The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-02

/ architect, who built st. Paua's catne
dral. It would be better to tell then
how to carry the hod of brick up In
ladder without slipping, and how on
cold morning with the trowel y
smooth off the mortar and keel
cheerful, and how to be thankiu
to God for the plain food taker
from the pail by the roadside. Car
penters standing amid the adze
and the bit, and the broad AK, neeo
to be told that Christ was carpenter
with His own hand welding saw ano
| hammer. Oh, this is tired world
| and it is an overworked world, and II
is an underfed world, and 1t is a
wrung out world, and men and women
(, need to know that there is rest and
recuperation in God and in that reli-
gion which was not so much intended
for extraordinary people as for ordl-
nary people, because there are more OF
them.
The healing profession has had its
Abercrom bies, and its Ahernethys.
and its Valentine Motifs, and its Will
lard Parkers; but the ordinary physi-
clans do the most of the worlds medi-
ching, and they need to understand
that while taking diagnosis or prog
nosis. or writing prescription, or COM
pounding medicament, or holding the
delicate pulse Of dying child they
may have the presence and the
dictation of the Almighty Doctor
who took the case of the mad
man, and, after he had torn off his gar
ments in foaming dementia, clothed
him again, body and mind, and who
lifted up the woman who for eighteen
years had been bent almost dou BILE with
the rheumatism, into graceful stature,
and who turned the scabs of leprosy
into .rubicund complexion, and who
rubbed the mum bness out of paralysis,
and who swung wide open the,
closed windows of hereditary or
accidental blindness, until one
light came streaming
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 ten thousand doctors
IF whom the world makes no record;
but to prove that they are angels of
mercy, l invoke the thousands of
whose ailments have been assuaged
Ind the thousands of women to whom
n crisis of pain they have been next
o God in benefaction.
Come, now let US have religion for
ordinary people in professions, in oc-
upations, in agriculture, in the house,
lold, in merchandise, in everything.
salute across the centuries Asyncri- |
us, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas,
Iermes, Philologus and Julia.
First of all, if you feel that you are
rdinary, thank God that you are not
am tired, and sick,
nd bored almost to death with extra
rdinary people. They take all their
me to tell us how very extraordinary
ney really are. You know as well as
do, my brother and sister, that the
lost of the useful work of the world
done by unpretentious people who
oil right only people who do
OF get much approval, an no
ne seems to say: THAT is well done"
henomena are of but little use.
Kings that are exceptional can not be
spended on. Better trust the small
It planet that swings on it's orbit
ian ten comets shooting this way and
lat, imperiling the longevity of
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ess. For steady illumination better
lamp than rocket. Then, if you
el that you are ordinary. remember
lat your position invites the less at
elk.
Conspicuous people-how they have
} take it! How they are misrepre-
nted, and abused, and shot at! The
gher the horns of roebuck the cas-
+ to track him down. What a deli
GUS thing it must be to be candi-
lte for president of the United
sates! 1t must be so soothing to the
erves! 1t must pour into the soul of
candidate such sense of serenity
hen he reads the blessed newspapers!
Let us all be content with such
lings as we have. God is just as good
what He keeps away from us as
what He gives us. Even a knot
ay be useful if it is at the end of a
Tread.
At an anniversary of deaf and
1mb asylum one of the children wrota
pom the blackboard words as sublime
J the Had, the Odyssey, and the
Divina Commedia," all compressed in
lie paragraph. The examiner, in the
gins of the mute language. asked her:
Who made the worldP" The deaf
Id dumb girl wrote upon the black
'ard: I'm the beginning God
Gated the heaven and thu
Irth." The examiner asked her,
For what purpose did Christ come
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