Connecticut western news., 1898-02-17

~@N~~"~ need to be told that Christ was car penter, with his own hand yielding saw and hammer. Oh, this is tired world, and it is an overworked world, and it is an underfed world, and it is | n wrung out world, and men and wom- | en need to know that there are rest and | recuperation in God and ill that religion | which was not so much intended for extraordinary people as for ordinary | people, because there are more of them. Next to God.
 The healing profession has had its | Abercrombies and its Abernethys and | its Valentine Motts and it's Willard | Parkers, but the ordinary physicians do | the most of the worlds medicining, and | they need to understand that while talk | ing diagnosis or prognosis or writing prescription or compounding medica- I ment or holding the delicate pulse of a | dying child they may have the presence and the dictation of the Almighty Doc | tor who took the case of the madman | and after he had torn off his garments in foaming dementia clothed him again, l body and mind. and who lifted up the y | almost double with the rheumatism in- to graceful stature, and who turned the scabs of leprosy into rubicund complex | ion and who rubbed the numbness out | of paralysis, and who swung wide open l the closed windows of hereditary or ac- | cidental blindness until the morning | light came streaming through the flesh | ly easements and who knows all the | diseases and all the remedies and all | the herbs and all the catholicons and is monarch of pharmacy and therapeutics, and who has sent ten thousand doctors of whom the world makes no record, but to prove that they are angels of mercy I invoke the thousands of men whose ailments they have assuaged and the thousands of women to whom in crises of pain they have been next to God ill benefaction.
 Come, now, let us have religion for ordinary people in professions, in occu- pations, in agriculture. in the house hold, in merchandise, in everything l salute across the centuries Asyncritus. Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia.
 Unpretentious People.
 First of all, if you feel that you are ordinary, thank God that you are not extraordinary. I am tired and sick and bored almost to death with extraor- dinary people. They take all their time to tell us how very extraordinary they really are You know as well as l do, my brother and sister, that the most of the useful work of the world is done by unpretentious people who toll right on, by people who do not get much ap- proval, and no one seems to say, "That is we'll done" Phenomena are of but little use. Things that are exceptional cannot be depended on. Better trust the smallest planet that swings in its orbit than ten comets shooting this way and that, imperiling the longevity of worlds attending to their own business. For steady illumination better is lamp than a rocket.
 Then if you feel that you are ordinary remember that your position invites the less attack. Conspicuous people how they have to take itl How they are mis represented and abused and shot at The higher the horns of a roebuck the easier to strike him down. What delicious thing it must be to be a candidate for governor of n state or president of the United Statesl It must be so soothing to the nerves. It must pour into the soul of candidate such sense of serenity when be reads the blessed newspapers
 I came into the possession of the ol. ~.NfN I, printed while he was yet alive. The retreat of the army from Moscow, that army buried in the snows of Russia, one of the most awful tragedies of ths centuries, represented under the figure of monster called General Frost shaw ing the French emperor with razor of tcicle. As Satyr and Beelzebub he is represented, page after page. page after page. England cursing him, Spain cursing him, Germany cursing him, Russia cursing him, Europe cursing him, North and South America cursing him. The most remarkable man of hii day and the most abused. All those men in history who now have a halo around their name on earth wore a crown of thorns. Take the few extraor dinary railroad men of our time and seJ what abuse comes upon them, whlls thousands of stockholders escape. New York Central railroad had 9,265 stock holders. If anything in that railroad affronted the people, all the abuse came down on one man and the 9,264 es- capped. All the world took after ThomaJ Scott, president of the Pennsylvania railroad. abused him until he got under the ground. Over 17,000 stockholders in that company. All the blame on ono man. The Central Pacific railroad-twl or three men get all the blame if any thing goes wrong. There are 10, 900 ill that company.
 Penalties of Prominence.
 I mention these things to prove it is extraordinary people who get abused, while the ordinary escape. The weather of life is not so severe on the plain as is is on the high peaks. The world never forgives a man who knows or gains or does more than it can know or gain or do. Parents sometimes give confection- cry to their children as an inducement to take bitter medicine and the worlds sugar plum precedes the worlds aqua fortis. The mob cried in regard to Christ, "Crucify him, cruelty him l' and they had to say it twice to be un- derstood, for they were so hoarse, and they got their hoarseness by crying a little while before at the top of their voice, "Hosanna." The river Rhone is foul when it enters Lake Leman, but crystalline when it comes out on the other side. But there are men who have entered the bright lake of worldly pros perity crystalline and come out terribly riled. If, therefore, you feel that you are an ordinary, thank God for the de- lenses and the tranquility of your posi- tion.
 Then remember, if you have only what is called an ordinary home, that the great deliverers of the world have