The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-10-11

n"u ehe anxiety you had on your brow when
you were earning your first thousand dollars
y not equal to the an Sety on your brow now
that you have won your three hundred thou
sahd The trouble with such one Is he Is
spread out like tho unfortunate one IN my
text. You have more fingers and toes than you
know what to do with. Twenty were useful,
twenty four Is hindering superfluity, Dis
rae says that King of Poland abdicated his
throne and Joined the people and became a
porter to carry burdens. And some one
asked him why ho did so and 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 a straw
when compared to that world under which
labored. have slept more in four nights
than have during all my reign. ] begin to
he King myself. Elect whom you choose.
for inc who am so we'll it would be madness
to return to court"
''well." SAYS somebody, "such overloaded
persons ought to be pitied, for their worri-
ments are real and their insomnia and their
nervous prostration are genuine" replv
chat they could get rid Of the bothersone
surplus by giving it away. If man has
more houses than he can carry without
vexation let him drop few OF them. If his
estate is SO great he cannot manage it with
out getting nervous dvsnepsia from having
too much, let him divide up with those
who have nervous dyspepsia because thew
cannot get enough. mol they guard their sixth
finger with more care than they did the
original five. They go limping with what
they call gout, and know not that, like the
giant of my text, they are lamed by super
tluous toe. A few Of them by large chari-
ties bleed themselves of this financial obesity
and monetary plethora, but many of them
hang on to the hindering superfluity till
death, and then as they are compelled to
fyiv ~, thof,r Loot
and testament they generously give some
Of it to the Lord. expecting no doubt
tnat lie will feel much obliged to
thcm. Thank God that once in a while we
have Peter Cooper, who. owning an interest
in the iron works at Trenton, slid to MIR.
Lester; al do not feel quite easy about the
amount we are making. Working under one
of our patents. we have monopoly which
seems to me something wrong. Everybody
has to come to us for it and we
are making money too fast" So they
reduced the price, and this while our philan.
thropist was building Cooper Institute, which
mothers q hundred institutes of kindness and
mercy all over the land. But the world had
to wait five thousand eight hundred years for
Peter Cooper l am glad for the benevolent
institutions that get legacy from men who
during their life were as stingv as death, but
who in their last will and testament bestowed
money on hospitals and missionary societies;
but for such testators l have no respect.
They would have taken every cent of it with
them il they could, and bought up half of
heaven and let it out at runous rent, or
loaned the money TO ce'estlal citizens at two
per cent month and got corner on harps
and trumpets. They lived in this world
fifty or sixty years in the presence of appall
ing suffering and want, 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 one in his last
will by donation to benevolent societies
tries to atone for his lifetime close-fisted,
ness, the heirs at law will try to break the
will by proving that the old man was senile
or crazy, and the expense Of the litigation
will about leave in the lawyers hands what
was meant for the American Bible Society.
O ye overweighted successful business men,
whether this sermon reach your ear or your
eye, let me say that if you are prostrated
with axieties about keeping. or investing
these tremendous fortunes, l can tell you
how you can do more to get your health
back an5 .yonr spirits raised than by
urInlsing gallons of bad tasting water a.
Saratoga, Homburg or Carlsbad give
to God and humanity and the Bible ten
per cent. of all your income, and it will make
Of the floor at hight 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 NIL up, and when
you die the blessings Of those who but for
you would have pershed will bloom all over
your grave with yiolets if it be spring, OF
gadiolus, 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 on
1t more fingers, and your rheumatic foot by
getting on it more toes, and there will be {
sigh of relief when you are gone out OF th'
world: and when over your remains the min
lister recites the words: Blessed are the deac
who die in tine Lord" persons who have keer
appreciation of the ludicrous will hardly b,
able to keep their face straight. Bu
whether in that direction my words do gooc
or not am anxious that all who have only
ordinary equipment be thankful for wha
they have and rightly employ it, thinh
you all have, fguratively as we'll as literally
| fingers enough. Do not long for hinderinf
supernuities. Standing in the presence o
this fallen giant Of my text and in
| let us learn how much better off W,
aro with just the usual hand, thu
usual foot. You have thanked God for 1
thousand things. but warrant you never
thanked Him for those two implements Of
work and locomotion, that no one but tht
Infinite and Omnipotent God could hav'
ever planned or made, the hand and the foot
Only that soldier or that mechanic who in 3
| battle or through machinery has lost then
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 amputation!
Of the wounded was so impressed with the
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that when the Earl of Brjdgewater gay'
forty thousand dollars for essays on the wis
dom and goodness of God, and eight book
were written, Sir Charles Bell wrote his en-
tire book on the wisdom and goodness o
God as displayed in the human hand. TIL,
twenty seven bones in hand and wrist. witt
cartilages and ngaments and phalanges Q
the fingers, all made just ready to knlt, U
sew, to build up to pull down, TO weave
to write, to plow, to pound, to wheel, to bat
tie, to give friendly salutation. The tips
the fingers are SO many telegraph Offices o.
reason of their sensitiveness OF touch. IN
bridges, the tunnels, the cities OF the Who'll
earth are the victories Of the hand. Tn
hands are not dumb, but often speak as dis
tinctly as the lips prsns With wa invoke our hana
entreat, we wiring them in grief
clasp them in joy, or spread them abroa
in benediction. The malformation of th
giants hand in the text glorities the usua
hand Fashioned of God more equisitely an
wondrously than any human mechanisr
that was ever contrived, charge you use
for God ana the lifting Of the world out {
its moral predicament. Employ it in til
sublime work of gospel handshaking. 1o
can see the hand is just made for that. Fou
fingers Just set right TO touch your neighoor
hand on one side and your thumb set SO as I
clench it on the other side. By all its bones, az.
joints, and muscles, and cartilages, and lig'
ments, the voice of nature joins with I'll
voice of God commanding yon to shas
hands. The custom is as old as u
Bible, anyhow Jehu said to Jehonadet
'.Is thine heart right as my heart IS wit
thine heart2 II it be, give me thine hand.
When hands join in Christian salutatlon
gospel electricity thrills across the palm frol
heart to heart, and from the shoulder of or
TO the shoulder of the other. Shake hand
all around With the timid and Il
their encouragement, shake hands. Wit
the troubled and in warm hearte sympath,
shake hands With the young man just e.
tering business, and discouraged at tl
small sales and the large expenses, shal
hands. With the child who is new fro
God, and started on unending journey t,
which he needs to gather great supply
strength, and who can hardly reach up
you now because you are so much talle
shake hands. Across cradles and dying be-
and graves, shake hands With yol
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