The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-25

sands OF business men wao diei OF old age
at thirty, thlrty-ave, forty. forty-flve.
Now. what Is wanted IL grace-iivine
grace for ordinary business men. men who
are harnessed from morn till night and all
the days Of their life--harnessed In business.
Not grace to lose 100000. but grace 10 lose
si0. Not grace TO supervise $50 employes
In n fact '-v. but Grace to supervise the hoOs-
keeper m two sa'ssmel AM the small boy
that sw,eps ont tne store. Craze 90 invas'
not the $4,000 NJ net proit, but the S2jO1
OF cl,ar gain. Grace not to endure the loss
OF a whole shipload Of spices from the In
dies. but grace to endure the loss of n paper
Of collars from the leakage Of a displaced
shingle on poor roof.
Grace not to endure the tariiness ot tho
American Congress in passing n necessary
law. but grace to endure the tardiness OF an
errand boy stopping TO play marbles when
he ought to deliver the goods; such grace
as thousands of business men have to-day.
keeping them tranquil whether goods sell or
do not SELL whether customers pay or do not
pay. whether the tariff Is up or tariff Is down.
whether the crops are luxurian. or dead
failure. calm In all circumstances and amid
all vissictudes-- Is the kind OF grace we
want. Millions OF men want IL. and they
may have II for the asking Some hero or
heroine comes to town. and asthe procession
passes through the street the business men
come out and stand on tiptoc on their store
steps and look at some one who in arctic
CLINE or in ocean storm or In day OF battle or
In hospital agonies did the brave thing. not
realizing that they, the enthusiastic specta.
tors. have gone through trials in business
life that are just rs great before God. There
are men who have gone through freezing
arctics and burning torrds and awful
Marengos Of experiences without moving
five miles from their doorsteps. Now, what
ordinary business men need ~ to realize that
Al. ~ III
looked after the religious interests Of
Matthew. the custom house clerk. and helped
Lydia OF Thyatira to sell the dry goods, and
who opened n bakery and fish market In the
wilderdess Of Asia Minor to feed the 20 o
who had como out on religious picnic. and
who counts the hairs OF your head with as
much particularly as though they were
the plumes OF coronation, and who
took the trouble to stoop down with His
finger writing on the ground. although
the first shuttle Of feet obliterated the divine
caligraphy, and who knows Just how many
locusts there were In the Egyptian plague
ani knew just how many ravens were neces-
sary to supply Ell jah'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-
spheres: that that Christ and that God know
the most minute affairs OF your business life.
and, however inconsiderable, understanding
all the affairs of that woman who keeps a
thread and needle store IA well as al the af-
fairs OF Rothschild and Stewart.
Then there are all the ordinary farmers.
We talk about agricultural life. and We i'm.
medately shoot of to talk about Cincln-
natus, the patriclan, who went from the plow
TO a high position, and after he got through
the dictatorship in twenty-onc days went
back again to the plow. What encourage.
ment Is that to ordinary farmers? The vast
majority of them, none Of them, will be pa
tricians. Perhaps none OF them will be SEN
ators. II any them have relationships, IL
| will be over forty or fifty or 100 acres of the
| old homestead. What those men want 4.
grace to keep their patience while p,ow.
ing with balky oxen and to keep cheerful
amid the drought that destroys the corn crop
| and that enables them to restore the garden
the day after the neighbor's cattle have
broken in and trampled out. the strawberry
bed and gone through the lima bean patch
land 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
imprecation to spread out the hay the third
| time, although again and again and again II
has been almost ready for the NOV; grace
to doctor the COW with hollow born. and
the sheep with the footrot, and the horse
with the distemper, and to compel the un'
willing acres to yield livelihood for the
family, and schooling for the children. AM
little extras to help the older boy in business
and something for the daughters wedding
outfit, and IA little surplus for the time when
the ankles will get stiff with age and tn,
breath will be little short. anl the swing
| ing OF the cradle through the hot harvest
| field will bring on the old mans vertigo
Better close up about Cincinnatus. l know
500 farmers just rs noble as he was.
What they want Is to know that they hav,
the friendship of that Christ who often drew
His SMILES from the farmers life, as whei
He said. "a sower went forth to SOW" IA
when He built His best parable out OF tn,
scene OF farmers boy coming back from
his wanderings, and the old farmhouse shool
that night with rural jubilee. and who com
pared Himself to n lamb in the pasture field
! and who said the eternal God Is a farmer
declaring. "My Father Is the husbandman.
Those stonemasons do not want 10 hea
about Christopher Wren. the architect, VIII,
built st. Pauls cathedral. 1t would be bet
ter 10 tell them how to carry the hod ofbrlcl
up the ladder without slipping. and how ol
"A cold morning with the trowel to smooth OF
the mortar and keep cheerful, and how to b.
thankful to God for the plain food takeI
from the pail by the roadside. Carpenter
standing amid the adj, and tho bit, and tn
plane. aud the broadax need to be told tina
Christ was "A carpenter. with His own han,
welding saw and hammer. Oh, this is
tired world. and II is an oycrworked world
and II is an underfed world. and il Is
wrung out world, and men and womcn nee
TO know that there is rest and recuperatio
In God and in that religion which was no
so much intended for extraordinary peopl
rs for ordinary people, because there ar
more of them.
Tie healing profession has had its Abei
crombes and its Abernethys and its Nalen
tine Motts and Its willard Parkers, but tn
ordinary physicians do the most OF tn
worlds medicining, and they need to under
stand that while taxing diagnosis or prog
nosis or writing prescription or compound
ing medicament or holding the delicate pulls
of dying child they may have the presenc
and the dictation of the almighty doctor VIII
took the case of the madman, and after Ii
had torn OF his garments in fOaming d,
mentia clothed him again, body and minl
aud who lifted up the woman who for eigh
cen years had been bent almost double wit
the rheumatism into graceful stature, an
who turned the scabs of leprosy into rub
cund complexion, and who rubbed the numl
ness out OF paralysis, and who swung wL
| open the closed windows OF hereditary
/ accidental blindness until the morning iigl
came streaming through the fleshly cast