The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-07-26

and who said the eternal God Is farm
er, declaring, "My Father IA the hus.
bandman.
Those stonemasms do not want to
hear about Christopher Wren, the archi-
tect, who built St. Paul's cathedral 1t
would be better to tell them how to
carry tho hod Of brick up the ladder
without slipping, and how ON cold
morning with tho 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 adj, and
the bit, and the plane, and the broadax
need to be told that Christ was car
penter, with his own hand welding
saw and hammer. Oh, this is % tired
world, and 1t is an overworked world,
and it is an underfed world, and it is q
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.
Heaters Of the Sick.
The healing profession has had its
Abercrombies and its Abernethys and its
Valentine Motifs and its Willard Par
kers, but the ordinary physicians do the
most of the worlds medicining, and
they need to understand that while TAX
ing diagnosis or prognosis or writing
prescription or compromising medical
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 the case of the mailman,
and after he had torn off his garments
in foamine 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 fleshly
easements, and who knows all the dis
eases and all the remedies and all the
herbs and all tho catholicons, and is
monarch of pharmacy and therapeutics,
and who has sent out 10000 doctors of
whom the world makes no record, but
TO prove that they are angels of mercy |
invoke the thousands of men whose all
ments have been assuaged and the thou
sands of women to whom III 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. am tired and sick and
bored almost to death with extraordi-
nary people. They take all their tins 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-
| prevail, 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 a 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 Statesl 1t must be
SO soothing to the nerves! 1t must pour
into the soul Of candidate such a sense
of serenity when he reads the blessed
newspapers!
The Abused.
l 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 SHOWS of Rus
STA, one Of the most awful tragedies Of
the centuries, represented under the fig
ure of monster called General Frost
shaving the French emperor with a
razor Of icicle. As Satyr and Beelzebut
he is represented, page after page, page
after page, England cursing him, Spain
cursing him, Germany cursing him,
Russia cursing him, Europe cursine
him, North and South America cursine
him, the most remarkable man Of his
day and the most abused. All those
men in history who now have halo
around their name on earth Wore {
crown Of thorns.
Take the few extraordinary railroad
men of our time and see what abuse
comes upon them White thousands o.
stockholders escape. All the world tool
after Thomas Scott, president of the
Pennsylvania railroad abused him unit
he got under the ground. Thousands O
stockholders in that company. All thu
blame on one man. The Central Pacific
railroad Two or three men get all thu
blame if anything goes wrong. Their,
are 10000 in that company
! mention these things to prove it il
extraordinary people who get abused
while the ordinary escape. The weathe
Of life is not so severe on the plain as j
is on the high peaks. The world neye
forgives man who knows or gains o
does more than it can know or gain O
do. Parents sometimes give confection
cry to the children as an inducement t.
take bitter medicine, ard the world
sugar plum precedes the worlds aqu
FORTS. The mob cried in regard t.
Christ, "Crucify him, cruelty him!'
and they had to say it twice to be un
derstood, for they We're so hoarse, am
they got their hoarseness by crying a lit
tie while before at the top of their voice
"Hosannal' The river Rhone is fou
when it enters Lake Leman, but crys