West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-04
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on each hand, and sic on each foot, and ne
d'so tros the son Of the giant. But tDhea ne
4efted israel Jonathan, the son of !Shfmed,
Dorid's brother, SieI0 hinl."-l. Chronicles
Xxx, .. g and z.
Malformation photographed, and for what
reasonf Did not this passage slip In by a
mistake into the Sacred Scriptures as some
times paragraph utterly obnoxious to the
editor gets into his newspaper during his alb
sencet is not this Scriptural erratal No,
no; there is nothing haphazard about the
bitle. This passage of Scripture was "a Ger.
family intended to be put in the Bible as the
passage; In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth, 4" or, God so loved the
world that He gave his only begotten son. y
And select it for my text to-day because II
meaning.
BY the people of God the Philistines had been
conquered. with the exception of few giants
The race of giants is mostly extinct / am glad
TO say There is no use for giants now ex
cept to enlarge the income OF museums But
there were many OF them in oden times
Sohath was, according TO the Bible, eleven
Feet, four and half inches high Or. n
You do not believe the Bible, the famous
Glny, secular writer, declares that Mt
Srete by an earthquake monument was
broken open, discovering the remains
OF giant forty-six cubits long, or
sixty-nine feet high. SO, whether
you prefer sacred or profane history, YOU
must come TO the conclusion that there were
monstrous and appalling. David had
smashed the skull of one OF these giants, but
there were other giants that the Dayidean
wars mad not yet subdued, and one OF them
stands in my text He was not only of
Alpine stature, but had n surplus of digits
TO the ordinary fingers was annexed an
additional finger and the foot had also a
superiiuous addendum. He had twenty
where others have twenty. It was
not the 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
the poet, had six fingers on each hand Mau.
petius in his celebrated letters speaks of two
families near Berlin, similarly equipped OF
nand and foot All of which l can believe
ior nave seen two cases of the same physi-
cal superabundance. But this giant OF the
text IS IN battle, and as David, the dwarf
warrior, had dispatched Dne giant the
brother OF David Stays this monster OF
my text, and there he lies after the
battle in Gath, dead giant His stature
ala not save him, and his superhuous appen.
dices OF hand and foot did not save him.
Inc probability was that in the battle his
sixth finger on his hand made him clumsy in
tine use OF his weapon, and his sixth toe
crippled his gait. Behold the PROSTATE and
maitormated giant of the text: "a man
great OF stature, whose fingers and toes were
Tour and twenty, six on each hand, and six
on each foot; and he also was the SON Of the
giant But when he defied Israel, Jonathan,
the son of Shimea, Dayids brother, slew
him.
Behold how superauities are hinderance
rather than helpl In all the battle al
Gath that day there was not a man with
ordinary hand and ordinary foot and
ordinary stature that was not better off than
TINS physical curiosity of my text A,
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
ali the body, and mind. and estate and oppor-
tunity that you cannot use for God and the
petterinent OF the world is a sixth finger
and sixth toe, and terrific hinderance
The most OF the good done in the world, and
The most OF those who win the battles for the
right, are ordinary people. Count the fingers
OF their right hand and they have lust five
no more and no less One Doctor Duff
among missionaries, but three thousand mis-
slonaries that would tell you they have only
common endowment One Florence NighE-
ingale TO nurse the sick In conspicuous PLACES
but ten Thousand women who arc lust as
good nurses though never heard of. The
swamp AngeP was big gun that durino,
the war made big noise, but muskets of or.
binary cal bre and shells of ordinary
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
thunder foreign navies. The gunner touches
1t of and it explodes and leaves cabinet min.
lsters dead on the deck, while at that time all
up and down our coasts were cannon OF ordi-
nary bore able to be the defense OF the nation.
md 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 nome hoarse from angry discussion on the
evening OF the first Monday in November.
tue next day the people with the silent ballots
VIII settle everything, and settle il right n
million OF the white slips Of paper they drop
making about as much noise as the fail Of
an apple blossom.
Clear back in the country to-day there are
mothers in plain apron and shoes fashioned
on rough last by the shoemaker at the end
OF the lane rocking babies that are 10 be the
MARTIN iuthers, and the fai s..oy--, and the
EdisoIis. and the bismarcks and the Glad.
stones, AMI the WashiuZtOns and the Georga
Whitefields Of the year 1888. and who win
make the 2uth century 50 bright that this
much lauded nineteenth in comparison will
seem like the dark ages. The longer
! live the more like common
folks They do the worlds work. bear
Ing the worlds burdens, weeping the
MQTld sympathies, carrying the worlds con.
soiation. Among lawyers we see rise up a
Rufus Choate, or n William Writ, or Sam.
mel Southland, but society would 20 g pieces
tomorrow II there we're not thousands OF
common lawyers to see that men and women
get their rights. A Valentine Mott or a
willard Parker rises up eminent in tine Tnedi.
cal profession, but what an uniimite
sweep would pneumonia, and diphtheria
ana scarlet fever. have in the world
III II were not for ten thousand
common doctors. The old physician i'm his
gig rolling up the lane OF the farmhouse. or
rlding on horseback, his medicines in tho
taddie-bags, arriving on the ninth day of the
Fever, aud coming in TO take hold OF the
pulse Of the patient. while the family. male
Win anxiety re looking on and waiting for
mss decision Ia regard to the patient and
nearing him say: Thank God. I have
mastere- TIE case he Is getting well " excites
IN me On admirato on quite equal 20 The men.
ton on tne names OF the great metropolitan
uocsofa fancoaSt or Gross or Joseph q
hutchinson, Of the past. or the Hlustrlogr
living men Of the present
y q what do We see in all departments
feopie not satisfied with ord nary spheres ri
work and ordinary duties. Instead of trv-
ing 70 sec what they can do with "A hand
of hyo hngers they want six Instead III
usual endowment Of twenty manual and
PEDAL addenda they want twenty-four a
eerfAin amount Of money for liveiihool anS
for The supply Of thOso whom v5 leave bo-
DINO Pc after We have departed this lfo is
important FOR We have the best authority
iof saynGi 'He that providetn not Tor h z
own ana especially those OF his own
household i3 worse than an fn6IeI :
but the large anl fabulous sums FOR ,ysirh
many struggle, ~ obtained would be- n him.
derance rather than an advantage arr
hnNie1e3 ana annoyance that those have
Whoa elates have become plsthoric can onfv
~ toIa ~ hoso who possess them 10 viii
PC Rool thing when through your fndusfrg
shd pubic properties you can own fhe
mouse 20 which you live Bnt sunpo4e voe
own hity houees and you have alI those repfs
- collect and OH those tenants ~ re tre.
nuppDse yOu have hranched oui
pr Dutineas succteses until in almos.