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THE BARNESYIELE GAZETTE. VOL. I>K. 'V ALM AGE SEH MON. ORDINARY PEOPLE. “ftalut'r Aftynci’tiis.Plilpgoii IKtuyis, Pibis. II ?r and .1 alia."—Romans xvl.u-i.v Matthew Henry. Albert Barnes, Adam Ciark, Thomas Scott, and all tile commentators pass bv these ver ses without any especial remark. The other twenty people, mentioned in the chapter were distinguished for something aud were therefore dis cussed by the illustrious expositors, but nothing is said about Asvncritus Phleg on, Hernias. Patrobas,Hermes; Philoiogus and Julia. Where were they born.' Where did theydie.'There is no record of their decease. For what were they distinguished .’ Absol utely for nothing, or the trait of character would have been brought out by the apostle [f they had been very intrepid, or opulent, or hirsute, or musical of cadence, or crass of style, or in anywise anomalous, that feature would have been caught by the apostolic camera. But that they were good people is certain, because Paul sends to them his high Chris tian regards. They arc ordinary peop lemoving in au'ordih iry sphere, at tending' to ordinary duty and meet ing ordinary responsibilities. What, the world wants is a religion for or dinary people. If there be in the Un ited States 55,000,000 people, there are certainly not mo; o than 1,000,000 extraordinary, and then there are 04,000,000 ordinary, mil we do well to turn our backs for a little while upon the distinguished and conspicu ous people of the Bible, and consider in our text the seven ordinary. We spend too much of our time in twist ing garlands for lvmarkables and building thrones for magnates \ 'and : sculpturing warriors and apotheosiz ing plilanthropists.Tnc rank and lilo of the Lord's soldiery need especial help. The vast majority of people to whom this sermon comes, either by voice or type, will never write a State constitution, witi never elect rify a Senate, will never make an im portant invention, will never introd uce anew philosophy, will never de cide the fateofa nation. You do not | want to. 'You will not he a Moses to lead a nation“out of bondage. You will'not be a Joshua io prolong the daylight until you can shut five kings in a cavern. You will not be a St. John to unroll an Apocalypse. You will not be a Paul to preside over an apostolic college. You will not he a ] Mary to mother a Christ. You will more probably bo Asyncritus, or j Phlegon, or Hennas, or Hermes, or j Philoiogus, or Juba, .ilmv of you ■ are women at the head of households. This morning you launched the fam ily for Sabbath observances. Your brain decided the apparel, and ques- ; tions of personal attire. Every I morning yon plan for the day. The .I culinary department of the house- 1 hold is in your dominion. You decide j all questions of diet. Ail the sanitary \ regulations ofyour house are under ■your supervision. To regulate the j food, and the apparel,and theliabits, ' and deeid • (lie thousand question of home life, is a tax upon brain and general health, absolutely appalling if there be no divine alleviation. It does not help you much to be told i that Elizabeth” Frey d.d wonder-! ful things amid the criminals of New gate. It does not help you much to j be told that Mrs. Judson was very! brave among the Boruesian canni- j bals. It does not help you much to ! be told that Florence Nightingale ; was very kind to the wounded in the | .Crimea. It would be better for me to ; tell you that the divine friend of ] Maiy and Martha is your friend, and ! that He sees all the annoyance and disappointments and abasions and exasperations of an ordinary house keeper from mom till night,and from the first day of tli e year to the last day of the year and at your call He is ready with help and reinforcement. They who provide the food of the world decide the health of the world. One of the greatest battles of this century was lost because the com mander that morning had a fit of indigestion. You hav e only to go on some errand amid tha taverns and the hotels of the United States and Great Britain to app. f auto the fuel that, a vast muititud oi human be ings ca n. year arc slaughtered by incompetent cookery. Though a young woman may have taken les sons m astronomy, -he is not well educated unless din i.as taken les sons in dough! Tiiev who decide the apparel of tiie world aud tiie food of the world decide the endurance of BARNESVILLE, GA.. SEPTEMBER 18, 1884. f the world. An unthinking man may consider it a matter of little import ance, the cares of the household and the economies of domestic life; but I tell you the earth is strewn with the martyrs of kitchen and nursery. The health-shattered womanhood of A merica cries out for a God who can help ordinary women in the ordinary duties of housekeeping. The wearing, grinding, unappreciated work goes on but the same Christ who stood on the bank of Galilee in the early morning and kindled the tire and had the fish already cleaned and broiling when the sportsman stepped ashore chilled and hungry, will help every woman to prepare breakfast, whether by her own hand, or the ban lof her hired help. The Christ who crossing the cornfield rubbed the com in his hand and prepared it for the disciples will help every wo man in the fine art of breadmakiug. The God who made indestructible