Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-10-13


in any of your mills. Epidemic of crime
comes and there are embellishments and alb
scondings in all directions, and you wonder
whether any of your bookkeepers will prove
recreant A panic strikes the financial
world. and you are like a hen under sky
full Of hawks and trying with anxious cluck
to get your overgrown chickens safely under
wing. After a certain stage of sue
cess 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
you were earning your first thousand dollars
is not equal to the anxiety on your brow now
that you have won your three hundred thou
sand. 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 superhuity. Dis
raeli says that King OF Poland abdicated 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, gentlemen, the load which
quit is by far heavier than the one you see
me carry. The weightiest is but q straw
when compared to that world under which
labored. have slept more in four nights
than have during all my reign. begin to
he King myself Elect whom you choose
for me who am so well it would be madness
to return TO COURT
"Well,n says somebody, ''such overloaded
persons ought to be pitied, for their worri-
ments are real and their insomnia and their
nervous prostration are genuine" reply
that they could get rid of the bothersoms
surplus by giving it away. If a man has
more houses than he can carry without
vexation. let him drop few of them. If his
estate is so great he cannot manage it with
out 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 five. They go limping with what
they call govt, and know not that like the
giant of my text. they are famed by super
fluous toe. A few of them by large chart
ties bleed themselves of this financial obesity
and monetary plethora. but many of them
hang on to the hindering superhuity till
death. and then as they are compelled to
give the money up anyhow. in their last will
and testament thew generously give some
of it to the Lord. expecting no doubt
that He will feel uIuch obliged to
them. Thank God that once in 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 the
amount we are making Working under one
of our patents, we have a 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 phian.
thropist was building Cooper Institute, which
mothers hundred institutes of kindness and
mercy all over the land. But the world had
to wait five thousand eight hundred years for
Peter Cooper 7 am glad for the benevolent
institutions that get legacy from men who
during their life were as stingy as death, but
who in their last will and testament bestowed
fol nd
but for such testators / have no respect
They would have taken every cent of it with
them il 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. month and got a corner on harps
and trumpets They lived in this world
fifty or sixty years in the presence OF appall-
ing suffering and want. and made no effort
for their relief. The charities of such people
are for the most part in ''pauo-post FUTURE
tense and they are going to do them. The
| probability is that if such a one in his last
will by donation to benevolent societies
tries to atone for his life time listed
ness the heirs at law will try to break the
viii by proving 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.
| @ We overweghte1 successful business men,
whg Their this sermon reach your ear or Your
I
with axieties about keeping or investing
these tremendous fortunes, / can tell you
| how you can do more to get your health
| back and yonr spirits raised than by
| drinking gallons of bad-tasting water at
| Saratoga, Homburg or Carlsbad = give
to God and humanity and the Bible ten
| per cent. of all your income. and it will make
| a new man Of you, ard from restless walking
of the floor at night you shall have eight
hours sleep without the help of bromide OF
potassium, and from no appetite You will
hardly be able to wait your regular meals
and your wan cheek will fill up and wher
| you die the blessings of those who but fol
you would have persisted will bloaIa all ovel
your grave with violets if it be spring, Oh
| gladiolus, if it 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 Oh
| it more fingers and your rheumatic foot b,
getting on IL more toes, and there will be
! sign of relief when You are gone out of tn,
world; and when over your remains the min
| lister recites the words: blessed are the deaC
who die in the Lord, persons who have keer
appreciation OF the ludicrous will hardly b.
able TO keep their face straight Blu
whether in that direction my words do goo.
or not. am anxious that all WHO have onl,
ordinary equipment be thankful for wha
they have ami rightly employ it. | think
you all have, figuratively as well as literally
fingers enough Do not long for hinderina
superfluities. Standing in the presence O.
this fallen giant of my text and in
this post-mortem examination of him,
let us learn how much better off We
are with just the usual hand, the
usual foot You have thanked God for q
thousand things. but I warrant you never
thanked Him for those two implements of
work and locomotion. that no one but the
Infinite and Omnipotent Col 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 appre-
citation Of what divine masterpieces they
are. Sir Charles Bell, the Eng ish
surgeon. on the battlefield of Water
loo. while engaged in amputations
OF the wounded was so impressed with the
wondrous construction of the human hand
that when the Earl oil Br dgewater gave
forty thoasa and dollars for essays on the wis.,
dom and goodness Of God. and eight books
were written. Sir Charles Bel wrote his en-
tire book on the wisdom and goodness Of
God as displayed in the human hand. The
twenty seven bones in hand and wrist. W III
rartilnges and liyaments and phalanges OF
the fingers. all made just ready to knit. to
sew. to build up to pull down, TO weave,
to write, TO pillow, 70 pound, to wheel. TO bat.
tie, to give friendly salutation- The tips OF
the fingers are 50 many telegraph Offices by