St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-03-19

will bring ON the old mans vertigo
Better close up about Cincinnatus.
know 500 farmers just as noble as hs
was. What they want is to know
that they have the friendship oi
that Christ who often drew His
SMILES from the farmers life
as when He said: "A sower
went forth to SOW" as when He built
His best parable out of the scene of q
farmer boy coming back from his wan.
derings, and the old farmhouse shook
that night with the rural jubilee; and
who compared Himself to lamb in the
pasture field, and who said that the
eternal God is a farmer, declaring;
my Father is the husbandman."
Those stone masons do not want to
hear about Christopher Wren. the archi.
tect, who built St. Paul's cathedral
1t would be better to tell them how to
carry the hod Of brick up the ladder
without slipping. and how ON . cold
morning with the trowel to smooth of
the mortar and keep cheerful. and how
to be thankful to God for the plain
food taken from the pail by the road
side. Carpenters standing amid the
adze, and the bit, and the plane, and
the broad AK, need to be told that
Christ was . carpenter, with His own
hand welding saw and hammer. Oh,
this is tired world, and it is an over
worked world, and it is an nnderfed
world, and it is wrung-o out world,
and men and women need to know that
therei is rest and recuperation in God,
and in that religion which was not 50
much intended for extraordinary peo-
pie as for ordinary people, because they
are more of them.
The healing profession has had its
Abercrombies, and its Abernethys. and
it's Valentine Motts. and its Willard
Parkers; but the ordinary physicians
do the most of the worlds medicining,
and they need to understand that while
taking diagnosis or prognosis, or writ
ing prescriptions. or compounding
medicament, or holding the delicate
pulse of the dying child, they may
have the presence and the dictation of
the Almighty Doctor who took the case
of the madman, and. after He had torn
off his garments in foaming dementia,
clothed him again, body and mind, and
who lifted up the woman who for 1S
years had been bent almost double
with the rheumatism into graceful
stature. and who turned the scabs of
leprosy into rubicund complexion,
and who rubbed the numbness
out of paralysis, and who swung
wide open the closed windows of he
reditary or accidental blindness, until
the morning light came streaming
through the feshly easements. and
who knows all the diseases, and all the
and all the herbs, and all the
and is monarch of phar-
macy and 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 ailments
they have assuaged and the thousands
of women to whom in cries of pain they
have been next to God in benefaction.
Come, now. let us have religion for
ordinary people in professions, in oc-
hold, in merchandise, in everything. I
salute across the centuries Asyncritus,
Phlegon, Hermas. Patrobas, Hermes,
and Julia.
mention these things to prove it is
people who are abused,
while the ordinary escape. The
weather of life is not SO severe ON the
plain as it is on the high peaks. The
world never forgives man who knows,
Dr. gains, or does more than it can
know, or gain, or do. Parents some
lines give confectionery to their chill
lren as an inducement to take bitter
and the worlds sugar plum
,recedes the worlds aqua-fortis. The
mob cried in regard to Christ, Cru
:ify Him, cruelty Him." and they
lad to say it twice to be un-
lerstood, for they were SO hoarse, and
hey got their hoarseness by crying a
title while before at the top of their |
,oice, ..Hosanna." The River Rhone is
oul when it enters Lake Leman. but |
crystalline when it comes out on the |
,ther side. But there are men who |
lave entered the bright lake of worldly |
crystalline and come out |
erribly rolled. If, therefore, you feel |
hat you are ordinary, thank God for |
he defenses and the tranquility of |
our position.
Then remember, if you have only
What is called an ordinary home, that
he great deliverers Of the world have
III come from such n home. And there
nay be seated. reading at your evening
tand. a child who shall be potent for
he ages just unroll the scroll of men
Mighty in church and state, and you
rill find they nearly all came from log
abin or poor homes Genius almost
lways runs out in the third or
ourth generation. You can not
nd in all history an in
tance where the fourth genera
ion of extraordinary people amount
0 anything. In this country we had
wo great men. father and SON, both
residents of the United States; but
rom present prospects there never will
e in that genealogical line another
resident for thousand years. Column
us from weaver's hut. Demosthenes
rom a cutters cellar, Bloomfield and
Carey from a shocmaker's
ench, Arkwright from BARRIERS
mop, and He. whose name is high over
Il in earth, and air, and sky, from .
langer.
Let us all be content with such things
5 we have. God is just rs good in what
Ie keeps away from US as in what He
ives us. Even knot may be useful
it is at the end of thread.
At an anniversary of q deaf and
umb asylum, one of the children
rote upon the blackboard words as
lblime as the niad, the Odyssey, and
he .'Divina Comedia, all compressed
i one paragraph. The examiner,
! the sign of the mute Ian
uage, asked her: s.Who made the ,
orld?- The deaf and dumb girl wrote
pom the blackboard: I'm the begin
ing God created the Heaven and the
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