The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-02

Mamre will help every woman TO pro
vide hospitality, however rare and EN-
barrassing. 1t is high time that some
of the attention we have been giving
to the remarkable women OF the Bible
remarkable for their virtue or their
want of it, or remarkable for their
deeds Deborah and Jezebel, and
IIerodias and Athasiah, and Dorcas
and the Marys, excellent or aban-
doned-it is high time that some OF
the attention we have been giving to
these conspicuous women of the Bible
be given to Julia of the text, an ordl-
nary woman amid ordinary circum-
stances, attending to ordinary duties
and meeting ordinary responsibilities.
Then there are all the ordinary bust
ness men. They need divine and Chris
tian help. When we begin to talk
about business life we shoot right OIL
and talk about men who did business
on large scale, and who sold millions
of dollars of goods year; but the vast
majority of business men do not sell
million dollars of goods, nor half
million, nor a quarter of a million, nor
the eighth part of million. Put all
the business men of our cities, towns,
villages and neighborhoods side by
side and you will find that they sell
less than fifty thousand dollars
of goods. All these men in or
binary business life want di-
vine help. You see how the
wrinkles are printing on the counte-
nance the story of worriment and
care. You can not tell how old bust
ness man is by looking at him. Gray
hairs at thirty. A man at forty-five
with the stoop Of nonogenarian. No
time to attend to improved dentistry,
the grinders cease because they are
few. Actually dying of old age at
forty or fifty, when they ought to be
at the meridian. Many of these bust
ness men have bodies like a neglected
clock, to which you come, and you
wind it up, and it begins to buzz and
roar and the the hands start around
very rapidly, and then the clock strikes
five, or ten, or forty, and strikes
without any sense and then sud-
denly stops. So is the body
of that WORKOUT business man. 1t is
a neglected clock, and though by some
summer recreation it may be wound
up still the machinery is all out of
gear. The hands turn around with a
velocity that excites the astonish-
ment of the world. Men can not un-
1erstand the wonderful activity, and
here is roar, and buzz, and rat
lie about these disordered lives, and
hey strike ten when they ought to
strike FIVE. and they strike twelve
when they ought to strike six,
md they strike forty when
hey ought to strike nothing, and sud
lenly they stop. Post-mortem exami-
lations reveals the fact that all the {
prings, and pivots, and weights, and {
'alance- wheels Of health are complete.
Y deranged The human clock has c
imply run down. And at the time t
yhen the steady hand ought to be t
ointing to the Industrious hours on l
lear and sunlit dial, Che whole ma n
hinery of body, mind and earthly ii
apacity stops forever. The Gene t
cries have thousands of business men n
ho died of old age at thirty, thirty o
We, forty, forty-five. /
Then there are all the ordinary :
lrmers. We talk about agricultural u
fe. and we Immediately shoot off to Z
Tx about Cincinnatus, the patrician, !.
no went from plow to high posi-
on. and after he got through the
of ;v ~ Ia, I, | III
ent back again to the pillow. What Il
is that to the ordinary !,
rmers? The vast majority of them !.
,ne of them will be patricians. Per-
Fps none of them will be senators. If
~ of them have relationships it will y
over forty, or fifty, or hundred .
res of the old homestead. What II
ose men want is grace to keep their Il
thence while blowing with balky {
ZEN, and to keep cheerful amid the y
ought that destroys the corn crop, .
I'd that enables them to restore the II
Irden the day after the neighbours d
tile have broken in and trampled
It the strawberry bed, and eaten up =,
e sweet corn in such large quantities !.
at they must be kept from the water !, y
st they swell up and die. Grace in u
itching weather that enables them, =.
ithout .imprecation, to spread out y
e hay the third time, although
.ain and again and again it has u
en almost ready for the NOW. A u
ace to doctor the COW with hollow a
,rn, and the sheep with the foot
t, and the horse with the distemper, o
ID to compel the unwilling acres to y ;.
ED livelihood for the family, and
hooling for the children, and little a
.tras to help the older boy in bust Q
,ss, and something for the daughters g
edding outfit, and a little surplus for e. e.
e time when the ankles will get stiff