Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-07-27
GOSPEL OF CONTENT.
REV. DR.. rALMAcE ON THE RELIGION
FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE.

FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE.
10 Asks Attention to tho Rank and File
Rather Than to the Few The Disad-
vantages Of Being Conspicuous = Tho
Blessing Of Content.
EEa York, July 21.-Rev. DR.. Tai
riago, who is still absent on his annual
midsummer toar, preaching and lectur
irg, has prepared fer today a sermon en-
plain People, a topic which will APP
peal to very large majority Of readers
anywhere The text selected was Ro-
mans XII, IL, 10, Salute Asyncrituu,
Phlcgon, Hermas. Patrobas, Hermes.
Philologus and Julia "
Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes, Adam
Clark, Thomas Scott and all the com
mentators lass ny these verses without
any especial remark The other 20 peo-
pie mentioned in the chapter were dis
tinguished for something aud were
therefore discussed by the illustrious ex-
positors, but nothing is said about Asyn
critus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas,
/ Hermes, P,ilologus and Julia. Where
were they born? No one knows. Where
did they die? There is no record of
their dccease. For what were they dis
tinguished? Absolutely for nothing, or
the trait Of character would have been
brought out By the apostle. If they had
been very Intrepid or opulent or hir
suite or musical Of cadence or Grass of
style or in anywise anomalous, that
feature would have been caught by the
apostolic camera. But they were good
people, because Paul sent to them his
high Christian regards. They were or
binary 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 5000, 600 people, there
are certainly not more than 900, 600
extraordinary, and then there are Ga,
600, coo ordinary, and we do well to
turn cur backs for little while upon
the distinguished and conspicuous peo-
pie Of the Bible and consider in our text
the seven ordinary. We spend too much
OF our time in twisting garlands for re-
marlables and building thrones for mag
mates and sculpturing warriors and
apothoosizing philanthropists. The rank
and file of tho Lords soldiery need es-
pecial help.
The vast majority Of people to whom
this sermon comes will never lead an
army, will never write q state constitu-
tion, viii never electrify q senate, will
never mako an important invention,
will never introduce new philosophy,
will never decide the fate Of nation.
You do not expect to; you do not want
to. You viii not be Moses to lead
nation out Of bondage. You will not be
a Joshua to prolong the daylight until
you can shut five k;ngsin a cavern. You
will not DO st. John to unroll an
apocalypse. You will not be Paul to
preside over an apostolic college. You
will not be g Mary to mother Christ
You viii more probably be Asyncritus
or Phlegon or Hermas or Patrobas or
Eermes or Philologus or Julia
Heads of Households.
Many of you are women at the head
of households. This morning you launch
ed the family for Sabbath observance
Your brain decided the apparel, and
your Judgment was final ON all cues
tions of personal attire. Every morning
you plan fer the day. The culinary de-
partmcnt Of your household is in your
dominion. You decide all questions of
diet All tic sanitary regulations Of
yoar house arc under your supervision.
To regulate The food, and tho apparel,
and the habits and decide the thousand
questions of home life is "a tax upon
your brain and nerve and general health
absolutely appalling if there be no di
vine alienation.
1t does not help you much to be told
that Elizabeth Fry did wonderful things
mid the criminals of Newgate. 1t does
not help you much to be told that Mrs
Judson was very brave among the Bor-
nesian cannibals 1t does not help you
nuch to bc told that Florence Nightin-
gale was very kind to the wounded in
the Crimea 1t would be better for me
to tell you that the divine friend of
Mary and Martha is your friend, and
that he sees all the annoyances and dis
appointments and abrasions and exas-
perations of an ordinary housekeeper
from morn till night, 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
tury was lost because the commander
that morning had fit of indigestion.
You have only to go on some errand
amid the taverns and the hotels of the
United States and Great Britain to ap-
preciate tho fact that vast multitude
of the human race are slaughtered by
incompetent cookery. Though a young
woman may have taken lessons III music
and may have taken lessons in paint
ing and lessons in astronomy, she is not
well educated unless she has taken les
sons in dough. They who decide the APP
parel of the world and the food of the
world decide the endurance OF the
world.
An unthinking man may consider it
matter OF little mportance-the cares
Of the household and tho economies of
domestic life--but l tell you the earth
is strewn with tie martyrs Of kitchen
and nursery. The health shattered wom-
auhood of America cries ont for God
who can help ordinary women in the
ordinary duties of housekeeping. The
wearing, grinding, unappreciated work
goes on, but the same Christ who stood
on the bank of Galilee il the early
morning and kindled the fire and had
the 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 indestructible
eulogv of Hannah. who made coat
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