The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-07-26

fairs Of that woman who keeps thread
and needle store as Woll as ali the affairs
of a Rothschild and Stewart.
TiIiers of the soil.
Then there are all the ordinary farm
ers. We talk about agricultural life ana
we Immediately shoot off to talk about
Cincinnatus, the patrician, who went
from the pillow to high position, and
after he got through the dictatorship In
81 days went back again to the ploW'
What encouragement is that to ordinary
farmers? The vast majority of them'
none of them, will be patriclans Per
haps none of them will be senators Ii
any of them have. relationships, it Will
be over 40 or 90 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 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 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 I'M
precation to spread out the hay the THIRD
time, although again and again and again
it has been almost ready for the NOV;
grace to doctor the COW with hollow
horn, and the sheep with the footrot, and
the horse with the distemper, and to COM
pei the unwilling acres to yield hvell
hood for the family, and schooling fol
the children, and little extras to help the
older boy in business, and something for
the daughters wedding outfit, and lit
tie surplus for the time when the ankles
will get stiff with age and the breath
will be little short, and the swinging
of the cradle through the hot harvest
field will bring on the old man S vertigo
Better close up about Cincinnatus l
know 500 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 farmers
boy coming back from his wanderings,
and the old farmhouse shook that night
with rural jubilee, and who compared
himself to a lamb in the pasture field,
and who said the eternal God is farm
er, declaring, my Father is the hus-
| bandman. -
Those stonemasons do not want TO
hear about Christopher Wren, the archi-
tect, who built St. Paul's cathedral 1t
would be better to tell them how to
carry the bod Of brick up the ladder
without slipping, and how 81 81 { cod
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 a car
penter, with his own hand WELDING
saw and hammer. Oh, this is d tired
world, and it is an overworked world,
and it is an underfed world, and it Is a
wrun2 out world, and men and women
need to know that there is rest and re-
cuperation in God and in that religion
which was not SO much intended for
extraordinary people as for ordinary peo-
pie, because there are more of them.
--s-s--,-. Healers IF ths Sick.
The healing profession has had its
Abercrombies and its Abernethys and its
Valentine Motifs and its Willard Par
kers, but the ordinary physicians do the
most of the worlds medicining, and
they need to understand that while TAX
ing diagnosis or prognosis or writing
prescription or compromising medlca-
ment or holding the delicate pulse OF
dying child they may have the presence
and the dictation of the almighty doc
tor who took the case of the mailman,
and after he had torn off his garments
in foaming dementia clothed him again,
body and mind, and who lifted up the
woman who for IS years had been bent
almost double with the rheumatism in
to graceful stature, and who turned the
scabs of leprosy into rubicund complex
! ion, and who rubbed the numbness out
of paralysis, and who swung wide open
! the closed windows of hereditary or &C
! cidental, blindness until the morning
light came streaming through the fieshly
/ easements, and who knows all the dis
eases and all the remedies and all the
/ herbs and all the catholicons, and is
monarch of pharmacy and therapeutics,
and who has sent out 10000 doctors OF
3 whom the world makes no record, but
, to prove that they are angels of mercy
5 invoke the thousands of men whose ala
, ments have been assuaged and the thou
D sands of women to whom in crises OF
, pain they have been next to God IN
5 benefaction.
t Come, now, let us have religion fol
Q ordinary people in professions, in occu
t pations, in agriculture, in the household
Q in merchandise, in everything salute
2 across the centuries Asyncritus, Phlegon
i Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes. Philologu'
2 and Julia
First of all, if you feel that You are
0 ordinary, thank God that you are not
extraordinary. am tired and sick ane
s bored almost to death with extraordi
a nary neople. They take all their time u