Connecticut western news., 1904-03-24

ular order as he came to it's parsou- age. One minister was so tantalized and attacked that under the persecu- tion of it's members he committed sui eide. But, tell me, you who have been having Il hard time in that church, do you not think you are getting along there as well as any one else could? "Oh, yeS." you answer II know 1 am In spite of three bal&in% eldc"s and two obstinate fault fn1ing trustees we are taking in new members all the time. Never in the churchS history has it been doing so much good" Then, my brother, instead of complain, ing about your lot you should he con graduated. Go ahead and do your work. God has honorcl you above all others. He has put you in q difficult position. Post of difficulty always post of honor.
 Sunday school teacher, that is q tough class of boys you have. You came to me the other day with tears in your eyes. Some people may think l am talking about an imaginary case, but you know l am not. Those boys y have half made up your mind to give up the class. Do not do it. Those boys may stick pins into each other. They may come to class with dirty faces. They may seem to be ungrate-
 full. But remember, O Christian sol dier, if you desert your post now and leave those boys they will not obey the voice of another teacher. They will not come to church at all. You must be to those boys what Dr. T. J. Der nardo is to the London newsboy, and Charles N. Crittenton is to the Flor ence Crittenton missions, and what Livingstone was to Africa, and Carey was to India. The gospel heroes of the past have given up their all to win their victories. They labored they slaved, they sacrificed themselves among the outcasts. "Go thou and do likewise"
 X Fact to Realize.
 But there is another great fact which the good soldier of Jesus Christ should realize. The duties of the camp right ly performed are sometimes just as es- sential for Gods work as duties rightly performed at the front. The work which is done by the commissary and the surgeon has sometimes greater part to play in winning martial victo ries than the spectacular color sergeant has ill leading the charge before the enemy's breastworkS. What defeated Napoleon Bonaparte in his famous Russian invasion? The bayonets of tIal l,D11 Cylaf afty Nn hn nr of Germany and Austria and Italy could have brushed those guns aside as he had done in former campaigns. It was the haversack empty of bread which made the Little Corsican" run like a frightened hare toward home. 4 It was Moscow in flames and his men with nothing to eat that made the French commander tremble before the stony glance of death. And yet to read some military biographers you might suppose the personal worth of a Grant, a Sherman, Meade, Han cock, was the cause of all the victories achieved by the northern armies in the civil war; and the mental powers of a Lee, a Longstreet, a Jackson, q Cor don, Johnson, were the cause of all the victories of the southern armies.
 Tn. unrecognized heroes of the civil war have not had their due. The gen erals and the boys who fought at the front have been honored as they de- served, but who has had tribute of praise to give to the self sacrificing men who made it possible for the fighting soldiers to live and die at the front? 1 would sing the praises of the muleteers. I would sing the praises of the army officers who bought the shoes and the stockings and the trousers and the coats and the hats and the blan- kets and forwarded them and never let a dishonest dollar stick to their fingers. I would sing the praises of the ambu- lance corps, and of the soldiers who acted as nurses. Did you ever stop to 'hus that in all the United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, there is not one, not even one, monument erected to an army surgeon? Many memorial stones for McPherson and Sherman, q magnificent remembrance to Grant, but not one monument for one surgeon. In all the United States not one monument erected to n muster 'ng officer who stayed at home to fill up the ranks. Not one. In all the United States not one erected to the faithful paymasters who carried around the money so essential to the support of the soldiers children at home. And yet those sacrificing deeds of the heroes of the civil war made 1t possible for their brothers in blue and in gray to stay at the front and fight on the picket line.
 Unrecognized Heroes.
 Christian soldiers, who are the stay at homes? I have recounted these deeds of the unrecognized heroes of war for purpose. want to encour- age you in your ordinary duties of life. It is not possible for every Chris tian to be Chinese Gordon or Have lock or q O. o. Howard or q Stonewall Jackson. It is not possible for all Christian soldiers to stand in the con spicuous places and win the plaudits of the Christian world. But remember that the humble private in Christ's army-she who as a mother living in the home, as a sister working behind
 
 school to support an aged parent or to give an education to young brother is in Gods sight one of the essentials for his great army. You are the power behind the main line, making it possi- ble for other Christian soldiers to fight in the open. Paul is saying to the sol dier in the rear as well as at 'he front, to the inconspicuous as well us the con spicuous soldier alike, Endure hard ness as q good soldier of Jesus Christ"
 And why should we all endure hard ness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ? For two reasons. First, because it Is possible for every private as well as Christian officer to receive the highest of all soldiers rewards. What is the highest? Yea, the very highest? We have read how the Duke of Marlbor-