Milford chronicle., 1895-07-26

] OIuludIy EhEnefhs
Then there arc all the ordinary farmers.
/ We talk about agricultural life, and we
/ Immediately shoot off to talk about Gin
cinnatus, the patrician, who went from
the pillow to a high position, and after he
got through the dictatorship in 21 days
went back again to the pillow. What en-
couragement is that TO ordinary farmersf
The vast majority Of them, mono of them,
will be patrioians. Perhaps none of them
will be senators. If any Of them have die
tatorships, it will be over 40 or 90 or 100
acres of the old homestead. What those
men want is grace TO keep their patience
while plowing with balky oxen, and to
keep cheerful amid the drought that de-
str5ys tho corn crop, and that enables
them to restore the garden the day after
the neighbor's cattle have broken in and
trampled ont the strawberry bed and gone
through the lima bean patch and eaten up
the sweet corn in such large quantities
that they must be kept from the water
lest they swell up and die; grace in catch
ing weather that enables them, without
inprecation, to spread out the hay the
third time although again and again and
again it has been almost ready for the
NOW; grace to doctor the COW with
hollow uDflf anu Allt olCtD WIN tAAt Abpt
rot, and the horse with the distemper, and
to compel the unwilling acres to yield
livelihood for the family, and schooling
for the children, and little extras to help
the older boy in business, and something
for the daughters wedding outfit, and a
little surplus for the time when the ankles
will get stiff with age, and the breath will
be a little short, and the swinging Of the
. hot buu fold mill
bring on the old mans vertigo. Better
close up about Cincinnatus. knew 900
farmers just as noble as he was.
What they want is to know that they
have the friendship Of that Christ who Of
ten 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 a farmers boy coming
back from his wanderings, and the old
farmhouse shook that night with rural ju-
bilce, and who compared himself to lamb
in the pasture field, and who said the etor-
nal God is "a farmer, declaring, My Fa-
ther is the husaandman
A Tired World.
Those stonemasons do not want to hear
about Christopher Wren, the architect,
who built St. Paurs cathedral. 1t would
be better TO tell them how to carry the bod
OF brick up the ladder without slipping
and how on a cold morning with the trow-
ell to smooth off the mortar and keep
cheerful and how to DO thankful to God
for the plain food taken from the pail by
the roadside. Carpenters standing amid
the adz, and the bit, and the plane, and
the broadhx need TO BE- told that Christ
was q carpenter, with his own hand WELD
ing saw and hammer. Oh, this is tired
world, and It is an oyerNcrlied world, and
it IS an underfed world, ard it is a wrung
out world, and men and women reed to
know that there is rest and recuperation
in God and in that religion which was net
so much intended for extraordinary people
as for ordinary people, because there are
more Of them.
The healing profession has had its Aber-
crombies and its Abcrne,bys, and it Val
cntiLe Motifs, and 10 willard parkers, but
the ordinary physicians 10 the most Of the
world lnelloininz, and they reed to I'M