Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-07-25

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-=e aGz, ana the DIL ana the plane. and
the bruadax need 70 be told that Christ
was a carpenter with his own hand WELD
ing saw and hammer. Oh, this Is o tired
world, and it Is an overworked world, and
IL Is an underfed world, anil Is q wrung
out world, and men and Women need TO
know that there Il rest and recuperation
in God and in that religion which was not
so much intended for extraordinary people
as for ordinary people, because there are
more Of thom.
The healing profession has had its Aber-
crombies, and its Abernethys, and 1t Val
entine Motifs, and its Willard Parkers, but
the ordinary physicians do the most of the
worlds medicining, and they need to un-
derstand that while taking diagnosis or
prognosis. or writing prescription, or
compounding medicament or holding the
delicate pulse of q dying child, they may
have the presence and the dictation Of the
Almighty Doctor, who took the case of the
mailman, and after he had torn of his
garments In foaming dementia clothed
him again, body and mind, and who lifted
up the woman who for IS years had been
bent almost double with the rheumatism
into graceful stature, and who turned the
scabs Of leprosy into rubicund complexion,
and who rubbed the numbness out Of pa.
ralysis, and who swung wide open the closed
windows of hereditary or accidental blind
ness, until the morning light came stream
ing through the fleshly easements, and
who knows all the diseases, and all the
remedies, and all the herbs and all the
catholicons and is monarch of pharmacy
and therapeutics, and who has sent out
10, 600 doctors of whom the world makes
no record, but to prove that they are an
gels of mercy invoke the thousands of
men whose ailments have been assuaged
and the thousands of women to whom in
crisis of pain they have been next to God
in benefaction.
Come now, let US have a religion for
ordinary people in professions, in occupa-
tions, in agriculture, in the household, in
merchandise i'm everything 1 salute
across the centuries Asyncritus. Phlegon,
Hermas, Patrobas Hermes, Philologus
and Julia.
Conspicuous People.
| First of all, If you feel that you are Or
dinary, thank God that you are not ex-
| traordinary l am tired and sick and
| bored almost to death with extraordinary
people. They take all their time to tell us
how very extraordinary they really are.
You know as well as do, my brother and
sister, that the most of the useful work of
the world is done by unpretentious people
who toll right on-by people who do not
get much approval, and no one seems to
say, "That is well done.
| Phenomena are of but little use. Things
that are exceptional cannot be depended
on. Better trust the smallest planet that
swings on its orbit than ten comets shoot
ing this way and that, imperiling the
longevity Of worlds attending to their own
business. For steady illumination better
is lamp than rocket. Then, if you feel
that you are ordinary, remember that your
position invites the less attack.
Conspicuous people-how they have to
take it How they are misrepresented and
abused and shot at The higher the horns
of roebuck the easier to track him down.
What delicious thing it must be to be a
candidate for president of the United
Statesl 1t must be SO soothing to the
neryesl 1t must pour into the soul of q
candidate such sense of serenity when he
reads the blessed newspapers
| came into the possession of the abusive
cartoons in the time Of Napoleon 1, printed
while he was yet alive. The retreat of the
army from Moscow, that army buried in
the SHOWS of Russia, one of the most aw-
| full tragedies of the centuries, represented
under the figure of monster called Gen
eral Frost shaving the French emperor
| with razor of icicle. As Satyr and Beel-
zebub he is represented, page after page,
page after page, England cursing him,
Spain cursing him, Germany cursing him,
Russia cursing him, Europe cursing him,
North and South America cursing him,
the most remarkable man of his day, and
the most abused. All those men in history
who now have halo around their name
on earth wore crown of thorns. Take
the few extraordinary railroadmen Of our
time and see what abuse comes upon them,
while thousands of stockholders escape
All the world took after Thomas Scott,
president of tho Pennsylvania railroad,
abused him until he got under the ground
Thousands of stockholders in that COM
pany. All the blame on one mani The
Central Pacific railroad-two or three men
get all the blame If anything goes wrong.
There are 10000 in that company.
Let Us De Content.
I mention these things to prove it is ex-
traordinary people who get abused w hile
the ordinary escape. The weather of life
is not so severe on the plain as it is ON the
high peaks. The world never forgives a
man who knows or gains OF does more
than it can know OF gain or do. Parents
sometimes give confectionery to their chill
dren as an inducement to take bitter medi-
cine, and the worlds sugar plum precedes
the worlds aqua fortis The mob cried in
regard to Christ: "Crucify himl Cruelty
himl' And they had to say it twice to be
understood for they were SO hoarse, and
they got their hoarseness by crying little
while before at the top Of their voice,
"Hosanna!" The river Rhone is foul
when it enters Lake Leman, but crystalline
when it comes out en- the other side. But
there are men who have entcrrAl the bright
lake of worldly prosperity c-Ss5talline and
came out terribly riled. If, therefore, you
feel that you are ordinary, thank God for
the defenses and the tranquility of your
position.
Then remember, if you have only what
is called an ordinary home, that the great
deliverers Of the world have all come from
such home. And there may be seated,
reading at your evening stand, a child who
shall be potent for the ages. just unroll
the scroll of men mighty in church and
state, and you will find they nearly all
came from log cabin or poor homes. Genius
almost always runs out in the third or
fourth generation. You cannot find in all
history an instance where the fourth gen.
Grafton Of extraordinary people amount to
anything. Columbus from weaver S
hut, Demosthenes from cutler's cellar,
Bloomfield and Missionary Carey from a
shoemaker bench, Arkwright from bar
bers shop, and he whose name Is high
over all in earth and air and sky from