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v -v .. ' r. , ' > / . * ? ' - ' - ' ' v .. . * - * "2 \ Tbe Pui/o/t 1 f? A SERMON' tAE revC [[RA.V/kNDE^oN^^^? Subject: Heroism, r Brooklyn, N. Y.?Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, ITn'm'h5ir$r avonna nnrl Wpi.rfiplrf street, on the above them, the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took as his text, Daniel, 3:IS. He said: The courage of these men was sublime. Their heroism was remarkable. The story of their strength v of character is not an ordinary one. They might easily have played the king false by bowing down to his idols while still serving their God in their hearts. In all likelihood Nebuchadnezzar would have been satisfied had they simply bent the knee to his gods. And how could a mere man, even though he were a king, divine the devotions of their inmost hearts? Here was a place where most men * would have considered discretion the better part of valor. Here was a chance for compromise in externals for the sake of saving one's life. Here was the supreme test of their characters. They might have made excuses for themselves to their own minds and to God, and have worshiped the golden image. They did neither. They were true Jews. They served the God of Israel, who had said unto His people by the mouth of Moses the deliverer and law-giver, *Thou shalt not bow down unto them nor serve them." Therefore, they stood erect when the sound of "all kinds of music" made the multitude fall down. And standing, they are monuments to moral heroism. Heroism has great value in life and is varied. Without it we could not make much, if any progress. A man may be as a prophet in his perception and comprehension of divine truth, hut if he lack heroism his powers are largely unavailable to society. Conviction needs courage to become a living force. It is one thing to have a vision, and another to declare it. It is one thing to have knowledge, and another to expound it. It is one thing to have a valid and substantiated opinion, and another to state it. It is one thing to detect snam and sin, and quite another to unmask them. The world is full of men who could do evil to the death in many a place did they only dare. But it is so manifestly one thing to know the truth and another to stand up for it and to proclaim it. The value of heroism cannot be denied. With it Moses faced the terrors and the torments of the desert and the threatenings of the wandering people of God. With it Isaiah and the prophets assailed mighty sin in the name of Almighty God. With it Columbus sailed the wide, uncharted seas, ajad discovered America to a ready world. With it Luther hurled defiance to the machinations of Roman ecclesiasticism and marked an epoch in the majestic march of manhood toward our present liberty of tnougnt. witn it tne neroes or valley Forge kept the faith for civil liberty and under the impulse of its spirit the slave was freed. Without it Jesus would never have become our Saviour. Valuable as heroism is, it is not less varied. For heroism is individt ual and social, physical and 'moral, - lustrous and humble. The men of Lexington and Santiago, of Trafalgar and of Waterloo, the heroes of Hebrew history and of the Crusades, the hosts who followed Napoleon or Wellington or Washington or Stonewall Jackson or any of the famous captains of armies, ancient or modern, are examples of what we may term physical social heroism. Many were the instances of humble, individual moral courage displayed by soldiers serving under all these military geniuses. And yet, in the last analysis, their heroism was that of brute strength let loose and dependent, as much as upon anything, upon the flags, and the fanfare, and the smell and sight of blood, and the crowd, moving together to the battle for its inspiration and its sustentation. It is not my purpose to insinuate thai even under these conditions It is an easy thing to fare forth to try conclusions with fate. But in comparison with the pluck needed to do many another deed it is easy. 'mere is, too, an maiviauaiisuc, lustrous heroism which is even less trying and exacting. He is a hero, I care not who he may be, who will lead a willihg army on to a fight where victory is sure, or who will point the way to a moral victory to men who are with him and who sight the same truth that he sees. For many a man has lacked the heroism to lead even though the skies were full of portents of success. It is so much easier to relinquish the responsibility of leadership to another. Officers are marked men. We must admit a great measure of physical heroism in the action of the man who will test his strength against the wild animal that would take his life. It takes nerve as well ^as muscle to meet a bully who richly needs and deserves a thrashing, and make him eat the dust. But in the category of heroic virtues these are the least. j At this time I would call your attention to the heroisms which we have and need in our daily life, the heroisms of the humble, moral host who constitute the mainstay of this land and who are the backbone of America, the men and women and children who in an inconspicuous, but none the less efficient, fashion, give themselves as living sacrifices upon the altar of devotion to God and home and country. I would have you again remember if you have been so ungracious as to forget the offerings of that countless host of simple, homely people who daily live for the common good and the public weal. I would call to your attention the leaders of our day who, in the face 01 sin and of opposition and of militant and imperious self-satisfaction, are effecting the salvation of America and teaching her people how to helrt themselves. For we have much heroism of this si:-:this ir.p.5. And we use* s?or?.? H.