Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-24

teleETum- Sent 10 tnp ROVITnOrS anu 10
the officials mt Washington, practically
said, 1--WE are ready 10 ~ 20 the front
--ayo, to sacrifice our lives, IL need be,
in our country's service" So eager
We're those soldiers for dangerous serv.
ice TINT when some OF their colonies
received the kilograms. that switched
them from the transports ut Tampa to
jacksonville. FIN. there were sorrow
and disappointment in many hearts.
Posts Of DiAacu1ty.
Posts of danger and difficulty are NJ
ways posts of honor In the United
States army. And yet TO hear some
Christian soldiers talk you would sup
pose that the posts in Christ's army
where there are difficulties are the
posts to be avoided or. deserted. Even
some Of the ordained ministers of
Jesus Christ feel that way. "Oh."
snys n visiting clergyman, II am SO
discouraged. Why, there has been
nothing but friction and trouble in my
church ever since l came to 1t. The
people have fought and misrepresented
every minister who ever occupied this
pulpit, and they have been finding
fault with and misrcprescnting me. ]
am SO discouraged. wish God would
find me another place" Well. my
brother, l confess you are having n
hard time Of it. I confess that some
churches have n bad record. know
of one church that for forty years has
made its chief fame in breaking down
its different ministers. One pastor aft.
er another has been destroyed in reg.
ular order as he came to ttS parsOn.
age. One minister was so tantalized
and attacked that under the persecu-
ton OF its members he committed sui
eide. But, tell inc, you who have been
having n hard time in that church, do
you not think you = getting along
there "a we'll IA any one else could :
con. yes you answer. Il know I am.
In spite of three baking elders and
two obstinate, fault finding trustees.
we are taking In new members all the
time. Never in the church'S history
has IT been doing so much good"
Then. my brother, instead Of complain.
Ing about your lot you should be con
graduated. Go ahead and do youl
work. God has honored you above all
others. He has put you in a difficult
position. Post OF difficulty always post
OF honor.
Sunday school teacher, that Is n
tough class Of boys You have. You
came to me III" other day with tears in
your eyes. Some people may think 1
am talking about an imaginary case.
but YOU know nm not Those boys
at times poster you so much hat you
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 migrate.
ful. But remember. . Christian sol
dicr. 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 10 those boys what Dr. T. ]. Rer
nardo is to the London ncwsboy, and
Charles \, Critienton is TO the Flor.
enco 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 laborcd. they
shaved, they sacrificed themselves
among the outCasts. go thou and dc
likewise
\ Fact TO Realize.
But there IS another great fact which
the good soldier of Jesus Christ should
realize. The duties Of the camp right.
~ performed are sometimes lust rs es
Sentlal for Gods work rs duties rightly
performed at the front. The work
which il done by the comnissary and
the surgeon has sometimes IL greatet
part to play in winning martial victo
ries than the spectacular color sergeant
has in leading the charge before the
encny'S breastWorks. What defeated
Napoleon ~Bonaparte in his famous
Russian invasion: The bayonets OF
the naughty c2arf No. The conqueror
of Germany and Austria and Italy
could have brushed those guns aside as
he had done In former campaigns. II
was the havcrsaCk empty of bread
which made the Little Corsican' run
like n frightened hare toward home.
II 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 b~iogrnphers you
might suppose the personal worth Of a
Grant, a Sherman, n Meade, a Han
cock, was the cause Of all the victories
achieved by the northern armies In the
civil war. and the mental powers of q
Lee, a L.ongstrect, a Jackson, n Cor
don, q Johnson, were the cause Of ali
the victories OF the southern armies.
The unrecosnized heroes OF the civtl
war have not had their due. The gen
erals and the boys who fought at the
front have been honoYed as they de.
served, but who has had a tribute OF
praise to give to the self sacrificing
men who made it possible for the
fighting soldiers 10 live and die at the
front? ! would sing the praises OF the
muleteerS. l would sing the praises OF
the army officers ho bought the shoes
and the stockings and the trousers and
the coats and the hats and the hlan-
krts and forwarded them and nfve let
n dishonest dollar stick To their fingers.
| would sing the praises OF the ambu-
lance corps, and of the soldiers who
acted as nurses. Did you ever stop to
think that in all the United States.
from the Atlantic Ia the Pacific, there