Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-06

patents, we have "A monopoly which seem
to me something wrong. Everybody ha
to come to US for it, and we are making
money too fast" SO they reduced te'
price, and this while our philanthropls
was building Cooper institute, which
mothers a hundred 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 in
stitutIons that get q legacy from men who
during their life were us siipgy AS death,
but who in their last will and testament
bestowed money on hospitals and mission.
AIRY societies: but for such testatOrs | have
no respect, They would have taken every
cent Of it with them if they could, and
bought up half of heaven and LET il out
AT ruinous rent, or loaned the money TO
celestial citizens at 2 per cent. a month
and got a Or on harps and trumpets.
They lived in this world fifty or sixty
wears in the presence Of appalling suffer
ing and wan and made no effort for their
relief. The 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 if such a one in his
last will by a donation 10 brnevolentsoci-
cites tr IS 10 atone for his lifetime close
tisiednrss the heirs al law VIII Try 10
break the viii 10y proving that the old
man was scnile or crazy, and the expense
of the litigation Ill about leave III the
lawye r5' hands what was meant for the
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.
q. we ovcrwcighted successful business
men, whether this sermon reach your cal
or your eye. let me say that if you are
Frustrated with anXieties about keeping
or investing these tremendous fortunes, |
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. o. al your income, aud ii
will make IA 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 fill up, and when you die the
blessings of those who but for you would
have persisted will bloom all over your
grave with v~i0lets, if it DC spring, or
gladielus, if ii be autumn.
Perhaps ome Of you will take this
advice, but the most Of you Will not.
And you will try to cure your swoolen
hand by getting on it more fingers, and
your rheumatic foot by getting onit more
toes, and there will be "A sigh Of relief
VIXEN YOU are gone out Of the world; and
WIZ over your remains the minister re-
cites the words: blessed are The dead
who die in the Lord" persons who have
l. a., .Y,nrAntn tiDy,. If tim I,ttnrIlG viii
hardly be able to keep their face straight.
But whether in that direc ion my words
do good or not, ] am anxious that all who
have only ordinary equipment be thank
ful for what they have and rightly em-
ploy it. | think you all have, hgurat.
lively as well as literally fingers enough,
DO not long for %hinderlng superfiuities
Standing in the presence OF this fallen
giant Of my text and in this post mortem
eXami alton of him, let US learn how
much better of We are with just theusual
hand. the usual foot. you have thanked
God for q thousand things. but warrant
you never thanked Him for those two
implements Of work and iocomotion, that
no one but the
INFINITE AND 0MNlr0TENT GOD
could have ever planned or made, the
hand and the foot. Only that soldier or
that mechanic who in a battle or through
machinery has lost them know anything
about their value, and only the Christian
scientist can have any appreciation OF
what masterpiece they are. Sir Charles
Bell the English surgeon, ON the battle
field of Waterloo, while engaged in am
putations Of the wounded was SO m
pressed with the wondrOus construction
OF the human hand that when the Earl OF
BridcewUter gave forty thousand dollars
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 GoGas displayed
in the human hand. The tWelty-scvCn
bones in hand and wrist with carriages
aud ligamcnts and phalangcs OF the fin
gers ali made just ready 10 knit, tosew. to
build up, TO pull down, 10 weave, TO write,
ia pillow, to pound, to wheel, To 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 or tn"
v ole earth are the victories OF the hand
=. ~ hands are not dumb, but often speak
as distinctly as the lips. With u 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
bcnediCtion. The malformation of the
giants hand in the text g~lorines the usual
hard. Fashioned Of God more eqIisitely
and wondrously than any human mcChan-
ism that was ever contrived. / charge
YOU use il for God and the lifting Of The
world out Of its moral prrdicamcnt. En-
pl0y il in the sublime work Of gospel
handshaking. You can see the baud is
Just made for that. -Four fingers Just set
righ. TO touch your %neighbors hand on one
side and your thumb set SO rs 10 cleach
i, or the other side. BY all its bones,
and Joints. and muscles. and cartilages,
and bgatncuis. The voice VI nature joins
with
THE 0iCE OF o
commandipg YOU TO shake hands. The
custom IS n. cd rs the Bible. am how.
Jchu sand 10 ~Jenoaadab: is thine heart
right as my heart is with thine hcartT II
il De, give Inc thine hand" When hanGs
JON in Christian situation 3 gospel eleC
tric,iy thrills acrOss the palta from heart
to heart, and from TIE shoulder Of one t.
the shoulder Of the other. shake hands
All around. With the timid ahd for theil
announcement, shake hands. With The
troubled and in warm-hcartcd sympathy,
shake nands. With the young man just
entering business and discouraged al the
small sales and the large expenses, shake
hands. WIN the child who is new from
Odd urJ ctarfaI on ppnndinc inl,nEy for