The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-31
THE COMMON PEOPLE.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches UPON
A POPULAR SUBJECT.

These Ordinary People Who Move In ordi-
nary Spheres-The Disadvantage of Being
Conspicuous The Gospel OF Content--A
Heavenly Elixir.
New York, July 21.-Rev, DR.. Tai
mage, who is still absent on his annu-
al midsummer tour, preaching and
lecturing, has prepared for today q
sermon on plain People, a topic
which will appeal TO a very large ma
jority Of readers anywhere. The text
selected was Romans xvi, II, Is, 'Sa-
lutte Asyncritus. Phlsgon. Hermas,
Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and
Julia
Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes,
Adam Clark, Thomas Scott and all
the commentators pass by these verses
without any especial remark. The
other 20 people mentioned in the chap
ter We're distinguished for something
and were therefore discussed by the
illustrious expositors, but nothing is
said about Asyncritus, Phlegon, Her
mos, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus
aud Julia. Where were they born:
No one knows. Where did they die?
There is no record of their decease.
For what We're they distinguished:
Absolutely for nothing, or the trait CT
character would have been brought
out by the apostle. If they had been
| very intrepid or opulent or hirsute or
musical Of cadence or Grass of style or
in anvwise anomalous, that fea-
ture would have been caught
by the apostolic camera. But
they We're good people, because
Paul sent to them his high Christian
regards. They were ordinary people,
moving in ordinary sphere, attending
to ordinary duty and meeting ordlna-
ry responsibilities.
What the world wants is a religion
for ordinary people If there be in
the United States $4,000, 900 people,
there are certainly not more than
100000 extraordinary, and then
there are 4,OOO,0 ordinary, and we
do well to turn our backs for little
while upon the distinuished and con-
spicuous people of the Bible and con-
slider 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 apotheosiz-
ing philanthropists. The rank and
file of the Lords soldiery need espe-
cial help.
The vast majority of people to whom
this sermon comes will never lead an
army, will never write a state constl-
tuition, will never electrify a senate.
will never make an important inven-
ton, will never introduce 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 a
Moses to lead 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 a
st. John to unroll an 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 Phle-
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 ap-
| parel, and your judgment was final
on all questions of personal attire.
Every morning you plan for the day.
The culinary department Of your
household is in your dominion. You
decide all questions of diet All the
sanitary regulations of your house are
under your supervision To regulate
TIE Hd snd d @ hf The aad aaeohs ths haS
of home life is a tax upon brain and
| nerve and general health absolutely
| appalling, if there be no divine allevi-
alton.
It 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 Bornesian cannibals. 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 metz tell you that
the divine friend of Mary and Martha
! is your friend, and that he sees all the
annoyances and disappointments and
abrasions and exasperations 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
world decide the health Of the world.
One of the greatest battles of this CEN
tury was lost because the commander
that morning had a fit of indigestion:
! You have only to 60 on some e"rand
amid the taverns and the hotels OF the
United States and Great Britain to ap-
preciate the fact that vast multitude
of the human race are slaughtered by
incompetent cookery. Though a young
! woman may have taken lessons IN nlu-
sic and may have taken lessons II
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 en-
durance of the world.
An unthinking man may consider 1t
| a matter of little importrnce-the cares
of the household and the economies OF
domestic life-but I tell you the earth
| I. l. -, Nf LIT
and nursery. The health shattered
| womanhood of America cries out for a
God who can help ordinary women in
the ordinary duties of housekeeping:
The wearing, grinding, unappreciated
work goes on, but the same Christ, wto
stood on the bank of Galilee in the ear
lymorning and kindled the fire and
| had the fish already cleaned and broil-
ing when the sportsmen stepped ashore
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