The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-10-04

comes and there are embezzlements and alb
scondings in all directions and you wonder
whether any of your bookkeepers will prove
recreant. A panic strikes the financial
world. and you are like n hen un Ter skv
full OF hawks and trying with anxious cluck
TO get your overgrown chickens safely under
wing After & a cert certain stage Of sue.
SO many important things to others
rha. you nre apt to become the prey Of
others, and you are swiudled and defraudei.
and the anxiety you had on your brow when
you were earning your first thousand dollars
Is not equal to the anxiety on your brow now
that you have won your three hundred thou
sand The trouble with such one Is he IL
spread out nKe the unfortunate one IN nv
text. You have more fingers and toes than YOU
know what to do with. Twenty were useful
twenty four Is hindering superHuity. Dis.
rael says that King of Poland abdicated his
throne and Joined the people and became n
porter TO carry burdens And some one
asked him why he did so and he replied:
Upon my honor, gentlemen, the load which
Iquit Is by far heavier than the one you see
me carry. me weiyhr1est IL hut straw
when compared TO that world under which
labored. have slept more in four nights
than J have during all my reign. / begin TO
he King myself. Elect whom you choose.
for me who am so well IL would be madness
10 return TO court "
"Well.r SAYS somebody, such overloaded
persons ought TO be pitied, for their worri-
mcnts are real and their insomnia and their
nervous prostration are genuine" reply
that they could get rid OF the bothersome
surplus bv giving IL away. If n man has
more houses than he can carry without
vexation let him drop few OF them. IL his
estate Is so great he cannot manage IL with.
out getting nervous dvspepsia from having
too much. let him divide mp with those
who have nervous dyspepsia because thev
cannot get enough. MOI they guard their sixth
finger with more care than they did tho
original five. They go limpng with what
they cali gout, and know not that. like the
giant of my text, they are lamed by n super.
fluous toe. few of them by large chari.
ties bleed themselves Of this financial OH sitv
and monetary plethora. but many OF them
hang on to the hindcring superfluitv till
death. and then rs they are compeled In
give the money m anyhow. in their last will
and testament thew generously give some
of IL TO the Lord. expecting no doubt
tnat Hc VIII feel uuch obliged a
them. Thank God that once in n while we
nave Peter Cooper, who. owning an interest
IN tho iron works at Trenton. slid 20 Mr..
Lester: 81 do not feel quite easy about the
amount we are making Working under one
OF our patents. we have n monopoly which
seems to me something wrong. Everybody
has to come to Us for IL and we
reduced the price. and this while our philnn.
thropist was building Cooper Institute. which
mothers n hundred institutes of kindness and
mercy all over the land. But the world had
to wait five thousand eight hundred years for
Peter Cooper. am glad for the benevolent
institut ons that get legacy from men who
during their life were ms stingv as death. but
who in their !ast will and testament bestowed
money on hospitals and missionary societies.
but for such testators ! have no respect.
They would have taken every cent of il with
them II they could, and bought up half of
heaven and let 1t out at ruinous rent or
loaned the money TO ce estial citizens at two
per cent. month and got corner on hnrps
AMI trumpets. They lived in this world
fifty or sixty years in the presence of appall-
ing suffering and want, AMI made no effort
Tor their relief. The charities of such people
are Tor the most part in "paulo.post future"
tense and they are going to do them The
probability is that IL such one in his last
viii by n donation to benevolent societies
tries to atone for his lifetime close. listed.
ness, the heirs at law will try to break the
VIII by proving that the old man was senile
or crazy, and the expense Of the litigation
VIII about leave in the lawyers hands what
was meant for the American Bible Society.
q ye overweghted successful business men.
whether this sermon reach your ear or your
eye. let me say that IL you are prostrated
with axieties about keeping or investing
these tremendous fortunes, / can tell you
how you can do more TO get your health
back and yonr spirits raised than by
drinking gallons OF badtasting water at
to God and humanity and the Bible ten
per cent OF all your income. and il will make
new man OF you, and from restless walking
OF the floor at night you shall have eight
hours sleep without the help of bromide OF
potassium and from no appetite Won win
hardly be able to wait your regular meals.
ana your wan cheek will fll I'D. and when
you die the blessings of those who but Tor
you would have persisted will blooN all over
your grave with violets If it be spring, or
gladious, if il be autumn
Perhaps some of you will take this advice.
nut the most OF you will not. And you will
Try 10 cure your swollen hand by getting ON
Z more fingers, and your rheumatic foot by
kettlng on II more toes, and there will be n
sign OF relief when you are gone out of the
world; and when over your remains the min
lster recites the words: blessed are the dead
"ho die IN the Lord persons who have keen
appreciation of the ludicrous will hardly be
able to keep their face straight But
whether IN that direction my words do cool
or not am anxious that all who have only
ordinary equipment be thankful for what
they have an rightly employ it. think
YOU all have, hguratively as well as literally.
fingers enough. Do not long for hindering
superiiuitles. Standing in the presence Of
this fallen giant OF my text and in
ths post-mortem examination of him,
iet us learn how much better Off we
are with Just the usual hand, the
usual foot You have thanked God for a
thousand things, but | warrant YOU never
thanked Him for those two implements of
work and locomotion, that no one but the
INFINITE and Omnipotent God could have
ever planned or made, the hand and the foot.
only that soldier or that mechanic vino in n
battle or through machinery has lost them
knows anything about their value and only
the Christian scientist can have any n,,ors-
:iation OF what divine masterpieces they
are. Sir Charles Bell, the English
surgeon, ON the battlefield of Water.
loo, while engaged in amputations
OF the wounded was SO impressed with the
wondrous construction of the human hand
that when the Earl of Brdgewater cav
forty thousand dollars for essays ON tho wis
dom and goodness of God. and eight books
were written, Sir Charles Bell wrote his en-
tire book on the wisdom and goodness OF
tiod as displayed in the human hand The
twenty ty-seven bones in hand and wrist, witt
carriages and ligaments and phalanges Of
the fingers, all made just ready to knit to
sew, to build up. to pull down, TO weave,
to write, to plow, to pound, TO wheel, to bat
tie, to give friendly salutaton The tips of
the fingers are so many telegraph Offices by
reason of their senstiveness of touch. The
bridges, the tunnels, the cities of the whole
earth are the victories of the hand The
hands are not dumb, but often speak as dis
tinctly as the lips. With our hands
we invite, we. repel We invoke, We