Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-02-19
FOR COMMON PEOPLE.
DR.. TALMAeE's WORDS OF CHEER
FOR THE LOWLY.

FOR THE LOWLY.
The Rank and File of the Lords Sol
'diery Need Especial Help-Let Us BE
Content With Gods Gifts-The Penalty
CT Greatness Outweighs the Joy.
copyright. 1898. by American Press Asso-
ciatlon.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Dr. Talmage
in this discourse calls the roll OF
faithful men and noble women in all
departments who are unrecognized and
unrewardcd and sounds encouragement
for those who do work in spheres incon-
spicuous; text, Romans xvi, IA, Is, "Sa-
Lutte Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Pa
trobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia. "
Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes, Adam
Clark, Thomas Scott and all the COM
mentators pass by these verses without
any especial remark. The other 20 peo-
pie mentioned i'll the chapter were dis
tineuished for. something and were
therefore discussed by the illustrious ex-
positors, but nothing is said about
Asynoritus, PhleGon, Hermas, Patrobas,
Hermes, Philologus and Julia. Where
were they born? No one knows. When
did they die? There is no record OF their
deoease. For what were they distin-
guished? Absolutely nothing, or the
trait of character would have been
brought out by the apostle. II they had
been very intrepid or opulent or hirsute
or musical of cadence or Grass of style or
in any wise anomalous, that feature
would have been caught by the apostolic
camera. But they were good people, be-
cause Paul sends to them his nigh
Christian regards They were ordinary
people, moving in ordinary sphere, at
tending to ordinary duty and meeting
ordinary Responsibilities.
For the Rank nnd File.
What the world wants is religion
for ordinary people. If there be IN tho
United States 70, 600, 900 people, there
are certainly not more than 1000, 600
extraordinary, and then there are G9,
900, 900 ordinary, and we do we'll to
turn our backs for & little while upon
the distinguished and conspicuous peo-
plo of the Bible and consider in our
text tho seven ordinary. We spend too
much of our time in twisting garlands
for remarkables, and building thrones
for magnates, and sculpturing warriors,
and apotheosizing philanthropists. The
rank and file of tho Lord soldiery need
especial help
Tho vast majority of people will
never lead an army, will never write a
state constitution, will never electrify a
senate, will never mako all important
invention, will never introduce new
philosophy, 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 nation out of bondage.
You will not be a Joshua to prolong the
daylight until you can shut five kings
in cavern. You will not be st. John
to unroll an Apocalypse. You will not
be q Paul to preside over an apostolic
college. You will not BIO a Mary to
mother q Christ You will more proba-
bly, he Asyncritus, or Phlegon, or Her
mas. or Patrobas, OF 11ernes, ri.i1el
ogus, or Julia.
Many of You are women at the head
of households. Every morning you plan
for the day. The culinary department
of the household is i'll your dominion.
You decide all questions of diet. All
the sanitary regulations of your house
are under your supervision. To regulate
tbs food and the apparel and the habits
and decide the thousand questions OF
homo life is tax upon brain and nerve
and general health absolutely appalling
if there be no divine alienation.
Needs of tho Human Race.
It does not help you much to be told
that Elizabeth Fry did wonderful things
amid tho criminals at Newgate. 1t does
not help you much to be told that Mrs.
Judson was very brave among the Bor-
nesian cannibals. 1t does not help you
very much to DO told that Florence
Nightingale was very kind to the
wounded in tho Crimea. 1t would be
better for ME to tell you that tho divine
friend of Mary and Martha is your
friend, and that he sees all the annoy
ances and disappointments and aora'
sions and exaspcrations of an ordinary
houselieeper from morn till night, aud
from tho first day of the year Until the
last day of the year, and at your call
he is ready with help and re-enforce-
ment.
They who provide the food of the
world decide the health of the world,
You have only to 20 on some errand
amid the taverns and the hotels OF the
United States and Great Britain to ap-
preciate the fact that vast multitude
of the human race are slaughtered by
incompetent cookery Though young
woman may have taken lessons i'll music
and may have taken lessons in painting
and lessons in astronomy, she is not
we'll educated unless she has taken les
sons in dough. They who decide the
apparel of the world and the food OF the
world decide the endurance Of the world
An unthinking man may consider II
matter of little Importance, the cares
of the household aid tho economies OF
domestic life, but tell you the earth is $
strewn with the martyrs of kitchen and
nursery. The health shattered woman,
hood of America cries out for God
who can help ordinary women in the
ordinary duties of housekeeping. The
wearing, grinding, unappreciated work
goes Oh, but the same Christ who stood
on the bank of Galilee i'll the early
morning and kindled the fire and had
the fish already cleaned and brolllng
when the sportsmen stepped ashore
chilled and hungry, will help every wo-
man to prepare breakfast, whether by
her own hand or the hand of her =-ired
help. The God who made indestructlble
eulogy of Hannah, who made a coat 1or