Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-02-19
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horn, and the sheep with the foot rot,
and the horse with the distemper and
to compel the unwilling acres to yield
livelihood for the family. and school
ing 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 Oh the
old mans vertigo. Better close up about
Cincinnatus. know 800 farmers just
as noble as he was What they want is
to know that they have tho 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 farmer boy coming back
from his warderings, and the old farm
house shock that night with rural jubi.
lee, and who compared himself to a
lamb in the pasture field, and who said
that the eternal God is farmer, de-
claring, Only Father is the husband
man.
Those stone masons do not want to
hear about Christopher Wren, the ar
chitect who built st. Paul IS cathedral. 1t
would be better to tell them how to car.
ry the bod of brick up the ladder with
out slipping, and how Oh cold morn
ing with the trowel to smooth off the
mortar and keep cheerful, and how to
be thankful to God fer the plain food
taken from the pail by the roadside.
Carpenters standing amid the adj, and
the bit, and tho plane, and the broadax
need to be told that Christ was car
penter, with his own hand welding
saw and hammer. Oh, this is tired
world, and it is an overworked world,
and it is an underfed world, and it is
wrung out world, and men and wom-
ell need to know that there are rest and
recuperation in God and in that religion
which was not so much intended for
extraordinary people as for ordinary
people, because there are moro of them.
Next TO UOus
The healing profession Las had its
Abercrombies and its Abernethys and
it's Valentine Motifs and its Willard
Parkers, but the ordinary physicians do
the most of the worlds medioining, and
they need to understand that while TAX
ing diagnosis or prognosis or writing
prescription or compromising medica-
ment or holding the delicate pulse OF
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 of 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 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
the closed windows of hereditary or &C.
cidental blindness until the morning
light came streaming through the flesh
ly easements, and who knows ali the
1;cnococ- and all the remedies and all
the herbs and all the cathollcons and is
monarch Of pharmacy and therapeutics,
end who has sent ten thousand 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
crises of pain they have been next to
God III benefaction.
Come, now, let us have religion for
ordinary people i'll professions, in occu-
pations, in agriculture, in the house
hold, in merchandise, in everything. l
salute across tie centuries Asyncritus,
Phlegon, Hcrinas, PatrohaS, Hermes,
Philologus and Julia.
UnrrctentioIs People.
First of all, if you feel that you are
ordinary, thank God that you are not
extraordinary. am tired and sick and
bored almost to death with extraor-
binary people They take al their time
to tell us how very extraordinary they
really are. You know as well as | do
my brother and sister, that the most OF
tbs useful work of the world is done by
unpretentious people who toll right Oh,
by people who do not get much ap-
prevail, and no one seems to say, THAT
is well 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 rocket.
Then if you feel that you ire ordinary
remember that your position invites the
less attack. Conspicuous people how
they have to take it! How they are mis-
represented and abused and shot att The
higher the horns of roebuck the easier
to strike him down. What a delicious
thing it must be to be a candidate for
governor Of state or president OF the
United States It must be so soorn1re
to the nerves. 1t must pour into the
soul of a candidate such sense OF
serenity when be reads the blessed
newspapers.
I came into the possession of the
abusive cartoons in the time of Napoleon
1, printed while he was yet alive. The
retreat of the army from Moscow, that
army buried in the SHOWS of Russia,
one of the most awful tragedies of the
centuries, represented under the figure
of monster called General Frost shay
ing the French emperor with a razor of
icicle. 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 his
day and the most abused. All those
men i'll history who now have halo
around. their name on earth wore
crown of thorns. Take It's few extraor-
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