Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-20

economically built that we cannot en0rd
the obliteration Of any physical faculty
We want our two eyes, our two ears, our
two hands, our two feet, our eight fingers
aud two thumbs. Yet what multitudes OF
people have but one eye, or
nut ONE FOOT
The ordinary casualties Of life have been
iquadrupled, quintupled, sextupled, aye,
centupled, In our time by the civil war,
aud at the North and the South a great
multitude that no man can number are
fighting the battle OF life with half, or less
than half, the needed physical ornaments.
/ do not wonder at the pathos Of sol
dler during the war, who, when told that
he must have his hand amputated, said
doctor, can't you save its" and when
told that II was impossible, said, with
tears rolling down his cheeks; "Well,
then, goodbye, old hand; hate to part
with you. You have done me good serv-
Ice for many years, butt seems you must
go. Goodbye"
A celebrated surgeon told me Of a
scene in the clinical department OF one
Of the New York hospitals, when a poor
man with a wounded leg was brought in
before the students TO be operated on.
The surgeon was pointing out this and
that to the students, and handling the
wounded leg, and was about TO proceed
TO amputation when the poor man leaped
from the table and hobbled TO the door
and said; Gentlemen, l am sorry 10
disappoint you, but, by the help OF God,
will die with my leg on" What a
terrific loss Is the loss OF our physical
fscultiesl
The way the battle OF Crecy was de-
Nh. ~ l.. -
Welshmen killing the French horses, and
that brought their riders TO the ground
And when you cripple this body, which is
merely the animal on which the soul
rides, you may sometimes defeat the
soul.
Yet how many suffer from this physical
taking OF Good cheer, my brother!
God will make II up TO you somehow
The grace, the sympathy of God, viii be
more TO you than anything you have
lost. II God allows part of your re-
sources to be
CUT OFF IN ONE PLACE
He will add 1t on somewhere else. AS
Augustus, the emperor, took of day
from February, making II the shortest
month In the year, and added IL to Au
gust, the month named after himself, so
nature will be added on to another.
But 1t ls amazing how much of the
worlds work has been done by men of
subtrscted physical organization. S. S.
Preston, the great orator of the South
west, went limping all his life, but there
was no foot put down upon any platform
of his day that resounded so far as his
club foot. Beethoven was so deaf that
he could not hear the crash Of the orches-
ira rendering his oratorios. Thomas
Carlyle, the dyspeptic martyr, was given
the commission TO drive cant out of the
worlds literature. Rev. Thomas
Stockton of Philadelphia, with one lung
raised his audiences nearer heaven than
most ministers can raise them with two
lungs. In the banks, the insurance COM
panies, the commercial establishments,
the reformatory associations, the
churches, there are tens of thousands of
men and women to-day doubled.up of
rheumatlsms or subject to neuralglas, or
with only fragments Of limbs, the rest OF
which they left at Chattanooga, or South
Mountain, or the Wilderness, and they
are worth more to the world, and more to
the church, and to God than those of us
who have never so much as had fiuger
joint stiffened by felon, Put to full use
all the faculties that remain, and charge
on all opposing circumstances with the
determination OF John of Bohemia, who
was totally blind, and yet at battle cried
outs al pray and beseech you TO lead me
so far into the fight that may strike one
good blow with this sword Of mine.n Do
not think so much OF what faculties you
have lost as of what faculties remain
You have enough left to make yourself
FELT IN THREE WORLDS,
while you help the earth, and baulk hell,
and win heaven. Arise from your dis.
couragements, o men and women of de-
pleted or crippled physical faculties, and
see what, by the special help of God, you
can accomplish
The skilled horsemen stood around
Bucephalus, unable to mount or manage
him, so wild was the steed. But Alexan-
der noticed that the sight OF his own
shadow seemed to disturb the horse. So
Alexander clutched him by the bride, and
turned his head away from the shadow,
and towards the sun, and the horses agi-
tation was gone, and Alexander mounted
him and rode of, to the astonishment of
all who stood by. And what you people
need Is to have your sight turned away
from the shadows of your earthly lot over
which you have so long pondered, and
your head turned toward the sun-the
glorious sun OF gospel consolation, and
Christian hope and spiritual triumph.
And then remember that all physical
disadvantages win after awhile vanish.
Let those who have been rheumatIsmed
out OF foot, or cataracted out OF an eve,
or by the perpetual roar Of our cities
numbered out Of an ear, look forward to
the dav when this old tenement house of
flesh will come down and better one
shall be builded. The resurrection morn
ing will provide YOU with better outfit.
Either the unstrung, WORKOUT, blunted
and crippledsorgans will be so recon.
structed that you will not know them, or
an entire new set OF eyes, and ears, and
feet will be given you. Just what Il
means by corruption putting on incor-
ruptlon we do not know, save that il will
be glory inefablei no limping in heaven,
no straining Of the eyesight to see things
little way on no putting of the
HAND RRIiIND THE EAR
to double the capacity of the tympanum f;
but faculties perfect, all the keys Of the
instrument attuned for the sweep of the
fingers OF ecstasy. But until that day of
resumption comes let us bear each others
burdens, and 80 fulhll the law OF Christ.