The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-11-13
Talmage on Bad Cooking.

Talmage on Bad Cooking.
Without any preliminary words of wei
come, DR.. Talmage proceeded to an.
nounce the text, on Sunday morning,
which was from Romans xvi, IA, Is.
"Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas,
Patrobas, Hermes, Philolugus and
Julia"
The preacher explained this rather
perplexing text by saying that all the
Biblical commentators had passed by
these seven names without any special
remark. The other twenty people in the
chapter were distinguished in one way or
another, and were therefore mentioned.
Nothing was said about these seven. Had
they been remarkable in any way their
features would have been caught by the
apostolical camera. They were simply
ordinary people.
"Wbat the world wants." proceeded
DR.. Talmage, "is religion for ordinary
people. If there are 55,00O,O0G people
in the United States, certainly not more
than 100000 of them are extraordinary.
We do we'll to turn our backs on the
twenty and give some attention to the
seven. There are many of you who will
never head an army, nor write State
constitution, nor create new philosophy,
nor electrify Senate, nor decide the
fate of nation. You don't expect to;
you don't want to.
"Many of you are women at the head
of households. This morning you
launched the family for Sabbath service
Every morning you plan for the day, de-
eide all questions of diet, supervise all
the sanitary regulations. To regulate
the food, apparel and habits, and decide
all the thousand and one questions of
home business is tax appalling if it has
no divine alleviation. Food and apparel
affect in very great degree the welfare
of the nation. One of the greatest bat
ties of the century was lost because the
commander that morning had fit of in
digestion. Vast numbers of the human
race are slaughtered by incompetent
cooking. The young lady may be per-
feet in music, languages, drawing and
astronomy but if she is not we'll educa.
ted in dough her education is imperfect.
''The world is strewn with the myrtars
of imperfect cookery, and it cries out for
God who can help the ordinary woman
in the ordinary duties of the household.
It's high time that some Of the attention
given to the conspicuous women of the
Bible be directed to the Julia of the
text: AN ordinary woman, il ordinary
circumstances, attending to ordinary
duties and bearing ordinary responsible
ties.'"
Ordinary business men also required
attention, the preacher thought. He
likened the average business man to
neglected clock. After time it began
to buzz and roar, then starts to strike FIVE,
or forty, or six, and suddenly stops.
Greenwood has thousands Of New
York and Brooklyn business men,"
shouted the Doctor, "who died Of old age
at thirty, thirty.6ve or forty. What is
wanted is divine grace for ordinary bust.
ness men. Not the grace to lose $780,
900, but the justification to lose ten; not
the grace to supervise $50 hands, but tue
time to look properly after the book.
keeper, two statesmen and the boy who
sweeps out the store.
"You talk of Cincinnatus, who went
from the plow to higher position, and
after twenty-one days dictatorship went
back to farming. What encouragement
is that to ordinary farmers? None of
them are politicians. l doubt if any of
them will be politicians, and their dicta-
torship is confined to the forty or hun
dred acres of the old homestead. What
they want is the grace to keep patient
when blowing balky oxen, or the drought
destroys the corn crop, or the neighboring
cattle break in and destroy the strawberry
patches and eat so much of the sweet
corn that they have to be kept away from
the water SO that they won't swell and
die; or to doctor the COW with the hol-
low horn, the sheep with the foot rot, or
the horse with the distemper. You'd
best close up about Cincinnatus l know
500 farmers just as notable as him."
Having given some further illustra-
tions the preacher got down to advice:
"First Of all, if you feel that you are
ordinary, thank God that you are not
extraordinary. I'm tired, sick, bored to
death with extraordinary people. They
take all their time telling you how extra
ordinary they are. Phenomena is of lit.
tie use. Things that are exceptional
can't be depended upon. Better trust
the smallest planet swinging in its orbit
than ten comets shooting this way and
that, imperiling the safety of worlds
attending to their own business. For
steady illumination common hall-lamp
is far ahead of the most brilliant sky
rocket ever manufactured. How deli.
cious it must be to be a candidate for
President of the United States! 1t must
be so soothing to the nerves! 1t must
pour in the soul of the candidate such
sense Of security when be reads the bless
ed newspapers. Laughter.
"Take the remarkable railroad men of
the day. They get all the abuse, while
the stockholders escape. The New York
Central road hos 1926 stockholders, but
if anything goes wrong the blame falls
on one man. The Pennsylvania road has
1900 stockholders. But Thomas Scott
was abused till be was under the ground
for the companions shortcomings. The
weather of life is not so severe on the
plains as on the high peaks. The world
never forgives man for knowing, saying
or doing more than it thinks he ought
to-"