The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1888-12-14
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINES sun.
DAY SERMON.
Subject; "superhuities a Hinder
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fingers and toes mere four and ttoenty, 81
on zach hand, and sir on each foot GHi h
also irds the son Of the giant But iraeH b.
deFisd Israel Jonathan, the son Of Shfmed
Darid's brother, sieig hinI.n-I. Chronicle
*, 8, 6 and :.
Malformation photographed, and for wha
reason. Did not this passage slip in by I
mistake into the Sacred Scriptures as some
times paragraph utterly obnoxious to th'
/ Editor gets into his newspaper during his alb
sence; Is not this Scriptural erratai No
no. there is nothing haphazard about thu
Billie. This passage Of Scripture was a. Ger
tainly intended to be put in the Bible as thu
passage: IN the beginning God created thu
heavens and the earth or, God SO loved thi
world that He gave his only beSotten SCH
And 1 select II for ny text to-day because il
Is charged with practical and tremendou;
meaning
ythe people Of God the Philistines had beer
conquered. with the exception of a few giants.
The rrse of giants is mostly extinct, lam GLAD
10 say. There IS no use Tor giants now eX
cept to enlarge the income Of museums But
there We're many Of them IN oiden times
Goliath was, according TO the Bible, clever
feet, four and a half inches high. Or, II
you do not believe the Bible, the famous
Pliny, a secular writer, declares that at
Crete by an earthquake monument was
broken open, discovering the remains
of a 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 uaEils2l
wars had not yet subdued, and one OF them
stands in my text He was not only OF
Alpine stature, but had surplus Of digits.
To the ordinary fingers was annexed an
additional finger and the foot had also a
superfiuous adiendum. He had twenty
four examinations to hands and feet
where others have twenty. IL was
not the only instance of the kind
Tayernier, the learned writer, says that the
Emperor Of Java had a son endowed with
the same number of eNtremities Nolcatius,
the poet, had six fingers on each hand. Mau-
petius in his celebrated letters speaks of two
families near Berlin, similarly equipped of
hand and foot AL Of which l can believe
for have 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 one giant the
brother OF David Stays this monster of
my text, and there he lies after the
battle in Gath, a dead giant His stature
did not save him, and his superfluous appen-
dies Of hand and foot did not save him.
The probability was that in the battle his
sixth finger on his hand made him clumsy in
the use Of MS weapon, AMI his sixth toe
cTipp ed his gait. Behold the PROSTATE and
malIormated 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 he also was the son Of the
giant But when he defied Israel, Jonathan
the son Of Shimea, DavidS brother, slew
him
Behold how supernuities are hinderance
rather than a help In al the battle at
Gath that day there was not man with
ordinary hand and ordinary foot and
ordinary stature that was not better off than
this physical curiosity of my text As
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. 4 dwarf on the right side is
stronger than giant on the wrong side, and
all the body, and mind, and estate, and oppor-
tunity that you cannot use for God and the
betterment Of the world Is a sixth finger
and a sixth toe, and a 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 Just five
no more and no less. One Doctor DUE
among missionaries but three thousand mis-
sionaries that would tell You they have only
common endowment. One Florence Night
ingale TO nurse the sick in conspicuous places,
but ten thousand women who are Just as
good nurses though never heard Of The
swamp Angel was big gun that during
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 60 down the Potomac one
day TO experiment with the Peacemaker, a
great iron gan that was to alright with its
thunder foreign uavles The gunner tlIIches
It on and It explodes and leaves cabiret min
isterS dead or the deck, while at that time al
up and down our coasts were cannon of orii
nary bore able 10 he the defense OF the nation
and ready at the first touch to waken 10 duty
The curse Of the world is big guns Afte
the politicians who have made all the nois
go home hoarse from angry discussion on III,
evening OF the first Monday in November
the next day the people with the silent ballot
will settle everything. and settle II right. q
million Of the white slips Of paper they droI
making about as much noise as the fall o
an apple blossom.
Clear back in the country to-day there arr
mothers in plain apron, and shoes fashioned
on a rough last by the shoemaker at the enc
Of the lane rocking babies that are to be tn,
Martin Luthers and the Faradays, and tn.
Edisous. and the hismirclSs, and the Glad
stones. ami the Washingtons and the George
Whitetields Of the year 1858, and who vii
make the 3lth century so bright that this
much Landed nineteenth in comparison vii
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
worlds syInpathies- carrying the worlds con
ISOLATION Among lawyers we see rise up q
Rufus Choate, or a William Writ. or Sam
uel Southland, hut society would 90 t. pieces
tomorrow II there were rot thousands OF
common lawyers 10 see that men and women
get their rights A Valentine Mott or a
Willard Parker rises up eminent in the meii
cal profession, but what an unlimited
sweep would pneumonia. ard diphtheria.
and scarlet fever. have in the world
II it were not for ten Thousand
common doctors. The old physician in his
gig rolling up the lane Of the farmhouse, or
riding on horseback, his medicines in the
saddle-bags, arriving on the ninth day of the
fever, and coming IN to take hold OF the
Pulse OF the patient, while the family pale
with anxiety, are looking on and waiting for
his decision in regard TO the patient. and
hearing him say: Thank God, l have
mastered the case. he is getting well. - excites
in me an admiration quite equal TO the men
ton Of the names Of the g-eat metropolitan
doctors, Pancoast or Gross, or Joseph {.
Hutchinson. of the past, or the illustrious
living men Of the present.
Yet what do We sec in all Departmental
People not satisfied with ordinary spheres of
ing 70 see what they can do with hand
Of five fingers they want six. Instead of
usual endowment of twenty manual and
pedal addenda they want twenty-four. A
certain amount OF money for livelihood and
for the supply Of those whom We leave be-
hind US after we have departed this life is
important, for 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 infiiel
but the large and fabulous sums for srsica-
many struggle, If obtained would be a hin
derance rather than an advantage The
anNieties and anuoyances that those have
whose estates have become plethoric can only
he told by those who possess them II viii
be good thing when through your industry
and public properties YOU can own the
house IN which you live. But suppose You
own fifty houses and You have all those rents
70 collect and all those tenants 20 plelse.
suppose yOI have hranched ont
IN business successes until in almOs,
every direction you have investments
The fire bell rings at night; you rush up
stairs 10 look out OF the window to see If It IS
IN any OF ycur mills Epidemic of crime
comes ami there are embellishments AMI alb
scondings in all directions aud you wonder
whether any Of your hookkeepers will prove
recreant- 4 panic strikes the financial
world, and you are like a hen IN Ter 'Sv
iuil OF hawks and trying with anxious clilck
% get your overgrOwn chickens safely IN Ter
wing. After certain stage of suc-
cess has been reached YOU hasye TO trust
SO many important things to others
that You are apt 20 become the prey OF
others, and Won are swinllei AMI defraude ].