Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-04
Superfluities A Hinder
ance.
What Dl. Taimage had TO Nay on
SUNDAY About Giants anG Other
big filings.

biR THINGS
BMooggNL n, Y, September a3,-The hsv,
n Dewitt Taimnge. u H.. preached IN the
brooklyn ti,hernaele thia morning an the
h%utjeet, gB,Werauitles a hindetanee' ssv'
trnl orean steamers arrive IN port Sunday
hbrnings, and many ~ Tho p%asaengefsl
hrownei bf tho sen. come directly nom the
wharf 10 the Drookiyn tabernacle, The great
congregation led by Prof, Aii's oornet and
accompanied by the organ, ht which Prof
browne presides, Joined Ia tho Opening
hymn
We are Thy people, We Thy rare,
Our souls and nll our mortal frame,
What lastiag hohers shhll We renr.
Almighty Maker, 90 Thy manner
Dr, Talmaga's teEt wasl "1 Chronicles.
Gimp A, V q and y
A man of great stature. whose fingers and
toes we're four md twenty, sis on eaeh hand
and sis on each ieot and hs also Was theson
Of The giant. hut when ie dcaei Israel,
JONATHAN, tbeeon ofAhlmea, payld's brother
sleN him,
Malfarmatioh photographed, and Tor what
reason7 DID not this possego alp IN by nils
take Into tho sacred scriptures, sH sometimes
a paragraph utterly obhosians 90 Tho editor
gsts INTO iith newspaper during his absence7
II not THE hcriptami etror7 No, mo-. there 10
nothing hnphhgafd about tho Hlble, Tits
pnssnse Of scripture sns nsrertalaly Intended
To be- put In the Bible ne The passage. In
the beginning uod created tho heavens aud
a. ...al a. -. fft.I 81. l.s.I tI. s..stl that
lie gave lliA only begotteh sen
Aud I sciect II for my test today bernape
Il IN charged with practical aud tremendous
moaning, By the people " Tod the philis'
tinen had been conquered, Sith the tSttptioh
q few gihnts The fnfe ~ glhhiA u mostly
extinct, ] Rm nlal 10 any There IL no Use
iot giants noW except to enlarge the income
OF mlseuinH, BUt there vas many Of them IN
oiinH times, GOLIATH WINS, according 10 tho
bible, ii feet ~ inches high. Or, " you do
not believe tho bible, the famous PliBy, u
secular wfttbF dbtlnfea ttet at Crete by an
earthquake u monument was broken bpeti
discovering tbs remains ~ q Riaht 10 eHbltb
long, or 30 fest high, So, whether you prefer
sacred or pfufniie history, you must come 10
the rohrluHius that there were ~ thoEo
plIsn times cases of human altitude MON
and appalling, David had smashed
the skull OF one ~ ihese giants, but there
we're other giants that these Dasidehn wars
had not get subdnsd, and ono 81 them HtHudH
In my text, lie WHH not only Of Alpine
stature, hut had a surplus Of diaiia, To the
ordinary ilnEera was annexed an additional
finger, md the foot had hiso q superhaous
a~ddpndum, Hc bad - examinations 80
hands aud iept Nliefe Others have 20, ~ was
not the only instance Of the Kind ThYsrnief,
the learned writer, HayB thai the Emperor
Of Java had n son endowed with the same
..a.N-. II .aaa...ffa.a Nafa.Nt4Z 4Ea
poet, had his fingers on eurh hand,
Maupetiua IN his celebrated letters speaks
of two families near berlin himilhrly
equipped ON both bnhd aud foot. Al OF
which | eau believe, for ! have seen tSo cnseH
~ the shme physical stiprrahun5nhee, Hut
this giant of the text ~ In bHttlr, sud aH
David, the dwarf warrior, had dispatched
one giant, the broihaF 81 David always this
of my tast, aud there Lao lies after
the battle IN Gath, n dead giant His stature
did not save him and hiH shpeffiuouA HptiehE
dicrs ofhHnd md foot DID not aava bin The
probability NaA that ~ tbs battle htH sixth
hRgpr on HE hand made him rlumsy IN the use
81 his weapon, mud bis sixth toe crippled bis
gait, Behold the PROSTATE aud mhlsorned
giant OF The text ~ mnn great OfHtHtnro,
whose AiRafn and toes were four and twenty,
six ON eafh hand, and six on each foot and
he also was The son Of the giant, but when
he deted lHrhel. Jonathan the son OF hhinen,
Dayid's brother, slew him
Behold how suprrlniHrs nre n hinderance
rather han u helpi IN al the battle ht Gath
That day there wns not n MAI With ordinary
hand aud ordinary oot aud ordinary stature
that WINS not better on than this physical
curiosity Of my text A. physicnl sire Is npt
20 Fuh Ia families, the probability H. that
this brother % David, who did the work, wBA
of m abbreviated stature, A dNnf on tho
right side II stfohRcr than n giant on the
wrong side, and all the body, and mind, and
~ostnte, md opportunity that you cannot usa
Tor uod and the bettcrtncnt oi The world " n
sixth 1nsrr aud n sixth toe, and a terrific
hihdtance. Tho most 81 tho good done IN
tho world, aud the most ~ those who win thu
bhttlea for tho right are ordinary people
Count the fingers ~ their right hand and
they hays FIVE, no more mud M lees. One DR.,
Duff among missionaries. but q 1000 mission.
