The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-02-20

ment by tho three angels on the plains |
OF Mamre. win help every woman TO |
provide hospitality. however rare and |
embarrassing. II II high time that |
some OF the attention We have been |
giving TO the remarkable women OF the
Bible-remarkabie for their virtue. or
their want Of Il, OF remarkable for
their deeds-Deborah and Jezebel. and
Herodias aud Alfalfa. and Dorcas and
the Marys. excellent and abandoned
IL is nigh time some of the attention
We have been giving to these conspicu-
Gus women Of the Bible be given 10
Julia. an ordinary woman, amid or
dinary circumstances. attending TO or
dinary duties. and meeting ordinary
responsibilities.
Now, what is wanted Is grace-di-
vine grace for ordinary business men,
men who are harnessed from morn till
night and all the days OF their life
harnessed In business. Not grace 20
lose hundred thousand. but grace to
lose ten dollars. Not grace to super
wise two hundred and fifty employees In
factory. but grace to supervise the
NO~H~N~RNA aaa wv 1AANoAlCns aaa AnC
small boy that sweeps out the store.
Grace to invest not the eighty thou
sand dollars of net profit. but the twen-
ty-ive hundred OF clear gain Grace
not to endure the loss OF whole ship
load OF spices from the Indies. but
grace to endure the loss OF a paper OF
collars from the leakage Of a displaced
shingle on a poor roof Grace not to
endure the tardiness OF the American
Congress In passing a necessary law.
but grace TO endure the tardiness OF
an errand boy stopping to play marbles
when he ought to deliver the goods.
Such a grace as thousands OF business
men have today-keeping them tran
gull. whether goods sell OF do not sell,
whether customers pay or do not pay.
whether tarin is up or tariff is down.
whether the crops are luxuriant or a
dead failure-calm In all circumstances
and amid all viclssitudes. That Is the
kind Of grace we want.
Millions OF men want II. and
they may have II for the ask
Ing. Some hero or heroine
comes to town. and as the pro-
cession passes through the streets the
business men come out. stand on tip
toe on their store steps and look at
some one who in Arctic cline, or in
ocean storm, or In day OF battle. OF In
hospital agonies. did the brave thing.
not realizing that they. the enthusias-
tic spectators. have gone through trials
In business life that are just as great
before God. There are men who have
gone through freezing Arctics and
burning torrids. and awful Marengoes
OF experience without moving i've
miles from their doorstep.
Now. what ordinary business men
need Is 10 realize that they have the
friendship Of that Christ who looked
after the religious interests OF Matthew.
the custom house clerk, and helped Ly-
dia, OF Thyatira. to sell the dry goods.
and who opened a bakery and fish mar
ket In the wilderness of Asia Miner 70
feed the seven thousand who had come
out on a religious picnic. and who
counts the hairs on your head with as
much particularly as though they were
the plumes OF 4 coronation, and who
took the trouble to stoop down with
his finger writing on the ground, al
though the first shuttle OF feet obliter-
ated the divine caligraphy, and who
knows just how many locusts there
were in the Egyptian plague. and
knew Just how many ravens were nee
essary to supply Elijah's pantry by the
brook Cherith. and who. as floral COM
mander. leads forth all the regiments
of primroses, foxgloves. daffodils, hya-
cinths. and lilies. which pitch their
tents of beauty and kindle their camp
fires OF color all around the hemisphere
that that Christ and that God knows
the most minute affairs OF your busi-
ness life and however inconsiderable.
understanding all the .affairs OF that
woman who keeps a thread and needle
store as we'll as all the affairs OF q
Rothschild and a Barring.
Then there are all the ordinary farm
ers. We talk about agricultural life
and We Immediately shoot on to talk
about Cincinnatus. the patricIan, who
went from the plow to a high position
and after he got through the dictator.
ship. in twenty-one days. went bach
again to the plow. What encourage.
ment is that to ordinary farmers? The
vast majority OF them-none OF then
will be patricians. Perhaps none oi
them will be senator's. II any OF then
have relationships. II will be over for.
ty, or fifty, or one hundred acres o
the old. homestead. What these meT
want is grace. to keep their patienc'
while plowing with balky oxen. and t'
: keep cheerful amid the drouth that de
; stroys the. corn crop. and that enables
them 20 restore the garden the day aft
! er the neighbor's cattle have broken Il
: and trampled out the strawberry bed
3 and gone through the Lima bean patch
: and eaten up the sweet corn In sucl
: large quantities that they must b
: kept from the water lest they swell. ul
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