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AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1882.
V&O’VB.'Y.
I Aim DYING.
The following beautiful poem we copy
from the columns of the Memphis Bulletin.
It is rarety we find sucii contributions in the
columns of a newspaper. It is sweetly,
beautifully said:
Raise my pillow, husband, dearest,
Faint and fainter comes my breath;
And these shadows stealing slowly
Must, I know, be those of death!
Sit down beside me, darling,
Let me clasp your strong warm hand—
Yours that lias ever sustained me
To the borders of this land.
For your God is mine; our Father
Thence shall ever lead me on,
Where, upon a throne eternal,
Sits his loved and only son.
I’ve had visions and been dreaming
O’er the past of joy and pain—
Year by year I’ve wandered backward
Till I was a child again.
Dreaming of girlhood, and the moment
When I stood your wife and bride—
How my heart thrilled with love’s triumph
In that hour of woman’s pride.
Dreaming of tliee and all earth cords
Firmly twined about my heart—
Oh! the bitter, burning anguish
When I first knew that we must part.
It has passed and God has promised
All thy footsteps to attend,
lie, that’s more than friend or brother,
He’ll be with you in the end,
There’s no shadow o’er the portal
Leading to my heavenly home.
Christ has promised life immortal,
And ’tis He that bids me come.
When life’s trials wait around thee,
And its chilling billows swell.
Thou’lt thank heaven you’ve been spared
them—
Thou’lt then feel that “all is well.”
Bring our boys unto my bedside,
My last blessing let them keep!
But they’re sleeping, do not wake them
They’ll learn soon enough to weep.
Tell them often of their mother;
Kiss them for me when they wake;
Lead them gently in lifes pathway;
Love them doubly for my sake
Clasp iny hand then closer, darling—
This tlie last night of my life,
For to-morrow I shall never
Answer when you call me “wife.”
Fare thee well, my noble husband,
Faint not ’neath the chastening rod;
Throw your strong arm round our children;
Keep them close to thee and God.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY RET. T. DeWITT TALMAGE
GARRISON DUTY.
As his part is that goetli down to tlie Bat
tle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the
stuff—l. Samuel, xxx, 24.
If you have never seen an army
change quarters, you have no idea of
the amount of baggage—twenty loads,
fifty loads, a hundred loads of baggage.
David and his army were about to start
on a double quick march for the recov
ery of their captured families from the
Amalekites. So they left 4 by the brook
Besor their blankets, their knapsacks,
their baggage and their carriages. Who
shall he detailed to watch their stuff?
There are sick soldiers, and wounded
soldiers, and aged soldiers who are not
able to go on this swift military expe
dition, but who are able to do some
work, and so they are detailed to watch
the baggage. There is many a soldier
who is not strong enough to march
thirty miles in a day and then plunge in
to a ten hours’ fight who is able with
drawn sword lifted against his shoul
der to pace up and down as a sentinel
to keep off an enemy who might put
the torch to the baggage. There are
two hundred of these crippled and aged
and wounded soldiers detailed to watch
the baggage. Some of them, I suppose
had bandages across the brow, and
some of them had their arm in a sling,
and some of them walked on crutches.
They were not cewards shirking duty.
They had fought in many a fierce bat
tle for their country and their God.
They are now part of the time in hos
pital and part of the time oil garrison
duty. They almost cry because they
cannot go with other troops to the front.
While these sentinels watch the bag
gage, the Lord watches the sentinels.
There is quite a different scene being
enacted in the distance. The Amalek
ites, having ravaged aud ransack and
robbed whole countries, are celebrating
their success in a royal carousal. Some
of them are danciug on the lawn with
wonderful gyration of heel and toe, and
some of them are examining the spoils
of victory—the finger rings and ear
rings, the necklaces, the wristlets, the
head bands diamond-star-red, and
the coffers, with coronets, andcamelias,
and pearls, and sapphires, and emer
alds, and all the wealth of plate, and
jewels, and decantor, and the silver,
and the gold banker upon the earth in
princely profusion, and the embroid
eries, and the robes, and the tuibans,
and the cloaks of an imperial wardrobs.
