The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-02-19

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YIN ~ &Zabout Asyncrttus,
El&#Hk AkYA MKPhlegon, Hermas,
GAklAtS4 zMMW Patrobas, Hermes,
REV. TALMAeE. 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? Abso'
lutely nothing, or the trait of charac-
ter would have been brought out by
the apostle. If they had been very in
trepid. or opulent, o hirsnte, or must
cal of cadence, or Grass of style. or in
any wise anomalous, that feature
would have been caught by the apos-
toIic camera. But they were good
people, because Paul sends to them his
ordinary people moving in ordinary
sphere, attending to ordinary duty and
meeting ordinary responsibilities
What the world wants is a religion
for ordinary people. If there be in
the United States 20, 600, 600 people,
there are Certainly not more than
1000, 600 extraordinary; and then there
are SO, O0o, 600 ordinary, and we do well
70 turn our backs for a little while
upon the distinguished and conspicu-
QUE pCOD1GO VI W olOAC IL SOhoAACA
in our text the seven ordinary. We
spend too much of our time in twisting
garlands for remarkables, and build
ing thrones for maguates, and sculptur-
ing warriors, and ap~otheosiZing phi
'l~anthropists. The rank and file of the
Lords soldiery need especial help.
The vast majority of people will never
lead an srmy, Will never write a state
III fv a 49,
ate, will never make an important in
vention, will never introduce a new
philosophy, will never decide the fate
of q nation. You do not expect to; you
do moi want to. You will not
out OF bondage. You will not
light until you can shut five kings in a
unroll an apocalypse. You will not
be a Paul to preside over an apostolic
college. You will not be a Mary to
mother q Christ. You will more proba'
bly, be Asyncritus, or Phlegon, or Her
/, mas or Patrobas, or Hermes, or Philol-
ogu1' or Juliat Many of you are
women at the head of households.
Every morning you plan for the day.
The culinary department of the house
hold is your dominion. You decide
ALI 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 thousand questions of
home life Is a tax upon brain and
nerve and general health absolutely
appalling, If there be no divine ale
yiation.
They who provide the food of the
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 a vast multitude
Of the human race are slaughtered by
Incompetent cookery. Though a young
woman may have taken lessons In
music, and may have taken lessons in
painting, and lessons In astronomy,
she is not well educated unlessshe has
taken lessons in doughi They who
decide the apparel of the world and
the food of the world decide the en-
durance of the world.
An unthinking man may consider it
a matter of little importance-the
cares of the household and the econo-
mics of domestic life-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 hodse-
keeping. The. wearing, grinding. UNI
appreciated work goes on. but the
same Christ who stood on the bank of
GaIilee in the early morning and kim
died the fire and had the fish already
cleaned and broiling when the sports
men stepped ashore. chilled and hum
cry, will help every other woman to
prepare breakfast, whether by her own
hand or the hand of her hired help.
The God who made indestructib BILE
eulogy of Hannah, who made q coat
for samuel, her son., and carried 1t TO
the temple every year. will help every
woman in preparing the family ward
robe.
Then there are all the ordinary bust
ness men. They need divine and Chris
tian help. When we begin to talk
about business life we shoot right of
and talk about men who did business
on a large scale, and who sold millions
of dollars of goods a years; and the vast
majority of business men do not sell a
million dollars Of goods, nor half Q
million, nor quarter of a million, nor
the eighth part of a million. Put all
the business men of our cities, towns.
villages, and neighborhoods side by
side, and you will find that they sell
less than 100000 worth of goods.
All these men In ordinary BUSH
ness life want divine help. You
see how the wrinkles are printing on
the countenanee the story OF worri'
ment and care. You cannot tell how
old a business man Is by looking at
him. Gray hairs at 30. A man at 10
with the stoop of q nonogenariGn. No
time to attend to improve dentistry,
the grinders cease because they are
few. Actually dying of old age at 40
or so, when they ought to be at the
meridian. Many of these business men
have bodies like a neglected clock, to
which you come, and when you wind
IT mp il begins u buzz and o and
then the hands start around very rap
idly. and then the clock strikes with
out any sense, and then suddenly stops
So Is the : body of that WORKOUT BUSH
ness man. 1t is a neglected clock, 6Ra
though by some summe recreation it
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is all out'of- gear.
Now, what is wanted Is ~grace-di-
vine grace for ordinary business men,
men who are harnesssd from morn till
night and all the days of their lite-
harnessed In business. Not grace to
lose $1,000 900, but grace to lose $40.
Not grace to supervise $50 employees In
, factory. but grace to supervise the
bookkeeper, and two salesmen, and
the small boy that sweeps ont the
store. Grace to invest net the $50, 900
Of net profit, but the 90, bGG Of clear
gsin. Grace not to endure the loss Of
a whole ship load OF spices from the In
dies, but grace to endure the loss of a
paper of collars from the leakage OF a
displaced shinRle on n poor ROOT. Grace
not to endure the hardness of. the
American congress In passing a neces-
sary law, but grace to endure the tardi-
pess of an errand boy stopping to play.
marbles when he ought 70 deliver the
goods. Such a grace as thousands of
business men have to-day-keeping
them tranquil, whether goods sell Or