Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-24

aud sculpturing warriors, and apotheoSiz-
ing philanthropists. The rank and file OF
the Lords soldiery need especial help.
The vast majority of people will never
lead an army, will never write a State Con-
stitution, will never electrify Senate, will
never make an important invention, will
never decide the fate of a nation. You do
not expect to; you do not want to. You
will not be Moses to lead u nation out of
bondage. You will not be Joshua to pro-
long the daylight until you can shut five
kings in a cavern. You will not be st.
John to unrolI an Apocalypse. You will
not be a Paul to preside over an apostolic
college. You will not bea Mary to mother
Christ. You will more probably be Asyn-
critus, or Phlegon, or Hermas, OF Patrobas,
or Hermes. or Philologus, or Julia.
Many of you are women at tho head of
households. Every morning you plan for
the day. The culinary department OF the
household is your dominion. You decide
all questions of diet. All the sanitary
regulations Of your house are under your
supervision. To regulate the food and
the apparel and the habits, and decide the
thousand questions of home life is a tax
upon b-ain and nerve and general health
absolutely appalling If there be no divine
alleviation.
They who provide the food of the world
decide the health of the world. You have
only to go on some errand amid the tav-
erns and hotels of the United States and
Great Britain to appreciate the fact that
vast multitude of the human race are
slaughtered by incompetent cookery.
Though young woman may have taken
lessons in music and may have taken les
sons in painting, and lessons in astronomy,
she is not we'll educated unless she has
taken lessons in dough! They who decide
the apparel of the world and the food of
the world, decide the endurance Of the
world.
Then there are all the ordinary business
men. They need divine and Christian help.
When we begin to talk about business life
we shoot right off and talk about men who
did business on large scale and who sold
millions of dollars Of goods year; and the
vast maj jority of business men do not sell q
million dollars of goods, nor half million,
nor quarter of q million, nor the eighth
part of n million. Put all the business men
of our cities, towns, villages and neighbor-
hoods side by side, and you will find that
lars worth of goods. All these men in or
binary business life want divine help. You
see how the wrinkles are printing on the
countenance the story of worriment and
care. You can not tell how old n business
man is by looking at him. Gray hairs at
thirty.
Now, what is wanted is grace-divine
grace for ordinary business men, men who
are harnessed from morn till night and all
the days of their life e-harneSsed In buSi-
ness. Not grace to lose a hundred thou
sand, but grace to lose ten dollars. Not
grace to supervise two hundred and fifty
III Il factory, but grace to super
wise the be okkeeper and two salesmen and
the small boy that sweeps out the store
Grace to invest not the eighty thousand
dollars of net profit, but the twenty-five
hundred of clear gain. Such a grace as
thousands of business men have to-day
keeping them tranquil, whether goods sell
or do not sell, whether customers pay or
do not pay, whether tariff is up or tariff is
down, whether the crops are luxuriant or
u dead failure-calm in all circumstances,
and amid all vicissitudes. That is the
kind of grace we want.
Then there are all the ordinary farmers.
We talk about agricultural life, and we i'm
shoot off to talk about Cincn-
natus, the patrician, who went from the
plow to high position, and after he got
through the dictatorship, in twenty-one
days, went back again to the plow. What
encouragement is that to ordinary furm-
ers? The vast mai aiorty of them--none of
them will be patricians. Perhaps none of
them will be Senators. If any of them have
1t will be over forty or fifty
or hundred acres of the old homestead,
What these men want is grace, to keep
their patience while plowing with balky
oxen. and to keep cheerful amid the
drouth that destroys the corn crop, and
that enabies them to restore the garden
the day after the neighbor's cattle have
broken Ia anu trauh pIeu OUT tue Strawperry
PED, ana gone tnrouen the Lima-pean
patcn, anu eu.eh Ip the SWEEP corn IN such
large quantlties tnat they must pe Kept
from the water lest they SVEN up ana die
trace In catcning weaener that enables
theih, Withou. lnPrecntioh, e TO spread OUT
the nay the thlrd tlme, athough again,
ana agalh, ana again, II mas been almost
feaoy ior the NOV. grace 10 doctor the
COW Win hoiioW norm ana the sheep with
the 1901 rot, ana the morse with the dis
temper, ana TO compei the unwilling acres
TO yleid hVelihoou lor the family, ana
scnooing Ior the chliareh ana iittle extras
TO help the older poy IN business, and some
thipg ior the dausnters wedding OUTFIT,
ana little surplus lor the time when the
ankles VIII get still with age, and the
breatn VIII pc ilttie snort, ana the
swinging vi the cradle through the hot har-
vest neld VIII brihg on the olu man YER
tiSo. Better close up ABOUT Cincinnatus.
know nve nunoreu farmers Just as noble
as ne was. What tney want IS TO know
that they have the irlenosnip OF that Christ
who often drew Ills slmiies from the lar
mer's life, as when He SAID: "A sower
went forth to SOW" as when He built His
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