The Penn's Grove record., 1895-07-26

grace for ordinary business men, men who
are harnessed from morn till night and ali
the days of their life-harnessed in business,
Not grace to lose 800. 900. but grace to lose
$40. Not grace to supervise $50 employees
in a factory, but grace to supervise the book.
Keeper and w statesmen and the small boy
that sweeps out the store. Grace to invest
pot the $780, 00 Of net profit, but the S25Od
pt elear gain. Grace not to endure the loss
bf whole shiplOad OF spices from the In.
dies, but grace to endure the loss OF q paper
OF collars from the leakage Of a displaced
bhingle on a poor roof.
Grace not to endure the hardness OF the
American Congress in passing a necessary
law, but grace TO endure the hardness OF an
GRAND boy stopping TO play marbles when
he ought to deliver the goods; such a grace
as thousands OF business men nave to-day,
keeping them tranquil whether goods sell OF
do not sell, whether customers pay or do NOT
pay, whether thetarifH is up ortari1f Is down.
whether the crops are luzuriant or a dead
failure, calm in all circumstances and amid
all vissicitudes-that is the kind Of grace we
want. Millions OF men want it. and they
may have 1t for the asking. Some hero OF
heroine m to town, and asthe procession
passes through the street the business men
come out and stand on tiptoe on their store
fteps and look at some one who in arctic
ciime or in ocean storm or in day Of battle OF
In hospital agonies did the brave thing, not
Fealizing that they, the enthusiastic specta-
Eors, have gone through trials In business
pfc that are Just rs great before God. There
hre men who have gone through freezing
hrctics and burning torrids and awful
Marengos Of experiences without moving
hve miles from their doorsteps. Now, what
ordinary business men need is to realize that
they have the friendship Of that Christ who
looked after the religious interests OF
Matthew, the custom house clerk, and helped
Lydia of Thyatira to sell the dry goods, and
who opened a bakery and fish market in the
wilderdess Of Asia Minor to feed the 700
who had come out on Q religious picnic. and
who counts the hairs OF your head with as
much particularly as though they were
the plumes OF a coronation, and who
took the trouble to stoop down with His
finger writing OIL the ground, although
the first shuttle OF feet obliterated the divine
caligraphy, and who knows Just how many
loousts there were in the Egyptian plague
and knew Just how many ravens were neces-
Bary to supply Eiijah's pantry by the brook
Cherith, and who as floral commander leads
forth all the regiments OF primroses, fox
gloves, daffodils, hyacinths and lilies which
pitch their tents OF beauty and kindle their
camp fires Of color all around the hemi.
sphere; that that Christ and that God know
the most minute affairs of your business life,
and, however in~considerable, understanding
al the affairs Of that woman VINO keeps a
thread and needle store as well as all the at.
.airs of a Rothschild and a Stewart.
Then there are all the ordinary farmers.
We talk about agricultural life, and we i'm
nedfately shoot off to talk about Cinein-
natus, the patrician, who went from the pillow
to a high position, and after he got through
the dictatorship in twenty-one days went
buck again to the pillow. What encourage
ment Is that to ordinary farmers2 The vast
majority of them, one OF them, will be pa
triclans. Perhaps none of them will be Sem
ators. If any of them have relationships, II
will be over forty or fifty or 100 acres OF the
old homestead. What those men want is
grace to keep their patience while plow.
ing with balky oxen and TO keep cheerful
amid the drought that d~estroysthe corn crop
aud that enables them to restore the garden
the day after the neighbours cattle have
broken in and trampled out the strawberry
bed and gone through the lima bean patch
and eaten up the sweet corn in such large
quantities that they must be kept from the
water lest they swell up and die; grace in
catching weather that enables them without
lmprecation to spread out the hayth third
TIME, although again and again and again it
nap Deen dllnOst febly loE tue ulOMi n BIdco
10 doctor the COW with q hollow born, and
the sheep with the ~footrot, and the horse
with the distemper, and to compel the un-
willing acres to yield a livelihood for the
family, and schooling for the children, and
Iitkle extras to help the older boy in business,
and something for the daughters wedding
outfit, and a little surplus for the time when
the ankles will get stiff with age and the
bI cath will be a little short, and the swing
Ing of the cradle through the hot harvest
fold will bring on the old mans vertigo.
