The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-26

'My Father is the husbandman."
: Those stonemasons do not want tc
hear about Christopher Wren. the archi
tect. who built St Paurs cathedral.
J It would be better to tell them how to
carry nod of brick up ladder with
out slipping, and how on a cold morn
ing 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 adze,
and the bit. and the plane, and the
broad-ax. need TO be told that Christ
was a carpenter, with His own hand
welding saw and hammer. Oh, this is
tired world, and il is an overworked
world, and it is an underfed world. and
it is a wrung-out world, and men and
women need to to know that there is
rest and recuperation in God and in
that religion which was not so much
intended for extraordinary people as
for ordinary people, because there are
more of them.
The healing profession has had its
Abercrombies, and its Abernethys. and
| its Valentine Motifs, and its Willard
| Parkers; but the ordinary physicians
do the most of the worlds medicining,
and they need to understand that while
taking diagnosis or prognoSis. or writ
ing prescription. or compromising me-
dicament, or holding the delicate pulse
of dying child. they may have the
presence and the dictation of the AL
mighty Doctor who took the case of
the mailman, and, after he had torn
off his garments in foaming demensia,
clothed him again, body aEd mind,
and who lifted up the woman who for
eighteen years had been bent almost
double with rheumatism, into graceful
stature.
Come, now. let us have religion for
ordinary people in professions, in Oc-
equations, in agriculture, in the house
hold, in merchandise. in everything.
salute across the centuries Asyncritus.
Phiiegon, 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 ex-
traordinary people. They take all
their time 20 tell us how very extraor-
mary 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 only people who do
not get much approval. and no one
seems to say, that is well done
Conspicuous people-how they have
TO take it. How they are misrepre-
sented, and abused, and shot att The
higher the horns of a roebuck the
easier to track him down. What de-
licious thing it must be to be a candi-
date for president of the United States,
1t must be so soothing to the nervesl
1t must pour into the soul of a candi-
date such 4 sense of serenity when he
reads the blessed newspapers.
l came into the possession of the abu.
sive cartoons in the time of Napoleon l.,
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 tragedies of the
centuries, represented under the figure
of a monster called Gen. Frost
shaving the French emperor with a
razor of icicle. As Satyr and Beelze- |
bub ne is represented, page after page, |
page after page, England cursing him, !
Spain cursing him, Germany cursing |
him, Russia cursing him. Europe ours |
ing him, North and South America |
cursing him. The most remar1a bic |
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 men of our
time, and see what abuse comes upon
them. while thousands of stockholders
escape.
mention these things to prove it is
extraordinary people who get abused
while the ordinary escape. The
weather 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 some
times give confectionery to their
children as an inducement to take
bitter medicine, and the worlds
sugar-plum precedes the worlds
aqua-fcrtis The mob cried in re-
gard to Christ. Cruelty him, cruelty
him" and they had to say it twice to
Misunderstood, for they were so hoarse,
and they got their hoarseness by cry
ing little while before at the top of
their voices. "Hosannai" The river
Rhone is foul when it enters Lake Le-
man, but crystalline when it comes out
on the other side. But there are men
who have entered the bright lake of
worldly prosperity crystalline and
came out terribly riled. If, therefore,
you feel that you are ordinary, thank
God for the defenses and the tran
guilty of your position.
Then remember, if you have only
what is called an ordinary home, that
the great deliverers of the world have
all come from such home And there
may be seated, reading at your even
ing stand, child who shall be potent
for the ages. Just unroll the scroll of
mighty men in church and state and you
will find they nearly all came from log
ca bin or poor homes. Genius almost al
ways runs out in the third or fourth
generation. You cannot find in all
history an instance where the fourth
generation of extraordinary people
amount to anything. Columbus from
q weaver's hut, Demosthenes from a
cutters cellar. Bloomfield and Mission
arv Carey from a shoemaker's bench,
from a BARRIERS shop, and
He, whose name is high over all in
earth, and air, and sky, from manger.
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 NAV be nse.