-' - It is easy in a way to fall into line and to march down to the war when the summons comes and the music plays and the people cheer and we know that death will earn us deathless, though perhaps not individual, fame. But what is the courage of the leader or the soldier in the front line of the fierce fight to that of the toiler who, day by day, works and plans and slaves and lives that children may be reared and prepared for life and the home be kept intact? That father yonder who, from sunrise to sunset, day in and day out, in health and sickness, when sad or glad, toils for wife and family; is he not heroic? That mother, with her cleanly brood of six, the sole manager and dispenser of a princely, gross salary of $10 a week, up with, or before, the first an cans ui. us eamc; i ua;, only when all are sleeping, cooking, washing, nursing, caring for them, with smiles for each and tenderness for all, staggering beneath a burden more than man has dared to bear, i who shall deny her praise? That j widowed mother, with a flock and a \ pittance; that child who alone supports a home; that maiden who is pure and sweet upon wages that are criminal before the living God, who shall deny the sublimity of their humble heroism? To my mind the haroisra of the plain people, who have little but who serve so much, to whom life offers such a meager portion-but who make it go so far, is a most sublime, as it is a most compelling, fact of human life. I can conceive of nothing harder, day by day, to arise to face the impenetrable wall of hardship and of approximate poverty which dominates the horizon of so many lives. I can picture nothing more unutterably unbearable than, day by day, to be compelled to undergo the refined slavery that is unquestionably characteristic of so much of our modern life. To desire to live in the face of it, to decide to struggle against it, to hope j even against' hope, to live and to love, I to get a little and to give a little, to retain and to augment the diviner characteristics that alone differentiate humanity from the beast, to plan for posterity and to have faith in God in the midst of the relative riches that constitute the poverty of our times, is heroic. We should thank God for j the heroism of those among us who j have so little and who live so largely, | in proportion as they, have capacity j and opportunity, for the common weal. We should thank God that they are faithful, that they know how to live simply, that they are moral. For if ever the men and women who are the burden-bearers in the world's work become saturated with the vices, the follies and the fallacies concerning life that infest the minds of those who constitute the topmost and the nethermost strata of society, the world will have short shrift. J Another sort of heroism that we must never fail to remember and consider and to which we owe much, is that moral heroism among the political and religious leaders of the country that is incieasingly obvious and actively at work. For that heroism is real. The forces of unrighteousness are intrenched. The army of greed at any price is already in the field. The plunderers of the public are as busy as the vultures that prey upon the dead. The camp followers who are out for petty graft are busily at work. nPV?>-Y f.ootiefiarl nanf Qinc nf JL 1IC OICCXV) Oeil VU^/bUlllW Vfc political and commercial piracy are at the front. They are all* the more dangerous because they have persuaded thefhselves that they are sincere, that the benefits they have undoubtedly been instrumental in bringing to society excuse and justify the rapacity of which they have been and to-day are guilty. They scorn government, they laugh at law, they scoff at the rising tide of popular disapproval. Their special pleaders are hired, their subsidized papers are already bought, many of their books are burnt. They invite the test and even dare to threaten. In pulpit and in pew, on the forum and in halls of learning, wherever there is an itching palm or a callous heart the^e their champions may be found. It is needless for me to expand the story by' telling you of the governments, municipal and state, that they may almost be said to own, the legislatures that they have bought or have tried *- - ' - * J. 1- - J _ C *1. ? * i IU uuy, UL tut? ucuauuo tuai vixcj throw into the very teeth of adminis- j trative officers who with honesty and | singleness of purpose attempt to bring them to account. We are face to face with no theory. We are confronted with the most unpalatable facts, when everything is considered, w:th which any nation has ever had to deal. There is no use in waiting for a declaration of hostilities. The war is already on. The enemy is in the field. Heroism is required to go up against him for "the sake of our cities and for the people of our God." Heroism has already been shown. It has already cost some men dear. The dictum is to pulpit and press, to politician and statesman, to the financial and the business world, to labor and to capital, to the world at large: We have erected our golden image, it suit us, bow down or be consumed. And woe betide the man with the information and the heroism necessary to refuse to bow. Men have refused. They have been consumed. The threat to-day is bow down or be ruined. Touch us not lest the country die. Forsooth we shall refrain tct eradicate the vermiform appendix of financial and commercial and political indecency and disease because of the shock to the patient. Thank God we have men of heroism at hand, men who have wisdom, who have the hand and the nerve and the experience and the wisdom to'disobey our modern Nebuchadnezzars and to operate. And they will not be burnt. Their heroism will not spell their death. It will not invite disaster. 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