The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-02-19
NOBLE MEN AND WOMEN.
DR.. Talmage Talks on the Reli-
gion of Ordinary People.
Encouragement for the Thoroughbred and
Unrewaried The Advantage OF In
oonspicuousness- Great Men
From Humble Homes.

heraldcd ana unrccorded 10 their re-
ward. The text is:
Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hcrmas, Patro-
has Hcrmes, Philologus and Julia.-Romans
XVI, i4-l5
Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes, Adam
Clark, Thomas Scott, and all the com
8 mentators pass by these verses without
any especial remark. The other 20
people mentioned in the chapter were
distinguished for something, and were
therefore discussed by the illustrious
expositors; but nothing is said about
Asyncritus, Phlcgon, iermas, Patro-
bias, Iiermcs, Philologus and Julia.
Where were they born? No one
knows. When did they die? There is
no record of their decease. For what
were they distinguished? Absolutely
nothing, or the trait of character
would have been brought out by the
apostle. IL they had been very intrep-
Id, or opulcnt, or hirsute, or musical
of cadence, or Grass of style, or in any
wise anomalouss that feature would
have been caught by the apostolic
camera. But they were good people,
because Paul sends to them his high
Christian regards. They were ordi-
nary people moving in ordinary sphere,
attending to ordinary duty and meet
Ing ordinary responsibilities.
What the world wants is religion
for ordinary people. If there be in
the United States 10000, 900 people,
there are certainly not more than
100000 extraordinary; and there are
69,OOO,0O0 ordinary, and we do well to
turn our backs for little while upon
the distinguished and conspicuous peo-
pie of the Bible and consider in our
text the seven ordinary. We spend too
much of our time twisting garlands
for remarkablcs, and building thrones
for magnates, and sculpturing warriors
and apothcosizing philanthropists.
The rank and file of the Lords sol
dicry need especial help.
The vast ma jority of people will never
lead an army, will never write n state
constitution, will never electrify SEN
ate, will never make an important in
vention, will never introduce new
philosophy, will never decide the fate
of a nation. You do not expect to; you
do not want to. You will not be Il
Moses to lead n nation out Of bondage.
You will not be a Joshua to prolong
the daylight until you can shut five
kings in a cavern. You will not be
st. John to unroll an Apocalypse. You
will not be n Paul to preside over an
apostolic college. You will not be n
Mary to mother Christ. You will
more probably be Asyncritus, or Phlc-
gon, or ilermas, or Patrobas, or Her
mes, or Philologus, or Julia.
Many of you are women at the head
of households. Every morning you
plan for the day. The culinary depart
ment of the household is your domin-
ion. 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 thous-
and questions of home life is u tax upon
brain and nerve and general health alb
solutely appalling, if there be no Di-
vine alienation.
1t does not help you much to be told
that Elizabeth Fry did wonderful
things amid the criminals at Ncwgate.
1t does not help you much to be told
that Mrs. Judson was very brave among
the BorncSian cannibals. 1t does not
help you very much to be told that
Florence Nightingale was very kind to
TIE wounded in the Crimea. 1t would
be better for me to tell you that the
Divine friend of Mary and Martha is
your friend, and that He sees all the
annoyances and disappointments and
n
binary housekccper from morn till
night, and from the first day of the
year until the last day of the year, and
at your call He is ready with help ana
reinforcement.
They who provide the food of tho
world decide the health of the world.
You have only to go 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 in
music and may have taken lessons in
painting, and lessons in astronomy,
she is not well educated unless she has
taken lessons in dough! They who de.
eide the apparel of the world and the
food of the world decide the endurance,
of the worll.
An unthinSing man may consider II
matter of little importance-the cares
of the household and the economies OF
domestic lifc-but tell you the earth
is strewn with the martyrs of kitchen,
and nursery. The health-shattered
womanhood of America cries out for "a
God who can help ordinary women in
the ordinary duties of housekeeping
The wearing, grinding, unappreciatci
work goes on, but the same Christ who
stood on the bank OF Galilee in thu
early morning and kindled the fire anil
had the fish already cleaned and broiI-
ing when the sportsmen stepped ashore,
chilled and hungry, will help every
other woman to prepare breakfast,
whether by her own hand or the hand
of her hired help. The God who
made indestructible eulogy of Han
nah, who made a coat for Sam
uel, her son, and carried il to
the temple every year, will help every
woman in preparing the family ward
robe. The God who opens the Bible
with the story of Abraham's entertain
ment by the three angels on the plains
of Mamre will help every woman to
hospitality, however rare and cmbar-
RAISING. II is high time that some of
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