The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-06-08
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject; The Roll of Honor-A Tribute 20
Everyday Heroes-In the Final Read
justment They VIII Receive sIo
Crown of Nalor.
tCopyriRht 1901

Everyday Heroes-In the Final Read
justment They VIII Receive sho
Crown OF yalor.
copyright 1901
WASHINGTON, ID. Cdr. Talmagc, who
~ now preaching 20 large audiences IN
the great cities OF England and Scotland,
sends this discourse, in which hc shows
that many who IN this world pass az of
little importance will IN the day of hnal
feadJustment be crowned with high honor;
text, ii Timothy II, 3, Thou therefore
endure hardness"
Historians are not slow 10 acknow ledge
the merits OF great military chcltains
We have the full length portraits OF the
Cromwells, the Washlngtons, the Napo-
Icons and the Weli@gtons 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-
clous stones, but out OF the blcaChed
skulls of the fallen But ! am now TO un-
poll before you a scroll of heroes that the
World has never acknowledged who
faced no guns, blew no buglc blast, CON
quered no cities, chained no captlvcs 10
their chariot wheels, and yet m the great
day OF eternity will stand higher than
some of those whose names startled the
natlons-and seraph and rapt spirit and
archangel will tell their deeds 10 a listen
i
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, he said 10
God, Put forth Tny 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-t.at
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 bastic, TO bc so
nervous you cannCt endure the tap of "A
chlld's foot, to have luscious fruit, which
tcmpts the appetite of the robust and
healthy, excite our loathng md disgust
when 1t first appears on the platter; TO
have the rapier of PAIN strike through the
side or across the temple like n razor or
TO put the foot INTO wise or throw the
whole body into n blaze of fever. Yet
there have been men and women. bu.
more women than men, who have cheer
fully endured this hardness. Through
years of oXhausting rhcumatisms and CX-
cruclating neuralglas they have gone and
through bodily distress that rasped the
nerves and tore the muscles and naled the
checks 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 feeber ~&san the good night
before, yet never sad The children looked
up into her face and saw suffering trans-
formed into a heavenly smile. Those who
suffered on the battlefield amid shot and
shell were not more heroes and hcrolucs
than those who, in G field hospital and
in the asylum, had ievers which no ice
could cool and no surgery cure. No shout
Of a Comrade TO cheer them but numbness
and aching and homeslckness, yet willing
to suffer, confident i'm God hopeful of
heaven. Heroes OF rheumatism, heroes of
neuralgia, heroes OF spinal complaint, he
roes OF sick headache, heroes of lifelong
invahdlsm, heroes and heroucsl They
shall reign for ever and ever. llarkl /
catch just one note of the eternal anthem,
There shall be no more paln!" Bless
God for that
In this roll also find the heroes of toll,
who do their work uncomplarningly. IL
is comparatively easy to lead a regiment
into bate when you know that the whole
nation will applaud the victory, it is com
paratlvely easy TO doctor the sick when
you know that your skill will lie aprre-
ciated 10y large company of friends and
relatives, II 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 viii
come and thrust his thumb through the
work TO show how imperfect IL is or TO
have the whole garment t..rown back on
you to be done over again; to build a
wall and know there will he no one TO
say you did IT well but only swearing
employer bowling across the scatiold; to
work until your eyes are dim and your
back aches and your heart faints. and TO
know that II you stop before night your
children will starvcl All. the sword has
not slain so many as the needle The
great batteields of our civil war were not
Gettysburg and Shiloh and South Mount
ain. The great batilehelds We're IN the
arsenals and in tie shops and in the at
tics, where women made army jackets for
a slxpence. 1hey toiled on until they
died. They had no funeral euloglum. but.
IN the name of my God, this day ! enroll
their names among those of whom the
world was not worthy. Heroes of the
needle! Heroes of the sewing maChnel
Heroes of the atticl Heroes of the cell
lar! Heroes and herolnesl Bless God
for theml
In this roll also find the heroes who
have uncomplaningly endured domestic
.njustices. They are men who for their
toll and anxiety have no sympathy in
their homes. Exhausting application 60
business gets them a livelihood. but an
unirugal wife scatters IL. He is fretted az
from the moment he enters the door until
he comes out OF IL. The exaspcrations of
business life, augmented by the exaspcra-
tions of domestic life. Such men are
laughed at, bat they have a hCartbreaking
trouble, and they would have Ions AGO
gone into appalling dissipation but for the
grace OF God.
Society to-day n 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 such
by their wives. That is not poetry; that
rs prose. But the wrong is generally in
the opposite direction. You would not
have TO go far TO find a wife whose life
~ perpetual martyrdom- something
heavier than a stroke of the fist, unkind
words, staggering home az midnight and
constant maltreatment which have left
her only n wreck OF what she was on that
day when IN the midst Of a brilliant as
sp-nbage the vows were taken and full
organ played the wedding march and the
carriage rolled away with the benediction
OF the people. What was the burning OF
Iatiiner and Ridley at the stake com.
pared with th.sg Those men soon became