The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-10-05
TALMAGEs SERMON.
Superfuities a Hinderance Rather
than q Help.
The Possession Of Too Much of the worlds
Goods Not Conducive to Spiritual
WeaIth-Dtvine Triumph in
the Human Anatomy

the Human Anatomy.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmaye took for the
subject Of recent sermon in the Brook
lyn Tabernaele: ''S1perhuities Hinder
ance." His text was:
A man of great stature. whose fingers and
toes were four and twenty, six on each hand,
and six on each foot; and he also was the son
ofthe giant But when he dehed Israel, Jona-
than. the son of S1imea. David's brother, slew
him.-Chronicles, Xxx. 6-7
Malformation Photographed, and for
+ what reason? Did not this passage slip
+ in by mistake into the sacred Scriptures,
as sometimes a paragraph utterly OBJ
] nexious to the editor gets into his news
/ paper during his absence? Is not this
/ ScripturaI errata? No, no; there is noth-
/ ing haphazard about the. B bic. This
! passage of Scripture was as certainly in
] tended to be put in the Bible as the pas
i sage, Gin ths beginning God created the
/ heavens and the EARTH" or, Good so
! loved the world that He gave His only
/ begotten Son"
! And select it for my text to-day. be-
cause it is charged with practical and
! Tremendous meaning. By the people of
God the Philistiues had been conqaered,
| with the exception OF q few giants. The
| race of giants is mostly extinct, I am
glad to say There is ne use for giants
! now except to enlarge the income of
| museums But there were many of them
In olden times. Goliath was, according
to the Bible, eleven feet four and one-.
quarter inches high Or if you do not
believe the Bible,r the famous p Hny, g.
| secular writer, declares that at Crete, by
an earthquake, monument was broken
open, discovering the remains of a giant
1 forty-six cubits long, or sixty mine feet
i high So, wheth or YOU prefer sacred or
. "a the
! conclusion that there were in those olden
times cases of human altitude 1nOnstroJIs
and appalling David had smashed the
| skull of one of these giants, and
there were other giants that the Davidean
wars had not subdHed, and one Of them
stands IN nv text. He was not only Of
| Alpine stature, but had surplus of
digits. To the ordinary fingers was an
| nexed an additional finger, and the foot
had also a stperf1uous addendum He had
twenty-four examinations to hands and
/ feet, where others have twenty. 1t was
/ not the only instance of the kind. Taver-
nier, the learned writer says that the
/ EI7peror OF Java had a son endowed with
the same number of extremities Vol
cf,tus, the poet had six fin ;ers on each
hand. Maupetius, ia his celebrated lets
ters, 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 physical super
abundance.
But this giant of the text is in battle,
and as David, the dwarf warrior, had dis
patched 0he-- giant the brother Of David
Stays this monster of my text aud there
be lies after the battle in Gath, a dead
giant His s attire did not save him, and
his superfuous appendices of haud aud
foot did not save him The probability
was that the sixth fin ger on his hand
da ri gxTi in a II so nf his we n
on, and his sixth toe crippled his gait
Behold the PROSTATE and maltormed
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 lie also was the son
Of the giant. But when he de1ed Israel, Jona-
than, the son of 5himeas David's brother slew
him.
Behold how superb u1ties are hinder
ance rather than p help. In all the battle
at Gath that day there was not man
with ordinary hand and ordinary foot
and ordinary stature that was not better
of than this physical curiosity OF my
text. As physical size is apt to run n
families, the probability is that this
brother of David, Who did the work, was
of an abbreviated stature. A dwarf on
Z the right side is stronger than giant On
the wrong side, and all the body, and
mind, and estate, and oppOr tunity that
you eau nOb hsO LOt NOA dLAL bLO DCbS0t-
ment of the world is sixth finger and
sixth toe, and a terrible hind erance. The
most OF the good done in the world, and
the most Of those who win ths battles for
the right are ordinary people. Count the
fingers Of their right hand and they have
6 Just five, no more and no less Oae Dr..
Duff among missionaries but three thou
sand missionaries that would tell you
= they have only common endowment. One5
Florence Nightingale to nurse the sick in
conspicuous places, bat ten thousand
women who are just as good nur ses5
though never heard or The Swamp
Angel was big gun that during the war
made a big noise, but smu3kets of ordi-
nary calfber and shells Of ordinary hett
4 did the execution. President Tyler and
his Cabinet go dow1 ths Potomac one
day to experiment with the peaceIn Ak er,
: q great iron gun that was to a9gight with
it's thunder foreign naYiss. The gunner
/ touches it off and it explodes AID leaves
Cabinet Ministers dead on the deck
! while at the same time, al up and down
#Our coasts, were cannon Of ordinary bore
? able to be the defense Of the nation, and
; ready at the first tOuca TO wakea TO duty.
TIE curse Of the world is big gus. After
the-po4itcians who have made all the
noise go, home, hoarse from angry dis
f cussiOD, on the evening OF the hr5b Mon-
/ day ia Move nfber. the next day the pee-
every thing, and settle il 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
Z are mothers ia plain apron, and shoes
, fashioned on a rough last by the shoe-
2 maker at the end Of the lane, rocking
babies that arc to berthe Martin Luthers,
8 and tho Faradays, and the E li5ons, and
the Bismarcks, and the GladstOnes, and
2 the Washingtous, and the George White
. fields Of the year 1888 ald who viii make
tho twentieth century 50 bright that this
much-lauded nineteenth in comparison
will seem a part Of the dark ages. The
longer / live the more I like -comnaOn a
t folks They do the worlds work bearing
2 the worlds burdens, weeping the worlds
{ sympathies, carrying the worlds eonso-
e lation.s Among lawyers We see rise up
: a Rufus Choate or William Writ or a
7 Samuel l. Southland, but society would
Q go to pieces tomorrow Il there
were not thoussands Of common law
yers 20 see that men and women
8 sget fheir rights. a. Valentine Mott
: or a willard Parker rises up eminent IN
q the medical profession, bat what an ~
e limited sweep would pnsumOnfa, and
diphtheria, end scarlet fever have in the
/ world If it were not FOR ten thousaud
common doctors. The OLD physieian in
his gig rollLng up the lane OF the farm
house, or riding on horseback, his
: mediciuesIn the sad lle- bags. arriving on
= the ninth d " of the fever, ani comiag In
= to lake hold Of the pulse Of the patient
while the family. pale with anxiety, are
looking on aud waiting for his decision
IN regard to the patient, and hearing hin
y say: as1bank God, have mastered th'
2 sase. he-is getting WeiI,V excites in me 81
z admiration q mite equal to the mention Q
+ the name Of the great metropolitan doc