Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-24
BURDENS OF PLENTY.
SUPERPLUITIBS ARB RINDRANCBS IN
LIPB.
Special Telegram, to tie Register.

Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning on the
suhject, :,Superfuities Rindesanoe."
Several ocean steamers arrive ir port Sum
day mornings, and many Of the passengers,
Drowned by the sea, come directly from
the wharf to the Brooklyn Tabernacle.
The great congregation, led by Professor
Ali's cornet and accompanied by the Or
gan, OF which Professor Browne presides,
Joined in the opening hymn:
We are Thy people, we Thy care,
Our souls and all our mortal frame.
What lasting honors shall we rear,
Almighty Maker, to Thy nameH
DR.. Talnage's text was: 1. Chronicles,
Oh. xx. v. 6 and Z: "a man of great stat
ure, whose fingers and toes four and
twenty, six on each hand, and six on each
foot: aud he also was the son of the giant.
But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the
son of shimes, Dayid's brother, slew
him."
Mslfcrmation photographed, and for
what rsasonP Did not this passage slip
in by mistake into the Sacred Scriptures,
as sometimes paragraph utterly obnox-
ious to the editor gets into his newspaper
during his absenceH Is not this Scriptursl
errata? No, no; there is nothing haphazed
about the Bible. This passage Of Scrip
ture was as certainly intended to be put
in the Bible as the passage, I'm the begin
ming God created the heavens and the
earth" or "Gnd so loved the world that
He gave His only begotton son."
and select it for my text to-day be-
cause it is charged with practical and tre'
menious meaning. By the people OF God
the Philistines had been conquered, with
tie exception of few giants. The race
of giants is mostly extinct, am glad to
saw. There is no use for giants now ex-
cept to enlarge the income of museums.
But this giant of the text is in battle,
and as David, the dwarf warrior, had dis.
patched one giant, the brother of David
slsys this monster of my text, and there
he lies after the battle iu Gath, dead
giant. His stature did not save him and
his superhuous appendices OF hand and
foo. did not save him. The probability
was that in the battle his sixth fiuger on
his hand made him clumsy in the use OF
his weapon, and his sixth toe crippled
his gait. Behold the prostrste and NAL
formated giant of the text: "a man great
Of statate, whose fiugers and toes were
four and twenty, six on each hand, and
six on each foot. and he also was the sou
of the gisut But when be deied Israel,
Jonathan, the son OF Shimea, Dayid's bro
ther, slew him"
sUPERFLUITIEs ARE HINDERAECE.
Behold how supeTduities are hinderance
rather than a help! In all the battle at
Gath that day there was not man with
ordinary hand ordinary foot and ordinary
stature that was better of than this ply
sical curiosity of text. As physical size
ia ant to run in families the probability is
that this brother of David who did the
work was of an abbreviated stature. A
dwarf on the right side is stronger than
a giant on the wrong side, and all the
body, and mind, and estate, aud opportu-
nifty that you caunot use for God and the
betterment of the world is sixth finger
and sixth toe, and terrific hindersDce.
Yet what do we see in all Departmental
People not Satisfied with ordinary spheres
of work and ordinary duties. Instead Of
trying to see what they can do with hand
of five fingers they want six. Instead OF
usual endowment of twenty manual and
pedal addenda they want twenty-four. A
certain amount of money for livelihood and
for the supply of those whom We leave be
hind us after we have departed this life is
important, for we have the best authority
for saying: "He that provideth not for his
own and especially those of his own house
hold is worse than an iDhdel," but the
large and fabulous sums for which many
if obtained would be hinder
ance rather than an advantage. The snx-
ieties and anuoyances that those have
whose estates have become plethoric can
only he told by those who possess them.
1t will be good thing when through your
industry aud public properties you can
own the house in which you live. But,
suppose you own fifty houses and you leave
all those rents to collect snd ell those ten
ants to please Suppose you have branched
out in business successes until il almost
every direction you have Investments.
THE FIRE BELL RINGS
at night; you rush up stairs TO look out Of
the window to see if it is any of your mills.
Epidemic of crime comes and there are en-
aud abscondings in all direc-
tions, and you wonder if any OF your book
keepers will prove recresnt. A panic
strikes the financial world, and, and you
are like hen under sky full Of hawks
and irving with anxious cluck to get your
overgrown chickens safely under wing
After q certain stage of success has been
reached YOU have to trust 30 many i'm
portaut things to others that you are apt
TO become the prey Of others, and you are
swindled and defrsuded, and the anxiety
Won had on your brow when you were
earning your first Thousand dollars is not
equal TO the anxiety on your brow now
that you have won your three hundred
one thousand. The trouble with such o
ia he spread out like the unfortunate one
in nv text. You have more fingers and
toes than you know what to do with.
Twenty were useful, twenty-four is hin.
dering superauity. Disrseli says that
king Of Poland abdicated his throne and
Joined the people and became porter to
carry burdens. And some one asked him
why be did so and he replied: Upon my
honor, gentlemen, the load which i quit
is by far heavier than the one You
see me carry. The weightest ia bat q
straw when compared to that world under
which lsbored. I have slept more in
four nights than / have during all my
reign. begin to live and be king myself.
Elect whom you choose, for me who am
30 we'll it would be madness to return to
court"
ONCE IN A WHILE WE HAVE A PETER
COOPER
who, owing an interest in the iron works
in Trenton, said to Mr.. Lester; 81 do not
feel ute easy about the amount VIC are
making. Working under one of our pat
ents, we have q 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 phiianthropist was building
Cooper Institute, which mothers o hum
dred Institutes of kindness and mercy all
y IL A.