News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-02
TALMAGE ON BAD COOKING
dIS FIRST AUTHORIZATION TALK
BEFoRE FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE,
ne aPehNs About Young Ladies BEING
h:."cated in DOuRh'' and Prays to be
delivered from Extraordinary PeopIe,


Educated in DOugh', and Prays to he
DeiiVered from Extraordinary People.
Without any preliminary words of
welcome, DR.. Talmage proceeded to an
nounce the text, on Sunday morning.
which was from Romans xvi, 14l5
''Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas
Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus 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
wav 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.
Thew were simply ordinary people.
"What the world wants." proceeded
DR.. Talmage, sis religion for ordinary
people. II there are 81, 100000 people
IN the United States, certainly not more
than 900, 900 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 phlloso-
ply, nor electrify q Senate, nor decide
| The fate of nation. You don't expectto
you don't want to.
''Many of you are women at the mead
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. 10 regulate
the food, apparel and habits, and decide
all the thousand and one questions OF
home business is tax appalling II 1t has
no divine alienation. 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 edu-
Gated in dough her education Is imper-
feet.
"The world is strewn with the martyrs
of incompetent 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 the conspicuous wo-
men of the Bible be directed to the
Julia of the text 'An ordinary woman,
in ordinary circumstances, attending to
ordinary duties and bearing ordinary re-
sponsibilities.
Ordinary business men also required
attention. the preacher thought. He
likered the average business man to a
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 md Brooklyn business men,
shouted tie Doctor, ''who died OF old
ACE at thirty, Gs.hirty-five or forty. What
is wanted is divile grace for ordinary
business men. Not he grace to lose
100000, but the justifce-r ZION TO t ose
ten; not the grace to supe- WISE ATo
hands, but the time to look pro- 'erly
after the bookkeeper, two statesmen al4u
the boy who sweeps out the store.
"You talk of Cincinnatus, who went
from the pillow to a higher position, and
after twenty-one days dictatorship went
back to farming. What encouragement
is that to ordinary farmers =? None of
them are politicians. I doubt if any
of them VIII be farmers, and their die
tatorshlp is confined to the forty or a
hundred acres of the old homestead.
What they want is the grace to keep
patient when blowing with balky oxen,
or the drought destroys the corn crop,
or the neighboring cattle break in and
destroys 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 doc
tor the COW with the hollow horn, the
sheep with the foot-rot, or the horse
with the distemper. You'd best close
up about Cincinnatus I know 500
farmers just as notable as him."
Having given some further illustra-
tions the preacher got down to advice:
t'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 your time telling you how
extraordinary they are. Phenomena is
of little use. Things that are excep-
tlonal can't be depended upon. Better
trust the smallest planet swinging in its
orbit than ten comets shooting this way
and that imperiliog 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 candidate for
President of the United States It must
be so soothing to the nerves ! 1t must
pour IN the soul Of the candidate such
sense of security when he reads the
blessed newspapers. Laughter. J.
''Take the remarkable railroad men of
the day. They get all the abuse, while
the stockholders escape. The New York
Central road has 265 stockholders. but
II anything goes wrong the blame falls
on one man. The Pennsylvania road
has 1900 stockholders, But Thomas
Scott was abused till he was under the
ground for the company's 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- "