The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-03

on his summer tour, makes selection OF
the following discourse on plain Peo
pie" for publication this week 1t is
based on the text:
Salute Asyncritus. Phlegon, Hermas. Petro-
BUS. Hermes, Philologus and Julius-Romsns
| Oi., 14-ib.
Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes,
Adam Clark, Thomas Scott, and all
the commentators pass by these verses
without any especial remark. The
other twenty people mentioned in the
chapter were distinguished for some
thing, and were, therefore, discussed
by the illustrious expositors; but
nothing is said about Asyncritus,
Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes,
Philologus and Julia. Where were
they born? No one knows Where
did they die? There Is no record of
their decease. For what were they
distinguished? Absolutely for nothing,
or the trait of character would have
been brought out by the apostle. If
ney had been very intrepid or opulent
| 4 hirsute or musical of cadence, or
Grass of style or in any wise anoma-
lous, that feature would have been
caught by the apostolic camera. But
they were good people, because Paul
sent to them his high Christian re-
CARDS. They were ordinary people,
moving in ordinary sphere, attending
to ordinary duty, and meeting ordin-
airy responsibilities
What the world wants is a religion
Cor ordinary people. II there be in
the United States sixty-five million
people, there are certainly not more
than one million extraordinary; and
then there are sixty-four million ordi-
nary, and we do well to turn our
backs for little while upon the dis
tinguished and conspicuous people of
the Bible and consider in our text the
seven ordinary. We spend too much
of our time in twisting garlands for
remarkables and building thrones for
magnates, and sculpturing warriors
and apotheosizing philanthropists.
The rank and the file of the Lords
soldicry need especial help
The vast majority of people to whom
this sermon comes will never lead an
army, will never write state consti-
tuition, will never electrify Senate,
will never make an important inven-
tion, will never introduce n new phi
losophy, will never decide the fate of a
nation. You do not expect to; you do
not want to. You will not be Moses
to lead n nation out of bondage. You
will not be a Joshua to prolong the
daylight until you can shut five kings
in cavern. You will not be st.
John to unroll the Apocalypse. You
will not be Paul to preside over an
apostolic college. You will not be a
Mary to mother Christ You will
more probably be .Asyncritus, or Pile
gon, or Hermas, or Patrobas, or
Hermes, or Philologus, or Julia.
Many of you are women at the head
of households. This morning you
launched the family for Sabbath OBJ
servance. Your brain decided the APP
parel, and your judgment was final on
all questions of personal attire. Every
morning you plan for the day. The
culinary department of your house,
hold is your dominion. You decide all
questions of diet All the sanitary
regulations of your house are under
your supervision. To regulate the
food, and the apparel, and the habits,
and decide the thousand questions of
home life is a. tax upon brain and
nerve and general health absolutely
appalling, if there be no divine allevia-
ton.
1t does not help you much to be told
that Elizabeth Fry did wonderful
things amid the criminals Of Newgate.
1t does not help you much to be told
that Mrs. Judson was very brave
among the Bornes;an cnnnibals. 1t
does not help you much to be told
that Florence Nightingale was very
kind to the wounded in the Crimea. 1t
would be better for me to tell you that
che divine friend of Mary and Martha
rs your friend, and that he sees all the
annoyances and disappointments and
nbrasions and exnsperatious of an Or
binary housekeeper from morn till
night, and from the first day of the
year to the last day of the year, and at
your call he is ready with help and re-
enforcement
They who provide the food of the
One Of the greatest battles of this
century was lOSb because Lne COm-
mander that morning had a fit of in
digestion. You have only to go on
some errand amid the taverns and the
hotels of the United States and Great
Britain to appreciate the fact that q
vast multitude of the human race are
slaughtered by incompetent cookery.
Though young woman may have
taken lessons in music, and may have
taken lessons in painting, and lessons
in astronomy, she is not well educated
unless she has taken lessons in dough!
They who decide the apparel of the
world and the food of the world decide
the endurance of the world.
An unthinking man may consider II
. matter Of little importance-the
cares of the household and the econo-
mics Of domestic life-but / tell you
the earth is strewn with the martyrs
OF kitchen and nursery. The health
shattered womanhood of America cries
out for a God who can help ordinary
women in the ordinary duties Of house.
keeping. The wearing, grinding, un.
appreciated work goes on, but the
same Christ who stood on the bank OF