Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-07-27

| the story of Abrahams entertainment
Of the threc angels ON the plains OF
Mamre will help every woman to pro-
vide hospitality, however rare and en-
barrassing. 1t is high time that some Of
the attention we have been giving to the
remarkable women of the Bible-re-
markable for their virtne or want Of it
or remarkable for their dceds-Debor
and Jezebel and Herodia and Athaliah
and Dorcas and the Marys, excellent and
abandoned--it Is high time some Of tie
attention we have been giving to these
conspicuous women Of the Bible lie
given to Julia of the text, an ordinary
woman amid ordinary circumstances,
attending TO ordinary duties and meet
ing ordinary responsibilities
Premature Old Age.
Thcn there are the ordinary business
men. They reed divine and Christian
help. When we begin to talk about bust
ness life, we shoot right off and talk
about men who did business on a largo
scale, and who sold millions Of dollars
Of goods year, but the vast majority
Of business men do not sell million |
dollars of goods, nor half million. nor
quarter of a million, nor the eighth
part Of million. Put all the business
men of cur cities, towns. villages and
neighborhoods side by side, and you
will find that they sell less than $780,
900 worth of goods. All these men in
ordinary business life want divine help.
| You see how the wrinkles arc printing
on the countenance the story Of worri-
ment and care. You cannot tell how old
business man is by looking at him.
Gray hairs at 30. A man at 40 with the
stoop Of nonogenarian. No time to at
tend to improved dentistry, tho grinders
cease because they are few. Actually
dying of old age at 40 or so when they
ought to be at the meridian.
Many Of these business men have
bodies like neglected clock to which
you come, ard you wind it up, and it
begins to buzz and roar, and then tho
hands start around very rapidly, and
then the clock strikes 6 or 10 on 40,
and strikes without any sense, and then
suddenly stops. So is the body of that
wornout business man. 1t is neglect
eo VIVA, aiu .hou5n W eoiuo euhii.oi
recfeation IL Diay DC wound up Sui the
machinery is all out of gear. The hands
| turn around with velocity that excites
| the establishment of the world. Men
cannot understand the wonderful actlV-
lty, and there Is roar, and buzz, and
rattle about these disordered lives,
and they strike ten when they ought TO
strike i've, and they strike IL When
they ought 10 strlke slx' ana they strlKe
Az when they ought TO strike nothing,
and suddenly they stop Post mortem
examination reveals the fact that all the
springs and plvots and weights and bal
ance wheels OF health are completely
deranged. Inc human CLOCK mas SIMPLY
run down. And at the time when the
steady hand ought to DO pointing to the
industrious hours On clear and SUMMIT
dial the whole machinery OF body, mind
ana earthly capacity stops forever. Inc
cemeteries have thousands or business
men VINO died OF old ago at ~, 80, Az,
40
Ine Lest hine Oh trace
Now, what is wanted is grace-divlne
grace FOR ordinary business men, men
who are harnessod from morn TIL night
and ali tho days OF their hfe-halnessed
III business. Not grace to lose Sloo,-
900, but grace to lose $40. Not grace
to supervise 200 employees IL a factory,
but grace to supervise the bookkeeper
and two statesmen and the email boy
that sweeps out the store. Grace to IN
vest hot the SSo,0c OF net profit, but
the 81, 900 OF clear gam. Grace not to
endure tho less OF whole shipload ct
spices from tho Indies, but grace to ell
dure the loss OF paper OF collars from
the leakage OF q displaced single On
poor roof.
Grace not to enccle the hardness OF
the American congress il passing nee
essary law, but grace to endure the tar
goods; such grace as thousands OF