The Republican journal., 1902-03-27
"VICTORY AND AFTER. "
A Sermon by Rev, David litter.


which had been hanging over it for Is
years. was paid the first of this month
The Denver Republican says: The |
payment of this debt is something of a
personal triumph for the pastor of the
church." The same paper prints the
following report of a recent sermon:
Rev. David Utter spoke yesterday
morning on "Nictory and After" from
the text. TO him that overcometh will
l give to eat of the hidden mamma
Rev L.. Il. He said:
This text is one of many promises
written in this book Of Revelation for
those who overcome. 1t is a mystical
utterance, and what the writer may
have meant by the hidden mamma 10
man knows But since it is named as
part of the reward to him that over
cometh we may as well call it the JOY of
the victor as anything else. And the
Joys of the victorious are very real
joys. The paeans OF victory are the
grandest and gladdest songs that men
have sung, and literature mas preserved
nothing more ancient. The songs OF
Deborah and Miriam are victors songs
thought worthy of preservation III tile
Bible-and fierce Old hymns they are.
The whole of life is often called a bat
tie and surely every day has its strug-
giles and difficulties its sorrows of de
feat and its satisfactions i'll success.
When a piece Of work is well done
there is a part of the reward OF which
we cannot be robbed, and that We try
III vain to share with others. When
the little boy has made his wagon or
his kite or his bit OF garden, incontin-
entity he calls his mother to see what
he has done. She rejoices with him.
but no words can express his happiness.
And at school, Wher at last the knOtty
problem is opened out, seen through by
the pupils own efforts after days of
pondering-I N not sure that any such
problems are used now OF that there is
time for such extended consideration
of difficulties, but if not | pity the
present generation for the joys they
mlss-wlth an expansion of the soul
when the unalded triumph comes. TO
surmount difficulty of an intellectual
sort gives the keenest and cleanest of
Joys, A victory by brute force gives
scarce taste of the hidden mamma My
muscle is a gift. an endowment con
ferred by my ancestors and Mother Ma
ture. something lent me; my mind. that
is myself.
Happy the astronomer when his pre-
diCted eclipse comes true to the quarter
minute, and happy the man who made
the chronometer that runs true enough
to time il,
THE MAN WHO WATTS.
And if one has waited long for his
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mamma was thine when with the quick
lifting of that tropic dawn you saw the
shores of the new world Truly peace
hath her victories, sweeter as we'll as
greater than those of war For pain
and blood must, for every good heart,
mar the JOY of victory in battle even
when ones cause is Just. Happier far
the inventors, the artists and artisans
who by their work of minds and hands
have done things that called forth feel
lngs Of gratitude from their fellow men,
Any KIND OF victory over ones fel-
low man must be clouded with sorrow
for him defeated. if the heart is right.
In Harvesting the forces of nature for
mans use, i'll discovering her secret
laws, or exploring the earth, or the
heavens, obstacles and DELAYS only
sWeeten the hard won triumph of sue
cess. Happy everywhere and always
are those who overcome who succeed.
They may be, and should be, vet the in
slant of victory is moment of danger
the Joy may change to instant grief.
! think this truth is instinctively
recognized i'll the feeling that it is dan
gerous to be too happy. Success intoXi-
Gates. The hidden mama is delicious.
but no alcohol or ether more danger
H. I 10 l
ly successful are the food of all the
rapaclous birds of the air, and beasts
of prey i'll human shape Let a new
discovery of gold be made, anywhere,
and the sea and the air darken with
these rapacious men and women going
to that place. Men will succeed there
who never succeeded before and they
can be easily victimiZed in the first in
toxication of success.
Victory is not a good in itself. but is
good only as the triumph of good
cause, as the final attainment of some
good object.
WORTHLESS IN ITSELF.
And here is the second danger per-
tanning to victory. Men come to seek
that hidden mama, the joy of victory
as though it were good digestible nour-
ishing food, which it is not They'd bet
ter plant potatoes.
How foolish we are with our MOTTO
anything to win How foolish we
are carrying the argument into a quar-
rel, just to have the victory. How
much good breath we might save if we
could forego the victory and stop the
talk when all the reasons we can invent
have been stated twice. Victory is
empty at last if the thing struggled for
be not worth winning. It's good day
when I've not won something at too
great cost
It is the after moment that tells.
Then we count the cost and wonder
why we ever entered the race-unless
indeed the cause was good.
After the fight men bind up their
wounds, gather up their dead, and think
whether it was worth while. Happy if
they then can think that justice and
right were wholly on their side other
wise their victory is defeat
stainless soldier on the walls,
Knowing this he knows no more,
Whoever fights, whoever falls,
Justice triumphs evermore.
Who so fights upon his side
God, though he We're ten times slain.
Crowns him victor glOritied,
Victor over death and pain
''FOreyer'