eulogy of Hannah, who made a coat for Samuel, her son, and carried it to the temple every year, will help every woman in preparing the fam ily wardrobe. The God who opens the Bibio with the story of Abraham’s entertainment of the three angels on the plains of Mamre will help every woman to provide hospitality, however rare and embarrassing. It is high.time that some of the attention we have been giving to the remarka ble women of the Bible—-remark ib .e for their virtue, remarkable for their vices—Deborah and Jezebel ail'd Ib rodias and Aiiiaiia and Dor etts and the Marys, excellent aud ab andoned—it. is high time some ol' the attention we have been given to these conspicuous women lie given to Juliaof the text, au ordinary woman am. 1 ordinary circumstances, attend ing to ordinary duties and meeting ordinary responsibilities. Then there are all the ordinary business men. They need divine and Christian help. When we begin’totalk about business life wo shoot right off and talk about men who did business on a large scale, and who sold mil lions of dollars of goods a year, hut the vast majority of buisness men do not sell a million dollars of goods, nor a quarter of a million, nor the eighth part of a million. Cut all the business men of our cities, towns, villages and neighborhoods side by side, aud you will find that they sell less than fifty-thousand dollars’ worth of goods. AU these men in or dinary business life want divine help. You see how the wrinkles are print ing on the countenance.*!,he story of womment and care. You cannot tell how old a business man is by look ing at him. Gray hairs at JO. A man at 45 with tl}e stoop of a nonogen arian No time to attend to proved dentistry, the grinders cease because they are few Actually dying of old age at 40 or 50, when they ought to ho at the meridian. Many of these business men have bodies like a neg- ] looted clock to which you come, and yon wind it up, audit begins to buzz and roar, aid then fli “hands start, around very rapidly, and then the clock strikes 5 or 10 or 40, and strikes without any sense, and then the clock suddenly stops. So is the body of that worn out business man. It is a neglected clock, and though by some summer recreation it rtiay he wound up still the machinery is all out of gear. The hands turn around with a velocity that excites the as tonishment of the world. Man cannot understand the wonderful activity, and there is a roar aud a buzz and a rattle about these disorders, and they strike ten when they ought to strike five, and they strike twelve when they ought to strike six, and they strike forty when they ough t to strike nothing, and suddenly they stop. Post mortem examination rev eals the fact that all the springs aid pivots and weights and balance wheels of health are deranged. The human clock has simply run <; ■vn and at the time when tiie steely hand ought to bo pointing to the in duHtrious hours on a clear and .unlit diai, the whole machinery oi b.Gy, mind and earthly capacity stops for ever. Greenwood has thousands of New York and Brooklyn ou am is m.-n who died of old age at 30, 35,40- 1-3. Now, what is wan:e i is grace, divine grace, for ordinary business men, men who are harnessed from morn till night and all tiie days of their life. Not grate to lose a hundred thousand, but grace to lose ten dol lars. Not grace to supervise two ! un dred and fifty employes in a factory, but grace to supervise the bookeeper and two salesmen and the small boy that sweeps out the store. Grace to invest, not the $40,000 of net profit, hut the $2,500 of clear gain. Grace, not to endure to the loss of a whole shipload of spices from the Indies, but grace to endure the loss of a pa per of collars from the leakage of a poor roof. Grace, not to endure the tardiness off he American Congress in passing a necessary law, but grace to endure the tardiness of an errand boy stopping to play marbles when he j ought to deliver fhe goods. Such i grace as thousands of buisness men j have to day keeping them tranquil i whether goods sell or do not sell, whether customers pay or do not pay, wh oiler ‘trailt’ is down whether tiie crops are luxuriant or a dead failure —calm in all circumstances and amid all vicissitudes. That is the kind of grace we want. Millions of men want it and they may have it for the ask ing. Some hero or heroine comes to town and as the procession passes through the street the business men come out aud stand on tiptoe on their store stop and look at someone who in Arctic clime, or in ocean storm, or in day of battle, or in hospital ag onies, did the brave thing not realiz ing that they, the enthusiastic spec tators, have gone through trials in business life that are just as great be fore God. There are men who have gone through freezing are ties,burning torriils and- Yu .ihirengoesofexper iences with '.u in.l ring five miles from the doorstep. Now, what or dinary . ,iuess men need is to real ize tii. .. they have the friendship of that Onrist who looked after the re ligious interests of Matthew, the cus tom house clerk, and who counts the hairs of your head with as much par ticularity as though they were the plumes of a coronation, and who took the trouble to stoop down, with H s finger writing on the ground, although the first shuffle of feet obliterated the