Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-26
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. .
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: The Roll of Honor-A Tribute to
Everyday HerOes-In the Final Read
justment They Will Receive the
Crown OF valOr.
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WASHINGTON, y. CDR. Talmage, 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 Iinal
readjustment be crowned with high honor;
text, II Timothy ii, 3, "Thou therefore
endure hardness
Historians are not slow to acknow ledge
the merits. Of great military chieftains.
We have the. full length portraits of the
Icons and the Welli2gtons 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 ,u-
roll before you scroll of heroes that the
world has never acknowledged-those who
faced no guns, blew no bugle blast, con-
quered no cities, chained no captives to
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 a listen
ing universe. | mean the heroes of ccm-
mon, everyday life.
In this roll in the first piace. I 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
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
acter, 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 II
child's foot, to have luscious fruit, which
temptts the appetite, of the robust and
nd St
when 1T 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 neuralgias they have gone and
through bodily distress that rasped, the
nerves and tore the muscles and raled 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.
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
!
formed into heavenly smile. Those who
suffered on the battlefield amid shot and
shell were not more heroes and heroines
than those who, in e 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!
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 uncomplalningy. 1t
is comparatively easy to lead regiment
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, it is comparatively easy, to ad-
dress an audience when in the cleaning
eyes and flushed cheeks you know that
your sentiments are adopted, but to do
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 .:.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 scatfold; to
work until your eyes are dim and your
back aches and your heart faints, and to
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
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a sixpence. 1ney 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
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 I also find the heroes who
have uncomplainingly endured domestic
injustices. They are men who for, their
their I aba homes sshei Exhanssng ss @
business gets them a livelihood: but ar
unfrugal wife scatters it. He is fretted at
from the moment he enters the door until
he comes out of it. The ,exas,perations Of
aas a 5 nsss 5 81 ScS the
laughed at, but they have a heartbreakine
trouble, and they would have long age
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 beer
driven on the rocks. There are tens Of
thousands of drunkards to-day, made 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 find a wife whose life
is perpetual martyrdonl-somethna
heavier than a stroke of the fist, unkind
words, staggering home at midnight and
constant maltreatment, which have left
her only wreck of what she was on that
day when in the midst of brilliant as
semblage the VOWS were taken and full
organ playsa tbs. wedding mTarch and the
ctEH..ase rolled away with the benediction
of the people, What was the burning Of
Latimer and Ridley at the stake com
pared with this! Those men soon became
unconscious in the fire, but there is a
thirty years martyrdom, fifty years
putting to death, yet uncomplaining, nc
bitter words when the rollicking compan
ions at o'clock in the morning pitch the
husband dead drunk into the front entry
no bitter words when wiping from the
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