The Washington weekly post., 1900-06-05
DR.. Talmage Finds Them in
the Garret and Sick Room.
NOBLE COURAGE OF SUFFERING
Herei.m Of the warrier Who Wins Glory
In the Heat Of Battle with the Promise Of
Undying Renown for Victory L. Paifry
Beside that OF Those Who Bear Poverty
and Endless Toll, sickness, and OpPres-
sion with Christian Fortitude.

mage calls his words OF yesterday. He
describes the patient herOlsm Of men and
women. particularly the latter. who spend
their lifetime in bearing deadly Sickness
with fOrtltude. or, III paid. III fed anj op-
pressed, nobly do their duty to the end.
never complaining and always trusting In
God for their reward. He compares these
with the heroes and heroines whose deeds
are chronicled In history, often In letters
OF human blood, and promises the palm
and the high places of eternal beatitude
to the humble Christian heroes and hero
ines. DR. Talmage took for his text II
Timothy U:2: Thou therefore endure
hardness" and said:
Historians are not slow to acknowl-
edge the merits OF great military chief
tains. We have the full-length portraits
OF the Cromwells. the Washngtons, the
NapOleons. and the Wellingtons of the
world. History is not written in black 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-
cious stones, but out of the bieached
skulls of the fallen. But | am now TO un-
roll before you a scroll Of heroes that the
wcrld has never acknowledged; those who
faced no guns, blew no bugle blast. con-
quered 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 l mean the heroes OF COM
mon, everyday life.
"In this roll, In the first place. find all
the heroes of the sick room. When Satan
had failed TO overcome Job. BE 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 olt-tna'
| sickness is the greatest test OF ones char
aCter A man who can stand that car
stand anything. To be shut in d room as
| fast as though 1t were a bastile. To bt
| so nervous you cannot endure the tap OF
| child's foot. To have luscious fruit
which tempts the appetite of the robus
and healthy, excite our loathing and dis
| gust when it first appears on the platter
| To have the rapier Of pain strike through
| the side, or across the temples, Ike
razor, or to put the foot into a wise, ol
throw the whole body into a blaze O
| fever. Yet there have been men anC
| women, but more women than men, WHIT
| have cheerfuily 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 mus
| cles, and paled the cheeks, and stoopeC
| the shoulders. BY the dim light of tht
| sick-room taper they saw on their va!
the picture OF that land where the inhab
itants are never sick. Through the deat
silence of the night they heard the chorus
of the angels.
| Heroines of Patient Drudgery.
1.-THE cancer ate away her life fron
week to week and day TO day, and sh
| became weaker and weaker. and ever.
good night was feebler than the 'goot
night before, yet never sad. The chill
dren looked up into her face and sav
suffering transformed into heavenl,
smile. Those who suffered on the battle
field, amid shot and shell, were not NOR
heroes and heroines than those who, il
the field hospital and in the asylum, ha
fevers which no fee could cool and n
surgery cure. No shout of a comrade Z
cheer them, but numbness and achin
and homesickness-yet willing to suffer
confident in God hopeful of heaven. He
roes of rheumatism. Heroes of neuralgis
Heroes of spinal complaint. Heroes Q
sick headache Heroes of lifelong inva
lidism. Heroes and heroines! They sha
reign for ever and ever. Hark! l cate
just one note of the eternal anthem
There shall be no more painr Bless Go
for thati
In this roll / also find the heroes G
toll. who do their work uncomplaininglN
IL Is comparatively easy TO lead a reg
ment into battle, when you know tha
the whole nation Will applaud the victt
ry; IL is comparatively easy TO docto
the sick, when you know that your ski
! Will be appreciated by a large cOmpan
of friends and relatives; Ii Is compars
! lively easy 10 address an audience, Whe
IN the cleaning eyes and the fiushe
| cheeks you know that your sentiment
are adopted; but 10 do sewing when yo
expect the employer will come and thru.
his thumb through the work, to sho
how imperfect II Is, or 10 have the who
garment thrown back on you to be dor
over again. 10 build a wall and kno
there Will be no one 10 say you did
well, but only swearing employer how
ing across the scaffold; to work unit
your eyes are dim and your back ache
and your heart faints. and to know thl
II you stop before night your childre
viii starve. All! the sword has not slai
so many as the needle. The great ba
tlehelds OF our civil war were not Ge
tysburg and Shiloh and South Mountain
The great battlefields were in the arseT
ais and in the shops and in the attic
where women made army jackets for
SiXpence. They toiled on until they die.
They had no funeral eulogiums, but.
the name of my God, this day. | enro
their names among those of whom III
world was not worthy. Heroes of m
needlei Heroes of the sewing machint
Heroes of the attic! Heroes of the celia
Heroes and heroines! Bless God Il
them!
wives Who Win Eternal Crowns.
in this role ] also find the heroes VIII
have uncOmplainingly endured domesti
injUstices. There are men who, for the
toll and anxiety, have no sympathy
their homes. Exhausting application |
business gets them a livelihood. bur 2
Unfrugal wife scatters it, He is fretted q
from the moment he enters the door uni
he comes out of 1t. The ex3speratioU
OF business life, augmented by the exa;
peratiCns Of domestic life Such me
are laughed at, but they have a hear
breaking trouble and they would hay
long ago gone into appalling dissipatio
[. but for the grace Of God. Society to-da
is strewn with the wrecks of men. VIII,
under the northeast storm of domest
infelicity have been driven on the rock
There are tens of thousands of druakarC
to-day, made such by their wives. Tha
is not poetry. That is prose. But Il
wrcng is generally In the opposite dire,
ton. You would not have TO go far
find a wife whose life Is a perpetual rnal
tyrdom. Something heavier than a stroE
: Of the fist; Unkind words. staggerin
I home at midnight and constant maitrea
] y-,cut which have left her only a wreck Z