The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-14
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, FEBRUARY a. 1898

most OF the worlds medicining aud they
need to understand that while taking dag
nosis or prognosis. or writing prescrip-
ton, OF compromising medicament. or
holding the delicate pulse of a dying child
they may have the presence and the die
tation of the Almighty Doctor who took
the case Of the mailman, and after he
had torn off his garments in foaming de-
mentia, clothed him again, body and
mind, and who lifted up the woman who
for eighteen 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 win
dows OF hereditary or accidental blind
ness, until the morning light came stream
ing through the heshly easements, and
who knows all the diseases, and all the
remedies, and all the herbs, and all the
cathohcons, and Is monarch of pharmacy
ana therapeutics, and who has sent out
ten thousand doctors OF whom the world
makes no record; but to prove that they
are angels of mercy, / invoke the thous-
ands OF men whose ailments they have as
suaged and the thousands of women to
whom in crises of pain they have been
next to God in benefaction.
Come now, let us have a religion for
ordinary people in professions, in occupa-
tons, in agriculture, in the household, in
merchandise, in everything | salute
across the centuries Asyncritus, Phlegon
Hermas. Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus,
and Julia.
First of all, If you feel that YOU are Or
binary, thank God that you are not ex-
tTaordinary. / am tired and sick, and Dor
Ell almost to death with extraordinary
people. They take all their time to tell
us how very extraordinary they really
are. You know as well as l do, my broth
er and sister, that the most of the useful
work hsa sr \
tlous people who toll right only people
VINO do not get much approval. and no
one seems TO say, THAT is we'll done
Phenomena are of but little use Things
that are exceptional cannot be depended
on Better trust the smallest planet that
swings in its orbit than ten comets shoot
ing TINS way and that imperiling the
longevity of worlds attending to their
own business. For steady ilIumina ton
petter Is lamp than rocket.
linen, al you feel that you are ordinary,
remember that your position invites The
less attack Conspicuous people-how they
nave TO take it! How they are misrapre-
scented and abused and shot at! The high
er the hornS OF rOebuck the easier to
strike him down. What a delicious thing
II must be to be a candidate for Governor
OF a state or President of the United
states 1t must be so soothing to the
nerves! IL must pour into the soul of
he reads the blessed newspaDersl
came into the possession of the abu-
sfve cartoons In the time of Napoleon /.
printed while he was vet alive The re-
treat OF the army from Moscow that army
buried In the SHOWS of Russia. one of TIE
most awful tragedies of the centuries. rep
resented under the figure of a monster
calied Gen. Frost shaving the French EN-
peror with razor of icicle. AS Satyr and
BeelZeDub he is represented page after
page, page after page. England cursing
MN, Spain cursing him. Germany eursing
nim, Russia cursing him, Europe clirsiug
him, North and South America cursine
him Inc most remarkable man of his
day, and the most abused. All those men
IN history who now have halo around
their nape, on earth wore a crown of
thorns. Take the few extraordinary rail-
road men of our time, and see what abuse
comes upon them, while thousands of
stockholders escape. New York Central
railroad had 1926 stockholders. If any
thing In that railroad affronted the people
all the abuse came down on one man apd
the 1924 escaped. All the world took after
Ihomas scott, president of the PennsyI-
wanna railroad, abused him until he got
under the ground. Over 1900 stockhold-
ers in that company All the blame en-
one mani The Central Pacific Railroad
two or three men get all the blame il any,
thing goes wrong. There are 10000 in that
company.
mention these things to prove il Is ex-
traordinary people who get abused, while
the ordinary escape. The weather of life
is not so severe on the plain as il is on the
high peaks. The world never forgives a
man who knows or gains, or does more
than 1t can know, or gain, or do Parents
sometimes give confectionery to their
children as an inducement to take bitter
medicine, and the worlds sugar plum pre-
cedes the worlds aqua-fortis The mob
cried in regard to Christ Cruelty him
cruelty him!' and they had to say 1t twice
to be understood for they were so hoarse
and they got their hoarseness by crying a
! little while before at the top of their voice
"Hosanna." The River Rhone is foul
when it enters Lake Leman, but crystal
line when it comes out on the other side
| But there are men who have entered the
bright lake of worldly prosperity crystal
| line and come out terribly riled IT. there
fore, you feel that you are ordinary, thank
God for the defenses and the tranquility of
| your position.
Then remember, If you have only what
is called an ordinary home that the great
| deliverers of the world have all come from
such home. And there maybe seated
reading at your evening stand, a child who
| shall be potent for the ages. lust unroll
| the scroll of men mighty In church and
state. and you will find they nearly all
came from log cabin or poor homes
! Genius almost always runs out In the
| third or four generation. You cannot find
| in all history an instance where the fourth
! generation of extraordinary people amount
| to anything. In this country we had two
| great men, father and son, both Presi
| dents of the United States; but from pres
ent prospects there never will be In that
! genealogical line another President for a
| thousand years. Columbus from a weav-
! er's hut, Demosthenes from a cutters eel
/ lar, Bloomfield and Missionary Carey from
shoemakers's bench, Arkwright from a
! BARRIERS shop, and He, whose name is high
! over all in earth, and air, and sky. from a.
! Manager
Let us all be content with such things as
we have. God is just as good in what he
! keeps away from us as in what he gives
us. Even a knot may be useful If il is at
| the end of a thread.
AT an anniversary of deaf and dumb
! asylum. one of the children wrote unon
! the blackboard words as sublime as the
| Had, the Odyssey, and the "Divina Com
media" all compressed in one paragrapb
! The examiner, in the signs of the mute
/ language, asked her: 'Who made the
world?" The deaf and dumb girl wrote
upon the blackboard In the beginning
! God created the heaven and the earth