The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-31

the mortar and keep cheerful and how
to be thankful to God for the plain
food taken from the pail by the road
side. Carpenters standing amid the
ADJ, and the bit, ani the plane, and
the broadax need to be told that Christ
was 4 carpenter, with his own hand
welding saw and hammer. Oh. this
is tired world, and it is an over
worked world, and it is an underfed
world, and 1t IS wrlng out world,
and men and women need to know
that there is rest and recuperation in
God and in that religion which was
not so much intended for extraordi
nary people us for ordinary people,
because there are more Of them.
The healiug profession has had its
Abercrombies, and its Abernethys,
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 of progno-
sis. or writing prescription, or com
pounding medicament, or holding the
delicate pulse Of a dying child, they
may have the presence and the dicta-
ton of the Almighty Doctor, who
took the case of the mailman, and af-
ter 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 rheuma
tism into graceful stature, and who
turned the scabs of leprosy into rubi-
cund complexion, and who rubbed
the numbness out of paralysis, and
who swung wide open the closed win
dows of hereditary or accidental blind
ness, until the morning light came
streaming through the tieshly case
ments, and who knows all the diseas-
es, and all the remedies, and all the
herbs. and all the catholicons and is
monarch of pharmacy and therapeut-
les, and who has sent out 10, 900 doc
tors of whom the world makes no rec
ord, but to prove that they are angels
of mercy 1 invoke the thousands of
men whose ailments have been as
sauged and the thousands of women
to whom in crisis Of pain they have
been next to God in benefaction.
Come, now, let US haye a religion
for ordinary people in professions, in
occupations, in agriculture, in the
household, in merchandise-in every
thing. I salute across the centuries
Asyncritus, Phlegoh, Hermas, Patro-
bas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia.
First of ali, 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, and no one seems
TO say, "That is well done.
Phenomena are Of but little use.
Things that are exceptional cannot be
depended on. Better trust the smallest
planet that swings on its orbits than
ten comets shooting tais way and that,
imperiling the longevity of worlds at.
tending to their own business. For
steady illumination better is lamp
than a rocket. Then, if you feel, that
you are ordinary, remember that your
position invites the less attack.
Conspicuous people how they
have to take it, How they are mis-
represented and abused and shot at.
The higher the horns of roebuck the
easier to track him down. What a
delicious thing it must be to be can,
didate for president of the United
States. It must be so soothing to the
nerves 1t must pour into the soul OF
a candidate such a sense of serenity
when he reads the blessed newspa-
pers.
I came into the possession of the
abusive cartoons in the time of Napo-
1.ou I, p,inUeu willie iie WAS yet awe.
The retreat Of the army from Moscow,
that army buried in The SHOWS of Rus
sia, one of the most awful tragedies of
the centuries, represented under the
figure of a monster called General
Frost shaving the French emperor
with a razor Of icicle. AS Satyr and
Beelzebub he is represented, page af-
ter 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 those men in his
tory who now have halo around
their name on earth wore a crown of
thorns. Take a few extraordinary
railroadmen of our time and see what
abuse comes upon them, while thous,
ands of stockholders escape. All the
world took after Thomas Scott, presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania railroad,
abused him until ne got under the
ground. Thousands of stockholders
| in that company. All the blame on
one man, The Central Pacific rail
road-two or three men get all the
blame if anything goes wrong. There
are 10, 900 in that company.
mention these things to prove 1t IS
extraordinary people who got abused
while the ordinary escape. The wealth
er of life is not so severe on the plain
as it is on the high peaks. The world
never forgives a man who knows or
gains or does more than it can know
or gain or do. Parents sometimes give
confectionery to their children as an
inducement to take bitter medicine,
and the worlds sugar plum precedes
the worlds aqua forts. The mob cried
in regard to Christ: Cruelty him !.
Cruelty him" And they had to say
it twice to be understood, for they
were SO hoarse, and they got their
hoarseness by crying little while be-
fore at the top of their voice, 'Hosan-
ma" The river Rhone is foul when 1t
enters Lake Leman, but crystalline
when it comes out on the other side.
But there are men who have entered
the bright lake of worldly prosperity