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


Without any preliminary words Of vel.
| come, DR.. Talmage proceeded to an
nounce the text, on Sunday morning,
which was from Romans xvi, ii, IS.
Salute Asyucritus, Phlegon, Hermas,
Patrobas, Hermes. Philolugus and
Julia"
The preacher explained this rather
perplcxing 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 iu one way or
another, and were therefore mentioned.
Nothing YVES 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.
"What the world wants." proceeded
DR.. Talmage, "is religion for ordinary
people. II there are IS 1000, 900 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 All 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 ut the head
Of households. This morning YOU
launched the family for Sabbath service.
Every morning you plan for the day, do
eide all questions of diet, supervise all
the sanitary regulations. To regulate
the food, apparel and habits, and decide
all the thousand and Que questions of
home business is tax appalling if it has
no divine alleviatiOn. Food aud 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
lts high time that some of the attention
given to the conspicuous women of the
Bible be directed to the Julia of tho
text: An ordinary woman, in ordinary
circumstances, attending TO ordinary
duties and bearing ordinary responsibili.
ties"
Ordinary business men also required
attention, the preacher thought. He
liisened the average business man to q
neglected clock. After Il time it began
TO buzz and roar, then starts to strike Eve,
or forty, or six, aud suddenly stops.
Greenwood has thousands of New
York and Brooklyn business men,"
shouted the Doctor, "who died of old age
at thirty, thirty five ur fnrty. What il
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 250 hands, but the
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 a higher position, and
after twenty.one days dictatorship went
back to farming. What encouragement
is that to Ordinary fsrmeEB2 None of
them are politicians. doubt If any of
them will be politicians, and their dicta-
torship ia confined 10 the forty or hun
dred acres Of the old homestead. What
they want is the grace to keep patient
when plowing balky oxen, or the drought
destroys the corn crop, or the neighboring
cattle break in and destroy the strawb berry
patches aud eat so much of the sweet
corn that they have TO be Kept away from
the wats: 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 Cincinnaiusl ! l know
500 farmers just as notable as him."
Having given some further illustra.
tions the preacher got down 10 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 arc 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
ID far ahead of the most brilliant sky.
rocket ever manufactured. How deli.
ciens 1t inust BIS 20 as csndids.s tor
President Of the United States It must
be 30 soothing to the nerves! 1t must
pour in the soul of the candidate such
sense Of security when be reads tho 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 has 9,265 stockholders, but
If anything goes wrong the blame falls
on one man. The Pennsylvania road has
$1,000 stockholders. But Thomas Scott
was abused till be was under the ground
for the companion's shortcomings. The
weather Of life is not go 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-" ..i III; 1, a
An EdItOr's Dream.