Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-02-18
quantities that they must be kept from
the water lest they swell up and die.

quantities that they must be kept from
the water lest they swell up and die.
Noble Husbandmen.
Grace in catching weather that en-
ables them, without imprecation, to
spread out the hay the third time, al
though again and again and again it
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 unwilling acres to yield
a 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 a little short,
and the swinging Of the cradle through
the hot harvest field will bring on tho
old mans vertigo. Better close up about
Cincinnatus. | 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 sower went forth to SOW" as when
he built his best parable out Of the
scene Of a farmer boy coming back
from his wanderings, and the old farm
house shook 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, "My Father is the husband
man..
Those stone masons do not want to
hear about Christopher Wren, the ar
chitect who built St Paul 5 cathedral. 1t
would be better to tell them how to car
~ 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
he thankful To God for the plain food
taken from the pail by the roadside
Carpenters standing amid the adj, and
the bit, and the plane, and the bToadax
need to be told that Christ was car
penter, with his own hand welding
saw and hammer Oh, this is a tired
world. and it is an OverwOTked world
and it is an underfcd world, and it is
wrung out world, and men and won
en- 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 more of them
Next to God.
The healing profession has bad its
Abercrombies aud 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 TAX
ing diagnosis or prognosis or writing
prescription or compromising medica-
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 mailman
and after be 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 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
" 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 l 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 in benefacti0n
Come, now, let rs have a 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 am tired and sick and
bored almost 70 death with extraor-
binary people. They take all 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
the useful work Of the world is done by
unpretentious people who toll right on,
by people who do not get much APP
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 orbr
than ten comets shooting this way and
that. imreriling the longevity Of world