The Iola register., 1886-10-01

with wounded leg was brought in b..
| fore 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 amputa.
tion, when the poor man leaped from the
| table and hobbled to the door, and said:
"Gentlemen, am sorry to disappoint
you. but, by the help Of God, will die
with my leg on"
What terrific loss IL the loss Of our
ply ysical faculties!
The way the battle Of Crecy was decided
against the French was by the 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 ply sic
cal taking of! Good cheer, my brother!
God will mske it up to you somehow.
The grace, the sympathy of God will be
more to you than any thing you have lost.
If God allows part Of your resources to be
cut off in one place, He will add It on
somewhere else. As Augustus, the EN-.
peror, took or day from February, max.
ing it the shortest month in the year, and
added it to August, the month named af-
ter himself, so advantages taken from one
part of your nature will be added on to
another.
But it is amazing how much Of the
worlds work has been done by men of
subtracted physical organic alton. S. 8.
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 orchestra
rendering his oratorios. Thomas Carlyle,
the dyspsptic martyr, was giveE the COM
mission to drive cant out Of the worlds
literature. Rev. Thomas Stockton, of Phil
adelphia, with one lung raised his audi
ence nearer Heaven than most ministers
can raise them with two lungs. In the
banks, the in Surance companies, the com.
mercicl establishments, the reformatory
associations, the churches, there are tens
Of thousands of men and women to-day
doubled up Of rheumatisms or subjac. to
neuralgias, or with only fragments Of
limbs, the rest of which they left at Chat.
tanooga, or South Mountain, or the vii.
derness, 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 a finger joint stiffened by
felou. 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:
"I pray and beseech you to lead me 50
far into the fight that I may strike one
good blow with this sword of mine"
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 Heaven.
Arise from your discouragements, oh men
and women of depleted or crippled physi-
cal faculties, end see what, by the special
help of God, you can accomplish!
The skilled horsemen stood around Bu.
cephalus, unable to mount or manage him,
so wild was the steed. But Alexander
clutched him by the bride and turned his
head away frcm the shadow and towards
the sun, and the horses agitation was
gone, and Alexander mounted him and
rode off, to the astonishment of all who
stood by. And what you people need il
to have your sight turned away from the
shadow Of your early 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 oil the physical
disadvantages will after awhile vanish.
Let those who have been rheumatismed
out of foot, or cataracted out of an eye,
or by the perpetual roar Of our cities thun-
dered out OF an ear, look forward to the
day when this old tenement house
of flesh will come down and bet
ter one shall be builded. The rssurrec-
tion morning will provide you with bet
ter outfit. Either the unstrung, worm out,
blunted and crippled organs will he so re.
constructed 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 in
etfable; no limping in Heaven, no strain
ing of the eye-sight to see things a little
way off; no putting Of the hand behind
the ear to double the capacity Of the tym-
panum; Tut faculties perfect, all the keys
Of the instrument attuned for the sweep Of
the fingers of ecstacy. But until that day
of resurrection 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.
tion. There will be no excuse for ignor.
ance in the next generation. Free schools
and illimitable opportunity of education
will make ignorance a crime. I believe in
compulsory education, and those persons
who neglect to put their children under
educational advantages have but one right
left, and that is the penitentiary. But
there are multitudes Of men and woIEe
in middle life who have hsd no oppor-
tunity. Free schools had not yet been es.
or no school at all. They feel it when, as
Christian men, they come to speak
or pray in religious assemblies or
public occasions, patriotic. or po-
li:icsl or educational. They are
silent, because they do not feel compe.
tent. They owe nothing to English gram
mar, or geography or bellies letters. They
would not know a participle from a uro.
noun il they met it many times a day.
Many Of tue most successful merchants Of
America, and men in high political places,
can not write an accurate letter on any
theme. They are completely dependent
upon clerks and deputies and stenograph.
ers to make things right. knew liter
ary man who, in other years. in Washing
ton, made his fortune by writing speeches
for Congressman, or fixing them up for
the Congressional Record after they were
delivered. The millionaire illiteracy Of