Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-29

cannot get enough No! they guard their sixth
finger with more care than they did the
original five. They so limp:ng with what
they call govt, and know not that, like the
giant of my text, they are famed by super
fluous toe a few of them by large chart
ties bleed themselves of this financial obesity
aud monetary plethora. but many OF them
hang on to the hindering superfluity 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 uuch obliged to
them. Thank God that once in while we
have Peter Cooper, who owning an interest
in tho iron works at Trenton. said to Mr..
Lester: II do not feel quite easy about the
amount we are making. Working under ono
of our patents. we have Il monopoly which
seems to me something wrong Everybody
has to como to Us for it and we
are making money too fast" So they
reduced tho price. and this while our philan-
thropist was building Cooper Institute, which
mothers hundred institutes of kindness and
mercy all over tho land But the world had
to wait five thousand eight hundred years for
Peter Cooper. am glad for tho benevolent
institutions that get legacy from men who
during their life were as Stingy as death, but
who in their last will and testament bestowed
money on hospitals and missionary societies:
pOC 1Ot SCcn CeSCIVOTS IlsiNc ITO ItSptSN
They would have taken every cent of it with
them if they could, and bought up half of
heaven and let it out at ruinous rent. or
loaned the money to celestial citizens at two
per cent. a month and got corner on hnrpS
aud trumpetS They lived in this world
fifty or sixty years in tho presence OF appall-
ing suffering and want, AMI made no effort
for their relief The charities of such people
IRE for the most part in "paulo-post future"
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probability is that if such one in his last
will by a donation to benevolent societies
tries to atone for his lifetime close fSted-
ness the heirs at law will try to break the
Will by proving that the old man was senile
or crazy, and tho expense of the litigation
will about leave in the lawyers hands what
was meant for the American Bible Society.
@ We overweighted successful business men,
whether this sermon reach your ear or your
eve, let me say that if you are Frustrated
with axietes about keeping or investing
these tremendous fortunes, can tell you
how You can do more to get your health
back and yonr spirits raised than by
drinking gallons OF bad-tasting water at
Saratoga, Homhurg or Carlsbad give
to God and humanity and the Bible ten
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 regulae meals,
and your wan cheek will fill up, and when
you die the blessings of those who but for
YOU would have persisted will blootI all over
Your grave with vioets if it be spring, or
gladiolus. 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 OH
u1O rlpllmDfiP
getting on it more toes, and there Will be
sigh of relief when you are gone ont of the
world: and when over your remains tho min
ister recites the words: BLESSED are the dead
who die in the Lord" persons who have keen
appreciation of the ludicrouS will hardly he
enle to keep their face straight. But
whether in that direction my words do good
or not. / am anxious that ali who have only
ordinary equipment be thankful for what
they have and rightly employ it. | think
YOU all have. fguratively as we'll rs literally,
fingers enough. Do not long for hindering
superAuties. Standing i'll the presence OF
this fallen giant OF my text and in
this post-mortem examination 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 l warrant you mover
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 soldier or that mechanic who in q
battle or through machinery has lost them
knows anything about their value, and only
the Christian scientist can have any appre-
citation of what divine masterpieces they
are. Sir Charles Bell, the English
surgeon. on the battlefield of Water
loo while engaged in amputations
of the wounded was SO impressed with the
wondrous construction of the human hand
that when the Earl of Br.dgewater gave
forty thousand dollars for essays on the wis
dom and goodness of God, and eight books
were written. Sir Charles Bell wrote his ELL
tire book on the wisdom and goodness of
God as displayed in the human hand. The
twenty bones in hand and wrist. with
cartilnces and ligaments and ph1lan5es or
the fingers. all made just ready to knit, to
sew, to build up, to pull down, to weave,
to write. to pillow, to pound, to wheel, 10 oao.
tie, to give friendly salutation ne UPS OIL
the fingers are 50 many telegraph oTiices oy
reason of their scnsitiveness OF touch. Inc
bridges, the tunnels, the cities OF the whole
earth are the victories of the hand Inc
hands are not dumb, but often speak as dis
tinctly as the lips With our hands
we invite, we repal, we invoke. we
entreat. we wiring them in grief or
clasp them in JOY, or spread them abroad
in uencdiction. The malformatlon OF the
giants hand in the text giorliies the usual
hand. Fashioned of God more equisitely and
wondrouslv than any human mechanism
that was ever contrived, charge you use IL
for God and the lifting Of the world out OF
its moral predicamenr. Employ it Ill tue
sublime work of gospel handwriting. 9ou
can see tine hand is just made for that. four
fingers just set right o touch your neighoor
hand on one side and your thumb SCI so as to
.lo,,,t ~, tla othar cida Rv all il c homes and
joints, and muscles. and cartilages, ana liga-
ments the voice of nature joins with tbs
voice of God commanding yo1 to snake
hands. The custom is as old as the
Bible anyhow. Jehu said to Jehonadeb;
SIS thine heart right az my heart IS with
thine hearts If it be- give me thine hand"
When hands join in Christian situation
gospel electricity thrills across the palm from
heart to heart, aud from the shoulder of one
to the shoulder of the other Shake ban.is
oil around. With the tiuid and for
their encouragement, shake hands. WITH
the troubled and in warm hearted sympathy,
shake hands. With the young man just ell
tering business, and discouraged at the
small sales and the large expenses, shake
hands With the child who is new from
God, and started OH unendin5 journey for
strength, and who can hardly reach up to
you now because von are SO much taller,
Shake hands Across cradles and dying beds
and graves, shake hands. With your
enemies, who have done all TO de-
fame and hurt you, but whom you
can afford to forgive, shake hands. At the
door of churches where people come in. and
at the door of churches where people go
out, shake hands Let pulpit shake hands
with pew and Sabbath day shake han'ls with
week day, and earth shake hands: with
heaven Oh the strange, the mighty, the un.
defined, the mysterious, the eternal power OF
tween these times and the millennial times is
that now some shake hands. but then all will
shake hands, throne and fcotstooi, across
seas nation with nation, God and man,
church militant and church triumphant
Yea; The malformation of this fallen
giants foot gloriHes the ordinary foot for