divine caligraphy,and who knows just how many locusts there were in the Egyptian plague, whether them was an oven number or odd number, and knew just how many rav-'us were necessary to sup ply EkijabY. pantry by the brook Gherith, and who, as itorat comman der, leads iorth all the regiments of primroses, foxglove*, daffodils, hy acinths ad lilies winch pitch their tents of beauty and kindle then'camp -fire ;of color all round the hemi sphere—that Christ and that God knows the most minute affairs of your business life, and however in considerable understanding all the affairs of that woman who keeps a thread and needre store as well as all tile affairs of a Rothschild or a Baring. There are all ordinary farmers. We talk about agricultural life aud we immediately shoot oil' to talk about Ciucinuatus. the patrician, who went from the plough to a high position and after ho got through the dicta tor ship in twenty years went hack again to tha plough. What encour agement is that to ordinary farmers? The vast majority of them—none of them will bo Senators.lf any of them have dictatorships it will be over for ty or fifty or a hundred acres of the old homestead. What those men want is grace to keep their patience while ploughing with bailey oxen, and to keep • cheerful amid the drought that destroys the corn crop and that enables them to restore fhe garden the day after the neighbor’s cattle have broken in and trampled out the strawberry bed and gone through the Lima bean patch and eaten up the sweet com in such quan t itles that they must be kept from the water lest they swell up and die. A grace that in catching weather en ables them without imprecation to spread out the hay the third time although again and agian it has been almost ready for the mow.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 com pel the unwilling acres to yeild 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 daughter's wedding outfit and a little surplus for the timo 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 the old man’s ver tigo. Better close up about Cincin tus. I know five hundred farmers just as noble as he was. What they want to know is that they have the friendship of that Christ who often j drew His similies from the farmer’s I life, as when he said: “A sower went j forth to sow;” as when He built His j best pararable out of the scene of a ; farmer’s hoy coming back from his j wanderings and the old farmhouse : shook that night with rural jubilee, j and who compared Himself to a ! lamb in the pasture field, aud who j said that the enternal God is a farm er, declaring. “My Father is a hus i bandmen.” Those stone masons do | not want to hear about Christopher | Wren, the architect who built St, j Haul s Cathedral, It would be bet j ter to tell them how to carry the hod of brick up the ladder with the tro wel to smooth off - the mortar and keep cheerful, and how to be thankful to God for the plain food taken from the pail by the roadside. Carpenters standing amid the adze and the bit and the broadaxe need to be told that Christ was a carpenter, with his own hand wielding saw and hammer O! this is a tired world, and it is an imperfect world,and it isa wrung out world, and men and women need to know that there is rest and recuper ation in God, and in that religion which was not so much intended for extradordiuary people as for ordina ry people, because there are more of them. The healing profession has had its Abercrombies and its Aber nethys and its Valentine Motts and its V> illard Parkers; but the ordinary physicians do the most of the world’s modicining, and they need to under stand that while taking diagnosis or prognosis, or writing prescription, or compounding medicament, or hold ing the delicate pulse of a dying child, they may have the presence and the dictation of the Almighty Doctor who took the case of themail man aud after he had torn off his garments in foaming dementia, doth ed him again body aud mind, and who lifted up the woman who for eighteen years had been bent almost double with the rhematism into grace ful stature, and who turned the scabs of leprosy into rubicund complexion and who rubbed the numbness out of paralysis, aud who swung wide open the dosed windows of hereditary or accidental blindness until the morn ing light come streaming through the fleshy casements and who knows all the diseases, and all the remdies, aud all the catholicons is monarch of pharmacy and thera peutics, and who has sent out ten thousand doctors of whom the world makes no record, but to prove that I invite the thousands of men whose ailments they have assuaged, and the thousands of women to whom in cris of pain they have been next to God in benefaction. Come now let us have a religion for ordinary people in professions, in occupations in agriculture, in the household, in merchandise, in everything. I sa lute across the centuries Asyncritus. Phlegon, Hernias, Patrabas, Hermes Pliioilogus and Julia. What a delicious thing it must, be to be a candidate for President of the United States! It must be so soothing to the nerves. It must put into the soul of a candidate such a sense of serenity when he reads the blessed newspapers. I came last week into the possesaion of the abusive cartoons in the time of Na poleon 1., printed while he was yet alive. The