Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-15
(1ER DlSADV ANTACES.
c,,maec Advocates the Cos
os the Remedy for the
peoples Ailments.
,,,eresting Discourse from the Text,
Il, These Things are Against Me-"

r De Witt Talmage, D. D.,
H. I'd IN the Brooklyn Tabernacle on the
ts u DISADVANTAGES of Some People"
w., ~. his text from Genesis xiii. &c.
',t 'os things are against me-"
',sor Jacob, you are wrong! You think
'' !nr Joseph is dead, but he is prime
i! ss,' Of Egypt, and has the keys Of the
l'' s.arn-crib. You think that circum-
~ ,9 are all adverse, but they will turn
.sI In all your life you never made
H ,.,ar mistake than when you said: "All
s . ,hipes are against me-"
n lent multitude of people are under
no disadvantages, and 1 will to-day.
- ~. swarthiest Anglo Saxon that can
ars treat their cases; not as nurse
~. y ont eight or ten drops of pre-
,;on and stirs them in q half-glass of
but as when man has by mistake
~ a large amount of strychnine, or
= Green, or belladonna, and the patient
liked rapidly round the room, and
On up, and pounded until he gets wide
%. a. Many Of you have taken large
oh, of poison of Encouragement, and
me out by the order Of the divine
,ician to rouse you out of that lethargy.
First, many people are under the dis
mage Of an unfortunate name given
by parents who thought they were do
A good thing. Sometimes at the
sm of children, while l have held up
hand in prayer, / have held up the
j. hand in amazement that parents
IA have weighted the babe with such
:onant and repulsive nomenclature. I
not 80 much wondered that some
rem should cry out at the christening
as that others with such smiling face
ID take the title that will be the bur-
II their lifetime. 1t is outrageous to
children with an undesirable name
Use it happened to be possessed by a
i or o rich unt lie from whom favors
ypectod, or some prominent man of
ay who may end his life in disgrace.
20 excuse, because they are scripture
5, to call a child Jehoiakim, or
th-Pileser. At this very altar l
,ed one by the name Bathsheba.
under all the circumambient heaven,
parent should want to give to child
name of that loose and infamous
Ire of scripture times cannot imagine.
e often felt at the baptismal altar,
names were announced to me, like
9. as did Rev. DR.. Richards, of Nor
IN, N. j., when a child was handed
or sprinkling, and the name given:
nit you better call it something else?"
Iose not upon that babe a name sug-
e of flippancy or meanness. There
excuse for such assault and battery on
adle when our language is opulent
names musical in sound and suggest
meaning, such as John, meaning
9racious gift of Cod" or Henry,
ing "the chief Of the households" or
1, meaning good counselor;" or
"a, meaning "God, our salvation;" or
)Ias, meaning victory of the peoples"
.brose, meaning "immortal;" OF An
manly" OF Esther, mean
a STAR" or Abigail, meaning "my'
IS JOYS" or Anna, meaning "grace;;"
,toria, meaning victory" or Rosalie,
ng beautiful as rose:" or Margaret,
ng "a PEARL" or Ida, meaning "God-
or Clara, meaning "illustrious;" or
a, meaning "busy;;" or Bertha, mean
and hundreds of other
just as good that are help rather
hindrance.
the general hindrance in
not in the name given, but in the
name. While Legislatures are will
lift such incubus there are families
,ep name which mortgages all the
lions with great disadvantage.
~: II wonder if he is any relation to
l-so, mentioning some family cele-
for crime and deception. 1t is q
r to me that in al! such families some
d young man does not rise, saying to
others and sisters: eff you want to
this nuisance OF standardization of a
! will keep it no longer than until
ickest course of law l can slough off
When the general assem-
f the Presbyterian Church of the
States met in this building, in 1876,
men of the sweetest DISPOSE
stopped at the same house, and one
e misnomer of being Mr.. Sour, and
ler the misnomer of MIR. Pickle. And
ity directory has hundreds of names
lere pronunciation of which has been
long obstacle. If you have started
nder a name which, either through
lous photography or vicious sugges-
has been an incumbrance, resolve
le next generation shall not be SO
ted.
not bemeaning to change name.
Of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle.
sab, "the MYRTLE" became Esther,
star" We have in America, and l
Sc it is so in all countries, names
ought to be abolished, and can be,
il be abolished for the reason that
re a libel and q SANDER. But if for
ason you are submerged either by a
uame or by family name that you
Dear, God will help you to overcome
atrage by q life consecrated to the
md useful. You may erase the curse
the name. You may somewhat
e the significance. If once it stood
you can make it stand for
'sity. If once it stood for pride, you
axe it stand for humility. If it once
for fraud, you can make it stand for
ty. If once it stood for wickedness,
N make it stand for purity. There
,een multitudes of instances where
nd women have magnifcently con-
| the disasters of the name inflicted
hem.
Again: Many people labor under
Misfortune of Incomplete physical
nent. We are by our Creator SO
nically built that We cannot afford
alteration of any physical faculty.
'ant our two eyes, our two ears, our
ands, our two feet. our eight fingers,
70 thumbs. Yet what multitudes of
have but one eye or one foot. The
ny casualties of life have been quad
!, quintupled. sextupled, aye, cen
in our time by the civil war, and at
'rth and South a great multitude that
II can number are fighting the battle
e with half, or less than half, the
4 physical ornaments. I do not
I at the nathos of n soldier during