Green Mountain Freeman

God's Heroes.—Here are "God's heroes." the heroes of the sick chamber and the vigil by the cradle-side; the heroes of poverty and of the workshop; of silent, patient endurance, having learned through much tribulation that waiting and suffering are their destined work; the heroes of long suffering, forbearance and charity, or of victory over pain, of the unostentatious self-denials of the household; the lowly toiling, and women climbing mounts of sacrifice under heavy crosses, without a human hand held out in sympathy; the noble army of martyrs who have found and followed the Master's footprints in the daily round of humble duties, transfiguring that despised, circumscribed, care-encumbered life of theirs into a living testimony to the truth of Christ's evangel; the lonely sufferers, priests by a heavenly consecration, offering the sacrifices of praise in garret and cellar; men and women far from stimulating delights of successful activities, co-workers with Christ, sowing in hope the seed whose increase they shall never reap; "the sacramental host of God's elect," ever ascending with songs most jubilant from the faithful performance of earth's lower ministries to the perfect service of the upper sanctuary, with its perennial and unhindered praise They are passing up into the city without a trumpet, and it is for other fingers than ours to weave the amaranth around their lowly brow.
- North British Review.