The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02

his best parable out OF the scene OF !,
farmers boy coming back from hi,
wanderings, and the old farmhous,
shook h a night with rural jubilee; ant
who compared himself to a lamb in tn;
pasture field, and who said the eterna
God is a farmer, declaring: Ny Fathe,
Is the husbandman."
Those stone masons do not want tc
know about Christopher Wren, the ar.
chitect. who built st. Paul's Cathedral
1t would be better to tell them how tc
carry the hod Of brick up the ladder
without slipping. and how on a cold
morning with the trowel to smooth of
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 adze,
and the bit, n the plane, and the
broad axe need to be told that Christ
was a carpenter, with his own hand
welding saw and hammer. Oh, this is
a tired world, and 1t Is an overworked
world, n it is an underfed world, and
1t Is a wrung-out world, and men and
women need to know that there is rest
n recuperation in God and in that re-
ligion which was not so much intended
for extraordinary people as for ordi-
nary people because there are more of
them.
The healing profession has had its
Abercrombies, and its A~bernethys, and
it's Valentine Motifs and its Willard
Parkers; but the ordinary physi-
clans do the most Of the worlds
medicining, and they need to under
stand that while taking diagnosis or
prognosis, or writing prescription, or
compromising medicament, or holding
the delicate pulse of a cying child they
may have the presence and the d%ictation
of the Almighty Doctor who ook the
case Of the mad and, after he had
torn off his garments in foaming de-
mentia, clothed him again, body and
mind, and who lifted up the woman
who for eighteen years a been bent
almost double with the rheumatism.
into graceful stature, and who turned
the scabs of leprosy into rubicund COM.
plexion, and who rubbed the numbness
out of paralysis, n who swung wide
open the closed windows of hereditary
or accidental blindness, until the morn
ing light came streaming through the
fleshly easements, and who knows all
the diseases, and all the remedies, and
all the herbs, and all the catholicons,
and is monarch of pharmacy and thera-
peutics, and who has sent out ten thou
sand doctors of whom the world makes
no record; but to prove that they are
angels of mercy. 1 invoke the thousands
Of men whose ailments have been as
suaged and the thousands Of women to
whom in crisis Of pain they have been
next to God in benefaction.
Come, now, let us have a religion for
ordinary people in professions, in occu-
In merchandise, in everything. I salute
across the centuries Asyncritus, Phle-
gon, Hermas, Patrobas. Hermes. Phil
and Julia.
First of all, if you feel that you are
ordinary, thank God that you are not
extraordinary. I am tired and sick,
and bored almost to death with extra
ordinary people. They take all their
to tell us how very extraordinary
they really are. You know as we'll as I
do, my brother and sister, that the most 4,
of the useful work Of the world is done
by u~npretentious people who toll right
people who do not get much APP
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
he smallest planet that swings on its
orbit than ten comets shooting this way
that, imperiiing the longevity Of
attending to their own business.
For steady illumination better is a lamp
han a rocket. Then, if you feel that
are ordinary, remember that your
invites the less attack.
Conspicuous people how they have
take it! How they are m%isrepre-
;ented, and abused, and shot att The
higher the horns of a roebuck the easier
% track him down. What a delicious
it must be to be a candidate for
President of the United States! It
must be so soothing to the nerves! It
pour into the soul of a candidate
UGH a sense of serenity when he reads
he blessed newspapers!
I came into the possession of the
.busive cartoons in the time of Ma
'oleon l., printed while he was yet alive.
'he retreat of the army from Moscow,
hat army buried in the SHOWS of Rus
ia, one of the most awful tragedies of
he centuries, represented under the fig
ire of a monster called General Frost
the French Emperor with a
azor OF icicle. AS Satyr and Beelzebub
e is represented. page after page, page
fter page. England cursing him, Spain
ursing him, Germany cursing him,
russia cursing him, Europe cursing
North and South America cursing
The most remarkable man of his
and the most abused. All those
len in history who now have a halo
round their name, on earth wore a
own Of thorns. Take the few extra
rdinary railroad men of our time, and g..
&c What abuse comes pom them, while
lousands of stockholders escape. All
ne world took after Thomas Scott,
resident of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
bused him until he got under the
Thousands of stockholders in
lat company. All the blame on one
ian! The Central Pacific Railroad
yo or three men get all the blame if
goes wong. There are 10, 00O
that company.
At an anniversary of a deaf and
umb asylum n Of the children wrote
pom the blackboard words as sublime
5 the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the
Divira Commedia" all compressed in :