The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-02-19

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tricians. Perhaps none of them will be
senators. IL any of them have dicta-
torships it will be over 40, so or 100
acres of the old homestead. What
these men want is grace to keep their
patience while blowing with ballsy OK
en-, and to keep cheeful amid the drought
that destroys the corn crop, and that
enables them to restore the garden the
day after the neighbours cattle have
broken in and trampled out tho 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 NOW.
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 n 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. L
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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 "a lamb in the
pasture field, and who said that the
eternal God is a farmer, declaring:
MY Father is the husbandman." u
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 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 undcrfcd
world. and it is 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 its Abernethys, and
its Valentine Motifs, 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 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 IS
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 leshly easements, and
who knows all the diseases, and all the
remedies, and all the herbs, and all the
catholicons, 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-
equations, in agriculture, in the house
hold, in merchandise, in everything. l
salute across the centuries Asyncritus,
Phlegon. Hermas. Patrobas, IIermes,
Philologus and Julia.
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 lie
gives us. Even knot may be useful
if it is at the end of a thread.
At an anniversary of deaf and
dumb asylum, one of the children
wrote upon the black board words as
sublime as the Iliad, the Odyssey, and
the "Divina Comedia," all compressed
in one paragraph The examiner,
in the sign of the mute Lam
guage, asked her: "Who made the
world?" The deaf and dumb girl wrote
upon the black board: I'm the begin
ming God created the Heaven and the
earth" The examiner asked her: For
what purpose did Christ come into the
world?" The deaf and dumb girl
wrote upon the blackboard: tThis
is a faithful saying, and worthy
of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners"
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