Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-06-08
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
TdR EMINENT DIvuNE's SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject: The Roll of HOnor-A Tribute to
Everyday Heroes-In the Final Read.
justment They Will Receive the
Crown of Nalor.
IConvriqht lgOu.1


WASHINGTON. ID. Cdr. TalGsage, who
IS now preaching to large audiences 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 hnal
readjustment be crowned with high honor;
text, IL Timothy ii, 3, Thou therefore
endure hardness"
Historians are not slow to acknowledge
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 or gold or pre-.
skulls of the fallen. But | am now to UNI
roll before you scroll of heroes that the
world has never acknowledged-those who
faced no guns, blew no bugle blast, con-
uuered 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
nations-and seraph and rapt-spirit and
archangel will tell their deeds to listen
ing universe. ] mean the heroes OF com
mon, everyday life.
In this roll III the first place | find all
the heroes of the sick ROOM. When Satan
had failed to overcome job, he said to
God, Put forth Thy hand and touch his
Thee to Thy face" Satan had found out
that which we have all found out-that
sickness is the greatest test of ones char
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
child's foot, to have luscious fruit, which
tempts the appetite of the robust and
healthy, excite our loathing md 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 OF. throw the
whole body into blaze of fever. Yet
there have been men and women, but
more women than men, who have. cheer
fully endured this hardness. Through
years of exhausting rheumatisms and eX
cruciating neuralgas they have gone and
through bodily distress that rasped the
nerves and tore the muscles and naled the
cheeks and stopped the shoulders. by
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 and saw suffering trans
formed into heavenly smile. Those who
suffered on the battlefield amid shot and
shell were not more heroes and heroines
than those who, i'll lie 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
shall reign for ever and ever Hark! l
catch just one note Of the eternal anthem,
"There shall be. no more PAM. Bless
God for that
In this roll | also find the heroes of toll,
who do their work uncomplainingly. 1t
is comparatively easy to lead 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 a large company oil trends ana
relatives, it is comparatively easy. to adj
dress an audience when in the cleaning
ewes and flushed cheeks you know that
your sentiments are adopted, but to do
sewing when you expect the employer VIII
come and thrust his thumb through the
work to show how imperfect 1T Is or 10
have the whole garment brown back on
YOU to be done over again; to build a
wall and know there will be no one to
saw YOU did it well, but only swearing
employer bowling across the scaifold; to
work until your eyes are DIM and your
back aches and your heart falnts, and to
know that if YOU stop before night your
children will starvc All, the sword has
not slain SO many as the. needle! Inc
great battlefelds of our civil war were not
Gettysburg and Shiloh and South Mount
ain. The great battehelds were IN the
arsenals and in the shops and in the at
tics. where women made army jackets Tor
a sixpence. They toiled on until they
died They had no funeral eulogium, but,
in the name of my God, this day, L 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 Gel,
lar! Heroes and heroines! Bless God
for them!
In this roll also find the heroes who
have uncomplainingly endured domestic
injustices. They are men who for, their
toll and anxiety have no sympathy IN
their homes. Exhausting application to
business gets them a livelihood, but an
unfrugal wife scatters 1T. lie is iretted az
from the moment he enters the door until
he comes out of it, The exasperations OF
business life, augmented by the exaspera-
tions of domestic life. Such men are
laughed at, but they have a heartbreaklng
trouble, and they would have long ago
gone into appalling dissipation but for the
grace of God.
Society to-day Is strewn with the
wrecks of men who, under the northeast
storms of domestic felicity, have been
driven on the rocks There are tens Of
thousands of drunkards to-day. made sucn
| bv 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 find a vie whose ilIe
| is a perpetual martyrdom-someth
| heavier than a stroke of the fist, unkind
words. staggering home at midnight an mo
constant maltreatment, which have lett
| her only wreck of what she was on that
| dav when in the midst OF a brilliant as
! semblage the vows were taken and Jul
| organ played the wedding march and the
| carriage rolled away with the benedictior
of the people. What was the burning o.
| Latimer and Ridley at the stake com
pared with this? Those men soon became
Unconscious in the fire, but there is
thirty years martyrdom, a fifty years
putting to death, yet accomplishing, nc
bitter words when the rollicking compain
| ions at o'clock in the morning pitch thu
husband dead drunk into the front entry
no bitter words when wiping from thu
swollen brow the blood struck out in
| midnight carousal, bending, over the bat
| tered and bruised form of HIM who whel
ised love and kindness and protection, ye