The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-05

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senators. If any Of them have dicta-
torships it win be over 40. so or 100
acres Of 1.-The old homestead. What
these men want is grace to keep their
patience while blowing with, balky OK
en-, and TO keep cheeful amid the drought
that destroys the corn crop, and that
enables them-t to restore the garden the
day after the neighbours cattle have
broken in and trampled out the straw.
berry bed and gone through the Lima
bean patch, and eaten up the sweet
corn in such large quantities that they
must be keptfrom the water less they
swell up and die.
Grace in catching weather that en-
ables them, without imprecation, to
spread out the hay the third time,
although again, and again, and again,
it has been almost ready for the NOV.
A grace to doctor the COW with a
hollow horn, and the sheep with the
foot rot, and the horse with the dis
temper, and to compel the unwilling
acres to yield livelihood for the
family, and schooling for the children
and little extras to help the older boy
in business, and something for the
daughters wedding outfit, and little
surplus for the time when the ankles
will get stiff with age, and the
breath will be little short,
and the swinging Of the cradle
through the hot harvest field
will bring on the old mans vertigo.
Better close up, about Cincinnatus.
know 500 farmers just as noble as he
was. What they want is to know
that they have the friendship of
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 a
farmer boy coming back from his wan
behring's, 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 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 off
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 a 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 underfed
world and it is a wrung-out world,
and men and women need to know that
there is rest and recuperation in God,
and in that religion which was not so
much intended for extraordinary peo-
pie as for ordinary people, because they
are more of them.
The healing profession has had its
Abercrombies, and it's Abernethys, and
its Valentine Motifs, and it's 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 compromising
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 mailman, 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 IL
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 fleshly easements, anc
7 who knows all the diseases, and all the
e remedies, and all the herbs, and all the
5 catholicons, and is monarch of phar
: macy and therapeutics, and who has
l sent out 10000 doctors of whom tn,
( world makes no record; but to prov,
that they are angels of mercy invoke
4 the thousands of men whose ailments
, they have assuaged and the thousand
of women to whom in cries of pain they
l have been next to God in benefaction
S Come, now, let us have a religion fo
} ordinary people in professions, in oc
l equations, in agriculture, in the house
5 hold in merchandise, in everything.
, salute across the centuries Asyncritus
Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes
n Philologus and Julia.
e Let us all be content with such thing
d as we have. God is just as good in wha
: He keeps away from us as in what H
d gives us. Even knot may be usefu
e If it is at the end of thread.
y At an anniversary of deaf an
# dumb asylum, one of the childre
d wrote upon the blackboard words a
o sublime as the Iliad, the Odyssey, an
IS the "Divina Comedia," all compresse
y in one paragraph. The examiner
d in the sign of the mute lar
n guage, asked her: "Who made tn
|, world?n The deaf and dumb girl wrot
It upon the blackboard: In the begin
;, ming God created the Heaven and tn
W earth" The examiner asked her: "Fo
n what purpose did Christ come into tn
st world?" The deaf and dumb gil
% wrote upon the blackboard: "Thi
* is a faithful saying, and worth
r, of all acceptation, that Christ Jesu