Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-15

m Ao WE veip oil God, l will die with nv lao
physical faculties. '''' IS 'he loss OF or
ooa; ne way the battle of Crecy was decided
l SH;ns' y. me French was by the Welshmen
thair sue rrench horses, and that bronoht
cr;,,,i I,ue I' 10 the ground. And when Won
anira1 .hls body, which is merely the
somai;nea w sn.ch the soul rides, YOU NAV
'o,netlmes defeat the soul -'
toh Lev, now nov many suffer from this physical
vii; VIII g $ oa! Good cheer. my brother! God
o art make 1t up to you somehow. The
r. W., .ne sympathy of God will be more
CA s1a a, man anything you have lost If
ont aa siio"s part OF your resources to be
whoua VII ~ a1 one place He will add it on some-
ny Mneie else. AS Augustus, the Emperor.
&c LOOK OFT day from February. makinu i
IN! u shortest month in the year, and added
~ 70 august, the month named after him
seil, so advantages taken from one part of
your nature will be added on to another.
put IL ls amazing how much of the worlds
sork mas been done by men of subtracted
physical organization. S. S. Prentiss, the
great y, orator of the southwest, went limping
all his life, but there was no foot nut down
upon any platform of his day that re-
sounded so far as his club foot. Beethoven
was SO deaf that he could not hear the
crash OF the orchestra rendering his ora
.orles. Thomas Carlyle, the dyspeptic
martyr, was given the commission to drive
cant ca. out OF the worlds literature. Rev.
lhomas Stockton, of Philadelphia, with
one lung raised his audience nearer heaven
IMAM most ministers can raise them with
TWO lungs. In the banks, the insurance
companies. the commercial establishments,
the reformatory associations, the churches,
there are tens of thousands of men and
women to-day doubled up of rheumatism
or subject to neuralgias, or with only
fragments OF limbs, the rest of which they
lett at Chattanooga, or South Mountain, or
the Wilderness. and they are worth more
to the world, and more to the church, and
more to God than those of us who have
never so much as had tinger-jointst iffened
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 out: 81 pray and
beseech you to lead me so far into the fight
that may strike one good blow with this
sword of nine" 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 balk hell, and win
o men and women of depleted or crippled
physical faculties, and see what, by the
special help of God, you can accomplish.
The skilled horsemen stood around Buc-
phalus unable to mount or manage him, so
| wild was the steed. But Alexander 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 toward the
sun, and the horses agitation was gone.
and Alexander mounting him rode off, to
the establishment 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 consola-
ton and Christian hope and spiritual tri-
umph.
And then remember that all physical dis
advantages will after a while vanish. Let
| those who have been rheumatismed out of
| q foot, or cataracted out of al eye, or by the
perpetual roar of our cities Numbered out
of an ear, look forward to the day when
this old tenement house Of flesh will come
down and better one shall be builded.
| The resurrection morning will provide you
with better outfit. Either the unstrung,
worn out, blunted, and crippled organs
will be so reconstructed that you will not
know them, or an entire new set of eyes,
and ears, and feet will be given you. Just
what it means by corruption putting on
interruption we do not know, save that it
will be glory inetfable; no limping in
heaven, no straining of the eyesight to see
things q little way off; no putting of the
hand behind the ear to double the capacity
OF the typanum; but faculties perfect, all
i the keys of the instrument attuned for the
sweep of the fingers of ecstacy. But until
that day of resumption comes let us bear
each others burdens, and SO fulfill the law
of Christ.
3. Another form of disadvantage under
which many labor is lack of early educa-
ton. There will be no excuse for ignor-
and illimitable opportunity of education
| will make ignorance crime. l believe in
| compulsory education, and those parents
who neglect to put their children under ad-
vantages have but one right left, and that
is the penitentiary. But there are multi
tudes of men and women in middle-life
who have had no opportunity. Free schools
had not vet been established, and vast null
titudes had little or no schooling at all.
| They feel it when as Christian men they
| come to speak or pray in religious assem-
blies or public occasions, patriotic or
political or educational. They are silent be-
cause they do not feel competent. They owe
! nothing to English grammar, or geography,
or bellies ettres. They would not know a
| participle from pronoun if they met it
many times day. Many of the most sue
| cessful merchants of America and men in
high political places cannot write an accu-
| rate letter OH any theme. They are COM
| pletely dependent upon clerks, and depu-
| ties, and stenographers to make things
| right. knew literary man who in other
| years in Washington made his fortune by
writing speeches for Congressman, or fixing
| them up for the Congressional Record
after they were delivered. The millionaire
| illiteracy of this country is beyond measure
| ment.
Not word have to say against accuracy
of speech, OF fine elocution, Or high mental
| culture. Get all these you can. But do
say to those who were brought up in the
| day of poor ool-houses and ignorant
schoolmasters, and no opportunity, you
NAV have SO much of good in your soul,
and SO much of heaven in your everyday
life that you will be mightier for good than
any who went through the curriculum OF
Harvard, or Yale, or Oxford, yet never
graduated in the school of Christ. When
You get up to the gate of heaven no one
| Ill ofbor Won ran OarSe the first