The banquet has gone on until the
banquiters afe all maudlin and weak,
and stupid, and indecent, and loathe
soruely drunk. What a time it is now
for David and his men to swoop on
them. So the English lost the battle
of Bannocburn, because the night be
fore they were in wassail and bibulous
celebration while the Scotch were in
prayer. So the Syrians were over
thrown in their carousal by the Israel
ites. So Cbedalamer and his army
were overthrown in their carousal by
Abraham and his men. Soonr North
ern forces were defeated at Fredericks
burg, because one of the commanders
was drunk. Now is the time for David
and his men to swoop upon these ca
rousing Amalekites. Some of the
Amalokites are hacked to pieces on the
•pot, tome of them are just able to go
staggering and hiccoughing off the field,
some of them are just able to crawl on
camels and speed off in the distance.
David and his men gather together the
wardrobes, the jewels, and they put
them upon the back of camels and put
them into wagons, and thsy gather to
gether the sheep and cattle that had
been stolen and start back toward the
garrison. Yonder they come, yonder
they come. The limping men of the
garrison come out and greet them with
wild huzza! The Bible says David
saluted them. That is he asked them
how they all were. “How is your
broken arm?” “llow is your fractured
jaw?” “Has the stiffened limb been
unlimbered?” “Have you had another
chill?” “Are you getting better?”
He saluted them. But now came a
very different thing, the distribution of
the spoils of victory. Drive up these
laden camels now. Who shall have
the spoils? Well, some selfish soul
suggests that these treasures ought all
to belong to those who had been out
in active service. “We did all the
fighting while these men stayed at
home in the garrison, and we ought to
have all the treasures.” But David
looked into the worn faces of these vete
rans who had stayed in the garrison,
and he looked around and saw how
cleanly everything had been kept, and
he saw that the baggage was all safe,
and ho knew how that these wounded
and crippled men would gladly enough
have been at the front if they had beea
able, and the little general looks up
from under his helmet and says: “No,
no, let us have fair play,” and ha rushes
up to one of these men who had lost
both eyes in a former conflict and he
says: “Hold your hands together,”
and the hands are held together, and
he fills them with silver, and he rushes
up to another man, who was sitting
away back and had no idea of getting
any of the spoils, and throws a Baby
lonish garment over him and fills his
hand with gold. And he rushes up to
another man who had lost all his prop
erty in serving God and his country
years before, and he drives up some of
the cattle and some of the sheep that
they had brought back from the
Amalekites, and he gives two or three
of the cattle and three or four of the
sheep to this poor man, so he shall al
ways be fed and clothed. He sees a man
so emaciated and worn out and sick he
needs stimulants, and he gives him a lit
tle of the wine that he brought from
the Amalekites. Yonder is a man who
has no appetite for the rough rations of
the army and he gives him a rare mor
sel from the Amalekitish banquet, and
the two hundred crippled aud teamed
and aged soldiers who tarried on gar
rison duty get just as much of the
spoils of battle as any of the two hun
dred inen that went to the front. “As
his part is that goeth down to the bat
tle, o shall his part be that tarrieth by
the stuff.” The impression is abroad
that the Christian rewards are for those
who do conspicuous service in distin
guished places—great martyrs, great
patriots, great preachers, great philan
thropists. But my text sets forth the
idea that there is just as much reward
for a man that stays at home and minds
his own business, and who, crippled
and unable to go torth and lead in great
movements and in the high places of
the earth, does his whole duty just
where he is. Garrison duty is just as
remunerative as service at the front.
“As his part is that goeth down to the
battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth
by the stuff.” The Earl of Kintoie
said to me in an English railway: “Mr.
Talmage, when you get back to Amer
ica, I want you to preach a sermon on
the discharge of ordinary duty, in or
dinary places, and then send me a copy
of it.” Afterward, an English clergy
man, coming to this laud, brought from
the Earl of Kintore the same message.
Alas! that before I got ready to do
what he asked me to do, the good Earl
of Kintore had departed this life. But
that man, surrounded by all palatial
surroundings, and in a distinguished
sphere, felt ‘sympathetic with those
who had ordinary duties to perform in
ordinary places and in ordinary ways.
