The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-08-16
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIvINEs SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject "riain People"

Matthew Henry. Albert Barnes. Adam
CLARK. Thomas Scott and 900 the c0wmenia-
t0r pass by these verses without any especial
romnrk. The olhortwenty people mentioned
in the chapter were distinguished for H1me-
thing and we're therefore discussed hY the
illustrious cxposltou, but nothing g Faid /
about AsyncHiua, Phleg0n, uemns, Patro-
has. Hemes. Philol0gus and julia Where 4
were they born2 No one knows. Where did /
they die? There isno record OF their deeease 1
For what were they distinguished Aha0- /
lutoly for nothing on the truit OF character /
would have been brought ont by the apostle. /
M they had been very intrepid or opulont or /
hiHute or musical Of cadence OF Grass Of |
style or in auywiso anomalous, that feature |
would have been caught by the apostolic /
camera Butthey were good people because
Paul sent 10 them his high Christian regards.
They were ordinary people, moving In ordi-
nary sphere attending 90 ordinary duty and
meeting ordinary responsibilities.
What the world wants is % religion for
/ ordinary people. II there be ia the United
/ States 5000 900 people there are certainly
/ not more than 100000 extraordinary, and
| then there are GA 100000 ordinary, and we do
we'll to turn our backs for a little while upon
/ the distinguished and conspicuous people of
! the Bible and consider In our text the seven
| ordinary. We spend too much Of our time
I'm twisting gariands for remarkahles and
building thrones for magnates and seulptur-
ing warriors and apOtheOsizing phllanth-
ropists. The rank and nle Of the Lords
soldiery need especial help.
The vast majority of people 20 whom this
sermon comes will never lead ap army. will
never write a State constitution will never
electrify a Senate, will never make an im-
pOrtant invention, will never introduce
new philosophy, will never decide
the fate of Nation. You do not exc
pect to; you DO not want 10. You viii not
be q Moses TO lead q Nation out Of bondage
You will not be a Joshua 20 proong the day
light until you can shut five kings in a cav
ern. You will not be a st. John 70 unroll an
apocalypse You will not be a Paul 10 pre-
side over an apostolic college. You will not
be a Mary to mother Christ. You will more
probably be Asyncrltus or Phlegon or Her
mas or patrobas or Hermes or Philologus or
Julia.
Many Of you are women at the head OF
households This morning you launched the
family for Sabbath observance. Your brain
decided the apparel. and your judgment was
final on all questions OF personal attire.
Every morning you plan for the day. The
culinary department of your household is in
your dominion. You decide all questions Of
diet. An the sanitary regulations OF your
house are under your supervision. To regu-
late the food, and the apparel, and the habits
and decide the thousand questions of home
life is q tax upon your brain and nerve and
general health absolutely appalling if there
be no divine alienation.
II does not help you much to be told that
Elizabeth Fry did wonderful things mid the
criminals OF NeWgate. Ii does not help YOU
: much to be told that Mrs. Judson was verl
brave among the Bornesian cannibals. i
Z does not help you much to be told that Flor
ence Nightingale was very kind to thu
Is.1f AItFan pftg a a
for me to tell you that the Divine Friend o
Mary and Martha is your friend and that H
sees all the annOyances and disappointment
] and abrasions and eXasperatiOns OF an ordin
airy hOusekeeper from morn till night
and from the first day Of the year to the las
( day Of the year and at your call He is read,
with help and re-enfOrcements.
s They who provide the food of the wor
a decide the health OF the world One Of tn
greatest battles Of this century was lost be
{ cause the commander that morning had a 4
:, of indigestion. You have only to 90 on som
- errand amid the taverns ana the hotels 0
o United States and Great Britain to apprt
4 ciate the fact that vast multitude OF tn
IL human race are slaughtered by incompeten
o cookery. Though a young woman may hav
taken lessons in music and may have take
Il lessons in painting and lessons in astronom.
ar she is NOT well educated unless she has stake
lessons in dough They who decide the al
20 pare of the world and the food Of the worl
~ decide the endurance Of the world.
An unthinking man may consider 1t ma
10 ter Of little importance-the cares OF Il
-. household and the economies Of domestic Ii
% but tell you the earth is strewn with Il
Ii martyrs Of kitchen aud nursery. The heat
. shattered womanhood Of America cries o.
l. for God who can help ordinary women
the ordinary duties OF housekeeping. ~
wearing. grinding, unappreciated work 60
on, but the same Christ who stood on t
ne bank of Galilee in the early morning n
- kindled the fire and had the fish alrea
u cleaned and broiling when the sportsm
D. stepped ashore, chilled and hungry will he
every woman to prepare breakfast, Whetf
ne by her own hand or the hand of her hir
All help.
~ The God who made indestructible eulo
n of Hannah, who made u coat for Samu
% herson, and carried it to the temple eve
VI year, will help every womanin preparing
OF family wardrobe. The God who opens
Bible with the story of Abraham's entertai
"a ment of theth angels on the plains
,as Mamre will help every woman to PROV
hospitality, however rare and embarra5si
nd 1t is high time that some Of the attention
he have been giving to the remarkable won
of the Blble-remarkable for their virtue
he want of it or remarkable for their deedi
no Deborah and Jezebel and Herodia and Ath
liah and Dorcas and the Marys, eXcellent u
1t abaadeaed-iti is high time some of the
~ tention we have been giving to these CT
spicuous women of the Bible be given
an Julia of the text, an ordinary woman an
-, ordinary circumstances, attending to OF
VII nary duties and meeting ordinary respon
bilities
90, Then there are the ordinary business M
,99UUCC They need divine and Christian he
'OoV When we begin TO talk about business /
,-- we shoot right off and talk about men v
'IN did business on q large SCALE and who s
rly millions of dollars Of goods year, but
az. vast majority of business men do not Sc
DtIe million dollars of goods nor half a MILL
900 nor n quarter Of million, nor the Gig
part of a million. Put all the business Il
les, Of our cities, towns, villages and height
Ia hoods side by side, and you will find I