Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-03-25

and the swinging OF the cradle
through the hot harvest field
will bring on the old mans vertigo.
Better close up, about Cincinnatus I
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 lie said; "A sower
went forth to SOW" ms when He built
His best parable out of the scene of y
farmer boy coming back from his wan
derings, and the old farmhouse shook
that night with the rural jubilee; and
who compared Himself to Il 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. Pauls cathedral.
1t would be better to tell them how to
carry the hod of brick up the ladder
without slipping, and how on a 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 wrung-c ut 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 pco-
pie as for ordinary people, because they
are more of them.
The healing profession has had it's
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
/ tuhT lifted hA txThn fAr
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 lleshly 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 a religion for
ordinary people in professions, in oc-
equations, in agriculture, in the house
hold, in merchandise, in everything.
salute across the centuries Asyncritus
Phlcgon. lIcrmas, Patrobas, Hermes
Philologus and Julia.
mention these things to prove it is
extraordinary people who are abused
while the ordinary escape. The
weather of life is not so severe on the
plain as it is on the high peaks. The
world never forgives man who knows
or gains, or does more than it car
know, or gain, or do. Parents some
times give confectionery to their chill
drcn as an inducement to take bitter
medicine, and the worlds sugar plum
precedes the worlds aqua-fortis. Tn,
mob cried in regard to Christ, "Cru
city Him, cruelty Him. and they
had to say it twice TO be un
dcrstood, for they were SO hoarse, anC
they got their hoarseness by crying ;
little while before at the top of theil
voice, "lIoslnna. The River Rhonc il
foul when it enters Lake Lcman, bu
crystalline when it comes out on thu
other side. But there are men VIII,
have entered the bright lake of world,
prosperity crystalline and come on
terribly rolled. If, therefore, you fee
that you are ordinary, thank God TO
the defenses and the tranquility O
your position.
Then remember, if you have onl,
what is called an ordinary home, tina
the great deliverers of the world hav
all come from such home. And ther,
may be seated, reading at your evening
stand, child who shall be potent fc
, the ages. Just unroll the scroll of mel
mighty in church and state, and yo
will find they nearly all cane from To-
cabin or poor homes Genius almos
always runs out in the third o
: fourth generation. You can no
! find in all history an in
stance where the fourth genera
ton of extraordinary people amour
to anything. In this country we ha
, two great men, father and son, bot
,, presidents of the United States; bu
from present prospects there never vii
be in that genealogical line anothe
president for a thousand years. Coluu
bus from weaver's hut, Dcmosthene
from cutters cellar, Bloomfield an
Missionary Carey from u shoemaker
, bench, Arkwright from a barber
shop, and He, whose name is high owe
> all in earth, and air, and sky, from
, manger.
I Let us all be content with such thing
= as we have God is just as good in wha
: He keeps away from us as IN what II