Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-08-08

and little extras to help the other boy
in business, and something for the
daughters wedding outfit and little
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 mans YER
tigo. Better close up about Cincinnatus.
l know five hundred 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 far
mer's coming back from his wander
ings, and the old farmhouse shook that
night with rural jubilee; and who COM
pared Himself to lamb in the pasture
field, and who said the eternal God is
farmer, declaring: my Father is the
husbandman."
Those stone masons do not want -
hear about Christopher Wren, the arch
itect, who built st. Paul's cathedral
1t would be better to tell them how ia
carry the hod Of brick up the ladder
without slipping, and how on cold
morning with the trowel to smooth on
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. o, this is
a tired world, and it is an overworked
world, and it is an underfed world,
and it is a wrung-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 extraordinary people as
for ordinary people, because there are
more of them. The healing profession
has had it's Abercrombies, and its Aber-
nethvs, and its Valentine Motifs, and
it's Willard Parkers; but the ordinary
physicians do most of the worlds
medicining, and they need to under
stand that while taking diagnosis or
prognosis, or writing prescription, or
compromising medicament, or holding
the delicate pulse Of dying child they
may have the presence and the dicta-
ton of the Almighty Doctor who took
the case of the mailman, and, after ne
had torn off his garments in foaming
dementia, clothed him again, body and
mind, and who lifted up the woman
who for eighteen years had been bent
almost double with the rheumatism,
into graceful stature, and who turned
the scabs of leprosy into rubicund COM
plexion, and who rubbed the numbness
out of paralysis, and who swung. VIDE
open the closed windows OF hereditary
or accidental blindness, until the morn
ing light came streaming through the
ieshly easements, and who knows al
the diseases and all the remedies, and
all the herbs, and all the catholicons'
and is monarch of pharmacy and thera-
neutics. and who has sent out ten
thousand doctors Of whom the world
makes no record; but to prove that
they are angels Of mercy Il invoke the
thousands OF men whose ailments nave
been assuaged and the thousands OF
women to whom in crisis of pain they
have been next to God in benefactlon.
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 extra
ordinary people They take all their
time to tell you how very extraordinary
they really are You know as well as
I do. nv 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 no'
get much approval, and no one seems
10 saw. ''that is well done" Phe'
nomena are but little use. Ihings
that are exceptional cannot be de-
,anded ON. Better trust the smallest
planet that swings on it's orbit than
ten comets shooting this way and that
;mperiling the longevity OF worlds az
1 tending to their own business. foi
steadv illumination better lamp thar
a rocket. Then, if you feel that you are
ordinary, remember that your positlol
| invites the less attack
conspicuous people-how they nave
10 take it! How they are misrepre
sented. and abused, and shot al! lh'
b;gber the horns of a roebuck u
.asier to track him down. What dc
1;cious thing it must be to De a canol
anto for president of the United States
| 1t must be SO soothing 70 tne nerves a,,d;
n must pour into the soul OF canai
date such a sense of serenity when az
raads the blessed newspapers.
I came into the possession OF I'M
.h,,s;ve cartoons in the time OF Napo
leon +, printed while he was YET alive
iTU retreat of the army from Moscow
tlnt army buried in the SHOWS OF Rus
1;,a ana II the most awful TRACE lies
20 20 oa,tnries. represented under TN
funre Of monster called zen. Ilu ;.,
shaving the French emperor p maoI
raaor of icicle. As Satyr ana pee
zehub he is represented, page alee
nsop mage after page. England ours
Peg him Spain cursing him, German.
as him. Russia cursing him, ~
ra,,e c,rsing him, North and SOUL
America cursing him. The moso IS
1 ma man Of his day. ana Tn
most abused. All those men IN nissol
: Who now have halo arounu ono.
name. on earth wore a crown Oh w, rs