Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-03-02
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/ children are in the heavenly world. for
which they were well prepared through
maternal fidelity, and others are out in
TINS world doing honor to a Christian an
| ceStry
| When her life closes and the neighbors
gather for her obSequies the officiating
clergyman may find appropriate words in
the last chapter of Proverbs: Her price
! Is FAR above rubies The heart of her
/ husband doth safely trust in her. so thai
he shall have no need of spoil. She will
So him good. and not evil all the DAYS of
her life. She stretcheth out her hand to
the poor. She is not afraid of the snow
| for her household; for all her household
are clothed with scarlet Her husband
IS known in the gates. when ne stitch
among the elders in the land. Her chill
dren arise up and call her blessed; her
! husband also, and he praiseth her. Many
| daughters have done virtuously but thou
eNceIleSt them all. Then after the
Scripture lesson is read let all come up
and before the casket is closed look for
| the last time at the sears of her earthly
| endurance. She never heard the roll of
/ gun carriage or saw a banner hosted
! upon Il parapet but she has in all the
! features of that dear old face the marks
of many a confiict-scars of toll. scars
| of maternity, sears of self-Sacrifice scars
of bereavement She is heroine whose
name has never been heard of ten miles
| from the old homestead, but her name is
| inscribed high up among the enthroned
! imm0rtals.
Martyrs All Around Us.
! People think they must look for mar
! tyrs on battleteldS or go through his
| tory to ind burnings ut the stake and
! fortunes on racks when there are martyrs
| all about us. At this time i'll this capital
| city there are scores Of men wearing
| themselves out in the public service. In
ten years they will not have It healthy
nerve left in their body In committee
rooms, i'll consultations that involve the
| welfare Of the nation, under the weight
| of great responsibilities, their vitality is
! being subtracted. In almost every village
of the country you find some broken
! down State or national official After
eXhausting himself in the public service
! rough American politics kicks him out Of
| Congress or cabinet OF legislative hall
ami he goes into comparative obScurity
! long enough away from home to lose his
professional opportunities. No man that
was ever put to death by sword or instru-
ment of torture was more of a martyr
than that man who has been wrung TO
death by the demands of official position.
The sears may not be visible. for these
are scars on the brain and scars on the
nerve and sears on the heart, but never
thelesS are they sears, and God counts
them and their reward will be abundant.
1t is easy for some Washington CORE
spondents, writing home to their city or
village papers, TO misrepresent our public
men and represent them as living in idle
ness and luxury, but | tell you from my
own observation that many of the Repre-
sentatives in Congress, and Senators of
the United States. and justices Of the
Supreme Court, and secretaries in presi-
dental cabinets work as hard as. if not
harder than, day laborer breaking cob
blestones on a New Jersey turnpike or
driver of mules on a towpath for a Penn
Sylvania canalboat What with the solic-
ltatlOns for appointments by constituents
who swarm around State and national
capital, and the social eXhaustions, and
the irritating Interruptions. and the I'M
reasonable demands of all kinds, high Off
clal position is not Il sinecure. Their in
digcstions and neuralgas and premature
old age are sears that God will honor.
though the world may never appreciate
The heroes and the hcroineS Of any war
are not always at the front are not al
ways cpauleted, are not always acquaint-
ed with military tactics, and some of
them would not know how TO present
arms or ground arms or stack arms.
Some of them rendered their service i'll
hospitals. some by doing harder work on
the farm while the breadwinner was at
Gettysburg. We all know the names of
the distinguished Northern and Southern
women who bound up the wounds Of the
battletields, but there were 10000 women
just as brave who never left the farm
house or cotton plantation and who were
50 worn out in taking care of their bereft
homes that when the soldier came home
they had only strength left to die And
the places where they sleep the last sleep
arc not marked with so much as a plain
slab, while those who suffered NOT half
so much are in sculptured mausoleum.
The Unseen Scars.
In all lands there are veterans of war
who may not have had their face scraped
with one bullet or their foot famed by
one bursting shell and who could not roll
up their sleeve and show you one mark
suggestive of battle. vet carry with them
weaknesses got in exposures to disease
along malarial swamps or from many
miles of marching, and ever and anon
they feel a twinge Of pain, each recur-
renee Of which is sharper or more lasting.
until after awhile they will be captured
for the tomb by disorders. which started
twenty or thirty or forty years before.
And their scars are all unseen by human
eyes. But those people are as certainly
the victims of war as though they had
been blown up in an undermined fortress
or thrust through with cavalrymans
lance. What | want 10 make out is that
there are sears which are never counted
except as God counts them, and | want
to enlarge your sympatlies.
There is a woman who has suffe~ad
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