Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-02-17

For what We're they distinguished?
Absolutely nothing, ar the trait
of character would have been
brought out 10y the apostle. IL they
had been very intrepid. ar OPP
ulent, ar hirsutc, ar musical Of ca
dcnce, ar Grass of style. or in any wise
anomalous, that feature would have
been caught 10y the apostolic camera.
Hut they wers good people, because
Paul sends Ia them his high Christian
regards They were ordinary people,
moving in ordinary sphere. attending
Ia ordinary duty, and meeting ordi-
nary responsibilities.
What the world wants l. "A religion
for ordinary people. II there h. in the
| United States 10000. 600 people, there
are certainly not more than l,00o 900
extraordinary; and then there are Co.,
ona,oOo ordinary, and We do well to
turn our backs for little while upon
the distinguished and conspicuous pco-
| PIE of the Bible and consider in our
text the seven ordinary. We spend too
much of our time in twisting garlandS
( for rcmarkables, and building thrones
! for magnat :, and sculpturing war
riors, and aPothvoSizing philanthro-
pists The rank aud file of the Lords
s"ldirry need especial help.
The vast ma iority of people will
never lead an army. will never write a
state constitution, will never elcctrify
a senate, will never make an important
I invention, will never introduce new
| philosophy. will never decide the fate
of nation. You do not expect To, You
do not want to- You will not be a
I Moses la lead nation out of bondage.
! lou will not he a Joshua 10 prolong
the daylight until you can shut five
| kings in a cavern. You will not he a
II John Ia unrull an Apocalypse. You
will not bc a Paul tn preside over an
AZ ostolic college. You viii not he a
Mary to mother Christ You will
more probably he Asyncritus, or
Phlegon, or Iiermas. or ratrobas, or
Ilrrmes, or Philologus, or Julia.
Many of YOU are women at the head
of households Every morning you
plan for the day. The culinary depart
ment of the household is in your do
minion. You decide all questions of
your house are under your supervision.
To regulate the food, and the apparel,
and the habits, and decide the thou
; sand questions of home life is n tax
upon brain and nerve and general
health absolutely appalling, if there be
no divine alienation.
1t do not help you much to be told
that Elizabeth Fry did wonderful
things amid the criminals at Newgate
II does not help you r':oh to be told
that Mrs JudscT was very brave
among the Bornesian cannibals. 1t
I does not help You very much to be told
that Florence Nightingale was very
kind TO the wounded in the Crimca. 1t
would be better for me to tell you
that the Divine friend of Mary and
Martha is your friend, and that He
sees all the annoyances and disappoint-
ments and abrasions and exasperations
of an ordinary houseleeper from morn
! till night. and from the first day of the
year until the last day of the year, and
at your call lie is ready with help and
reimbursement
1 They who provide the food of the
world decide the health of the world.
| You have only to go on some errand
amid the taverns and the hotels of
the United States and Great Britain to
appreciate the fact that a vast multi
tude of the human race are slaughter
ed by incompetent cookery. Though
a young woman may have taken les
sons in music, and may have taken les
sons in painting. and lessons in astron-
omy, she is not well educated unless
She has taken lessons in dough- They
who decide the apparel of the world,
and the food of the world. decide the
endurance of the world.
An unthinking man may consider il
a matter-of little importance-the
cares of the household and the econ.
omies of domestic life-but tell you
the earth is strewn with the martyrs
of kitchen and nursery. The health
shattered womanhood of America cries
out for a God who can help ordinary
women in the ordi~ airy duties of house.
keeping. The wearing, grinding, un.
appreciated work goes on, but the
sans Christ who stood on the bank
of Galilee in the early morning
and kindled the fire and had the
fish already cleaned and broiling
when the sportsmen stepped ashore,
chilled and hungry, will help every
woman to prepare breakfast, whether
by her own hand, or the hand of her
hired help. The God who made indie
structible eulogy of Hannah, who
made coat for Samuel, her son, and
carried il to the temple every year
will help every woman in preparing
the family wardrobe. The God who
orens the Bible with the story of Abra
hams entertainment by the three an
gels on the plains of Mamre, will help
every woman to provide hospi
tality, however rare and embar
RAISING. 1t is high time thai
some of the attention we have
been giving to the remarkable womer
of the Bible-remarkable for their vir
tue, or their want of it, or remarkabl,
for their decds-Deborah and Jezebel
and Herodias and Alfalfa, and Dorca.
AMI the Marys, excellent and aban
doned- at is high time some of the Mt
tention we have been giving to thest
conspicuous women of the Bible b,
given to Julia, an ordinary woman
amid ordinary circumstances, attend
ing to ordinary duties, and meeting or
binary responsibilities.
Then there are all the ordinary bust
ness men. They need divine ant
Christian help. When we begin Il
talk about business life we shoot RICH
off and talk about men who did bust