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ORDINARY PEOPLE"
DIR. TALMAGE's THEME SUNDAY.
God is Jast as Good in What He With
holds as in What He Gives.


Julia ."-RonanS XVI, Il. 10.
MattheT Henry. Albert Barnes. Adam
Clark. Thomas Scott and all the commenta-
tors pass bv these verses without any especial
remark. The other twenty people mentioned
in the chapter were distinguished for some
thing an1 were therefore discussed by the
illustrious expositors, but nothing IS said
about AsyEcritus. PhleSon, Harmas, Patro-
bas, Fermes, Philo!oGus and 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? Abso-
lutely for nothing. or the trait of character
would have been brought out by the apostle.
II they had been very intrepid or opulent or
hirsute or musical OF cadence OF Grass OF
style or in auywise anomalous, that feature
would have been caught by the apostolic
camera. Butthey were COOL people. because
Paul sent to them his high Christian regards.
They were ordinary people. moving III orol-
narv sphere. attending to ordinary duty and
meeting ordinary responsibilities.
What thn world wants is q religion foi
ordinary people. If there he in the United
States 5000 00) people, there are certainly
not more than 100000 extraordinary, and
then there are Gl.001.0J0 ordinary, and we do
we'll to turn our backs for little while upon
the distinguished and conspicuous people OF
the Bible and consider in our text the seven
ordinary. We spend too much Of our time
in twisting SarlandS for remarkableS and
building thrones for magnates and sculptur'
ING warriors and apotheosizing philanth'
ropists. The rank and file Of the Lords
soldery need especial help. :.
The vast majority of people to whom this
sermon comes will never leal an army, will
never write State constitution. Will never
clectrifv Il Senate, will never make an I'M
i new philosophy, will never decide
the fate OF Nation. You DO not eS,
poet TO-: YOU do not want to. You will not
be q Moses to lead Il Nation out OF bondage
You will not be a Joshua to prolonS the day
light until YOU can shut five kings IN cav
crn. You will not be st. John to unroll an
aoocalypsc. You will not be a Paul to pre-
side over an apostolic college. You will not
be 4 Mary TO mother Christ You will moro
probably be Asyncritus or Phleson or Her.
mas or Patrohas or Hermes or Philologus or
Julia.
Many OF YOU are women at the head or
households. This morning you launched the
family for Sabbath observance. Your brain
decided the apparel. and your Judgment was
fiual 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 or your
house are under your supervision. 10 regu-
late the food. and the apparel, and the haolts
and decide the thousand questions OF nome
life is tax upon your brain and nerve and
general health absolutely appalling II there
be no divine alleviation.
It does not help you much to be told that
Elizabeth Fry did wonderful things mid 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 betold that Flor
eoce Nightingale was very kind to the
wounded in the Crimea. 1t would be better
for me. to tell YOU that the Divine Friend OF
Mary and Marthais Your friend, and that He
sees all the annoyances and disappointments
and abrasions and exasperations OF an ordln-
arv .houseSeeper from rnorn TIL nlgnt,
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-anforcemenrs.
They who provide the food OF the world
decide the health of the world. One Of the
greatest battles of this century was lost be-
cause the commander that morning had mt
Of indigestion. You have only to go on some
errand amid the taverns ana the hotels OF
United States and Great Britain to appre-
ciate the fact that vast multitude of the
human race are slaughtered by incompetent
cookery, Though q young woma q may nave
taken lessons in music and may have taken
lessons in painting and lessons IN astronomy,
she is not we'll educated unless she hasta
lessons in dough. They who decide the ap-
rarel of the world and the food Of the world
decide the endurance of the world.
An uuthinking man may consider IT q mat
Ler OF little importance-ths cares OF the
household and the economies Of domestic life
but I tell you the earth is strewn with the
martyrs of kitchen and nursery. The health
shattered womanhood of America cries out
for God who can help ordinary women in
the ordinary duties of housekeeping. The
wearing. grinding. unappreciated work-goes
on, but the same Christ who stood on the
bank Of Galilee in the early morning and
kindled the fire and had the fish already
cleaned and broiling when the sportsmen
stepped ashore. chilled and hungry, will help
every woman to prepare breakfast, Whether
by her own hand or the hand Of her hired
help.
The Go who male indestructible eulogy
Of Hannah. who made q coat Tor Samuei,
hers9n, AMI carried it to the temple every
YEAR. will help every woman in preparing the
family wardrobe. The God who opens the
Bible with the story OF Abrahan's entertain
mcnt of the three angels on the plains OF
Mamre will help every woman to provide
hosritalitv, however rare and embarrassing.
II is high time that some Of the attention we
nave been giving to the remarkable women
Of the Bib!e--emarSable for their virtue or
wlnt oft OF. remarkable for their deeds
Deborah unl Jezebel and Hero lila aud Atha-
lia!l aud Dorcasand the Marys, excellent and
abaudoned-it is high time some OF the at
tcntion we have been giving to these con-
spicuous women Of the Bible be given to
Julia of the text. an ordinary woman amid
-, .Iffn IL
nary duties and meeting ordinary reSponst-
biIities..
Then there are the ordinary business men.
They need divine and Christrian help.
When we begin to talk about business life,
we shoot right off and talk about men who
did business on large scale, and who sold
millions Of dollars Of goods q year, but the
vast majority Of business men do not sell
million dollars Of goods. nor half million,
nor quarter Of million. nor the eighth
part of million. Put all the business mon
of our cities, towns, villages and neighbor-
hoods side by side. and you will find that
they sell less than $4,000 worth OF goods.
All these men in ordinary business life want
divine help. You see how the wrinkles are
printing on the countenance the story OF
worriment and care. You cannot tell how
old business man is by looking at him.
Gray hairs at thirty. A man at forty-fve
with the stoop of o ca@t;:aarian: No time
to attend to improved dentistry, the grinders
cease because they are few. Actually dying
OF old age at forty or fifty when they ought
to be at the meridian.
Many of these business men have bodies
like neglected clock to which you come,
and you wind it up. and it begins to buzz
and roar, aud then the hands start around
rerv t,pi1lv, and then the clock strikes llve
or len. or forty. and strikes without any
sens,, AMI then suddenly stops. 50 Is the
holy of that wornout business man. 1t Is a
neglected clock. and though by some SYM
mer recreation it may be wound up. stu tho
machinery is all out Of gear; The hands turn
around with velocity that eXctes tho as
Ionishment Of tho world. Men cannot un-
ferstanI the wonderful activity, and there
i. :, roar. and buzz. and 4 rattle about taese