Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1891 — Heroism at Home. [ARTICLE]

Heroism at Home.

. Bow useless pur lives seem to m sometimes! How we long for an opportunity to perform some great action! We become tired oftheroutine of home life, and imagine we could be far happier in otherscenes. Wethink of life’s great battlefield and wish to be heroes. We think of the good we might do if our lot had been cast in other scenes. We forget that thi world bestows no sucli titles asnobl« as father, mother, sister or brother. In the sacred precincts of home we have many chances of heroism. The daily acts of self denial for the good of a loved one, the gentle word ol soothing for another's trouble, the care for the sick, may all seem os nothing, yet who can tell the good tHey may have accomplished? Oui slightest word may have an influence over another for good or evil. We are daily sdwing the seed which wfll brin« forth some sort of harvest. Well will it be for us if the harvest will he one we will be proud to garner. If somt one in that dear home can look back in after years, and, as he tenderly utters our name, say: “Her words and example preph red me soy a life of usefulness, to her I owe my present happiness,” we may well say: “I ltavt not lived in vain.”—National Presbyterian.