Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-06-08
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IN. TSlMAGE PAYS TRIBUTE TO ev-
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Earthly Victories.
WAsuINGroS, June 3.-Dr. Talmage,
who rs now preaching to large audi
euces 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 final readjustment be
crowned with high honor: text. IT Tim
othy VI, 3, Thou therefore endure hard
ness"
Historians ere not slow 70 acknowl-
edge the merits of great military chief
tains. We have the fun length por-
traits of the Cromwells. the Washing
tons, the NapolconS and the yelling
tons of the world. History Is not writ
ten in black ink. but with red ink OF
human blood. The gods of human am
bition do not drink from bowls made
out OF silver or gold or precious stones.
but out Of the bleached skulls of the
fallen. But ! am now to unrCll before
you scroll of heroes that the world
has never acknowledged those who
faced no guns. blew no bugle blast.
conquered no cities, chained no cap
uves to their chariot wheels. and yet
in the great day Of eternity will stand
higher than some of those whose names
startled the nations-aud seraph and
rapt spirit and archangel will tell their
deeds to n listening universe. l mean
the heroes of common. everyday life.
In this roll in the first place | find
all the heroes of the sickroom. 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 oil found
out-that sickness is the greatest test
or ones character. \ man who can
stand that can stand anything. To be
shut in room as fast as though il
were bastile. to be so nervous you
cannot endure the tap of n childs 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 rapier of pain strike through the
side or across the temple like n razor
or TO put the foot into n wise or throw
the whole body into n 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 ueuralgias they
have gone aud 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 sickrcom 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.
Heroes of Toll.
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
ana saw suffering transformed into n
heavenly smile. Those who suffered
on the battlefield amid shot and shell
were not more heroes and heroines
than those who, in the field hospital
ind In the asylum. had fevers which
no ice could cool and no surgery cure.
NO shout of 4 comradc 20 cheer them.
but numbness and aching and home
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In God. hopeful OF heaven Heroes of
rheumatism, heroes OF neuralgia, he
roes OF spinal complaint, heroes of
sick headache. heroes OF lifelong in
validism, heroes and heroinesl They
shall reign for ever and ever. Harkl
L catch just one note OF the eternal
anthem, There shall be no more
pain" Bless God for thati
In this roll also find the heroes OF
toll, who DO their work uncomplaln-
inSly. IL Is comparatively easy 10 lead
regiment into battle when Won know
that the whole nation Will applaud the
victory, II is comparatively easy To doe
tor the sick when you know that your
skill viii lie appreciated by n large
company of friends and relatives. il Is
comparatively easy TO address an audi
ence when IN the cleaning eyes and
the flushed cheeks you know that your
sentiments are adopted. but to do sew
ing when you expect the employer Will
come and thrust his thumb through
the work To show how imperfect 1t is
or TO have the whole garment thrown
back on you TO be done over again; to
build n wall and know there will be no
one 70 say you did it well. but only a
swearing employer bowling across the |
scaffold; 10 work until your eyes are
dim ana your back aches and your
heart faints, and TO know that IL Won
stop before night your children will |
starvei All. the sword has not slain SO |
many as the needle! The great battle |
helds OF our civil war were not Gettys- |
burg and Shiloh and South Mountain. |
The great battlefelds were in the ar
senais and IN the shops and in the at
tics, where women made army jackets
fof 4 slSpeace. They toiled on until
they died They had no funeral eulo-
GUM. bet. n The name OF my God. this
Gay l enrol their names among those
OF whom 1Ae world was not worthy.
Heroes OF the needle. Heroes OF the
sewing machine: Heroes of the attici
Heroes of the cellari Heroes and hero
ines! B.ec5 Ccd for them!
Co=:cstic NIa-tyrs.
In this re-! also find the heroes who
have overwhelmingly endured domes-
tic .njust!ces. They are men who for
their toll and anxiety have no SYM
patty IN tielr homes. EXhausting an
plieaticA II business gets them q live
iihood. bat 81 uafrUgal wife scatters
It He IS f-egted at from the moment
te ectc"s the door until he comes out
or II. The exasperations of business
lie. nugmen-ed by the exasperations
or domestic life. Such men are laugh
ed at, but they have n heartbreaking
trouble, and they would have long ago
gone into appalling dissipation but for
the grace of God.
Society today is strewn with the
wrecks OF men who, under the north
east storm OF domestic infelicity, have
been driven on the rocks. There are
tens OF thousands of drunkards today.
made such by their wives. That is not
poetry; that is prose. But the wrong