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

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considerable, understanding all the az
fairs Of that woman who keeps thread
and needle store as well as all the affairs
of Rothschild and Stewart
Tillers of the Soil.
Then there are all tho ordinary farm
ers. We talk about agricultural life, and
we Immediately shoot off to talk about
Cincinnatus. the patrician, who went
from the pillow to high position, and
after he got through the dictatorship i'll
81 days went back again to the plow.
! What encouragement is that to ordinary
farmers? The vast majority of them,
none Of them, will be patricians. Per-
haps none Of them will be senators. If
any of them have dictatorships, it will
be over 40 or 80 or 100 acres Of the old
homestead. What those men want Is
grace to keep their patience while plow
ing with balky oxen and to keep cheerful
amid the drought that destroys the corn
crop and that enables them to restore
the garden the day after the neighbours
cattle have broken in and trampled out
| the strawberry bed and gone through the
lima bean patch and eaton up the sweet
corn in such large quantities that they
must be kept from the water lest they
weather that enables them without i'm
precation to spread ont the hay the third
| time, although again and again and again
| it has been almost ready for the NOW a
grace to doctor the COW with q hollow
horn, and the sheep with the footrot, and
the horse with the distempcr, and to com
pei the unwilling acres to yield livel-
hood for the family, and schooling fer
the chi ldren, and little extras to help the
older boy in business. and something for
the daughters wedding outfit, and lit
| tie surplus for the time when the ankles
will get stiff with age and the breath
will be little short, and the swinging
of the cradle through the hot harvest
| field will bring OH the old man S vertigo.
| Better close up about Cincinnatus I
know 500 farmers just as noble as he
was.
What they want is to know that they
have the friendship of that Christ who
often drew his SMILES from the farmers
life, as when he said, "A sower went
forth to SOW, Gs when he built his best
parable ont of the scene Of farmers
boy coming back from his Tanderines,
and tho old farmhouse shook that night
x.,it1, ,,,J,i
himself to lamb i'll tho pasture field,
and who said tho eternal God is q farm
or, declaring, my Father is the Lus-
bandman :"
Those stonemasons do not want to
hear about Christopher Wren, the archi-
tect, who built st. Paul's cathedral 1t
would DO better to tell them how to
carry the hod of brick up the ladder
without slipping, and how Oh 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 ADJ, and
the bit, and the plane, and the broadax
need TO be told that Christ was car
penter, with his own hand welding
SEW and hammer Oh, this is tired
world, and it is an overworked world,
and it is an underfcd world, and it is
wrung out world, and men and women
need to know that there is rest ard re-
cuporation i'll God and i'll that religion
which was not SO much intended fer
extraordinary people as for ordinary poo
pie, because there are more of them.
Heaters of the Sick.
Tho healing profession las had its
Abercrombies and its Abernethys and its
Valentine Motifs and its Willard Par
kers. but the ordinary physicians do tie
most of the worlds modic.ning, and
they need to understand that while tax
ing diagnosis CT prognosis or writing
prescription or compromising medica-
ment or holding the delicate pulse of
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 foaIaing 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 feshly
easements, and who knows all the dis
cases and all the remedies and all the
herbs and all the catholicons, and is
monarch Of pharmacy ard 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 in crises Of
pain they have been next to God il
benefaction.
Come, now, let us have religion for
ordinary people in professions, i'll occu-
pations, in agriculture, in the household,
in merchandise, in everything. l salute
across the centuries Asyncritus, Phlegon,
Hermas, Patrobas, Hermcs, 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 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 well 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 I
it must be to be candidate for presi-