The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-26


 inmates, we fondly imagine that about all the worth and all the real righteous
 ness of the world are to be found in oui
 set. To have respect unto the larger
 truth would make us more just in oul judgments, more humane and brotherly in our mental attitude if not in oui l conduct. There are muItitudes of peo-
 pie whose lives are for the healing of
 society. We never met them, they are I not in our set but they are our fellow l laborers in the world and we ought tc
 be thankful for them and rejoice in l their fellowship. That fellowship never | expresses itself in close relations but it | is real and we are depending on 1t in | all our effort to help the world, for we | are always counting on the great body of right thinking people who stand back of the message we are delivering.
 Honest men, pure men, courageous men, helpful men the world over are In the great federation that isworking togeth- CT with God. They do not know each other, they have no common shibboleth or creed but they are members of the society of the true, the aspiring, the faithful, and each is helping the other
 by helping the world and reaching af-
 ter the best for himself; from every na- ton under heaven they shall come forth
 at the last and rejoice together in the
 common effort and result. It is an ex-
 hilerating thought it is a great joy to
 belong to this great brotherhood, and to
 look for the time when we can see them
 face to face and talk over the campaign
 in which we were all unseen comrades.
 Let us think for moment of some of
 these unrecogniZed benefactors of the
 world. They are putting us In their
 debt not only by the definite acts of
 those who let not the left hand know
 what the right hand doeth, but by those
 who are doing nothing but live whole
 some lives
 The faithful people who keep right on
 doing what they are set to do. The
 fiagman at his crossing, the switchman
 in his tower are seldom remembered by
 the passengers in the flying train, but
 their lives and the happiness of their
 homes are in these rough hands. Speaking to boys in Brooklyn last week,
 President Eliot said, "Ti1e valor in the every day life of physicians, engineers and firemen is greater than that of the soldier on the field of battle, for the lat ter have the inspiration of the mas, while the former are alone" These people who stand alone, uncheered by martial music or comrades bravo, sim ply doing what they are set to do as unto God are our unrecognized credl- tors in large amounts.
 The people who pay their taxes, make wholesome homes, do their tasks in quiet orderly fashion, without once inn agining that they are doing anything great or anything to affect the welfare of the world the men who vote right and do not need the surveillance of bosses or refornlers, who put their con- sciences into everything, are the people who ballast the ship and keep her on even keel. What does community owe to the great body of clean, good citizens who never get into the newspapers, make no speeches, leave no legacies except the record of faithful living in obscure and limited fields?
 Then there are the patient people who bear their own burdens without mur- about them or prating of them; the self controlled people who teach US how to carry ourselves amid life's vexa- tions and keep our resources well in hand; the sunny people who make cheer in the world; who is paying them much attention or realizing how much they are helping?
 There are few national heroes with whom we are all familiar, We have lust celebrated the birthdays of the two men whose colossal figures dominate our history; Washington, Lincoln; men worth any nations veneration who are | already receiving the praise of the l world we do well to pause each year beside their graves. But there were still unsung officers who stood with | Washington when others deserted him. ] were forming cables and seeking to dig ! he very ground from under the great | ,ommoner's feet, when the congress 1 vas grunbling and withholding sup l llies what of them? The great cap- l aims of the civil war who interpreted | purposes and obeyed his or lers are not forgotten what of the men vho followed them in the march and | he charge? Well, we grumble at our pension bill and even hint at mercena- v motives! One of the best things our "a triotic societies are doing is to bring O honor many obscure patriots and ,laces; through our pardonabie pride in ncestry many places where great hapters in history were made, and the aen who made them, are coming at last nto their own
 There is some anonymous sentiment ! .ou have read, some picture you saw in our childhood, some song you have eard which keeps repeating itself in our memory and has become a part of ] our philosophy of life; you do not now who to thank, but you do know hat you are heavily in debt. have a ancy that we shall all need to spend 1any of the first years in heaven in eeking out and thanking these un- nown benefactors.
 There is the unconscious restraint nd stimulus that comes from the very resence of certain people in comrnuni- V You wish to he counted witi, them !