The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-10-03
MEN CURSED WITH GOLD.
TALMAGE SCORES THOSE waO BEND
BENEATH THEIR WEALTH.

TALMAGE SCORES THOSE wHO BEND
BENEATH THEIR WEALTH.
They Would Take Every Cent with Them
Buy Up Half OF Heaven and Rent 1t Out
Loans at Two Per Cent. q Month and
Corners in Harps and Trumpets.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle was crowd
ed Sunday when the Rev. DR.. Talmage
preached on s'Superhuities Hind
rance" For his text he took Chronl'
cles, Xxx, 6 and Z: CA man of great
stature, whose fingers and toes were
four and twenty, six on each hand and
six ON each foot; and he also was the
son Of a giant. But when he dehed
Israel, Jonathan, the son Of Shimea,
David's brother, slew him.
1.-The race of giants is mostly extinct,
1 am glad to say" said the reverend
preacher. s'There is no use for giants
now except to enlarge the income OF
museums. But there were many of them
in olden tines. Goliath was, according
to the Bible, eleven feet four and half
inches high. Or, if you do not believe
the Bible, the famous Phny, secular
writer, declares that at Crete q moDu-
ment was broken open by an earthquake
disclosing the remains of giant forty
six cubits long, or sixty-nine feet high.
So, whether you prefer sacred or pro-
fame history, you must come to the con-
clusion that there were IN those olden
times cases of human altitude monstrous
and appalling. David had smashed the
skull of one of these giants, but there
were other giants that the Dsvideau wars
had not yet subdued, and one Of them
stands in my text.
"sBehold how superfuities are q
hindraice rather than help! In all
the battle at Gath that day there was
not man with ordinary hand and ordi-
nary foot and ordinary stature that was
not better of than this physical curiosity
of my text. AS physical size IS apt 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 giant
on the wrong side, and all the body and
mind and estate and opportunity that
YOU cannot use for God and the better
ment of the world is sixth finger and
3 sixth toe, and terrific hindrance.
The most of the good done in the world,
and the most of those who win the bat
ties for the right, are ordinary people.
Count the fingers Of their right hand
and they have just five, no more and no
less"
In illustration of his text DR.. Talmage
spoke of the 'sSwamp Angel" 1t was
big gun, he said, that during the war
made big noise, but muskets of ordi-
nary calibre and shells of ordinary heft
did the execution.
president Tyler" he continued, sand
his Cabinet go down the Potomac one
day to experiment. with the Peacemaker,
8 great iron gun, that was to alright
with its thunder foreign navles. The
gunner touches it off and it explodes
and leaves Cabinet Ministers dead on
the deck, while at that time all up and
down our coasts were cannon of ordlna-
~ bore, able to be the defense of the
nation, and ready at the first touch to
waken to duty. The curse of the world
is big guns. After the politicians who
have made all the noise go home hoarse
from angry discussion on the evening of
the first Monday in November, the next
day the people with the silent ballots
will settle everything, and settle it right,
q million of the white slips of paper they
drop making about as much noise as the
fall of an apple blossom.
,ssCIear back in the country to day
there are mothers in plain apron, and
shoes fashioned on a rough last by the
shoemaker at the end of the lane, rock
ING babies that are to be the Martin
Luthers, and the Faradays, and the
Edisons, and the Bismarcks, and the
Giadstones, and the Washingtons, and
the George Whitefelds of the year
1885. and who Will make the twentieth
century so bright that this much lauded
nineteenth in comparison will seem a
part of the Dark Ages. The longer l
live the more Ike common folks. They
do the worlds work, bearing the worlds
burdens, weeping the worlds sympa-
thies, carrying the worlds consolation.
Among lawyers We see rise up a Rufus
Choate, or William Writ, or Samuel
T.. Southland; but society would go to
pieces tomorrow if there were not
thousands OF common lawyers to- see
that men and women get their rights.
A Valentine Mott or Willard Parker
rises up eminent in the medical profes-
sion, but what an unlimited sweep would
pneumonia and diphtheria and scarlet
fever have in the world if it were not for
for 10, 900 common doctors. )"
DR.. Talmage then bitterly assailed the
principle of gresping for money. To
provide for ones family. he said, was
commanded by Scripture, but to accu-
mulate millions, curse instead Of a
blessing, hindrance instead of help.
ssIt was once said by D'Israeli," he
continued, ssthat King of Poland alb
dicated his throne and joined the people
and became porter to carry burdens.
And some one asked him why he did so
and he replied: Upon my honor, gen.
tlemen, the lead which I quit is by far
heavier toan the one you see me carry.
The weightiest is but o straw when COM
pared to that world under which I
lsbored. I have slept more il four
nights than I have during all my reign.
begin to live and to be a king myself.
Elect whom you choose, for me who am
so we'll it would be madness to return to