The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-24
The Supernuous Giant Whom JON
athan, David's Brother, Slew.
Neither His Stature Nor His six
Fingers and Six Toes Saved Him.
The Great and Good Work Done
by Ordinary People.
A Field for tho Common People to Work
in Is This Life, and TO Them Ia
Due the Most Beneficial
Results.

INC bTOOklyn ADcTlHClc lllS morning on
the subject, "Superfluitios Hindcmnce. ="
Several ocean steamers arrive in port sun.
day mornings and many Of the passengers,
Drowned by the sea, come directly from
the wharito the Brooklyn tabernacle. The
great congregation, led by Prof. Ais
cornet and accompanied 10y the organ, at
which Prof. Browne presidcs, Joined in the
opening hymn:
eve arr thy people, We thy care.
our souls aud all ON mortal frame.
What lasting honorS shall We rvar,
Almighty maker Ia thy Lame''
DIR. Talmage's text was !. Chronicles,
Xx., 6-7: "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 of the giant. But when
he deGed Israel, Jonathan, the son Of
Shimca, David's brother, slew him"
Maliormation photographed, and for
what reason? Did not this passage slip ia
by mistake into the sacred scriptures, as
sometimes paragraph utterly obnoxious
TO the editor gets into his newspaper dur
ing his absence? Is not this scripture err
rata? No, no; there Is nothing haphamrd
about the Bible. This passage OF scripture
was rs certainly INTENDED to be put in the
Bible rs the passage, I'm the beginning
God created the heavens aud the carih,"
or God ~ loved the world that he gave
his only bcgotten son."
And ! select IL for my text today because
Il Is charged with practical aud trcmon-
dous meaning. by the people Of God the
Philistinos had been conquered, with the
exception OF few giants. The race Of
giants is mostly extinct, am glad to say
There Is no use for riants now except tu
enlarge the income Of museums. But
there were many Of thom In oldcn times
Goliath was, accordingto the Bible, eleven
feet, four aud a half inches high. Or, II
you do not believe tho Bible. the famous
Pliny, secular writer, declares that NJ
Crete 10y an earthquake a monument WINS
broken open, discovering the rculainA OF a
giant iorty-six cubiis sjng OF sixty-ninc
feet high. So, whether you prefer sacred
or proiano history, you must come Ia the
conclusion that thorc were Ia those oldon
times eases OF human altitude monstrons
and appalling. David had smashed the
skull Of one u these giants, but there were
other giants that the nayidean wars had
not yet subducd, and one Of them stands
in my text lie was not only Of Alpine
stature, but had "a surplus Of digits. To
the ordinary Fingers was annexed
an additional finger. AID the foot also had
a aupcruous addondum. lie hal twenty
four examinations 10 Ibis hands aud feet
where Others have twenty. II was not the
only instance Of the kind. Taycmicr, the
learned writer, says TINT the Emperor ui
Java had q son endowed with the same
number OF cNtrcmiticsL Nolcatius, the
poet, had six fingers ON each hand. Mau.
pciiu-, in his celebrated letters, speaks Of
two families near Berlin similarly equipped
oi hand and foot, NIL 81 which ! can be-
lirye. Tor have seen two cases Of the sane
physical supcmbundancc. But this giant
Of the text IL In battle, aud as David, the
dwarf warrior, had dispatched ono giant,
the brother oi David Stays this monster oi
nay text. aud thcru lac lies after the battle
in Gath, dead giant. Ills stature
did not save him. and his supcriluous ap.
pcndiccs oi hand and foot did not save
him. The probability was that In the
battle his sixth finger on his hand made
him clumsy In thc usc u his weapon, aud
his sixth toe crippled his gait. Behold
the PROSTATE aud maliormcd giant Of the
text "a man great Of stature, whose
fingers and toes were four and twenty, six
ON each hand, and Fix on each foot, nnd
be- also was the son u the giant. Bot
when ho doiiod Israel, Jonathan, the son
II Shimca, David's brother, slew him"
Behold how superilulics are n hinder
anrc rather than n holpl In I'll the battle
NJ Gath TINT day there was not q man
with ordinary hand and ordinary foot aud
/ ordinary stature that was not better oil
than this physical curiosity oi my text
/ As physical szc IL apt 10 run In families
the probability IL that this brother Of
/ David who did tho work was 81 an abbfc-
waited stature. A dNad on the right side
/ N stronger than giant on the wrong side,
and nll THE body, aud mind, and estate,
/ aud opportunity that you cannot use for
/ Tod and the hpttcrmont NJ the world " q
sixth finger aud a sixth tDp, and a terrific
| hindcuncp. The mosi Of tho good dUnu
/ IN the world and the most 0i those Who
/ win the battles for tho right. arr ordinary
| people. Count the finf'H 81 their right
| hand and they have jus Eve, no more and
| no less One DR.. Du1 among mission.
| aries. bat 5000 missionaries that would
| tell YOU they have ONLY common cndow-
mont Ono Florence Nightingale 70 nurse
the sick In conspicuous places, but 10000
women who are iusf u good nurses,
though never hearl at. Tho swamp
Angel was big gun that during the war
made big noise, bat Wushr,s Ol ordinary
cnlibcr and shells Vi ordinary hcit
did the execution. President Tyler
and his cabinet 20 down Tie Potomac one
day 30 experiment Wit Che Poaccmakvr q
great iron gun that Va ~ alright with ~
thunder foreign nny.Hs Tie gunner
touches Il on and itrI'glos and leaves
cabinet ministers deal Du tho deck, while
at that tinc al up anl down our coasts
were cannon ii ordinly bore able 10 be
the defense 0i the nation, and ready ~
the hrt touch 90 vlhgn % duty The
curse of the world II Dig guns. Alter the
politicians who have made a.l the noise
20 home hOarc from angry discussion on
the evening of the hrt Monday IA NO
ycmbrr. he next day Doe people, with the
silent ballots. will reilo everything, and
settle II right, .OOO.OuU 0i ihc white slips
oi paper they drop making about ~ much
noisc ~ the iall oi ~ apple blossom
! Clear back Ia the cuuu'y today there