The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-02
'o,:LAIN PEOPLE,
REV. DR.. Talmage Defines the
Worlds Need of Religion.
IT Must be Such ~ Not to be beyond
the Reach or Comprehension of
tho Ordinary People in
Everyday Lifo.

IN WIN IdlhdSC, WIZ 10 oIil oh ~
summer tour, is selected for public;
ton this week. Its subject is "Plai
People" being based on the text:
Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon. Hermas, Petrt
bus, Hermes, Philologus and Julus.--Romar
Avi, 14-15.
Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes
Adam Clark, Thomas Scott, and al
the commentators pass by these verse
without any especial remark. TIL
other twenty people mentioned in tn
chapter were distinguished for some
thing, and were, therefore, discussed
by the illustrious expositors; bu
nothing is said about Asyncritus
Phlegon, ,Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes
Philologus and Julia. Where were
they born? No one knows Where
did they die? There is no record o.
their decease. For what were they
distinguished? Absolutely for nothing,
or the trait of character would have
been brought out by the apostle. II
they had been very intrepid or opulent
or hirsute or musical of cadence, or
Grass of style or in any wise anoma-
fous, that feature would have been
caught by the apostolic camera. But
they were good people, because Paul
sent to them his high Christian re-
CARDS. They were ordinary people,
moving in ordinary sphere, attending
to ordinary duty, and meeting ordin-
airy responsibilities.
What the world wants is religion
for ordinary people. If there be in
the United States sixty-fve million
people, there are certainly not more
than one million extraordinary; and
then there are sixty-four million ordi-
nary, and we do well to turn our
backs for little while upon the dis
tinguished and conspicuous people of
the Bible and consider in our text the
seven ordinary. We spend too much
of our time in twisting garlands for
remarkables and building thrones for
magnates, and sculpturing warriors
and apotheosizing philanthropists.
The rank and the file of the Lords
soldiery need especial help.
The vast majority of people to whom
this sermon comes will never lead an
army, will never write state consti-
tuition, will never electrify Senate,
will never make an important inven-
tfon, will never introduce a new phi |
iosophy, will never decide the fate of
nation. You do not expect to; you do
not want to. You will not be Moses |
to lead nation out of bondage. You
will not be Joshua to prolong the |
daylight until you can shut five kings
in cavern. You will not be a st.
John to unroll the Apocalypse. You
will not be Paul to preside over an
apostolic college. You will not be
Mary to mother a Christ. You will
more probably be Asyncritus, or Phle-
ron, or Hermas, or Patrobas, or
Hermes, or Philologus, Or Julia
Many of you are women at the head
If households This morning you
aunched the family for Sabbath OBJ
eryance. Your brain decided the ap-
,arel, and your judgment was final on
Ii questions of personal attire. Every
morning you plan for the day. The I
department of your house
Iold is your dominion. You decide all {
questions of diet. All the sanitary
equations of your house are under ]
our supervision. To regulate the
ocd, and the apparel, and the habits, {
nd decide the thousand questions of
lome life is tax upon brain and 6
erve and general health absolutely t
ppalling, if there be no divine allevia- !
ion. {
They who provide the food of the {
World decide the health of the world. 9
me of the greatest battles of this {
entury was lost because the COM c
lander that morning had fit of in {
igestion. You have only to go on t
ome errand amid the taverns and the t
otels of the United States and Great ]
ritain to appreciate the fact that {
asst multitude of the human race are '
aughtered by incompetent cookery.
hough a young woman may have 6
lken lessons in music, and may have
lken lessons in painting, and lessons {
astronomy, she is not we'll educated
Mess she has taken lessons in dough! I
hey who decide the apparel of the q
orld and the food of the world decide J
lie endurance of the world.
An unthinking man may consider it {
matter of little importance-the
Tres of the household and the econo- '
les of domestic life-but tell you
lie earth is strewn with the martyrs
kitchen and nursery. The health
womanhood of America cries {
1t for God who can help ordinary
omen in the ordinary duties of house.
eeping The wearing, grinding. un-
ppreciated work goes on, but the
ime Christ who stood on the bank of
alice in the early morning and [
indled the fire and had the fish al ,
eady cleaned and broiling when the /
portsmen stepped ashore chilled and s
nnprv will helm every woman tn nra. |