West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-04

Upon NV houor. Rentlernan fhs load which
quit g by far heavier than ths on You nse
when compared % that w0rid untief ehlfh 7
labored have slept more In fsur nirhts
than have during ~ my relxn. hrxln %
for me Who am 20 vel i ~ s = .s ss
TO r,sturn 80 court
well. savs soniehoslv ''s,ich overloaded
persons ought % b. pitied for ttelf aorrl.
ments are real ard thsir iBsnsnnis AMI ti..|r
nervous prostration are Eenuias.H r,soly
that they could get Ri ~ the botharsnlns
surplus by giving 10 away m a man 49,
moro houses tran hs can carry without
vexation let him drop a few ~ them. M his
estate Is 40 great be cannot manage Il With.
out getting nervous dgsnepsia from having
tor much, let him divide up with fhosa
who have nervous dyspepsia hocauea thew
cannot get en0u IN. MOI they guard their I'll fh
finger with moro care than thoy aid The
original five. They 20 hmp'Be with what
they call gut. and know not that llka the
giant OF my text. they ara lamesi bv a anrer.
huous toe; few OF them BY lsrge chair
ties bleed Themselves % this financial ohesltg
and monetary Plethora. but many ~ them
hang on 20 the hlndering superiority tiii
death. and then rs they ara com2elicd O.
give the money no anyhow. I'm their last win
OF IL TO tho Lord expsctinx no doubt
tnat Ito VIII feel ufuch Obliged n
them. Thank God that once in a while W.
nave Peter Cooper, who. owning an interest
AtN -WONHH NJ AItutyu. NNIU 70 Mr..
Lester: ~ do not feel quite easy about the
amount we arc making Working under one
OF our patents. we have monopoly which
seems to me somothing wrong. Everybody
are making money too fast. SO thew
reduced the price. and this while our philan.
thropist was building Cooper Institute. which
mothers hundred institutes OF kindness AMI
y. mercy , al over the land But the world bad
TO wait five thousand eight hundred years Tor
refer Cooper. am glad for the benevolent
lnstitut onS that get a legacy from men who
dur ne their life were ms stingv as death. hut
VINO IN tneir last VIII and testament bestowed
money on hospitals and missionary societies.
but Tor such testators / have no respect
IheY would have taken every cent OF IL with
them IL they could, and bought up half Of
iosnod ,h anu iee IL out mt rninous rent or
per cent month and got n corner on harps
and trumpets. They lived in this world
nifty or sixty years I'm the presence OF appall-
ing suffering and want, AMI mado no effort
Tor their relief. The charities of such people
are Tor the most part in "paulo.post future
tense and they are going TO do them The
probability is that IL such n one in his last
WI py DONATION to benevolent societies
tries TO atone for his lifetime close listed.
ness the heirs at law will try to break the
VIII by proving that the old man was senile
or crazy, and the expense OF the litigation
VIII about leave i'm the lawyers hands what
was meant for the American Bible Society
I'VE overweighted successful business men
whether this sermon reach your ear or your
eye, let me say that If you are prostrated
WIN aXoties about keeping or investing
these tremendous fortunes, / can tell Won
how you can do more to get your health
back and yonr spirits raised than bv
drinking gallons of bad-tasting water n,
Saratoga, Homburg or Carlsbad give
TO God and humanity and the Bible tan
per cent OF all your income and it will make
new man of you, and from restless walking
OF the floor at night you shall have eiebt
hours sleep without the help of bromide of
potassium, and from no appeti' @ Won will
hardly be able to wait your regular meals
ana your wan cheek will I'll up, and when
you die the blessings of those who but for
you would have perished will blooIa all over
your grave with violets If it be spring, or
gadiolus IL 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
more fingers, and your rheumatic foot by
Seteihg on IL more toes, and there will be a
sign or relief when you are gone out of the
world; and when over your remains the min
lster recites the words: BLESSED are the dead
~ho die IN the Lord, persons who have keen
appreciation OF the ludicrous will hardly be
able TO keep their face straight But
whether in that direction my words do goo
or not. am anxious that all who have only
ordinary equipment be thankful for what
they have an I rightly employ IT, | think
you all have. figuratively as we'll as literally
myers enough. DO not long for hinderinp
superfuities. Standing in the presence o
this fallen giant OF my text and in
ms "a. Postnortem examination of him.
let us learn how much better of we
are with just the usual hand. the
usual foot You have thanked God for a
thousand things. but l warrant you never
snal,eed hiin Tor 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 a
Dattle or through machinery has lost them
knoWs anything about their Valus and on'v
the christian scientist can have any a-,ors.
5atlon or what divine masterpieces they
are. Sir Charles Bell, the English
surgeon, on the battlefield OF Water
loo, while engaged in amputotions
OK the wounded was so impressed with tbs
wondrous construction of the human hand
that when the Earl of Br dgewator Cav,
forty thousand dollars for essays on the wis.
dom and goodness OF God, AMI eight books
were written, Sir Charles Bell wrote his en-
IRE book on the wisdom and goodness OF
God as displayed in the human hand The
tWenty-seven bones in hand and wrist, viii
cartridges and ligaments and phalanges OF
the fingers, all made Just ready to knit, to
sew, 10 build up. to pail down. TO weave,
to write, to plow, 10 pound, TO wheel, 20 bat
tie, 10 give friendly salutation. The tips of
the fingers are 50 many telegraph Offices by
reason OF their CONSTITUENCIES OF touch. The
bridges the tunnels, the cities OF the whole
earth are the victories OF the hand. The
hands are not dumb, but often speak as dis
tinctly as the lips Nith our hands
we invite, we repsl we invoke, we
eDtreat, we wiring them in grief or
clasp them in JOY, or spread them abroad
In henediction. The malformation Of the
giants hand in the text glorifes the usual
hand. Fashioned OF God more equisitely and
Wondrousiy than any human mechanism
tnaJ was ever contrived, i charge you use IL
for God ana the lifting Of the world out OF
It's moral predicament Employ 10 in the
sublime work Of gospel bandshalCing. You
can see the hand is just made for that -Four
fingers Just set right o touch your neighbOr's
hand on one side and your thumb set 30 as TO
ciench II on the other side By all its bones. and
joints, and muscles, aud cartilages md liga-
ments, the voice Of nature joins with tho
voice Of God commanding yon 70 shake
nands. the custom Is os old as the
Bible, anyhow. Jehu said 70 Iehonadeb:
rs thine heart right az my heart is with
thine hearth III 10 10, give me thine hand 4"
When hands JON In Christian Situation n
gospel electricity thrills across the palm from
heart TO heart. and from the shoulder Of one
- the shoulder n the other Shake hands
~ around. With tho timid and for
their encouraR sment, shake lauds. With
tne troubled and in warm heart5i sympathy
shake hands With the young man Just on.
tering business and Discouraged az tho
small sales and the large expenses. shake
hands With tho chilli who is new from
God, ant started on uncndinz Journey for
Woch ne needs 20 gather great su1ply Of
strength, an1 WHO can hardly reach no 70
you now because YOU arc 60 much taller.
snake hands A'rOs8 cradles and dyinr beds
and gravcs, shake hands With vour
enemie3, who have done all 10 de-
l1Ih3 an hurt you, but whom you