The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-07-27
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| 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 thetariif is up ortariff is down.
whether the crops are luXuriant or dead
failure. calm in all circumstances and amid
all yissicitudes-that is the kind OF grace we
want. Millions of men want it. and they
may have it for tine asking. Some hero or
heroine comes to town, and as the procession
passes through the street the business men
come out and stand on tiptoe on their store
steps and look at some one who in arctic
cline Or IL ocean storm or IN day CT battle or
in hospital aSonies did the brave thin:. n y
realizing that they, the enthusiastic s2"@ta.
tors. have gone through trials in business
life that are just as great before Goa. There
are men who have gone through freezing
arctics and burning torridS and awful
Marenyos of experiences withov. moving
five miles from their doorSteps. Now. what
ordinary business men need is to realize that
they have the friendship of that Christ who
looked after the religious Interests OF
Matthew. the custom house clerk. and helped
Lydia of Thyatira to sell the dry goods, and
who opened a bakery and fish market i'll the
wil3erdess OF Asia Minor to feed the % 0
VINO D3U como out OH Il TtllSiOuS plCIIt. Nuu
who counts the hairs OF Your head with rs
much particularly as though they wero
the plumes of a 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
caltcrapnv, and VINO knows Just how many
locusts there wcro in tho Egyptian plague
and knew Just how many ravens We're necc:-
sary to supply Eli jah pantry by the brook
Cherith, and who us floral commander leads
forth all the regiments OF prmroScS, Ion
gloves, daffodils. hyacinths and lilies whIch
pitch their tents Of beauty and klndle their
camp fires of color all around tho hem;-
snhere: that that Christ and that God know
the most minute affairs Of your business ilIe
and. however inconsiderabic, understanding
all the affairs of that woman who keeps Il
thread and needle store as well rs al tHe al
fairs OF 4 Rothschild and 4 Stewart.
Then there are all the ordinary iarma's
We talk about agricultural life. anil W. I'M
meliately shoot off TO talk about Cincin-
natus, the patriciaD, who went from thcr %"
to high position, aud after he got through
tha Dictatorship in twentv-nnn DAYS "'nf
back again to tho plow. What encourage
ment is that to ordinary farmers? Tho VAST
majority of them. none Of them, will be pa
tricians. Perhaps none Of them will De sell
ators. If any ofthem have relationships, II
will be over forty or fifty or 100 acres OF tho
old homestead. What those men want Is
grace to keep their patience while pow
ing with balky oxen and to keep cheerlui
amid the drought that destroys the corn crop
and that enables them to restore tho garden
the day after the neighbor,s cattle nave
broken in and trampled out the str.WD3try
bed and gone through the lima bean Pa'cn
and eaten UP The sweet corn in such large
I, - ha am
water lest they swell up and die; grace III
catching weather that enables them without
imprecation to spread out the haythe thlfa
| time, although again and again and again IL
has been almost ready for the NOV; grace
to doctor the COW with hollow born, and
| the sheep with the footrot, and the morse
with the distemper, and to compel the un-
willing acres to yield a livelihood 1or the
| family: and schooling for the children, and
little extras to help the older boy in business
and something for the daughters weddlnS
outfit, and little surplus for the time Wnen
the ankles will get stiff with age and the
breath will be a little short, and the swing.
! inc of tho cradle through the hot harvest
field will bring on the old mans vertigo.
Better close up about Cincinnatus. l know
500 farmers lust 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 eshooH
that night with rural jubilee, and who com
pared Himself to a 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 to heal
about Christopher Wren, the architect, who
built st. Paul's cathedral. 1t would be bet
ter to tell them how to carry the hod OF brlcE
up the ladder without slipping. and how or
cold morning with the trcwel to smooth on
the mortar and keep cheerful, and how to Dc
thankful to God for the plain food taken
from the pail by the roadside. carpenter:
standing amid the adj, and the bit, and the
plane, and the broadaX need to be told tha
| Christ was a carpenter, with His own hanc
welding saw and hammer. Oh, this is &
tired world. and it is an overworked world
| and it is an underfed world, and it is {
wrung out world, and men and women neeC
10 know that there is rest and recuperatlor
in God and in that religion which was no
so much intended for extraordinary peopl
as for ordinary people, because there ar
more OF them.
Tie healing profession has had its Aber
crombies and its Abernethys and its Valen
ordinary physicians do the most OF tn
worlds medicining, and they need to under
stand that while taking diagnosis or prog
nosis or writing prescription or compound
ing medicament or holding the delicate pulls
of diving child they may have the presenc
and the dictation of the almighty doctor VII
took the case of the madman, and after b
had torn off his garments in foaming de
me1tia clothed him again. body and mlnc
and who lifted up the woman who for egh
cen years had been bent almost double wit
the rheumatism into graceful stature, an
who turned the scabs of leprosy into rub
sund complexion, and who rubbed the numt
oess out of paralysis, and who swung wiG
open the closed windows Of hereditary {
accidental blindness until the morning iiSt
came streaming through the feshlv case
L - :, and who knows all the diseases an
all the remedies and all the herbs and al IA
catholicons. aud is monarch of pharmac
and therapeutics. a:-d who has sent out TO-
900 doctors Of whom the world makes no rec
ord. but to pro:e that they are angels c
mercy invoke the thousands Of men who.
ailments have been assuaged and the thou
sands Of women 10 whom in crises of pal
they have been next to God in hcnefactior
Come. now, let us have a religion for OF
dinary people in professions. in occupation;
in agriculture, in the household. in mel
chandise, in everything. salute across tn
centuries Asyncritus, Phleson, HERNIA:
Patrohas, Hernes, PhiIoloSus and Julia
First ofall. il you feel that you are ordi
nary, thank God that you arc not eytra5rdi
nary lam tired and sick and bored alnos
to death with extraordinary people. The.
take all their time to tell lis how very extra
ordinary they really are. You know as vel
as do, my brother and sister, that the mos
of the useful work oftho world is done b
unpretentions people who toll right OF. b
people who do not get much approval. an
no one seems to say. "Ihat is well done.
Phenomena are Of but little use. Thing
that are cxceptiopal cannot be dc
ncnded on Better trust the smaiIest nila'