The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-09-18

,teady hands ought To have been pointing
u the useful and 10 lui rloui hours and
minutes on clear and sunlit dial, II Ia put
,ut OF aight. Greenwood has thousands
,ni tens OF thousands OF New York and
Brooklyn business men who dlei OF old
,ge a. thirty and forty and forty'aye.
More graos for ordinary business mon
who are harnessed all tho day, and all the
year, and all through life. Grace not 10
tand tho loss Of 10000, but the loss OF
ton dollars, Grace not 10 control 100 ON.
ployees, but TO manage ono book'keeper
md two statesmen aud tho hoy that sweeps
,ut tho store, aud rlghtfully Invest, not
lhe $4,000 OF not profit, but the $1,000 OF
lear gain, Grace not 10 stand the wreck
" a whole cargo Of spices from tho Indies,
Iut the damas Ing OF a box OF linen collars
W the leaking from displaced shingle OF
poor roof. Then there are tho ordinary
larmarA II we speak OF agrlculturists we
begin 30 distinguish their work by refer
,nGe to Cinolnnatus, tn, patrlclan Senator,
Sho was al the plow when called to great
position, and who, twenty-ono days after
40 got through his great Dictatorship,
went back to the plow. But tho vast ma
Inrity OF farmers never were Senators and
eeyor will be Dlotators except with the
Iorty or fifty or hundred acres OF tho old
homestead. Better ololo up about Cincln'
iRtus, the patriclan, know five hundred
farmers Just an noble as he, and they want
he cross Of that Christ who was In such
ympathy with the farmers lifo that lie
frequently drew His illustrations from IL,
~ whom He saidi "The sower went forth
to Sowin and who built His best parable
out of tho scene Of farmers boy coming
back from hia wandcrlngs 10 the old farm
aouse, which sheok with rural jubilee, and
compared Himself 10 lamb OF the pasture.
folds, and said that tho eternal God Him
self IL farmer, declarlag' "MyFathor II
tho husbandman."
The stone maaons do not want TO know
30 much about tho fact that Christopher
Nren, tho architect, built St. Paul's Ca
thedral az 10 how TO carry a hod up the
wall without slipping and smooth OH th,
mortar with q trowel on a cold morning
without complaint and 10 bo thankful fol
tho food taken from the pail at tho road
side Tho carpenter, standing beside adze
aud plano and bit and augor and broal'ax,
needs 10 realize that Christ was a car
pointer onco and with his own right hand
welded hammer aud saw. IL Is very
tired world and th0re are millions OF poo
plo overworlrad and undorfod and wrung
out, and they want tho rest and rocupora'
ton only TO bo found In God and His ro'
IluIau ..Fhl lab nj 40 n.uah For
extraordinary folks AZ for ordinary, be-
cause thero arc more OF thom. Tho healing
profession has had its Abercrombles and
Valentine Motifs and willard Parkors, but
the ordinary doctors do tho most Of the
worlds m,dlcinlng, and they need TO
know that they may have In tho taking Of
cvory diagnosis and prognosis, and in tho
writing of every prescription aud In the
oompoundlng Of oyory modlcamont, and
In tho feeling Of ovory babel pulse the
presence and dietatlnu OF tho 0mnipotent
Doctor Comol Como Lot us have a Cos.
pei for tho ordinary mon aud women In
| tho professions, In merchandise, In
mechanics, In housekeeping, In literature.
| IN agriculture. Take this salutatlon across
tho agos, Asyncritus, Phlogon, Hormas,
| Patrobas, Hormes, Philologua and Julia.
| First Of all, lot all who consider thom'
selves ordinary thank God that you arc
not extraordinary, l am tired aud sick
and bored TO death with extraordinary
pcoplN Thoy take most of thoir time In
telling you how extraordinary thoy really
are. Tho most useful work OF tho world
In done by people who unprotontiouSly
work right on. Ph0nomonona arc OF
but litao use Thlnga exceptional can not
DO depended on, BOttor for steady illu'
mlnatlon lamp than a rocket.
Moreover, ordinary lifo Invites less at
tack Consp ouous people, how thoy have
10 take lti How thoY pro mlsroprosontjd
aud abused and ahot NJ Tho mob who
cried attor ChrIs'i "Cruoify lIml Cruelty
Hlmw wcro 80 hoarse thoy had 10 say II
twice 40 ~ to bo understood, and thoy had
got their houNenoas by crying NJ tho top
of their yoicosi "lloNnnaW Tho Rivor
Rhono onterS Lake Lcmnu foul and eomOa
out crystalline, but many n man has on
torod the bright lake Of worldly auccoa'
crystalline and como out foOrfully riley
Thank God day by day II you arc only
ordinary because Of tho placldity and do
fcnsos of your position
Rcmcmbor, also, that from your style oI
homo tho mightlvst OF tho worlds dolvor
ers have come, and that roaling by YOU
evening stand thoro may bo u child potent
amld tho ogos Call tho long roll Of the
Churoh's groat.-tho worlds great You
will fnd that thoy come from log.oablnl
and unprotontious homas. Really ortraor
dinary people almost novor have oxtraor
dary parontago Ily tho second or third
generation tho goplua Ia sure TO run out
IL Ia tho ordinary that gives birth 10 th,
extraordinary, Thoro novOr has boon I
case whore tho third generation Of o1traor
binary people amounted 10 anything
Columbus from woavor'a hut Djmos
thonos from tho outlur's home, Bloomaolt
from shoomakor's bonoh, Arkwright
from barbol's shop, and Ho whose name
IL oyor all tho earth and air and sky from
Bethlehem mangorl La'tof all, romsm
bor 10 DO conton'od with your lot W.
owe as much TO God FOR what Ho has kopI
from us az for what llo has given us,
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