A great many people are discouraged
when they hear the story of Moses and
of Joshua, and of David and of Luther,
and of John Knox and of Deborah, and
of Florence Nightingale. They say:
“0! that was all good and right for
tlipm, but I shall never be called to re
ceive the law on Mount Sinai. I shall
never be called to command the sun
and the moon to stand still. I shall
never preach on Mars Hill, I shall never
defy the Diet of Worms, I shall never
be called to make a queen tremble for
her crimes while I preach to her, I shall
never preside over a hospital. There
are women who say, “If 1 had as bril
liant a sphere as those people had, I
should be just as brave and just as
grand; but my business is to get the
children off to school, and to hunt up
things when they are lost, and see that
dinner is ready, and to keep account of
the household expenses, and to hinder
the children from being strangulated
by the whooping cough, and to go
through all the annoyances and vexa
tions of housekeeping. Oh! my sphere
is so infiuitessimal and so insignificant,
I am clear discouraged,” Woman,
God places you on garrison duty, and
your reward will be just as great as
ap that of Florence Nightengale,
who, moving so often night by night
with a light in her hand through the
hospitals, was called by the wounded
the “lady of the lamp.” Your reward
will be just as great as-that of Mrs.
Hertzog, who built and endowed theo
logical seminaries. Your reward will
be just an great as that of Hannah
Moore, who by her excellent books won
for her admirers Gareick and Edmund
Burke and Joshua Reynolds, Rewards
are not to be given according to the
amount of noise you make in the world,
nor even according to the amount of
good you do, but according to whether
you work to your full capacity, accor
ding to whether or not you do your full
duty in the sphere where God has
placed you. Suppose you give to two
of your children an errand, aud they
are to go off to make purchases, and to
one you give one dollar, and to the
other you give twenty dollars. Do you
reward the boy that you gave twenty
dollars to for purchasing more with
that amount of money than the other
boy purchased with one dollar? Of
course not. If God give wealth, or
social position, or eloquence, or twenty
times the faculty to a man that he
gives to the ordinary man, is He going
to give to the favored man a reward be
cause he has more power and more in
fluence? Oh no. In other words, if
you and I do our whole duty, and you
have twenty times more talent than 1
have, you will get no more divine re
ward than I will. Is God going to re
ward you because He gave you more?
That would not be fair, that would not
be right. These two hundred men of
the text who fainted by the brook Besor
did their whole duty; they watched the
baggage, they took care of the stuff,
and they got just as much of the spoils
of victory as the men who went to the
front. “As his part is that goeth down
to the battle, so shall his part be that
tarrieth by the stuff.”
There is high encouragement in this
for all who have great responsibility
and little credit for what they do. You
know the names of the great commer
cial houses ef these cities. Do you
know the names of the confidential
clerks—the men who have the key to
the safe, the men who know the com
bination lock? A distinguished mer
chant goes for.h at the summer water
ing place and he flashes past and yon
say, “Who is that?” “Oh,” .replies
someone, “don’t you know? That is
the great importer; that is the great
banker, that is the great manufacturer.”
Tlieconfidentialclerk has hisweek off,no
body notices whether he comes or goes.
Nobody knows him, and after a while
his week is done, and he sits down
again at his desk. But God will re
ward his fidelity just as much as He
recognizes the work of the merchant,
philanthropist whose investments this
unknown clerk so carefully guarded.
Hudson River Railroad, Pennsylvania
Railroad, Erie Railroad, New York and
New Hayen Railroad—business men
know the names of the presidents of
those roads and of the prominent di
rectors, but they do not know the name
of the engineers, the names of the
switchmen, the names of the flagmen,
the names of the breakemen. These
men have awful responsibilities and
sometimes through the recklessness of
an engineer, or the unfaithfulness of a
switchman, it has brought to mind the
faithfulness of uearly all the rest of
them. Such men do not have recogni
tion of their services. They have small
wages and much complaint. I very
often ride upon locomotives, and I very
often ask the question, as we shoot
around some curve, oruodersome ledge
of rocks, ‘How much wages do you get,’
and I am always surprised to find how
little for such Aast responsibility. Do
you not suppose God is going to recog
nize that fidelity? Thomas Scott, the
president of the Pennsylvania Rail
way, going up at death to receive from
God his destiny was no better known
in that hour than was known last night
the breakman who on the Erie Railroad
was jamed to death amid the car coup
ling. “As his part is that goeth down
to the battle, so shall his part be that
tarrieth by the stuff.”
For thirty-six hours we expected
every moment to go to the bottom of
tho ocean. The waves struck through
the skylights and rushed down into the
hold of the ship and hissed against the
boilers. It was an awful time; but by
the blessing of God and the faithful
ness of the men in charge we came out
of the cyclone and we arrived at home.
Each one before leaving the ship thank
ed Capt. Andrews. I do not think
there was a man or woman that went
off that ship without thanking Capt.
