The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-16

presence ana Jne ulctaJlOn OF Gne Al
mighty Doctor who took the case of the
madman, and, after he had torn off 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
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 hereditary or accidental
blindness until the morning light came
streaming through the fleshly case
ments, and who knows all the herbs,
and all the catholicons, and is monarch
of pharmacy and therapeutics, and who
has sent out 10000 doctors of whom
the world make 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 benefac-
tion.
Come, now, let us have a religion for
ordinary people in professions, in oc-
cupations, in agriculture, in the house
hold, in merchandise, in everything.
salute across the centuries Asyncritus,
Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Eermes,
Philologus and Julia.
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 ex-
traordinary 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 approval, and no one seems to
say, 'That is well done"
Then, if you feel that you are ordi-
nary, remember that your position in
vites the less attack. Conspicuous peo-
ple-how they have to take it! How
they are misrepresented, 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 candidate for governor of a
state or President of the United States!
1t must be so soothing to the nerves!
1t must pour into the soul of candi-
date such sense of serenity when he
reads the blessed newspapers!
1 came into the possession of the
abusive cartoons in the time of Ma
poleon l., 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 TRACE
dies of the centuries, represented under
the figure of monster called General
Frost shaving the French emperor with
razor of icicle. As Satyr and Belize
bub he is represented, page after page,
page after page. England cursing him,
Spain cursing him, Germany cursing
him, Russia cursing him, Europe ours
ing him, North and South America
cursing him. The most remarkable
man of his 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 extraordinary railroad men of oul
time, and see what abuse comes upon
them, while thousands of stockholders
escape. New York Central railroad
had 9,265 stockholders. If anything in
that railroad affronted the people all
the abuse came down on one man, and
the 9,2G4 escaped. All the world took
after Thomas Scott, president of the
Pennsylvania railroad, abused him un.
til he got under the ground. Over II, 0O(
stockholders in that company. All the
blame on one man! The Central Pacific
railroad-two or three men get all the
blame if anything goes wrong. There
are 10, 900 in that company. / mention
these things to prove it is extraordin'
ary people who get abused, while the
ordinary escape.
The mob cried in regard to Christ
Cruelty him, cruelty him" and they
had to say it twice to be understood
for they were SO hoarse, and they got
their hoarseness by crying a little
while before at the top of their voice
'Hasanna."
Then remember, if you have only what
is called an ordinary home, that the
great deliverers of the world have all
come from such home. And there
may be seated, reading at your evening
stand, child who shall be potent fol
the ages. Just unroll the scroll of mer
mighty in church and state, and you
will find they nearly all came from log
cabins or poor homes. Genius almost
always runs out in the third or fourth
generation. You cannot find in all his
tory an instance where the fourth gen
Grafton of extraordinary people amount
to anything. In this country we ha6
two great men, father and son, both
presidents of the United States; but
from present prospects there will never
be in that genealogical line another
president for thousand years.
Let us all be content with such things
as we have. God is just as good in
what he keeps away from us as in what
he gives us. Evena knot may be useful
if it is at the end of a thread.
At an anniversary of deaf and dumt
asylum, one of the children wrote upon
the blackboard words as sublime as
the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Divana
Commedia all compressed in one para
graph. The examiner, in the signs Of
the mute language, asked her: "Whc
made the world?" The deaf and dumt
girl wrote upon the blackboard, I'm the
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