Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-05

E@AAoug leu ~ LIOAcBSOE ATS COEuGL EuQ 1C-
eompanied by the organ, at which Professor
Browne presides, joined In the Opening
hymn:
We are Thy people, we Thy care,
Our souls and all our mortal fraHr
What lasting honOrs shall we rear
Almighty Maker, 70 Thy name?
DR.. Talmage's text was: L Chronicles,
CD. Xxx v and Z: "a man of great stature,
whose fingers and toes were four and twenty,
six on each hand, and six on each foot: aud
he also was the son of the giant But when
he dehed Israel. Jonathan the son Of Shimea,
David's brother, slew him"
MalformatiOn photographed, and for what
reasona Did not this passage slip in by mis-
take into the Sacred Scriptures, as some
times a paragraph utterly obnoxious to the
editor gets its way into his newspaper during
his absences Is not this ScripturaI erratal
No, nos there Is nothing haphazard about the
Bible. This passage OF Scripture was GER
tainlv Intended to be put in the Bible as
the passage, In the beginning God created
the heavens and tl'e EARTH" or, "God so
loved tie world that He gave His only be-
gotten son."
And / select it for my text to-day be-
cuse Il is charged with practical and
tremendous meaning. By the peOyle of God
the PhilisJines had been conquered, with the
exception OF a few giants. Tie race Of giants
Is mostly extinct. am glad 10 say. There is
income OF museums But there were many
OF them IN Olden times. Goliath was, accord
lag 10 the Bible, eleven feet, four aud IA half
inches high. Or, II YOU do not believe the
Bible, the famous Pliuv, a secular writer
declares that at Crete by an earthquake 4
monument was broken omen. discovering the
remains of giant fOrty-siX cubits long, or
sl1ty-nlne feet high So, whether you prefer
sacred history or prOfane history, YOU must
come TO the conclusion that there we're in
those Olden times cases of human altitude
frn n arr1a eFt
ed the skull Of one of these giants but there
were other giants that the DaVideau wars had
not yet suhdued, and one Of them stands in
any text lie " as not only OF AlDiHe stature
hut had a surplus OF dIgits To tue ordinary
fingers was annexed an additional finger and
The loot had also super huOUs addeudum.
he had twentY-fOur EXAMINATIONS 10 hands
and feet where others have twenty. 1t was
not the only instance of the kind Taver-
nier, the learned writer says that the En-
peFor OF Java mad son endowed with the
same number OF eXLremities- FOlcatius the
poet, had six fingers on each hand. MuuDe-
thus, in his celebrated letters, speaks of two
families near Berlin similarly equipped of
hind and foot. All of which can believe
Tor have seen two cases OF the same physi-
cal superabundance But this giant Of The
text Is IN battle, and as David, The dwarf
warrior, had dispatched one giant, The
brother OF David Stays dAs monster of
INV Text aud there he lies alter the
battle in Gath dead giant His stature
did not save him ami his sUperfluOus append
ices OF hand anu foot did not save him The
luObhblilY was LuaJ IN Tue battle his sixth
nuger on his hand made him clumsy In the
use OF his weapon, and his sixth toe crippled
his gait. Behold the PROSTATE and muIfOr-
ma tee giant OF The text: "a man great of
stature, whose fingers and toes were four
and twenty, six on each hand, and six on
each foot; and lie also WAS the son OF the
giant But when he deiied Israel, Jonathan
him."
Behold how superhuitics are intolerance
rather tnAn helpl In all t4e battle mt Gath
u "a ia trfri -t1f rFlr
hand and ordinary 1OD5 aud ordinary stature
That Was not better of thau this physical
CURIOSITY Of my text. AS ph, steal z, Is apt
10 run lh families the probability is that this
brother OF David who uId the work was Of an
Aubrey TED stature. A dwarf on the right
side is stronger tnHn a giant on the wrong
side, aud ali the body and mind and estate
and 0ppri unity that You cannot use for God
and the beiterment of the uurld Is a SIX Ia
finger and ii sixth Toe and Il terrific hinder
aucr. Ihe most OF the good done in the
world, AMI The most OF those who win the
battles Ter the right, are ordinary people.
Count the fingers OF their right hand aud
they have just tv-, no more and no less. One
Doctor Dun among missionaries but three
thousand missionaries that would tell VOu
they have only common endowment One
Florence Nightingale 10 nurse the sick ia
CONSPICUOUS places, but ten thousand women
who are JUST AS good nurses though never
heard or The Swamp Angel was big gum
that during the war made big noise but
muskets OF ordinary calibre and shells of or
binary heft did the execution. President Tyler
and his cabinet 90 down the Potomac one day
20 experiment with the peacemaker, a great
iron gun that TO alright with its
thunder foreign navIes The gunner touch
es IL of and it explOdes and leaves cabinet
ministers dead on the deck, while at that time
ali up aud down our coasts were cannon of
ordinary bore able % be the defense of the
nation, and ready at the first touch to waken
20 duLt- The curse OF the world Is big guns.
After the politicians who have made all the
noise 60 home hoarse from angry discussion
on the evening of the first Monday in NOveni-
Der, the next day the people with the silent
ballots will settle ever thing, aud settle it
right, million Of the white slips Of paper
they drop making about as much noise as the
fall OF an apple blossom.
Clear back in the country TO-DAY there are
mothers in plain apron, anu shoes fashioned
on a rough last bY the shoemaker at the end
OF the lane, rocking babies that are to be the
Martin Luthers and the Faradays, and the
EdisOns. and the Bsmarci6s, aud the Glad
stones, and the WashingtOns, and the George
Whitehelds OF the year 1888 and who will
make the twentieth century so bright that
this much lauded nineteenth in comparison
will seem part Of the dark ages. The longer
live the more like common folks. They do
the worlds work, bearing the worlds burdens,
weeping the worlds ymDathtes, carrying the
worlds consolation. Among lawyers we see
rise up q Rufus ChOate, or q William Writ or
a Samuel ID. Southland but society would 20
20 pieces tomorrow II there were not thOus-
ands Of common lawyers 70 see that men and
women get their rights. A Valentine
Mott or q Willard Parker rises up
eminent In the medical profession,
but what an unlimited sweep would
pneumonia, and diphtheria, and scarlet fever,
have in the world II Il were not for ten thou
sand common doctors. The old physician In
On his gig rolling uD the lane Of the farm
house, or riding on horseback, his medicines
IN the saddle bags, arriving on the ninth dav
OF the fever and coming IN to take hold of
the puiss Of the patient while the family,
pale with anxiety, are looking on and waiting
for his decision In regard TO the patient and
hearing him say: Thank God, I have mas
tered the case. he is getting well,'' eIcItes In
me an admiration quite equal TO the ton
of the names Of the great metropolitan doc
fnrs Pancoast or Gross or Joseph Q. Hutch-