The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-26
PLAIN PEOPLE.
DR.. Talmage Discourses on the
Needs Of the Toilers.
What the World Wants Is a Religion for
Ordinary PeopIe-The Business Men
vhe are in Need OF DIvIns
Helm.

In ms latest sermon given out to tn
press Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage took TO
his subject "Plain People" The tex
selected was from Romans, xvi:14-l5
Salute Asvncritus. Phlegon. Hermas
Patrobas. Hermes, Philoi 1gus ap6
Julia" DR.. Talmage said:
Matthew Henry. Albert Barnes
Adam Clark, Thomas Scott. and all
the commentators pass by these verses
without any especial remark. The
other twenty people mentioned in the
chapter were distinguished for some.
thing, and were therefore discussed by
the illustrious expositors; but nothin Q
us said about Asyncritus, Phlegon.
Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus
and Julia Where were they born? No
one knows Where did they die? There
rs no record of their disease. For
what were they distinguished? Abso-
lutely for nothing, or the trait of char
acter would have been brought out by
the apostle. If they had been very in
trepid, or opulent, or hirsute or music
al of cadence, or Grass of style. or in
anywise anomalous, that feature would
have been caught by the apostolic cam
era. But they were good people, be-
cause Paul sent to them his Christian
regards. They were ordinary people.
moving in ordinary sphere. attending
to ordinary duty, and meeting ordinary
responsibilities
What the world wants is religion
for ordinary people If there be in
the United States 65,0O0,OGo people.
there are certainly not more than
n.OO0, Coz extraordinary. and then there
are G4,O00,000 ordinary; and we do well
ITO turn our backs for little while
upon the distinguished and conspicu-
GUS people of the Bible and consider in
our text the seven ordinary. We spend
too much of our time in twisting gar
lands for remarkables. and building
thrones for magnates, and sculpturing
warriors, and apotheosizing philan-
thropists. The rank and 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 electrifv a senate.
will never make an important inven-
ton, will never introduce new phi
losophy, will never decide the fate of
q nation. You do not expect to: YOU
do not want to. You will not be a
Moses TO lead nation out of bondage.
You will not be a Joshua to prolong
the daylight until you can shut five
kings in cavern. You will not be
st John to unroll an Apocalypse. You
will not be St. Paul to preside over
an apostolic college. You will not be
a Mary to mother Christ. You will
more probably be Asyncritus, or Phle-
gon, or Hermas, or Patrobas, or Her
mes. or Philologus, or Julia.
Many of you are women at the head
of households. This morning you
launched the family for Sabbath OBJ
servance. Your brain decided the APP
parel, and your Judgment was final in
all questions of personal attire. Every
morning you plan ior the day. The
culinary Department. of your household
is your dominion. You decide all
questions of diet All the sanitary
regulations of your house are under
your supervision. To regulate the
food, and the apparel, and the habits,
and decide the thousand questions of
home life is a tax upon brain and
nerve and general health absolutely
appalling, if there be no divine allevi-
alton.
: 1t Goes not help you much to be told
that Elizabeth Fry did wonderful
things amid the criminals of Newgate
BIT does not help you much to be told
that Mrs Judson was very brave
among the Bornesian cannibals. It
does not help you much to be told that
FLORENCE Nightingale was very kind to
the wounded in the Crimea. 1t would
be better for me to tell you that the
Aivine Friend of Mary and Martha is
your Friend, and that He sees all the
anneyances and disappointments and
;abrasiors and corporations OF an or
binary housekeeper from morn till
hight, and from the first day of the
year to the last day of the year, and at
your call He is ready with help and
reinforcement
They who provide the food of the
world decide the health of the world. |
One of the greatest battles of this CEN |
fury was lost because the commander |
that morning had a fit OF indigestion. |
You have only to go on some errand |
amid the tayerns and hotels of the |
United States and Great Britain to ap- |
preciate the fact that vast multitude |
of the human race are slaughtered by |
incompetent cookery. Though young |
woman may have taken lessons in
music, and may have taken lessons in |
painting, and lessons in astronomy, she |
is not well educated unless she has |
taken lessons in doughi They who de-
eide the apparel of the world and the |
food of the world decide the endurance /
of the world.
An uathinking man may consider it |
a matter of little importance-the |
cares of the household and the econo-
mics of domestic life-but l tell you
the earth is strewn with martyrs of |
kitchen or nursery. The health-shat-
tered womanhood of America cries out |
for a God who can help ordinary women
ia the ordinary duties of housekeeping. |
The wearing, grinding, unappreciated
work goes on, but the same Christ who
stood on the banks of Galilee in the
early morning and kindled the fire and
had fish already cleaned and broiling
when the spOrtsmen stepped ashore
chilled and hungry, will help every
woman to prepare breakfast, whether
by her own hand, or the hand of her
hired help The God who made in
destructible eulogy of Hannah, who
made coat for Samuel, her son, and
carried it to the temple every year,
will help every woman in preparing
the family wardrobe. The God who