Andrews, and when years after I heard
of his death I was impelled to write a
letter of condolence to his family in
Liverpool. Everybody recognized the
courage, the kindness of Capt. An
drews; but it occurs to me now that wo
never thanked the engineer. He stood
away down in the darkness amid the
hissing furnaces doing his whole duty.
Nobody thanked the engineer, but God
recognized his heroism, and his contin
uance, and his fidelity, and there will
be just as high reward for the engineer
who worked out of sight as the Captain
who stood on the bridge of the ship in
the midst of the howling tempest. “As
his part is that he goeth down to the
battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth
by the stuff.” A Christian woman
was seen going along the edge of a wood
every eventide, and the neighbors in
the country did not understand how a
mother with so many cares and anxie
ties should waste so much time as to
be idly sauntering out evening by even
ing. It was found out afterward that
she went there to pray for her house
hold, and while there one evening she
wrote that beautiful hymn, famous in
all ages for cheering Christian hearts:
“1 love to steal a while away
From every cumbering care,
And spend the Uours of setting day
In bumble, grateful prayer.”
Shall there be no reward for such
unpretending yet everlasting service?
Clear back in the country there is a
boy who wants to go to college and get
an education. They call him a book
worm. Wherever they find him, in
the barn or in the house, he is reading
a book. “What a pity it is,” they
say, “that Ed cannot getan education.”
His father, work as hard as he will,
can no more than support the family by
the product'of the farm. One night
Ed has retired to his room and there is
a family conference about him. The
sisters say: “Father, I wish you would
send Ed to college; if you will we will
work harder than we ever did, and we
will make our old dresses do.” The
mother says: “Yes, l will get along
without any hired help; although I am
not as strong as I used to be, I think 1
can get along without any hired help.”
The father says: “Well, I think by
busking corn at nights I can get along
without any assistance.” Sugar is
banished from the table, butter is ban
ished from the plate. That family is
put down on rigid, yea, suffering econ
omy, that the boy may go to college.
Time passes on. Commencement Day
has come. Think not that I mention
an imaginary case. God knows it hap
pened. Commencement Day has come,
and the professorsjwalk in on the stage
in their long gowns. The interest of
tho occasion is passing on, and after a
while it comes to a climax of interest as
the valedictorian is introduced. Ed has
studied so hard and worked so well
that he has had the honor Sonferred
upon him. There are rounds of applause
sometimes breaking into vociferation.
It is a great day for Ed. But away
back in the galleries are his sisters in
their plain hats and their faded shawls,
and the old-fashioned father and mother
—dear me, she has not had anew hat
for six years; he has not had anew coat
for six years—and they get up and look
over on the platform, and they laugh,
and they cry, and they sit down, and
they look pale, andjthey are very much
flushed. Ed gets the garlands, and the
group, the old-fashioned group in the
gallery have their full share of the
Uiumph. They have made that scene
possible, and in the day when God
shall more fully reward self-saciifices
made for others, He will give grand
and glorious recognition. “As his part
is that goeth down to the battle, so
shall his part be that tarrieth by the
stuff.”
Thare is great encouragement in
this subject also for those who once
wrought mightily for Christ and church,
but through sickness, or collapse of
fortune, or advanced years, cannot now
go to the front. These 200 men of the
text, they were veterans. Let that
man bare his arm and see how his mus
cles are torn. Let him pull aside the
turdan and see the mark of a battle
ax. Pull aside the coat and see where
the spear thrust him. Would it have
been fair for those men, crippled, weak
and old, by the brook Besor, to have
no share in the spoils of triumph? I
was in the Soldiers’ Hospital at Paris
and I saw there some of the men of the
first Nepoleon, and I asked them where
they had fought under their great com
mander. One man said, “I was in
Austerlitz;” another man said, “I was
at the Ayramids;” another man said,
“I was in the awful retreat from Mos
cow;” another man said, “I was at the
bridge of Lodi.” Some of them were
lame; they were all aged. Did the
French government turn off these old
soldiers to die in want? No; their last
days were spent like princes. And do
you think my Lord is going to turn
off His old soldiers because they are
weak and worn, and because they faint
ed by the brook Besor? Are they going
to get no part of the spoils of the victo
ry? Just look at them. Doyouthink
those crivices in the face are wrinkles?
No; they are battle scars. They fought
against sickness; they fought against
trouble, they fought against sin, thev
fought for Got 1 , they fought for the
church, they fought for the truth, they
fought for Heaven. When they had
plenty of money their names were al
ways on the subscription list. When
there was any hard work to be done for
God they were ready to take the heavi
est part of it. When there came a
great revival they were ready to pray
all night for the anxious and the sin
struck. They were ready to do any
work, endure any sacrifice, do the most
unpopular thing that God demanded of
them, But now they cannot go further.
