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

nave the best authority Tor saying: -6e
that proVldeth not for his own and especially
those Of his own household Is worse than an
inhdel,' but the large and and fabulous sums
Tor which many struggle, If obtained would
be hinderance rather than an advantage
The anxieties and aunOyances that those
have whose estates have become piethOric
can only be told by those who possess them.
It will be a good thing when through
own the house in which you live
But suppose you own fifty houses and
you have ali those rents 70 collect
and all those tenants 10 please Suppose you
have branched out in business successes until
in almost every direction you have Invest
ments. The IRE bell rings al night; you rush
upstairs TO look out OF the window TO see II it
Is any of your mills. Epidemic OF crime comes
and there are embeZZlements and abscOndlngs
in all directions, ard you wonder whether any
or your DOOkkeepers VIII prove recreanL A
panic strikes the financial world, ana you are
ike hen under sky full OF hawks ana try
ing with anxious cluck to get your OVeFgrOWn
chickens safely under your wing. After
certain stage OF success has been reached you
hsve to trust so many important things TO
Others that you are apt to become the prev of
others, and you are swindled and defrauded
and the anxiety you had on your brow when
you were earning your first thousand dollars
ls not equal 10 the anxiety On your brow now
that You have won your three hundred thou
sand. Tie trouble with such a one Is he is
spread out like the unfortunate one IN my
text You have more fingers and toes than
you know what to do with. Twenty were use
4uis LWG4Ly-4Out IS u uluQEEluE 8uDeElUlLFa
Disraeli says that king Of Poland abdicated
his throne and joined the people and became
a porter 20 carry burdens. And some one
asked him why lie did so aud he replied:
upon my honor, gentlemen, the load which
quit is by far heavier than the one YOU see
me carry The weightiest1s but straw when
compared to that world under which labOred.
nave slept more IN four nights than i have
during all my reign. I begin 70 live and to be
a king myself Elect whom you choose. Cor
me who am so well it would be madness 10 re-
turn TO court"
"WeH," says somebody. 'such over
loaded persons ought to be DiCied
for their WOTimeuts are real and
their insomnia and their nervous prostra-
tIon are genuine" / reply that they could
get rid Of the bOthersome surplus by giving
II away. If man has more houses than he
can carry without VeXatiOn, let him drop a
lew OF theuI- II his estate is so great he can
not manage it without getting nervous dys-
pepsla from having too much. let him divide
up with those who have nervous dyspepsia
because they cannot get enough. No! they
guard their sixth finger with more care than
they did the original five. They 90 Ilmping
with what they call govt and know not that,
ike the giant or my text they are famed by
SuperuuOus toe A few OF them by large
charities bleed themselves Of this financial
OBESITY and monetary plethora but many of
them hang on 70 the hindering superiority
till death, and then as they are compelled to
give the money up ANYHOW, ia their last viii
and testament they generously give some of
10 to the Lord, expecting no dOub5 that He
VIII IeeI very much OBJ iged to them. Thank
God That once in q while We have a Peter
COOBer who owning an ia terest in the iron
works at trenton, said to Mr.. Leater: 81 do
not leel quite easy about the amount we are
making Working RDder one of our patents
we have a monopoly which seems to me some
thing wrong. Everybody has to come to US
Tor 1t and we making money 100 fast'V
So they reduced the price aud this while our
phllanthrOpist was building Cooper institute
which mothers a hundred institutes of kind
ness and mercy all over the land. But the
world had to wait I've thousand eight hun
dred years for Peter Cooper. ] am glad fer
the benevolent Institutions that get legacy
from men who during their life were as stingv
as death, but who IR their last Will and tesla
nent bestowed money on hospitals
ana missionary societies; but for such
testatOrs l have no resi- ect They would have
taken every cent of it with. them if they
could, and bOu9h t up half of heaven and let
10 out at rulnOuS rent or loaned the money
10 celestial citizens at two per cent month
anu GOT a curner on harps and trUmpets.
They lived in this world Gity or sixty wears in
the presence OF appalling suffering and want
and made no Effort for their relief. The
charities Of such people are for the most parE
IN 'puulO- post luture7' tense and they are go
ing TO do theta The probability is thar il
such "A one III lis last will by a donation Co
DeneVOlenG societies tries to atone tOr his life
Time close -ustcdnrS6 the heirs at law will Lcv
10 break The NlA bE proving that the old man
was senile or crazy. aud the expense of tlse
litigation will about leave in the LAWYERS
hands what was meunt for the American rs
bic Society. y We .UVerW 6i4 hted success FIJI
business men. whether this sermon reach
your ear or your eye let ne say that If VOC
are Frustrated with auXieties about Keeping
or investing these tremendous fortunes, l can
tell YOU nuw yOu can do more to yet yOCr
health back and yOHr spirits raised than by
drinking gallons of bad-iastng water at Sar-
atOga, HOmburs or Eurlsbad-.giVe to God and
humanity the Bible ten per cent. of all YOUR
income, and it Will make a new man of Won
night YOU shall have rdght hours sleep with
out the help OF bromide OF potassium, and
from no appetite yoU VIII hardly be able 10
wait your regular meals, and vOgr wan cheek
will nil up, and Whea you die tbe blessings
Of those who but for you would have per
isLeG viii bloom all over your grave with
v-olets, II it be spring. or gladiOlas, il it be
autHmu.
Perhaps some of you wm TAX e
this adVice, but the most OF you
cure yOur swollen hand by getting on it more
fingers, and your rheumatic foot by getting
on Il more toes. and there will be a sigh OF
RELIEF when YOU are gone cut OF the world;
and when over your remains the minister re-
cites the words:
BLESSED are the dead who d lie in the Lord -
persons who have keen appreciation of the
ridiculous gill hardly be able to keep their
faces straight But whether 10 that direction
nv words do good or not am anxious that
ali who have only ordinary equipment be
thankful Tor what they have and rightly en-
p!cy t. think you all have, fguratiVely as
we'll as literally, fingers enough. DO not
cong for hindering superfuities. Standing
IN the presence OF this fallen giant OF my
text and in this DOst-mortem examination Of
him, let Us learn how much better OF we are
with Just the usual hand, the usual foot
You have thanked God for a thousand
things but 1 warrant you never thanked Him
for those two implements of work aud loco
motion. that no one but the Infinite and
OmnipOtent God could have either planned
or made, the hand aud the foot Oniv that
soldier or that mechanic who in a battle or
through machinery has lost them knows
anything about their value, and only the
ton OF what divine masterpieces they are.
Sir Charles Bell, the English surgeon, on the
battlefield OF Waterloo. while engaged in
amVutatlOns OF the wounded Was so impress
sed with The Wondrous construction OF the