Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-08-08
PLAIN PEOPLE.
pav Talmage Tells About the
Toiling Millions
=, Everyday Life Who Do the Useful
Work of the World-Heroic Deeds
are Not All Performed on Fields
Of Battle-Grace Needed to
Endure LIES Trials.

The subject of Rev. I. Dewitt Tai.
mace's last sermon, delivered on his
western tour, was plain People," The
taxt selected was: Romans xvi, IA, Is:
salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas,
,patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and
Julia.
Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes,
Adam Clark, Thomas Scott and all the
Commentators passed by these verses
without any special remark. The other
twenty people mentioned in the chap
ter were distinguished for something
and we're therefore discussed BY the il
Gstrious expositors; but nothing is
seid about Asyncritus, Phlegon, Her.
mas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and
Julia. Where were they born? No
one knows. Where did they die? There
Is no record of their decease. For what
were they distinguished? Absolutely
for nothing, or the Il ait of character
would have been brought out by the
apostle. If they had been very in
trepid or opulent, or hirsute, or must
cal of cadence, or Grass of style, or in
anywise anomalous, that feature would
have been caught by the apostolic cam
era. But they were good people, be-
cause Paul sent to them his high Chris
tan regards. They were ordinary
people, moving in ordinary sphere, at
tending to ordinary duty and meeting
ordinary responsibilities.
What the world wants is religion
for ordinary people. If there be in the
United States 65,OO0,OOO people, there
are certainly not more than 100000
extraordinary; and then there are 64,-
100000 ordinary, and we do well to
turn our backs for while upon the dis
,inguished and conspicuous people OF
he Bible and consider in our text the
even ordinary. We spend too much
# our time in twisting garlands for re-
narkables, and building thrones for
nagnates, and sculpturing warriors,
md apothesizing philanthropists The
rank and file of the Lords soldiery
need especial help.
The vast majority of people to whom
this sermon comes will never lead an
army, will never write a state constr
tuition, will never electrify a senate,
will never make an important inven.
ton, will never introduce new phi
losophy, will never decide the fate OF
. nation. You do not expect to; you
do not want to. You will not be a
Moses to lead a nation out of bondage.
You will not be Joshua to prolong
the daylight until you can shut five
kings in cavern. You will not be q
st. John to enroll an Apocalypse. You
will not be Paul to preside over an
apostolic college. You will not be a
Mary to mother Christ. You will
more probably be Asyncritus, or Phle-
gon, or Hermas. or Patrobas; or Her.
mes, or Philologus, or Julia.
Many of you are women at the head
of households. This morning you
launched the family for Sabbath OBJ
servance. Your brain decided the APP
parel, and your Judgment was final on
questions of personal attire Every
morning you plan for the day. The cul,
iaarr department of your household is
your dominion. You decide all ques
tons of diet. All the sanitary regula
tons of your house are under your SUI
pervision. To regulate the food, ano
the apparel, and the habits, and decide
the thousand questions of home life i
tax upon brain and nerve and genera
health absolutely appalling, it there bt
70 divine alienation.
II does not help you much to be tolt
Tat Elizabeth Fry did wonderful
things among the criminal OF Newgate
1t does not help you much to be toie
that Mrs. Judson was very'brave among
the Bornesian cannibals. 1t does no
help YOU much to be told that Florenc'
Nightingale was very kind to thu
wounded in the Crimea. 1t would 81
better for me to tell you that the divine
friend of Mary and Martha is you
friend, and that He sees all the annoy
ances and disappointments and abras
ions and exasperations Of an ordlnar.
housekeeper from morn till night, AM
from the first day of the year to tn
last day of the year, and at your cal
He is ready with help and reinforce
ment.
They who provide the food OF tn
world decide the health of the world
One of the greatest battles OF this cen
fury was lost because the commando
that morning had fit OF indigestion
You have only to go on some erran
amid the taverns and the hotels OF IN
United States and Great Britain to az
preciate the fact that vast multitud
of the human race are slaughtered o
incompetent cookery. Though youn
woman may have taken lessons
music, and may have taken lessons
painting, and lessons in astronomy sh
is not well educated unless she ma
taken lessons in dough! They wn
decide the apparel Of the world ana I'd
food of the world, decide the enduranc
OF the world.
An unthinking man may CONSIDER
a matter OF little importance--tne cars
of the household and the economies
domestic life but tell you the earl
is strewn with the martyrs OF kltcne
and nursery. The health-shattered W.
Manhood of America cries out for uo
who can help ordinary women In ~
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