Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-12

/ for which many struggle il obtained would
/ be a hiuderance rather Than an advantage
The anL.etiss and auuGYances that those
have whose estates have become pIethOric
can only be told by those who possess them.
it will be "a good thing when through
/ your industry and public properties YOU can
own tile house In which you live
But suppose you own fifty houses and
you baVe all those rents TO collect
and ali those tenants TO please Suppose you
have hrauched out in business successes until
in almost every direction you have invest
ments. The fire bell rings at night; YOU rush
upstairs to look out or the window TO see 4 it
is any Of our mills. Epidemic of crime comes
and there are embellishments and abscOndings
In all directions, AID you wonder whether any
OF your bOOkkeepers Will prove recreanL
panic strikes the financial world, and you are
like lien under sky full Of hawks and try
ing with anxious cluck 10 get your OVergrOWn
chickens safely under your wing After a
certain stage Of success has been reached You
hsvc TO trust so many important things TO
Others that you are apt TO become the prev OF
Others, ana you are swlndled and defrauded,
and The anxiety yOu had on your brow when
you were earning your first Thousand dollars
ls not equal 10 tie anxiety on your brow now
that YOU have won your three hundred thou
sand. The trouble with such a one is he is
spread out like the unfortunate one IN my
text You have more fingers and toes than
you know what to do with. Twenty were use
luls tWenty-fOur IS hindering sUperiulty.
Disraeli says that king Of Poland aDdicated
his throne aud joined the people and became
a porter TO carry burdens. And some one
asked him why he did so ana he replied:
upon my honor, gentlemen, the load which
Quit is by far heavier than the one you see
me carry. The Weightiest Is but straw when
compared TO that world under which labOred-
/ have slept more in four nights than 1 have
during all my reign. ! begin to live and to be
Il king myself Elect whom you choose, Cor
me who am SO well 1t would be madness TO re-
turn to court"
''WeH," says somebody. ''such over
loaded persons ought to be Ditied,
for their wOrrimeuts are real and
their insomnia aud their nervous prOsUra-
ton are genuine" 1 reply that they could
get rid Of the bOlhersome surplus by giving
II away. II man has more houses than he
can carry without VeXatiOn, let hin drop q
few Of them. II his estate is so great he can
not manage It without getting nervous dys-
pepsIa from having too much. let him divide
up with those who have nervous dyspepsia
because they cannot get enough. Mol they
guard their sixth finger with more care than
they d ID the original five. They 20 limping
with what they call govt and kuOA not that,
Ike the giant OF my Text they are lancd by
supernuOus toe. a few of them by large
charities bleed themselves of this financial
obesity and monetary plethora, but many of
them hang on to the hiudtring superiority
till death, and then as they are COMPELLED to
give the money up anyhow, in their last viii
ana testament they generously give some of
1t 10 the Lord, expecting no doubt that he
Will feel very much Oh iged 10 them. Thank
God that once IN a while we lave a Peter
COOner who. owning an interest in the iron
works at Trenton, said to Mr.. Leater: Il do
not feel guile easy about the amount we are
making. Working under one OF our patents,
We nave monopoly which seems to me some
thing wrong. EVerybO has TO come to US
Tor IL and We are making money 100 fast.'
So they reduced the price and this while our
philanthrOpist was building Cooper institute,
which mothers "A hundred Institutes of kind
ness and mercy al over the land. But the
world had to wait five thousand eight hun
dred years for Peter Cooper. ] am glad for
the benevolent institutions that yet a legacy
from men who during their life were as stingv
as death, but who III their last Will and tesla
nent bestowed money on hospitals
and missionary societies; but for such
tcstatOrs have no respect. They would have
taken every cent OF 10 with them il they
could. and bought up half of heaven and let
1t out AT TuuOus rent, loaned the money
10 celestial cit Zens at two per cent Il mouth,
and got corner on harps and trumpets.
They lived in this world dttg or sixty years in
Inc presence OF appalling suffering and want
and made no effort for their relief. The
charities of such people are for the most part
la ''paulO- post future'' tense and they are 90
ing to do them. The probability is that if
sucu one IA his last viii by a donation to
benevolent societies fries to atone fur his life
time close -hstCduess, the heirs at law viii try
10 Dtehk the VIII D. proving That the old man
was senlle or crazy, and the expense of the
litigation will about leave in the nWYers'
hands what was meant for the American BIZ
bile Society. y We OverweIg hted successful
bus! ness men, whether this sermon reach
your ear or your eye let me say that if you
are Frustrated with HnXieties about Keeping
or investing these Tremendous fortunes, / can
tell sou how YOU do more TO get YOUR
health back and your spirits raised than b.
drinking gallons Of bad, asting water at Sar-
atOga, HOmburg or Carlsbad--Sve to God and
humanity the Bible ten per cent. OF all your
income, and it Will make new mau of YOU,
and from restless walking of the floor at
night YOU shall have eight hours sleep with
out the help OF bromide OF potassium, aud
from 10 appetite you viii hardly be able TO
wait YOUR regular meals, and YOUR wan cbeeis
will I'LL up aud when you die The blessings
or those Who bat Tor you would have per
lshcd viii bloom all over your grave with
violets, II lt be spring, or eladiOlus, il it be
autumn.
Perhaps some Of yoV will TAX
this dvice but the most OF you
viii not. And YOU VIII try TO
cure your swollen hand b: getting on it more
fingers, and Your rheumatic foot by getting
on it more toes, and there Will be q sigh of
relief when you are gone out of the world;
and when over your remains the minister re-
cites the words:
BLESSED are the dead who d lie in the Lord 8"
persons who have keen appreciation of the
ridiculous will hardly be able to keep their
faces straight But whether in that direction
nv words do good or not, l am anxious that
ali who have only ordinary equipment be
thankful for what they have aud rightly en-
piCy it. ] think you all have, fig uratively as
well as literally, fingers enough Do not
long for hlndering superhuitles- Standing
in the presence OF this fallen giant OF my
text and in this pOst-mOrtem 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, out warrant you never thanked Him
IOr those TWO implements OF Work aud loco
motion. that no one but the Infinite and
OmnipOient God could have either planned
or made the hand and the foot. Only that
soldier or that mechanic who in a battle or
through machinery has lost them knows
anything about their value, and only the
Christian scientist can have any apprecia-
ton of what divine masterpieces they are.
Sir Charles Bell, the English surgeon, on The
battlefield of Waterloo. while engaged in
am UtatiOus OF the wounded WAS so impress
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human hand that when the Earl of Bridge
water gave forty thousand dollars for ESSAYS
on the wisdom and goodness of God. and
eight books were written. Sir Charles Bell