retreat of the'army from Moscow, that army buried in the snows of Russia, on of the most awful tragedies of the s centuries re presented under the figure of a mon ster called Gen. Frost shaving 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 curs ing him,, Russia cursing him, Europe, Asia, Africa. North and South America cursing him. The most remarkable man of his day, and the most Jabused. All those men of history who now have a halo around their names, on earth wore a crowd of thorns. Take the few extraordinary railroad men of our t ime and see what abuse comes up on them while thousands of stock holders escape- New York Central Railroad has 9,2f3(] stockholders. If anything hi that railroad affronts the people all the abuse comes down on ono man, and the 9265 escape. All the world took after Thomas Scott, president of the Pennsylvania Rail road. abused him until he got under the ground. Over 17,009 stockliold ders in the company. All the blame on one nian. The Central Pacific R. R.—two or three men get all the blame if anything goes wrong. There are 10,000 in that company. I men tion these things to prove it is extraordinary people who get abused while the ordinary escape. The weather of life is not so severe on the plain as it is on the high peaks. The world never forgives a man who knows, or gains, or does more than it can know, or gain or do. Parents sometimes give confectionery to their children as an inducement to take, bitter medicine, and the worlds su gar plum precedes the world’s aqua fort is. The mob cried in regard to Christ, “Crucify him, crucify him!” and t hey had to say it twice to he understood, for they were so hoarse, or they got their hoarseness by cry ing a little while before at the top of their voice. Hosanna!” The river Rhone is foul when it enters Lake Leman, but erystaline when it comes out on the other side. But there are men who have entered the bright lake worldly prosperity erystaline and come out terribly soiled. If, therefore, you feel that you are or dinary, thank God for tlio defences and the tranquillity of your position and t hen remember, if you have only what, is called an ordinary home, that 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 he 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 unpretentious homes. Genius al most always runs out in the third or fourth generations. You cannot find in all history anjinstance where the fourth generation of extraordinary people amount to anything. In this country we had two great men father and sou, both Presidents of the Uni ed StateH; but from present pros pects there will not be hi that gen ealogical line another President for a thousand years. Columbus from a weaver’s hut, Demosthenes from a cutler’s cellar, Bloomfield and Missionary Carey from a shoemaker bench, Arkwright from a barber’s shop and He, whose name is high over all in earth aud air and sky, from a manger. The spider draws poison out of n flower, the bee gets lioney out of a thistle, hut happi ness is a heavenly elixir, and the con tented spirit extracts it not from the rhododendron of the hills but from the lily of the valley. An Knopraotw Majority lor !Pr<>* Uibitione. Let those who doubt the expediency of prohibition read the following edi torial copied from a recent issue jof the Atlanta Constitution. It shows that where prohibition has been tried lon gest and most faithfully, it is strongest and most popular. As the Constitu tion soys “the prohibitionists the coun try over will draw inspiration and strength from the tremendous majority by which Maine has declared her opin ion.:" The most significant result of Uie Maine election is the enormous majori ty given to Uie {prohibition amend ment. Total prohibition Inis been tried now here so long 'and so faithfully as in Maine. For about a third of a century the making, selling or importing of !i. quor has been prohibited in that state. Thu trial has become more than an ex periment. It is a settled policy. In the last fewyears an anti prohibit lion crusade has been urged. The agij tation has been thorough. Distinguish ed men have been arrayed on earth side. The issue has been fully and ably presented in the newspapers. Nothing has been lacking to make the campaign er.haustive on either side. By common consent it was agreed |that the whole question should be submitted to a popu iar vote in the election of Monday, and it was agreed ttiat it should be seperat ed from politics by being made a disj tinct issue. It was to be voted on by democrats ami republicans alike, and on separate tickets from those on which candidates were voted for. The result of such an election, where the prohibition issue was submitted clear, distinct {and' unembarrassed, it was realized must be decisive. It has proved more than this. By a vote of nearly four to ono the prohibitionists have swept the state. They majority of 00,000 Jm a total pojl of about 90,000. There can hi: no evading or revoking such an overwhelming ver dict as that. In Maine, at least, where it has been tried for so many years, pro iiinition is the settled and permanent i rule: and the prohibitionists the coun try over will draw inspiration and strength from the tremendous majority j by which Maine has declared her opin ion . 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