Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-08
VACATION ENDED.
Dr.. T. DEWITT TaImags Returns to
His Pulpit.
BRILLIANT SERMON
A Plea for a Religion for the Common
Everyday Man as Well as
for the Rich.
A TIE THAT INDEED BINDS.

has returned from his summer vacation IN
good health and spirits, and preached in
the Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day. Theusual
immense throngs attended the service.
The music was grand There were several
chants by the male quartette and the con-
gresational singing was led by cornet pre-
centor. Very important mechanical i'm
provements have been made to the organ,
which is now without doubt the finest as
well as one Of the largest, organs in the
Uuited States. Before the sermon the con-
gregation united in singing the hymn:
"Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love"
The subject of DR.. Talmages sermon was
Ordinary People" and his text was taken
from the Epistle to the Romans, l4th and
18th verses Of the - chapter: Salute,
Asyncritus, Phiegon, Hermas, Patrobas,
Hermes, Philologus and Julia"
The great commentators, Matthew Henry,
and Thomas Scott, and Adam Clarke, and
Albert Carnes, pass over those verses with
out especial comment. The other twenty
people mentioned in this chapter of Paul
we're distinguished for something, and were
discussed by the eminent expOsitors. But
nobody says anything about Asyncritus,
| Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes,
Philologus and Julia. Where were they
born? No one knows. Where did they
die? Their demise is not recorded. What
sort of people were they? Not distinguished
for ANYTHING, or their characteristics would
have been depicted Had they been very
opulent, or intrepid, Of cadence or crash OF
style, their features would have been photo
graphed by the apostolic camera. But that
they were good people is certain, because
Paul sends them his high Christian regards.
They were ordinary people in ordinary
spheres, doing ordinary work and meeting
ordinary responsibilities, and so am espec-
ially interested in them. Let Asyncritus,
Phiegon, Hermss, Patrobas, Hermes, Phil.
ologns and Julia, so long neglected of the
world biographical gallery, stand up to-day
for sermonic admiration and improvement.
What the world most needs is
We spend much of our time in rhapsody of
the remarkables, twisting garlsnds for con-
auerors, building thrones for magnates,
sculpturing warriors and apotheosizing ora
tors. What is most needed is appreciation
of the rank and file of the Lords soldiery
and so, turning aside to day from the hun
| dreds Of Bible extraordinsries we give spe-
cial attention in the text TO these seven Or
dinaries. The vast ma ajority OF You to whom
| this sermon comes bv voice or type will
never lead an army, will never frame State
constitution, will never make valuable in
vention, will never endow an observatory,
will never electrify an assembly, viii never
pronounce new philosophy, will never de-
eide nations destiny, You don't expect
to. You don't want TO- Iou will not be a
Moses to lead race out of bondage or a
Joshua TO prolong the daylight until you
can put five Kings into a cavern or Paul
to preside over the apostolic college, for a
St. John to describe an Apocalypse or a
Mary to mother a Christ. You will more
probably be Asyncritus or Phlegon or Her
man or Patrobas or Hermes or PhiiolOgus
or Jrlias.
Put all the merchants Of city and town
and village side By side and you will 6nd
that the majority of them don't sell $50 900
worth wear. But the ordinary business
men want encouragement and want help.
Don't you see how rapidly the wrinkles
print the countenances with story OF
fatigue and woriment? You can't tell
how old business men are BY tseir looks
Some of them go around at thirty years of
age
With Gray Hairs.
Mauy Of them at forty have 90 their
shoulders the stoOp of the nonageuarian
No time to attend to important deutistry
their grinders cease because they are few.
Old and worn out at fifty years of age when
they ought to.be at their meridian. Their
bodies ave as disordered rs some neglected
clock that you have tried to wind up and
suddenly it began to whirr and whizz aud
roar and the hands turned round and
round with great rapidity and it struck FIVE
ten. twenty times, struck without any sense
until suddenly it stopped. You opened it
and found that all the machinery was out of
gear. So these over wrought business men
are neglected clocks and if By some summer
recreation. to which you advised them you
attempt TO wind them up you find they are
out OF gear and for little while they will
90 round and round astounding the world
with their activities and strike ten when
they ought to strike FIVE and twelve when
;hev ought to strike six, and feFty when
they ought not to strike at all.
More Grace
TOR ordinary business meu who s-e har
messed all the day, and all the year and all
through life! Grace not to stand the loss
of a hundred thOusand dollars but the loss
of $40. Grace not TO control $50 employees
but TO manage one boOkkeeper and the two
salesmen and the boy that sweeps out the
store, and rightly invest not the $4,000 Of
net profit but the SIS. .HO8 clear gain. Grsce
not 10 stand the wreck OF q whole cargo OF
spices from the Indies. but the damaging OF
box of linen collars by the leaking from
displaced shingle of poor roof. Grace
for damage that comes not By the late pas
sage Of law by Congress, bat from the
hardness Of an errani boy in stopping TO
PLAY marbles when he ought to have been
delivering the goods That grace which
keeps thousands Of men in ordinary places
! Of business calm and happy. whether goods
-en or don't sell. whether customers pay or
don't pay, whether high tarH or free trade
succeed in coming to sscendeney. whether
/ the crops fail or are laxuriaDt IN sA four
seasons and amid sll vicissitudes. Some
{ hero or heroine comes to town and people
stand on tip toe on their store steps to catch
a glimpse Of some one who in arctic cline,
or in day Of battle, or amid ocean storm, or
in mitigating hospital sgonies did the brave
thing, not knowing that they. the enthusi-
astic spectators who never thought them
4 selves -.
Anything Remarkable,
have in ordinary life themselves gone
through exhaustiOns Of business trial and
trouble which before God are Just as great
Many q man has gone through treezing
arctics and burning torrids and sSful mar
engos Of experience without having moved
FIVE miles from his own door step. What these
ordinary business men need to know is tha
the Christ who looked after the religions in
terests Of Matthews, the Custom Hous'
clerk, and helped Lydia, Of Thyatira, q