Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1898-03-03

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never decide the fate Of a nation. You 10
not expect to; you do not want to. You
will not be q Moses TO lead = nation out Of
bondage. You viii not be- a Joshua TO pro-
long the daylight until you can shut i've
kings in a cavern. You will not b.. a 81.
John to unr0ll an Apocalypse. You viii
not be a Pau to preside over an apostolic
college. You will not he a Mary TO mother
a Christ. You will more probably be Asyn-
critus, or Phleson, or Hernas. OF patrobas,
or Hermes. or Phiiologus. or Julia.
Many OF you a-e women at the head q
households. Every morning y0u plan for
the day. The culinary department Of TIE
household Is your dominion. You decide
all questions Of diet. All the sanitary
regulations Of your house arr under your
supervision. To regulate the food. and
the apparel and the habits. aud decide the
thousand questions Of home life is n tax
upon brain and nerve and general health
absolutely appalling il there be no divine
alienation.
They who provide the food Of the world
decide the health OF the word. Iou have
only 10 90 on some erraDd amid the tav-
ems and hotels OF .he United States aud
Great Britain 70 app late the fact that a
vast multitude OF " human race ara
slaughtered by nroa etent cookery.
Though a Young woma4 " nave taken
lessons in music and mas taken les
sons in painting, and lessoLLar. %stronomy.
taken tax n lessons eos sG in dough-; hnell3et decids
the apparel Of the world. and "a +. ID OF
the world, decide the enduran AS: 3 tho
world. ~ >.
Then there are all the orlinarv'rlng =,
men. They need divine and Clri-tia4 4ltt,.
When We begin to talk about business Iife
We shoot right of and talk about men who
did business on q large scale and who Sold
millions of dollars Of goods Il year: aud the
vast majority Of business men Do not sell u
~offit@r .iAtlo - yf pna3c nor half a FfiIIinD
nor a quarter Of a million, nor the Eighth
part Of II million. Put all the business men
Of cur cities, towns, villages and neighbour
hoods side by side, aud You will find that
they sell less than a hundred thousand dol
lars worth Of goods. All these men in or
binary business life want divine help. You
see how the wrinkles are printing on the
cOuutenance the story Of worriuient and
care. You can not tell how old Il business
man is ~ looking at him.. Gray hairs at
thirty.
Now. what Is wanted il g~race-divine
grace for ordinary business men. men W7lo
are harnessed from morn till night and al
tile DAYS of their life -harnesSei in busi-
. ness. Not graceto lose a hundred thou-
sand, bat grace to lose ten dollars. Noc
! grace to supervise two hundred and fifty
EMPLOYEES IN a factory, but grace to super
wise the bCokkeepcr and two statesmen ami
tho 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 iuxuriant or
IA dead failure-calm III all circumstances,
and amid all vicissitudes. That is the
kind Of grace we want.
Then there are all the ordinary farmers.
/ Wa 4.Il- nk.nt o,ri. ~, a, rol I;fa and wa I'M.
lnediately shoot off to talk about Cincin-
Maths, the patrician. who Went from the
plow to i high position, and after he got
through the dictatorship. in twentv-cne
days, went back again - the plOW. What
encouragement is that to ordinary furm-
ers? The vast majority OF them-none OF
them will be patr.rians. Perhaps none Of
them will be Senator's. If any Of them have
relationships it will be over forty or fifty
or a hundred acres Of the old homestead.
What these men want is grace. to keep
their patience while blowing with balkv
oxen, and to keep cheerful amid tho
drouth that destroys the cCrn crop, and
that enables them to restore the garden
the day after the neighbours cattle have
broken in and %trampled out the strawberry
bel. and gone through the Lima-bean
patch, end eaten up the sweet corn III such
large quantities that they must be kept
from the water lest they swell up and die.
Grace in catching weather that enables
them, without iaprecatiOn, 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 tho
COW with hollow horn, and the sheep witt
the foot rot. and the horse With the dis
temper, and TO cOmpel the nwilllng acres
to WELD a livelihood for the family, and
schooling for the children and littl" extras
to help the older boy in business, and some
| thing for the daughters wedding outfit.
md u little sD rnllS for the time when fine
ankles will get stiif with age, and the
breath will be a little short, and the
swinging Il the cradle throushthe hot mar
vest tinl! will bring on the old mans YER
tiGo. Better close up about Cincinnatu5.
l know five hundre farmers Just as noble
as he was. What they want is to kno"
that they have the friendship Of that Christ
who often drew His SMILES from tie far
mers life, As when He said: "A sower
went forth 70 SOW as when He built Ills
best parable cut Of the scene OF q farmer
ooN coming back from his wanderings, and
The Old farmhouse shook that night with
rural jubilee; and who compared himself
10 a lamb in the pasture field. and Whp
said that the eternal God is a farmer. de
"iaring: Ny Father is the husbaE1nan.'
atqme, now. let us have a religion for
ordinary people in professions, in occupa-
tions. il agriculture. in the household, III
merchandise. in everything. salute
across the centuries Asvncritus. Phlegoh,
HernaS, Patribas. Hermes, pAiloIocus and
julia.
First OF ali. il vol feel That vou are or
binary, thank God that you are not extra
ordinary. | an tired and sick. and bored
almost To death with extraordinary peo-
pie. You know rs we'll as I do. nv brother
and sister. that thu most Or the useIu.
worS OF the world is done pv unpreten-
tiols people who toll right only people
. VII" do not Get much approval. and 10 one
seams II say. That Is we'll done"
The weather or life is not 50 severe on the
plain a it Is Oh the high peaks. Thu world
never f~orgives a man wto knows q gains
or does more than il can know or gaii. or
ID. II, therefore, You feel that you ar,
ordinary. thank GOD for the defanses ani
tranquility 81 your position.
Then remember. If YOU have only what
j, i, called an ordinary home, that the great
iellverer, Of the world have altcome from