Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-30


Of it TO the Lord, expecting no doubt
that He will feel very much obliged 10
them. Thank God that once in a while
we have Peter Cooper who, owning an
interest in the iron works at Trenton,
said to Mr.. Lester: II do not feel quite
easy about the amount we are making.
Working under one Of our patents, we
have a monopoly which seems to
me something wrong. Everybody has
to come to us for it and we are making
money too fast" So they reduced the
price, and this while our philanthropist
was building Cooper institute, which
mothers hundred institutes Of kind
ness 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 institutions
that get legacy from men who during
their life were as stingy as death, but
who in their last will and testament be-
slowed money on hospitals and mission
airy societies; but for such testatos !
have no respect. They would have taken
every cent Of it with them IL they could.
and bought up half of heaven and let Il
out at ruinous rent, or loaned tho
money TO celestial citizens at Q per
cent. a month and got corner on harps
and trumpets. They lived in this world
fifty or sixty years in the presence of ap-
palling suffering and want and made no
effort for their relief. TIE charities of
such people are for the most part in
''paulo-post future" tense and they are
going TO do them. The probability is
that II such one in his last will by a
donation TO benevolent societies tries to
atone for his lifetime closefstedness, the
heirs at law will try TO break the will by
proving that the old man was senile or
crazy, and the expense of the litigation
will about leave in the. lawyers hands
what was meant for the American Bible
society. Oh, ye overweighted successful
business men, whether this sermon reach
your ear or your eye, let me say that
If you are prostrated with ankle
ties about keeping or investing
these tremendous fortunes, / can tell
I you how you can do more to get your
health back and your spirits raised than
by drinking gallons Of bad tasting water
at Saratoga, Homburg or Carlsbad-give
to god and humanity and the Bible 10 per
cent of all your income, andit will make
new man of you, and from restless walk
| ing Of the floor at night you shall have
eight hours sleep without the help OF
bromide of potassium, and from no appe-
tite you will hardly be able to wait your
regular meals, and your wan cheek will
fill up, and when you die the blessings
of those who but for you would have per-
ished will bloom all over your grave with
violets, il it be spring, or gladiolus, if it
be autumn.
Perhaps some Of you will take this ad-
vice, but the most of you will not. And
you will try TO cure your swollen hand
by getting on it more fingers, and your
rheumatic foot by getting on it more
toes, and there will be a sigh Of relief
when you are gone out of the world;
and when over your remains the minis
ter recites the words. blessed are the
dead who die in the Lord" persons who
have keen appreciation of the ludicrous
will hardly be able to keep their faces
straight. But whether in that direction
my words do good or not, am anxious
that all who have only ordinary equip
ment be thankful for what they have
and rightly employ it. ! think you
all have, figuratively as well as
literally, fingers enough. Do not
long for hindering superhuities. Stand
ing in the presence of this fallen giant of
my text and in this post-mortem exami-
nation of him, let US learn how much
better off we are with Just the usual
hand, the usual foot You have thanked
God for 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 SOL
dier or that mechanic who, in battle or
through machinery, has lost them, knows
anything about their value, and only the
Christian scientist can have any apprecia-
tion Of what divine masterpieces they are.
Sir Charles Bell, the English surgeon, on
the battle field Of Waterloo, while en-
gagged in amputations OF the wounded
was so impressed with the wondrous con-
struction Of the human hand that when
the Earl of Bridgewater gave $40, 900 for
essays on the wisdom and goodness of
God, and eight books were written, Sir
Charles Bell wrote his entire book on the
wisdom and goodness of God as displayed
In the human hand. The twenty-seven
bones in hand and wrist with cartilages
and ligaments and phalanges ,of the
fingers all made just ready TO knit,
10 sew, to build up, 10 pull down,
10 weave, TO write, 30 plow, TO
pound, TO wheel, 10 battle, to
give friendly salutation. The tips OF its
fingers are so many telegraph offices by
reason Of their sensitiveness 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 distinctly as the lips. With our hands
we invite, we repel, we invoke, we en-
treat, we wiring them in grief or clap
them in JOY, or spread them abroad in
benedietion. The malformation OF the
giants hand In the text glorifes the usual
hand. Fashioned OF God more exquis-
itely and wondrously than any human
mechanism that was ever contriyed. I
charge you use II for God and the liftingo OF
the world out Of It's moral predicament.
Employ 4 in the sublime work Of Gospel
handshaking. You can see the hand Is
just made for that. -Four fingers just
set right TO touch your ncigkbor's hand