nrirn that would tell you they have only
common endowment One Florence Might
insaiet 10 uarsS the sirk IN conspicuous places,
but 10000 who are just MS good nurses
though never heard Of The swamp Angel
WINS "a big gun that during the war mRda %
bly, hoisa, but muskftA of ordinary cnlibfo
and shells ~ Ordinary heft did
the execution, President Tyler
aud his cnLinet go down ID, Potomac ops
Rtrnt iron gun that was t0 alright with It's
thunder, foreign natives, The punnrr
touches II IN mud II eSplodes md leaves
cabinet ministers dead on the deck, white at
that time hil up and Town our consts were
cannon of ordinary bore able Co 10 the de-
tense III tho nation. aud fcndy ~ the frat
touch 10 awaken 10 duty, The curse Of the
world IL big gums. After the politirinns who
have made all the noise 20 home hoafsa
from angry diRcnsHion On tle evening of thu
first Monday Ia November. tho next day tho
people with tho silent ballots will EeLtls
everything and Eettle u right, u million ol
the white slips Of paper they drop making
about as much noirc ps the fall Of an apple
blossom.
t1rnr back In the country to-day there ara
mothers Ia plain apron, aud shoes ON n rough
last by the shoemaker at the lane, rorkinp
bnbirs that arc 60 be the Martin Luthers.
and the F~nrQdays, mud the EjisonH, aud the
Blsmnfkp, hnd the GlndAtonep, and the
WnHhinRstphs, and the George Whiieneida,
of tho year ibas mud who will make tho
twentieth century ~ hrirhi that this much
landed nineteenth IN comparison will seem n
part 0f the dark aeoH, The longer I live tho
more | like common folks. They d. the
worlds work, beBring the worlds bnrdens,
weeping the worlds ~ mputhies. carrying tho
the worldH consolation, Among lawyers va
Hrc rice up u Rufus Cheta. OF u William Wort,
or n Samuel L. Southland, hut society would
go 10 pierce to morrow " there were
not Thousands Of common lawyers 90
SEQ that men and women get
their rights, A Valentine Mott az u Willard
Parker rises up eminent IN tho medical pro,
icrAions hut what nm unlimited sweep would
pneumonia, mud dipbtlieria, and scnrlet fever
have In the world ifit were not Tor 10000
common doctors, The Md physician In hin
Mig rolling M the lane Of tho firm house, or
riding on horseback, HIS medicines Ia the
snddlos bag, arriving on tho ninth day 81 tho
fever, and coming IN Ca take hold of the PULSE
Of the pntient, while the family, pale with
nnxirty, are hooking N and waiting for His
decision In regRrd 10 thu patient, aud henr.
ing him sny: THANK God, | have mustered
the cnHo, no In getting well" rScites Ia mo
un admiration quite equal to the mention OF
the MINES OF the grent metropolitan doctors,
Panronst or Gross or Joseph G. Hutchinson
OF the past, or the illuStrious living men OF
the present.
Yet what do we see IN all depnrtments7
People not satisfied with ordinary spheres OF
work and ordinary duties. Instead Of try.
Ing 10 seo wiBt they can do with u hand ai
1--WE Fingers they wnnt ak. instead ol the
usual endowment Of 20 manual and pedal
nddcnda they want 20, A certain amount
OF money for livelihood mud for The sunny
OF tho whom We leave behind us after We
departed this life IL important, Tor We have
the best authority FOR saying; "Ho that
proyidrth mt for bis own. and especially
tupHf VI hlF tWn lfNHHfilpiNa ~ NBlHr fhntl MI
iuidcl,' but the large and fabulous sums
for which wnny struggle, " obtained, would
be q Intolerance rather than an ndynntuge,
The nnSietiea and ~nnnoyances that those
have whose cBtatea have become ploihartc
emu only be told by those who poaHess
them, II will be- u good thing when
through your industry and public pros.
pcritics you can own the house IN which yon
I've. hut suppose you " 80 houses aud
you have all those rents Ia collect and all
those tenants 60 please, Suppose you have
branclied out In brsincss succcsscn until In
elmost every direction you observation-disclosures,
Tho fire bell rings ~ night; yen rush upstairs
TO look out ~ the window To see ifit In nny
OF your mills. An epidemic Of crime comea
aud there nre etnbezzlcments and nb.
scondingk IL all direction, aud Won
wonder whether any Of your book.
keepers viii prove recrennt. A panic strikes
the financial world, aud You nre like n hen
NN. a. la fail IL - -