
of common, everyday life.
In this roll, in the first place, | ind
all the heroes of the sickroon. When
satan had failed to overcome JOB, he
said to God, "Put forth thy hand and
touch his bones and his flesh, aud ne
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. 70
be shut in room as fast as though 1t
were a b4stile; 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 and disgust when 1t
first appears on the platter; to have the
rspier Of pain strike through the side
or across the temples like razor or to
put the foot into a wise or throw the
whole body into 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 neuralglas 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.
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 anc
saw suffering transformed into a heaven
ly smile. Those who suffered on the
battlefield amid shot and shell were no
more heroes and hercines than those
who, in the field hospital and in The
asylum, had fevers which no ice ceula
cool and no surgery cure. No shout Of
comrade to cheer them, but numbDess
and aching and homesickness-yet will.
ing to suffer, con6dentin God, hopeful
Of heaven. Heroes of rheumatism.
He1ces of neuralgia. Heroes Of pima.
complaint. Heroes Of sick headache,
Heroes of lifelong invali6isn. Heroes
and heroiues They shall reign forevel
and ever. Harkl l catch just one
note Of the eternal anthem, There
shall be no more pain!' Bless God fol
thatl
In this roll l also find the heroes Of
toll who DC their work uncouplsining-
ly. 1t is comparatively easy to lead a
regiment into battle when you know
that the whole nativ0 will applaud the
victory; it is comparatively easy to doc
tor the sick When you AhuA that yCuc
skill will be appreciated By lar
company Of friends and relatives; II Is
comparatively easy to address an auo,
ence when the cleaning eyes and the
flushed cheeks you know that your
sentiments are adopted. But to do
sewing when you expect the employ,
er will come and thrust his thumb
through the work to show how imper-
feet it is 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 well,
but only a swearing employer bowling
across the scafold; to work until your
eyes are dim and your back aches and
your heart faipts, and to know that if
you stop before night your children will
stsrve-sh, the sword has not slain SO
many as the needlel The great battle
fields Of our civil war not Gettysburg
and Shiloh and South Mountain. The
great battle6elds were in the arsenals
and in the shops and in the attics,
wheie women made army jackets for a
sixpence. They toiled on until they
died. They had no funeral eulogium,
but, in the name of my God, this day,
| enroll their names among those Of
whom the world was not worthy. He
roes of the needle! Heroes Of the sew
ing machinel Heroes of the attic! He
roes Of the cellar! Heroes and heroines!
Bless God for them!
Society today is streWn with the
wrecks Of men vino, under the northeast
storm Of domestic infelicity, have been
driven on the rocks. There are tens Of
thousands Of drunksrds today, maoe
such by their wives. That is not
poetry; that is prose. But the wrong
IS generally in the opposite direction.
You would not have to go far to ind a