Connecticut western news., 1895-07-25

would be better to tell them how to carry the hod of brick up the ladder without slipping, and how on cold morning with the trowel to smooth off the mortar and keep cheerful and how to be 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 broadax need to be told that Christ was a car penter, with his own hand yielding saw and hammer. Oh, this is tired world, and it is an overworked world, and 1t is an underfed world, and it is wrung out world, and men and women need to know that there is rest and re- cuperation in God and in that religion which was not so much intended for extraordinary people as for ordinary peo- pie, because there are more of them.
 Headers of the Sick.
 The healing profession has had its Abercrombies and its Abernethys and its Valentine Motts and its Willard Par kers, but the ordinary physicians do the most of the worlds medicining, and they need to understand that while talk ing diagnosis or prognosis or writing prescription or compromising medica- ment or holding the delicate pulse of a dying child they may have the presence and the dictation of the almighty doc- tor who took tho case of the madman, and after he had torn off his garments in foaming dementia clothed him again, body and mind, and who lifted up the woman who for IS years had been bent almost double with the rheumatism in- to graceful stature, and who turned the scabs of leprosy into rubicund complex ion, and who rubbed the numbness out of paralysis, and who swung wide open the closed windows of hereditary or ac- cidental blindness until the morning light came streaming through the f1eshly easements, and who knows all the dis eases and all the remedies and all the herbs and all the catholicons, and is monarch of pharmacy and therapeutics, and who has sent out 10, 1000 doctors of whom the world makes no record, but to prove that they are angels of mercy invoke the thousands of men whose ail- ments have been assuaged and the thou sands of wo<slen to whom in crises of pain they have been next to God in benefaction.
 Come, now, let us have religion for ordinary people in professions, in occu- pations, in agriculture, in the household, in merchandise, in everything. I salute across the centuries Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia. First of all, if you feel that you are ordinary, thank God that you are not extraordinary. l am tired and sick and bored almost to death with extraordi- nary people. They take all their time to tell us how very extraordinary they really are. You know as we'll as do, my brother and sister, that the most of the useful work of the world is done by unpretentious people who toll right on, by people who do not get much ap- proval, and no one seems to say, That is we'll done" Phenomena are of but little use. Things that are exceptional cannot be depended on. Better trust the smallest planet that swings on its orbit than ten comets shooting this way and that, imperiling the longevity of worlds attending to their own business. For steady illumination better is lamp than rocket. Then, if you feel that you are ordinary, remember that your position invites the less attack.
 Conspicuous people-how they have to take it How they are misrepresent ed and abused and shot at The higher the horns of roebuck the easier to track him down. What delicious thing it must be to be candidate for presi- dent of the United States! It must be SO soothing to the nervesl It must pour
 into the soul of candidate such sense of serenity when he reads the blessed newspapers!
 came into the possession of the abusive cartoons in the time of Napo- leon I, printed while he was yet alive. The retreat of the army from Moscow, that army buried in the snows of Rus- | sia, one of the most awful tragedies of | the centuries, represented under the fig | ire of a monster called General Frost shaving the French emperor with a razor of icicle. As Satyr and Beelzebub he is represented, page after page, page after page, England cursing him, Spain cursing him, {. .ermany cursing him, Russia cursing him Europe cursing him, North and South America cursing him, the most remarkable m;-n of his day and the most eoused. All those men in history who now have a halo around their name on earth wore 8 crown of thorns,
 | Take the few extraordinary railroad men of our time and see what abuse comes upon them while thousands of stockholders escape All the world took | after Thomas Scott, president of the l Pennsylvania railroad, abused him until he got under the ground. Thousands of stockholders in that company. All the blame on one man. The Central Pacific railroad. Two or three men get all the blame if anything goes wrong. There are 10, 900 in that company.
 I mention these things to prove it is extraordinary people who get abused while the ordinary escape. The weather of life is not so severe on the plain as it is on the high peaks. The world never forgives man who knows or gains or does more than it can know or gain or do. Parents sometimes give confection- cry to the children as an inducement to | take bitter medicine, and the world s sugar plum precedes the worlds aqua fortis. The mob cried in regard to Christ, "Crucify him, cruelty himi" and they had to say it twice to be un- derstood, for they were so hoarse, and they got their hoarseness by crying lit
 tie while before at the top of their voice,
 'HosannaP" The river Rhone is foul when it enters Lake Leman, but crys-
 talline when it comes out on the other
 side. But there are men who have en- tered the bright lake of worldly pros
 perity crystalline and came out terribly
 riled. If, therefore. .<ou feel that you
 are ordinary, thank God for the defenses