The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-10-04
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Tyxr: al man OF great stature, ,chose
noers and toes icere four and ttcsnty, sfu
n zach hand, and SIR on each foot: and he
$50 uas the son or Me giant But 'ohen no
bdrids Jro'her, sieU him"-l. Chronicles
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Malformation photographed, and for what
ensonl Did not this passage slip I'm by a
nistake into the Sacred Scriptures rs some
lines paragraph utterly obnoxious to the
litor gets into his newspaper during his alb
euce, Is not this Scriptural erratai No,
o: there is nothing haphazard about the
bitlc. This passage of Scripture was as Ger.
Ininly intended TO be put in the Bible as the
bassage: "ln the beginning God created the
eavens and the earth ors"God so loved the
Eorld that He gave his only begotten SON.
And select IL for my text to-day because II
charged with practical and tremendous
nv the people Of God the Philistines had been
conquered. with the exception OF n few giants.
he race OF giants is mostly extinct, am glad
10 say. There is no use for giants now ex.
kept TO enlarge the income Of museums. But
|here were many Of them in olden times
soliath was, according to the Bible, eleven
Peet four and a half inches high Or. n
ou do not believe the Bible, the famous
Pliny. n secular writer, declares that at
Crete by an earthquake n monument was
broken opcn, discovering the remains
bf giant forty-six cubits long, or
|ixty-nine feet high. So, whether
you prefer sacred or profane history. you
must come tn the conclusion that there were
IN those oiden times cases of human altitude
monstrous and appalling. David had
bmashed The skull of one OF these giants, but
There were other giants that the Davidean
wars had not yet subdued, and one of them
ktands IN my text He was not only of
hlpine stature, but had n surplus of digits
10 the ordinary fingers was annexed an
additional finger AMI the foot had also u
Super uous adlendum. He had twenty.
four examinations to hands and feet
where others have twenty. IL was
not tho only instance of the kind
Tavernier, the learned writer, says that the
Emperor of Java had son endowed with
The same number Of eXtremities Nolcatius
fhe poet, had six fingers on each hand. Mau.
petius in his celebrated letters speaks OF two
Families near Berlin, similarly equipped OF
hand and foot. All of which | can believe
FOR have seen two cases of the same physi-
csl supernbundance. But this giant OF the
text is in battle. and rs David, the dwarf
warrior had dispatched pne giant, the
3brother of David Stays this monster OF
/tny text, and there he lies after the
battle in Gath, dead giant. His stature
Idid not save him, and his superluous appen.
dices of hand and foot did not save him.
THE probability was that in the battle his
&eixth finger on his hand made him clumsy in
the use of his weapon, and his sixth toe
cripp!ed his gait. Behold the prostrate and
maliormated giant of the text: "A man
{great of 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 the
giant. But when no defied Israel, Jonathan,
the son of Shimea, David's brother, slew
Him.
Behold how supernuities are n hinderance
rather than hepl In all the battle al
Gath that day there was not a man with
IOrdlnary hand and ordinary foot and
kprdinary stature that was not better Off than
this physical curiosity of my text A,
Physical size is apt to run in families the
probability is that this brother of David
syho 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 oppor-
sunity that you cannot use for God and the
*betterment Of the world is a sixth finger
md sixth toe, and terrific hinderance.
The most OF the good done in the world, and
che most of those who win the battles for the
right, are ordinary people Count the fingers
of their right hand and they have just five
no more and no less One Doctor Duff
among missionaries, but three thousand mis-.
sionaries that would tell you they have only
common endowment. One Florence Night
ingale to nurse the sick in conspicuous places
but ten thousand women who are lust as
good nurses though never heard of. The
.Swamp angel was big gun that during
the war made big noise, but muskets of or.
dinary cal bre and shells of ord nary
heft did the execution President TYLER
and his cabinet go down the Potomac one
day to experiment with the Peacemaker, n
great iron gun that was to alright with its
thunher foreign navles The gunner touches
IL oil and Il explodes and leaves cabinet min.
listers dead OF the deck, while at that time all
up and down our coasts werc cannon OF ordi-
nary bore able to he the defense of the nation
and ready at the first touch to waken to duty
The curse of the world is big guns Alter
the politicians who have made all the noise
go homo hoarse from angry dis srusson on the
evening OF the first Monday in November
The next day the pe 'ple with the silent ballots
VIII settle eVerythh =, and settle it right a
million OF the white slips of paper they drop
making about as much noise as the fall of
an apple blossom.
Clear back in the country to-day there are
mothers IN pain apron, and shoes fashioned
on rough last by the shoemaker at the end
OF the lane. rocking babies that are to be the
Martin Luthers, and the Faradays, and the
EdlsonS, and the BismarCks, and the Glad.
stones. an the WashingtJns, and the George
Nhltcieds OF the year 1888. and who will
make the -Oth century so bright that this
much laudei nineteenth in comparison will
seem Ike the dark ages The longer
! live tine more like common
folks They do the worlds work. bear
Ing the worlds burdens, weeping the
worlds sympathies, carrying the worlL 'Scon.
so'h'tNil' ~ htOnR uWgtTS we see rlsu uD n
Rufus Choate, or n William Writ, or a Sam.
uel Southland but society would go t. pieces
tomorrow II there were not thousands of
common lawyers to see that men and women
get their rights. A Valentine Mott or q
Willard Parker rises up eminent in the med,
cal profession, but what an unlimited
sweep would pneumonia, and diphtheria,
and scarlet fever. have in the world
u 1t were not for ten thousand
common doctors The old physician in his
Blg rolling up the lane OF the farmhouse or
riding ON horseback, his medicines in the
saddle'bags, arriving on the ninth day of the
tever' ana coming IN to take hold of the
pulse OF the patient, while the family pale
Win anxiety, rye looking on and waiting for
ms decision in regard 20 the patient and
nearing him say: Thank God, | have
!nlstere' the case he is getting WELL" excites
in mo an admiration quite equal 10 the men.
tion OF the names of the great metropolitan
doctors, Pancoast or Gross, or Joseph c.
hutchinson, of the past, or the illustrious
hvlng men of the present.
- iet what do we soc in all departmentsl
Seopie not satisfied with ordinary spheres of
WORK ana ordinary duties. Instead of try
ing to see what they can do with a hand
oi hve fingers they want six. Instead of
usual endowment of twenty manual and
PEDAL nddenda they want twenty-four A