The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-02-19

ne. anu we IllliltuAdltlN ~ vi W
talk about C~incinnatus, the patrician.
who went from the plow to a high
position. and and after he got through
the dictatorship, in ~ days went back
again to the pillow. What encourage
ment is that to ordinary farmers? The
vast majority of them-none of them
will be patricians. Perhaps none of
them will be senator's. If any of them
have relationships it will be over 40,
so or 100 acres of the old homestead.
What these men wants grace, to keep
their patience while blowing with
balky oxen, and to keep cheerful amid
the drouth that destroys the corr crop,
and that enables them to restore. the
garden the day. after the neigh
trampled out the strawberry
bed, and gone through the Lima
bean patch, and eaten up the sweet
corn in such large quantities that they
must be kept from the water lest they
swell up and die. Grace in catching
weather that enables them, without
~imprecation, to spread out the hay the
third time, although again, and again,
and again, 1t 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 distemper, and to. compel the I'M
willing acres to yield u livelihood for
the family, and schooling for the chill
dren aud little extras for the older boy
in business, and something for the
daughters wedding outfit, and a little
surplus for the time when the ankles
will be stiff with age, and the breath
will be a little short, and the swing
ing of the cradle through the hot har-
vest field will bring on the old man's
vertigo. Better close up about Gin
cinnatus. 1 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
he said "A owe went forth to SOW"
as when he built his best parade quito of
the scene of a farmer boy coming back
from his wanderings, and the old
farmhouse shook hat night with the
rural jubalee; and who compared him
self to u lamb in the pasture field. and
who said that the eternal God is q
farmer. declaring: My Father is the
usbandman."
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 writing prescription, or compound
ing medicament, or holding the deli
cate pulse of the dying child, they
may have the presence and the dicta-
tion 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 wom-
an, 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 pa
ralysis, and who swung wide open
the closed windows of hereditary or ac-
cidental blindness, until the morning
light came streaming through the
heshly 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 vent out TO-
900 doctors of whom the world makes
no record; but to prove thai they r
angels of mercy, I invoke the thou
sands of men whose ailments they have
assuaged and the thousands of women
to whom in great cries of pain they
have been next to God in benefaction.
Come, now, let US nave n religion for
ordinary people in professions, in oc-
equations, in agriculture. in the house
hold, In merchandise, in everything
Isalute across the centuries Asyncritus,
Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes.
Philologus and Julia
First of all, If you feel that you are
ordinary, thank God that you are ex-
traordinary. | am tired and sick amt
bored almost to death with extraordi-
nary people. They take all their time
to tell us how very extraordinary they
really are. You know as we'll as / do,
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
approval, and no one seems to IA
''That Is we'll done" Phenomena are
of but little use. Things that are ex.
ceptional cannot be depended on. Bet
ter trust the smallest planet that
swings in its orbit than ten comets
shooting this way and that, imperil.
ing the longevity of worlds attending
to their own business. For steady lie
Elimination better is a lamp than a
rocket.
Then, If you feel that you are ordi-
nary, remember that your position In
vites the less attack. Conspicuous
People-how they have TO take it! How
they are miarepresented, and abused,
and shot'ati- The higher the horns of
a roebuck the easier to strike him
down. What a delicious thing it must
be to be a candidate for governor of q
state or president OF the United Statesi
It must be so soothing to the nervesi
1t must pour into the soul of a candi-
date such a;sense of serenity when he
reads the blessed newspapers
mention these things to prove 1t IL
extraordinary people who get abused,
while the ordinary escape. The wealth
er of life is not so severe on the plain
as il is on the high peaks. The world
mover forgives a nan who knows, or
gains. or does more than 1t can know.
or gam, or do. Parents sometimes
give confectionery t o their children as
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medicine. and the worlds sugar plum
precedes the worlds aqua-fortis.
Tho mob cried in regard TO Christ,
Cruelty him. cruelty himr" and
they had to say 1t twice to be under
stood, for they were SO hoarse, and
they got their hoarseness by crying a
little while before at the top Of their
voice, "Hosauna." The River Rhone
is foul when 1t enters Lake Leman.
but crystalline when it out on
the other side. But there are men
who have entered the bright lake OF
worldly prosperity crystalline and
come out terribly rolled. II, there
fore, you feel that you are ordinary,
thank God for the defenses and the
tranquility of your position.
Then remember, if you have only
what is called an ordinary home, hat
the great deliverers of the world have
all come from such a home. And
there may be seated, reading at your
evening stand, a child who shall be
potent for the ages. Just unroll the
scroll of men mighty in church and
state, and you will find they nearly
all come from log cabin or poor
homes. Genius almost always runs
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