The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-25

is any Of your mills. Epidemic of crime comes
and there are embeZzlements and abscondings
in all directions. and you wonder whether any
of your bookkeepers will prove rccreant A
panic strikes the financial world, and you are
like hen under sky full of hawks and try
ing with anxious cluck to get your overgrown
chickens safely under wing. After certain
stage Of success has been reached you have to
trust so many important things to others that
you are apt to become the prey of others, and
you are swindled and defrauded, and the
anxiety you had on your brow when yon were
earning your first thousand dollars is not
that you have won your three hundred
thousand The trouble with such
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 useful twenty-four is a hindering super
fluffy, Disraeli says that king Of Poland alb
dicated his throne and joined the people and
became @ porter to carry burdens. Ana
some one asked him why he did so and he
replied: Upon my honor, gentlemen, the
load which quit is by far heavier than the
one you see me carry. The weightiest Is but
straw when compared to that world under
which ] labored. have slept more in four
nights than / have during all my reign; ]
begin to live and to be a king myself. Elect
whom you choose, for me who am SO well IL
would be madness to return to court"
"Well," says somebody, "such overloaded
persous oughtto be pitied, for their worriments
are real and their insomnia and their ner-
yous prostration are genuine" reply
some surplus by giving it away. Ii
a man has more houses than he can
carry without yexation, let him drop few OF
them, IL his estate Is SO great he cannot man
age il without getting nervous dyspepsia from
having too much, let him divide up with those
who have nervous dyspepsia, because they
cannot get enough. MOI they guard their
sixth finger with more care than they did the
original i've. They 70 limping with what
they call govt, and know not that, like the
giant Of my text, they are famed by q super
f1uous foe. A few of them by large charities
bleed themselves of this financial obesity and
monetary plethora, but many OF them hang on
to the bindering supertiuity till death, ana
then as they are compelled to give the money up
anyhow, in their last will and testament they
generously give some OF it TO the Lord, expect
ing no doubt that He WIFI feel very much
obliged to them. Thank God that once in a
while we have Peter Cooper who, owning an
interest in the iron works at Trenton, said to
Mr.. Lester: II do not feel quite easy about
tho amount we are making. Working under
one of oar patents we have n monopoly, which
seems to me something wrong. Everybody
has to come to us for it and we are making
money too fast" So they reduced the price,
and this while our philanthropist was building
Cooper institute, which mothers hundred
institutes of kindness and mercy oil over the
land. But the world had to wait five thou
sand eight hundred years for Potter Cooper.
am glad for the benevolent institutions that
got legacy from men who during their life
were az stingy as death, but who in their last
will and testament bestowed money on hospi-
tails and missionary societies; but for such
testators have no respect. They would have
taken every cent of it with them II they could,
and bought up half of heaven and let it out at
ruinous rent, or loaned the money to celestial
citizens at two per cent a month and got
corner on harps and trumpets. They lived in
this world fifty or sixty years in the presence
OF appalling suffering and want, and made no
effort for their relief. The charities of such
people are, for tho most part in "paulo-post
future" tense and they are going to do them.
The probability is that il such one in his last
will by donation to benevolent societies tries
to atone for his lifetime close-fistedness, the
heirs ut law will try to break the will by prov
ing that the old man was senile or crazy, and
the expense of the litigation will about leave
In the lawyers hands what was meant for the
American Bible society. o, ye oyerweighted
successful business men, whether this
e eye let t0"Gn me y say that your your
are Frustrated with anxieties about keeping or
investing these tremendous fortunes,
can tell you how you can do more to get your
health back and your spirits raised than by
drinking gallons of bad tasting water at Sara
toga, Homburg or Carlsbad-give to God and
humanity tho Bible ten per cent of all your
income, and it will make a now man of you,
and from restless walking of the floor at night
you shall have eight hoursssleep without the
help OF bromide of potassium, and from no ap-
petite you will hardly be able to wait your
regular meals, and your wan cheek will fill up,
and when you die the blessings OF those who
but for you would have persisted will bloom all
over your grave with violets, If 1t be spring, or
gladiolus, IL 1t be autumn
Perhaps some of YOU will take this advice, but
the most of you will not. And you will try TO
cure your swollen hand by getting on it more
fingers, and your rheumatic foot by getting on
II more toes and there will be "a sigh of relief
whom you are gone out of the world, and when
over your remains the minister recites the
words. blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord, persons who have keen appreciation of
the ludiorous win hardly be able TO keep their
face straight. But whether in that direction
my WORDS do good or not, am anxious that
all who have only ordinary equipment be
thankful for what they have and rightly en-
ploy it, l think You all have, 6guratively as
well as literally, fingers enough. Do not long
for hindering supertiuities. Standing in the
presence OF this fallen giant of my text and in
this post mortem examination of him, let us
learn how much better Off we are with
lust the usual hand, the usual foot
You have thanked God for a
, thousand things, but l warrant you never
thanked Him for those two implements of
work and locomotion that no one but the in
finite and omnipotent God could have ever
planned or made--the hand and the foot
Only that soldier or that mechanic who in a
battle or through machinery has lost them
knows anything about their value and only
the Christian scientist can have any apprecia-
ton Of what divine masterpieces they are
Sir Charles Boil, the English surgeon, on the
battlefield of Waterloo, while engaged in am
putatonS of tho wounded was so impressed
with the Nvondrous construction of the human
hand that whom the earl of Bridgewater gave
forty thousand dollars for essays on the wis
dom and goodness of God, and eight books
were written, Sir Charles Bell wrote his
entire book on the wisdom and good
ness Of God az displayed in the hu-
mau hand. The twenty-Seven bones in hand
and wrist, with cartridges and ligaments and
plalanges of the fingers all made Just ready
TO knit, 10 sew, TO build up, 70 pull down, to
weave, TO wright, to pillow, to pound, to wheel
TO battle, 10 give friendly salutation. The
tips of its fingers are so many telegraph offices
by reason Of their sensitiveness of touch. The
bridges, the tunnels, the cities of the whole
earth are the victories Of the hand The
hands are not dumb, but often speak as dis
tinctly as the lips. With our hands we invite.
we repel, we invoke, We entreat we wiring
them in grief or clap them in Joy, or spread
them abroad in benediction. The malforma-
ton OF the giants hand in the text glorihes
the usual hand Fashioned OF God more ex-
quisitely and wondrously than any human
mechanism that was ever contrived l
charge YOU use IL for God and tho lifting ~