The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-02

them.
The healing profession has had its
Abercrombies, and its Akernethvs,
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 a 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
linn again, body and mind. and who
lifted mp the woman who for eighteen
years had been bent almost double with
the rheumatism, into graceful stature,
| and who turned the scabs of leprosv
into rubicund complexion, and who
rubbed the numbness out of paralysis,
and who swung wide open the
closed windows of hereditary or
accidental blindness, until one
morning light came streaming
| through the feshly 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
of whom the world makes no record;
but to prove that they are angels of
mercy, / invoke the thousands Of
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 oc-
cupations, in agriculture, in the house
| hold, in merchandise, in everything.
1 salute across the centuries Asyncri-
tus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas,
Hermes, Philologus and Julia.
First of all, if you feel that you are
ordinary, thank God that you are not
extraordinary. I am tired, and sick,
and bored almost to death with extra
ordinary 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, an no
one seems to say: THAT is well done"
Phenomena are of but little use.
Things that are exceptional can not be
depended on. Better trust the small
est planet that swings on its orbit
than ten comets shooting this way and
that, imperiling the longevity of
worlds attending to their own busi
ness. For steady illumination better
is lamp than a rocket. Then, if you
feel that you are ordinary, remem Der
that your position invites the less at
tack.
Conspicuous people-how they have
to take it! How they are misrepre-
sented, and abused, and shot at! The
higher the horns of a roebuck the cas-.
ier to track him down. What a deli
cious thing it must be to be a candi-
date for president of the United
States! 1t must be so soothing to the
nerves! 1t must pour into the soul O:
a candidate such a sense of serenity
when he reads the blessed newspapers
/ came into the possession of the
abusive cartoons in the time of Ma
poleon J., 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 awful TRACE
dies of the centuries, represented un-
der the figure of a monster called
Gen. Frost shaving the French en-
peror with razor of icicle. AS Satyr
and Beelzebub he is represented, page |
after page, page after page. England |
cursing him, Spain cursing him, Ger
many 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 tE ose |
men in history who now have a halo |
around their name on earth wore a
crown of thOrns. Take the few extra
ordinary railroad men of our time, and
see what abuse comes upon them,
while thousands OF stockholders es-
cape. All the world took after Thomas
Scott, president of the Pennsylvania
railroad, abused him until he got un-
der the ground. Thousands of stock
holders in that company. All the /
blame on one man! The Central Pa.
cific railroad-two or three men get all
the blame if anything goes wrong.
There are ten thousand in that COM
pany.
Let us all be content with such
things as we have. God is just as good
in what He keeps away from US as
in what He gives US. Even a knot
may be useful if it is at the end of
thread.
At an anniversary of deaf and
dumb asylum one of the children wrote
upon the blackboard words as sublime
as the niad, the Odyssey, and the
"Divina Com media" all compressed in
one paragraph. The examiner, in the
signs of the mute language, asked her:
"Who made the world?" The deaf |
and dumb girl wrote upon the black
board: I'm the beginning God
created the heaven and the
earth" The examiner asked her:
For what purpose did Christ come
into the world?" The deaf and dumb
girl wrote upon the black board: 'This
is faithful saying, and worthy of ali
acceptation, that Christ Jesus came
into the world to save sinners" The
examiner said to her: "Why were you
born deaf and dumb. while hear and
speak?" She wrote upon the black
board: Even so. Father; for so it
seemeth good in Thy sight" Oh, that
we might be baptized with contented
spirit. The spider draws poison out of
a flower, the bee gets honey out of
thistle; bnt happiness is heavenly
elixir, and the contented spirit ex-
tracts it not from the rhododendron of
the hills, but from the lily of the val
ley.