The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-09-18
PULPIT UTT ORANGES,
RELIGION FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE,
4 Gospel for Useful Workers DoiaH Their
Work without Prstenaion--Dr
Talmags's sunday
Sermon.

bus, hern'e', and tho brethren which arc with
them
Salute PhIlologus and Julia, Nereus and his
sister, apd Ulympas and all tho saints which
arc WIN lheh' -hOnNiIls, hpl' 10, lD'
The great commentators, Matthew Hen
~ and Thomas Scott aud Adam Clarke
and Albert Barnes, pass over those verses
without especial comment The other
twenty people mentioned In this chapter
OF Paul were distinguished for something,
and were discussed by tho eminent expos
it0rs. but nobody says anything about
Asylorltus, Phlegon, Hermaa, Patrobas,
Hormea, Phllologus and Julia. Where
were they borni No one knows. Where
did they dIoi Their demise Is not record
oil. What sort OF people were thoyi Not
dlstlnguI'hod for any thing, or tholr char
aclerlitloi would have baon depicted.
Had they been very opulent or intrepid,
OF musical OF cadence, or cross OF style,
those features would have boen photo
grGpled by tho apostolic camera, But
that they we're good people Ia certain, be'
cause Paul send, them his high Christian
regards, They were ordinary people in
ordinary spheres, doing ordinary work,
and meeting ordinary responsibilities, and
40 am especially Interested In them. Let
Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermns, Patrobas,
Hermea, Philologui and Julia, 40 long
neglected OF tho worlds biographical gal.
lery, stand up to-day for aermonlc adml'
ration and improvements
What tho world most needs 10 religion
for ordinary people. What IL most nool.
oil Ia appreciation Of tho rank and flo OF
the LORDS aolllery; and 50, turning aside
to-day from the hundreds OF Bible eKtraor'
dlnarlea, we give especial attention In the
text to those seven ordlnarles. Tho vast
majority Of you TO whom this sermon
comes by voice or type will never lead an
army, will never frame State COnatltu'
tion, wIll never make valuable inven'
Non, will never ondow an observatory,
will never eloctrlfy an assembly, will
never PROFOUND now philosophy, viii
never decide a nations destiny. You
don't oNpoo, To-, you don't want to. You
viii no. boa Moses TO lead 4 race out OF
bondage, or Joshua TO prolong tho day
light uatll you can put 1yo kings into q
cavern, or Paul TO preside over the
Apostolic College, or 81. John TO describe
an Apocolyp'e, or a Mary TO mother 4
Christ You will more probably DO AS
| emeritus, or Phlcgon, or Hermas, OF
Patrobgs, or uormos, or PhIlologuo, OF
| Julia,
Vast multilu los Of you are women al the
heud Of households. You had 10 launch
the family this morning for Sunday oh
aorvanco Your brain planned tho styl'
Of apparel Of tho whole group, aud YOU
law ~ 0dal In all matters OF personal at
tIro. Eyory morning you plan for tht
day. dOs0 not holp You much to be told
OF Elizabeth Fry's notable behavior amonG
the criminals OF Nowgato, or Mrs, Judson'i
bravery among Bornosian cannlbala, OF
Florence NlgLtnsalo's kInlnoss towart
tho wounded OF tho Cimoa IL In bette
that toll you that tho Divine friend o
Martha aud Mary IL your friend, nnC
knows OF tho worrimonts, Of tho fatigue
and exasporatlons TO which the ordinary
houaokecpor 10 put from morning TO night
aud from tho ilrst day OF the year 10 th,
last, and that you may have His sympath,
aud reinforcement Tho houiokoopors o
world decide tho hoalth Of tho world
Napoleon lost n great battlo through q n
Of indigestion that morning, II Quo oI
buslnlss crraud travel around amid oouu
try aud village hotels Of England an,
America ho appreciates how largo u por
tlon Of tho human raco " slaughtered by
inefficient cookery. Though woma'
may have taken lessons In mu1ic an,
lessons In painting, aud lessons In as
tronomy, she Ia not we'll educated unit
she has tAkOn lessons IN dough Thiy VIII,
food and cloth, tho raco decide its capOolt.
for ondurance,
| To mthInting mon tho management O
domestic eoonomlos may g0em inslgnlll
cant, hut tho oarth Is strown With the mar
tylS OF R,tchon aud nuriory tn, health
shattered woman OF America orira out 70
God who can help IN tho ordinary care
OF homo HE. In silence tho wearing
grlndinN oxhOugtlng, unapprociatcd wolI
Of woman goes on. Yet tho Christ who u
carly dawn on the banks Of Gullloo ha
the ll.p already built, aud tho iish clcano
and h.o,l,d for tho mon ~ thoy atoppc
ashore hungry and chilly, will, II asked
help oV1ry woman got breakfast, VIII tho
with hcr own hands or through hired hcl
she provides tho morning ropa't tn
Christ who rubbed tho grain IN His han
OH Sunday whllc crossing tho corn.llol
will, II asked, bolp In oil hr0ad.maklna
Tho God who honorod Hannah With indc
struciblo oulogy because sho mado a Goa
aud took " 70 tho tomplo for hcr 30
Snmuel oympOthlgcs with your making u
the family apparel. Tho God who opon
the Biblc with the story Of Abrghum's er
tcltalnmcnt Of thrlo angels on tho plain
OF Moiure will assist all wolnon IN proyl,
ipg honpltOlltos, though for rOrest an
most embarrassing occasion, You hny
hoard tho pulpit for so many years Civ
emphatic oneomium or oxoorIation OF tb
conapicuoua women Of the Bible--Dl lboral
and JeEobol, and Esther, and Athalal
and Herodlas, aud Dorcas, and the Mary
whother excollont or nbandonod-that n
high timo you noticed In tbo toxt Julia
Thcn thoro are the ordinary buslnol
mon, How llttlo holp thoy got for tho
, dutIoal Whom We como TO sponk nbol
| DNNlNNhN NV W. NlN uHN w NH''b llkNb "
10 business no on great scale, and tal
OF m IN who sol millions of dollirp wort
, of goods IN yonr. But tho majority 4,
business mon don't soil half million, or
quarter OF n million or the eighth part
a million Put all The merchants Of oil
J aud town and village side by side and yC
will 0nd that tho majority OF thom don
sell Atty thousand dollars worth u yea
i But the ordinary business mon want ol
. comugement and want help Don't yo
, 500 how rapidly the wrinkles print "
Z countonanoo with the story Of fatigue on
worrimontY You can't tell how old bus
! moss mon oro by thoir looks, Some
|, trom 10 around at thirty years Of NJ
/, with gray hairs. Many Of thom at fort
have on their shoulders the stoop OF u
n nonagonorIan. No time 10 attend 20 II
/ portont dentistry, thoir grinders cease b
| ,nusn lhav arn fov Old mud worn ouL