Now they have physical infirmities,
now their head troubles them. They
are weak and faint by the brook Besor.
Are they to have no share in the tri
umph? Are they to get none of the
treasures, none of the spoils of con
quest? Y T ou must think that Christ
has a very short memory if you think
He has forgotten their services. Fret
not ye aged ones. J ust tarry by the
stuff and wait for your share of the
spoils. Yonder they are coming. I
hear the bleating of the fat lambs, and
I see the jewels glint in the snn. It
makes me laugh to think how you will
be surprised when they throw a chain
of gold over your neek, and tell you to
go in and drive with the king. I see
you backing out because you feel un
worthy. The shining ones come up on
one side, and the shining ones come up
on the other side, and they push you
on and they push you up, and they say,
“Here is an old soldier of Jesus Christ,”
and the shining ones will rush out to
ward you and say: "Yes, that man saved
my soul?” or they will rush out and
say: “O! yes, she was with me in the
last sickness.” And then the cry
will go round the circle. “Come in,
come in, come up, come up; we saw
you away down there, old and sick and
decrepit and discouraged because you
could not go to the front, hut “as his
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part is that goeth down to the battle,
so shall his part be that tarrieth by the
stuff.” There is high consolation also
in this for aged ministers. I see some
of them here to-day. They sit in pews
in our churches. They used to stand
in pulpits. Their hair is white with
the blossoms of the tree of life. Their
names marked on the General Assem
bly, or on the convocation, “emeritus.”
They sometimes hear a text announced
which brings to mind a sermon they
preached fifty years ago on that same
subject. They preached more Gospel
on S4OO a year than some of their suc
cessors preach on $4,000. Some Sun
day the old minister is in a church and
near by in another pew there is a hus
band aud a wife and a row of children,
and after the benediction the lady comes
up and says: “Doctor, yon don’t
know me, do you?” “ Well,” he says,
“Your face is familiar but 1 cannot call
you by name.” “Why,” she says,
“you baptized me, and you married me,
and you buried my father and mother
and sisters.” “Oh yes,” he says, “my
eyesight isn’t as good as it used to be.”
They are in all our churches—the he
roes of 1820, the heroes of 1832, the
heroes of 1857. By the long grave
trench that cut through half a century,
they have stood sounding the resurrec
tion. They have been in more Balak
lavas and have taken more Sebastopols
than ycu ever heard of. Sometimes
they get a little fretful because they
cannot be at the front. They hear the
sound of the battle, and the old war
horse champs his bit. But the 60,000
ministers of religion this day standing
in the brunt of the fray shall have no
more rew-ard than those retired veterans.
“My father, my father, the chariots of
Israel and the horsemen thereof.” “As
his part is that goeth down to thf> bat
tle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by
the stuff.” Cheer up, men and women
of unappreciated services. You will
get your reward; if not here, hereafter.
When Charles Wesley comes up to
judgment, and the thousands of souls
which were wafted into glory through
his songs shall be enumerated, he will
take his throne. Then John Wesley
will come up to judgment, and after
his name has been mentioned in con
nection with the salvation of the mill
ions of souls brought to God through
the Methodism which he founded, he
will take his throne. But between the
thrones of Charles Wesley and John
Wesley there will be a throne higher
than either, on which shall sit Susan
nah Wesley, who, with material con
secration in Epworth rectory, Lincoln
shire, started these two souls on their
triumphant mission of sermon and song
through all following ages. Oh! what
a day that will be for many who rock
ed Christian cradles with weary foot,
and who patched wornout garments
and darned socks, and out of a small
means made the children comfortable
for the winter. What a day that will
be for those to whom the world gave
the cold shoulder, and called them no
bodies, and begrudged them the least
recognition, and who, weary and worn
and sick, fainted by the brook Besor!
Oh! that will be a day, a mighty day,
when the Son of David, shall distribute
among them the garlands, the crowns,
the scepters, the chariots, the
thrones. And then it shall he
found out that all who on earth
served God in unconspicuous spheres
receive just as much reward as
those who filled the earth with uproar
of achievement. Then they shall un
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breadth, the pillared and domed mag
nificence of my text: “As his partis
that goeth down to the battle, so shall
his part be that terrieth by the stuff.”
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