Better close up about Cincinnatus. l know
100 farmers Just as noble as he was.
What they want is to know that they have
the friendship Of that Christ who often drew
His SMILES from the farmers life, as when
He said, "a sower went forth to SOW" as
when He built His best parable out of the
scene of a farmers boy coming back from
his wanderings, and the old farmhouses shook
that night with rural jubilee, and who COM
pared Himself to a lamb in the pasture field,
and who said the eternal God is a farmer,
declaring, my Father Is the h~usbandman."
Those stonemasons do not want to hear
about Christopher Wren, the architect, who
built St. PauIs cathedral. 1t would be bet-
ter to tell them how to carry the hod Of brick
up the ladder without slipping, and how on
a cold morning with the trowel to smooth off
the mortar and keep cheerful, and how to be
thankful to God for the plain food taken
from the pail by the roadside. Carpenters
standing amid the adj, and the bit, and the
plane, and the broadax need to be told that
christ was q carpenter, with His own hand
sislding saw and hammer. oh, this is a
tired world, and 1t is an overworked world,
and 1t is an underfed world, and 1t is a
yrung out world, and men and women need
10 know that there is rest and recuperation
In God and in that religion which was not
20 much intended for extraordinary people
as for ordinary people. because there are
more OF them.
RE healing profession has had its Aber
,rombies and its Abernethys and Its Valen-
me Motifs and its willard Parkers, but the
81 Urinary physicians do the most OF the
glrld's medicining, and they need to under
,tand that while taxing diagnosis or prog
aosis or writing prescription or compound
pg medicament or holding the delicate pulse
81 a diving child they may have the presence
and the dictation of the almighty doctor who
look the case Of the mailman, and after he
aad torn of his garments in foamlng de-
pentia clothed him again, body and mind,
,ad who lifted up the woman who for eight
an years had been bent almost double with
he rheumatism into graceful stature, and
Eho turned the scabs of leprosy into rubi.
, md complexion, and who rubbed the numb
sass out Of paralysis, and who swung wide
zen the closed windows OF hereditary oil
cidental blindness until the morning light
me streaming through h teshly case
n ants. and who knows all the diseases and
ali the remedies and all the herbs and all the
eatholicons, and Is monarch Of pharmacy
nd therapeutics, and who has sent out TO-
300 doctors of whom the world makes no rec
ord, but to prove that they are angels o.
mercy / invoke the thousands OF men whose
ailments have been assuaged and the thou
sands OF women to whom in crises OF pair
they have been next to God In benefaction'
Come, now, let us have a religion for or
Ilnary people In professions, In occupations
n agriculture, In the household, In mer
shRndise, In everything. / salute across thu
centuries Asyncritus, Phlegon, HermAs
Patrobas, Hermas, Phitologus and Julia.
First oiaIl, II you feel that you are ordi-
pary, thank God that you are not extraordi'
aary, lam tired and sick and bored almost
10 death with extraordinary people. They
lake all their time to tell US how very extra
ordinary they really are. You know as wei
A I do, my brother and sister, that the mos
Of the useful work Of 1.-THE world is done b!
u-ppretentions people who toll right on, b,
beople who do not get much approval, ant
no one seems to say, "That is well done.
Phenomena are Of but little use. Thing
that arc exceptional cannot be de
pended on. Better trust the smallest plan
that swings on its orbit than ten come
shooting this way and that, imperiling II
longevity Of worlds attending TO their oW
h,a.Aa, FOR ateady illumination better