Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1889 — Heroism at Home. [ARTICLE]

Heroism at Home.

flow useless onr lives seem to us pometiines! How we long for an opportunity to perform some great action! We become tired oftheroutins of home life, and imagine we could bb far happier in other scenes. We think of life’s great battlefield and wish to be heroes. We think of the good we might do if onr lot had been cast in other scenes. We forget that the world bestows no such titles as noble as father, mother, sister or brother. In the sacred precincts ot home we have many chances of heroism. The daily acts of self denial for the good of a loved one, the gentle word of soothing for another’s trouble, the care for the sick, may all seem as nothing, yet who can tell the good they may have accomplished? Our slightest word may have an influence over another for good or evil. We are daily sowing the seed which will bring forth some sort ofharvest. Well will it be for us if the harvest will be one we will be proud to garner. If some one in that dear home can look back in after years, and, as he tenderly utters our name, say: “Her words and example prepared me for a life of usefulness, to her I owe my present happiness,” we may well say: ‘T have not lived in vain.’’—National Presbyterian.