Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-07-26

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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 NOW;
grace to doctor the COW with a hollow
horn, and the sheep with the footrot, and
the horse with the distemper, and to com
pei the unwilling acres to yield liyeh-
hood for the family, and schooling for
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. ]
know 500 farmers just as noble as he
was.
What they want is to know that they
have tho friendship Of that Christ who
often drew his similes from the farmers
life, as when he said, "a sower went
forth to sow" as when he built his best
parable ont 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 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 hod Of brick up the ladder
without slipping, and how on cold
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 a tired
world, and it is an overworked world,
and it is an underfed world, and it is
wrung 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.
Healers of the 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 compounding medica-
ment or holding the delicate pulse Of a
dying child they may have the presence
and the dictation Of the almighty doc
tor who took the case Of the madman,
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 1S 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 ac-
cidental blindness until the morning
light came streaming through the tieshly
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
whom the world makes no record, but
to prove that they are angels Of mercy
invoke the thousands Of men whose all
ments have been assuaged and the thou
sands of women to whom in crises OF
pain they have been next to God in
benefactiOn.
Come. now, let US have a religion for
ordinary people in professions, in occu-
pations, in agriculture, in the household,
in merchandise, in everything. l salute
across the centuries Asyncritus, Phlegon,
Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus
and Julia
First Of all, If you feel that you are
ordinary, thank God that you are not
extraordinary. am tired and sick and
bored almost TO death with extraordi-
nary 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 ap-
proval, and no one seems to say, THAT
is we'll done" Phenomena are OF but
little use. Things that are exceptional
cannot be depended on. Better trust
the smallest planet that swings on its
orbit than ten comets shooting this way
and that, imperiling the longevity OF
worlds attending to their own business.
For steady illumination better is lamp
than 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 misrepresent-
ed and abused and shot at The higher
the horns Of roebuck the easier TO
track him down. What delicious thing
it must be TO be candidate for pres'"
dent of the United statesi 1t must bs
SO soothing to the nerves 1t must pour
into the soul Of candidate such sense
Of serenity when he reads the blessed
newspapers!
The Abused.
l came into the possession OF thu
abusive cartoons in the time Of Napo-
leon l, printed while he was yet alive.
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 fig
are Of a monster called General Frost
shaving the French emperor with q
razor Of icicle. AS Satyr and Beelzebub
he is represented, page after page, page
after page, England cursing him, Spain
cursing him, Germany cursing him,
Russia cursing him, Europe cursing
him, North and South America cursins
him, the most remarkable man Of his
day and the most abused. All those
men in history who now have halo
around their name ON earth wore a
crown Of thorns.
Take the few extraordinary railroad