Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-12

the Brooklyn Tabernacle. The great congre-
cation, led by Professor ALPS cornet and ac-
compauied by the organ, at which Professor
Browne presides, joined in the OpeErc
hymn:
We are Thy people, we Thy care.
Our souls and ali our mortal fraT~
What lasting hOnOrs shall We rear,
Almighty Maker, TO Thy name?
Dr. Talmage's text was: L Chronicles,
CD. Xxx. v. and z: "a man of great stature,
whose fingers ana toes were four and twenty,
six on each hand, and six on each foot: aud
lie also was the son of the giant But when
he dehed Israel, Jonathan the son Of Shimea,
David's brother slew him"
MnlformatiOn photographed, aud for what
reasoni Did not this passage slip in by mis-
take into the Sacred Scriptures, as some
times Il paragraph utterly obnoxious to the
editor gets its " aY into his newspaper during
his absencel is not this Scriptural erratal
No, no; there Is nothing haphazard about the
Bible. This passage OF Scripture was GER
tainlv intended to be put in the Bible as
thc passage, In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth,' or "God so
loved the world that He gave His only be-
gotten SON"
And / select it for my text to-day be-
cuse IL IS charged with practical and
tremendous meaning By the people of God
the Philstines had been conquered, with the
exception OF a few giants. Tue race of giants
is mostly extinct. ! am glad to say. There is
no use OF giants now except 10 enlarge the
income of museums But there were many
OF them in Olden times. Goliath was, accord
ing 10 The Bible. eleven feet four and half
inches high. Or II YOU do not believe the
Bible, the famous PlInc, a secular writer,
declares that uJ Crete by an earthquake a
monument wus broken Ouen discovering the
remains Of giant fOrty-siX cubits long, or
sixty-nine feet high So whether you prefer
sacred history or prOfane history, you must
come TO the conclusion that there ere in
those olden times cases Of human altitude
monstrous and appalling. David had smash
ed the skull of one of these giants, but there
were other giants that The DaYdeuu wars had
not yet subdued, and one of them stands in
my text. He WAS not only Of Alpine stature.
hut had a surplus of digils. To the ordinary
fingers was annexed an additional finger and
The loot had also u supelhuOus add-Hdum.
lie had twentY-iour examinations 10 hands
and feet where others have twenty. 1t was
not the only instance OF the kind. Taver-
uler, the learned writer SAYS that the Elm
peror of Java had son endowed with the
same number OF eNtremitieS. FOlcaIius, the
poet had six fingers on each hand. Maupe-
tius in his celebrated letters. speaks of Two
1amtlies near Berlin similarly equipped of
hand and foot. All of which I can believe
Tor have seen two cases OF the same physi-
cal superuJuudunce. But this giant of Ihe
text is in battle and as David, The dwarf
Warrior had Dispatched one giant the
brother of David Stays this monster of
INV text and there he lies alter the
battle IN Gath. dead giant. His stature
did not save him and superiuOus apBend-
ices Of hand ami foot did not save him. The
probability that in the battle his sixth
finger on his hand made him clumsy in the
use OF his weapon, aud his sixth toe crippled
his gait. Behold The PROSTATE and ma for
mated giant of The tex: "A man great of
stature, whose fingers and toes were four
and twenty, six on each hand, and six on
each foot; atd lac also was the Of the
giant. But when he deied Israel jonathan,
the son OF SAlmea, David's brother, slew
him"
Behold how superaui.ies are a hinderauce
% all
that day there not man with ordinary
hand and ordinary foot and ordinary stature
that was not better of than This physical
CURIOSITY OF my text. as ph steal g is apt
TO run la families TIE probability is that this
brother OF David who uId the work was Of AN
abbrev .aleI stature. a dwarf ON the right
side is stronger than giant the wrong
side, aud all the body, aud mind aud estate,
aud opportunity That Won cannot use for God
and the betterment Of the world is a sixth
LuGer ana "a sixth Toe, and Il terrific hinder
aucr. The most Of the good done in the
world and The most OF those who win the
battles Tor the right, are ordinary people.
COuut the fingers Of their right hand and
they have just fly, no more and no less. One
Doctor DUH among missionaries, but three
thousand miss lOuaries that would tell VOC
they. have only common endowment. One
Florence Nightingale To nurse the sick in
conspicuous places, but ten thousand women
who are just as good nurses though never
heard Of. The Swamp Angel was big gun
that during the war made II big noise, but
muskcts of ordinary CaIbre and shells OF or
binary heft did the execution President Tyler
anu Ills canlueL 90 down the Potomac one day
TO experiment with the peacemaker, a great
iron gun that was to alright with its
thunder foreign navles. The gunner touch
it OH and it eXplOdes and leaves cabinet
ministers dead Oh the deck, while at that time
all up and down our coasts were cannon of
ordinary bore able to be the defense of the
nation, and ready at the frs touch to waken
TO dutv. The curse Of the world Is big guns.
After the politicians who have made ali the
noise 90 home hOnrse from angry discussion
Ffafgr fnff
Der, the next day the people with the silent
ballots will settle ever, thing, ana settle It
right 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 plain apron, anu shoes ashiOned
on a 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
Edisons and the Bismarcks, aud the Glad
stones. and the WashinglOns, and the George
Whitefieids OF the year 1888 and who will
make the twentieth century so bright that
this much Landed nineteenth in comparison
will seem a part Of the dark ages. The longer
/ live the more like common folks. They do
the world work, bearing the worlds burdens,
weeping the worlds symDathies carrying the
worlds consolation. Among lawyers We see
rise up a Rufus ChOate, or a William Writ or
a Samuel ID. Southland, but society would so
20 pieces to morrow if there we're not thous-
ands of common lawyers TO see that men and
women yet their rights. a Valentine
Mott Willard Parker rises up
eminent IN the medIcal profession,
but what an unlimited sweep would
pneumonia, and diphtheria, and scarlet fever,
have Ia the world If it were not for ten thou
sand common doctors. The old physician in
Ia his gig rolling uD the lane Of the farm
house. or riding on horseback, his medicines
in the saddle bags, arriving on the ninth dav
of the fever, and coming In 10 take hold of
the pulse of the patient while the family,
pale with anxiety, are looking on and waiting
Tor his decision in regard to the patient and
hearing him say: sThank God, / have mas
tered the case. he Is getting we'll" excites In
me an admiration quite equal 10 the mention