New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-03

| of money for livelihood and for the supply
/ of those whom we leave behind us after we
departed this life is important, Tor we have
the best authority for saying: He that
| provideth not for his own, and especially
those OF his own household, is worse than an
/ lntidel But the large and fabulous sums
/ Tor which many struggle if obtained, would
! be hInderance rather than an advantage
The anxletles and annoyances that those
nave whose estates have become plethoric
can only be told by those who possess
4 them. 1t will be good thing when
through your industry and public pros
| perltles you can own the house in which you
/ 1--we. But suppose you own so houses and
/ you have all those rents to collect and all
those tenants to please. Suppose you have
Dranched out IN business successes until in
| almost every direction you yeinyestments
The fire bell rings atnight; you rush upstairs
| to look out OF the window to see if it is any
OF your mills. An epidemic of crime comes
1 and there are entertainments and abb
scondings in all direction, and you
wonder whether any of your book
| keepers will prove recreant. A panic strikes
| the financial world and you are like hen
! under sky full of hawks, and trying with
| anxious cluck to get your oyergrown chick
| ems safely under wing. After certain stage
| OF success has been reached you have to
trust SO many important things to others
That you are apt to become the prey ofothers,
! y IL,
| 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 thous-
and. The trouble with such one is he is
spread out like the unfortunate one in my
text You have more fingers and toes than
you know what to do with. Twenty were
useful, "a is a hindering superfuity Dis
| raeli says that a King of Poland abdicated
his throne and adjoined the people and be-
came porter to carry burdens. And some
one asked him why he did SO, and he replied:
Upon my honor, gentlemen, the load which
quit is by far heavier than the one you see
me carry. The weightiest is but a straw
when compared to that world under which
labored. have slept more in four nights
than | have during all my reign. l begin to
live and to BE- a king myself Elect whom
you choose, for me who am so well it would
be madness to return to court"
"Well," says somebody, 'ssuch overloaded
persons oughtto bepitied for their worrments
are real and their insomnia and their nerv-
Gus prostration are genuine / reply that
they could get rid of the bothersome surplus
by giving it away. If q man has more houses
than he can carry without vexation, let him
drop a few of them. If his estate is so great
he cannot manage it without getting nervous
dyspepsia from having too much, let him
divide up with those who have nervous dys-
pepsia because they cannot get enough. No!
they guard their sixth finger with more care
than they did the original five. They go
limping with what they call govt and know
not that, like the giant of my text they are
famed by a superfuous toe A few of them
by large charities bleed themselves of this
financial obesity and momentary plethora,
but many of them hang on to the hindering
superfuity till death, and then as they are
compelled to give the money up anyhow, in
| their last will and testament they generously
give some of it to the Lord, expecting, no
doubt, that He will feel very much obliged to
them. Thank God that once in while we
have a Peter Cooper who, owning an inter
est 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 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 phlanthropist was build
ing Cooper Institute, which mothers hun
dred Institutes of kindness and mercy all over
the land. But the world had to wait $500
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 testa-
ment bestowed money on hospitals and mis-
sionary societies; but for such testaters
l have no respect. They would
have taken every cent of it with them if they
could and bought up half Of heaven and let
| 1T out at ruinous rent, or loaned the money
to celestial citizens at 2 per cent a month and
got a corner on harps and trumpets. They
lived in this world so or so years in the pres
ence OF appalling suffering and want and
made no effort for their relief The charities
of such people are for the most part in
"paulO-post future tense and thew
are going to do them The probability
is that if such a one in his last
will by donation to benevolent
societies tries to atone for his life time
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 BIZ
BILE Society O, We overweighted successful
business men, whether this sermon reach
your ear or your eye, let me say that if you
are Frustrated with anxieties about keeping
or Investigating these tremendous fortunes,
L can tell 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 the Bible 10 per
cent of all your income, and it will make a
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 you will
hardly be able to wait your regular meals,
and your wan cheek will fillup, and when you
die the blessings of those who but for you
would have persisted viii bloom all over your
grave with violets if it be spring, or gladio-
lous, if it be autumn.
Perhaps some of you will take this advice,
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 q
sigh of relief when you are gone out of the
world; and when over your remains the min
lister 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, I
| am anxious that all who have ordinary
equipment be thankful for what they have
and rightly employ it. I think you oil have.
fguratively as well as literally, fingers
| enough. Do not long for hindering super1ui-
ties Standing in the presence of this fallen
giant OF my text and in their post-mortem
examination of him, let us learn how much
better off we are with just the usualfoot You
have thanked God for a thousand things,
butt warrant you never thanked him for
those two implements of work and locomo-
tion that no one but the Infinite and Omnip-
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