Telegram-herald., 1888-09-24

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tae .oa q Ge rixnt ft Wien es de1sd
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Affirmation ph9toyrsphsd. sud Tor what
reasrnf pa nef rals passage sl,p Ia by ms
taAs INTO aa "a zrsa scriptures. a. sofnss1 raes
q para. ar.i4 ug-l-iy ooaoxious 70 the editor
eals lit9 his zessp papeF during bis absencei
Il not te4 szripcurai erratai No. no. there
4 nothing . l'isFsrd aheut the Bible TITS
razags 0f h.l4ptarc was as certainly tn
tended 70 b. ps, ir tss laols as the Pesssgo.
Ia to = a2llg I'd created tAe heavens
ant ths cara. o.. Cod - lsvs4 tie world
tlat b. gave lis oaly bsEcetsn sou p"
Aud / .s. it cor nv sext today because
it IS caArgad via prScticAl aad tremendous
m.anius 81 ,as p~opls y, God tie Fhilis.
tlnes had been coaquTed With Tie exception
O, fss glanas Ths race cf giants is
mostly -ztlaCt, I an gi4d ~ say. There IS
no uss fog sae,s now except - enlarge tho
iaeoms ~ luusslms Bat there were many ~
taefn DO oilsn times. Goliath vas, aooording
q tho Bible, elsFen lsos four and half inches
hish or II yea DO ~. b0lsye the Bible.
tue f1mora rlny. 4 secular writer declares
that 40 Crete by an earthquake a monument
was broken open. discovering Tho ronAins Of
"a giant forfy-lix cubits .ong or kirty-nlns
fesJ tigh 30. whether you prefer sacred or
profaue history, you NUT como TO the conclu-
sion taat there were IN thcse olden times
cases ~ humen altitude rnoastrous and APP
pallng David had smashed the skull OF one
OF these giants, but there we're other giants
that tho Davidesn wsrs bad not ye, subdned,
and orc Of them stands ia my text. He was
not only of Alpine stature, but bad surplus
of digiu To the ordinary fingers was an
nsxci an additional finger, aud tho foot
had also a superfuoss addsndum. he had
twenty four examinations - hands and feet
where others have twenty. It was not tho
only instance Of tho kind. Tavernier, the
learned writer, Sys tho emperor Of Java had
son endowed with tho same number Of ex-
on each ha.d Maupctlus, in his celebrated
letters, speaks OF two families near Berlin
similarly equipped u hand and foot. All OF
which | can believe, for | have seen two
cases Of the Same physical Slperabundance.
But this giant Of the toxt Is in battle, and az
David, tho dwarf warrior, had dispatched
ono giant, tho brother Of David slays this
monster q my text, and thero he lies after
haf ~. fa.f f4~t ~
did not say. him, and his supcr6uous appen-
dices Of hsad aud foot did not save him Tho
probability was that In the battle bis sixth
finger ou kis hand made him clumsy in the
uzo OF his weapon and his sixth toe crippled
hls gait Behold the prostrate and NAL
fornalsd giant of tho text: a man great OF
stature, whose fingers and toes were four and
twenty SIX on each hand and SIX on each
foot, aud he also was tho son Of the giant
But when b. deiied Israel. Jonathan, the son
Of Shimoa, David's brother, slow him.
Behold how sGpcr1uities are hinderancs
rather than helpl In all the battle at Gath
taat day there was not a man with ordinary
hand and ordinary foot and ordinary stature
that was no: better of than this physical
curiosity ~ ny text As physical size Is apt
q nun i'm families the probability is that this
an abbreviated stature A dwarf on tho
right sido is stronger than giant on tho
wrong side, and al the body, and mind, and
estate and opportunity that you cannot use
for God nrd tie botterrnent of tho world il a
sixth finger and a sixth toe, and n terrific
hladcrance. Tho most Of tho good done in
thc world and the mos: OF those who win tho
battles fer tho right are ordinary people
fI,. - hair r-f-h II
thoy have just hve-no moro and no
less One D. DUR among missionaries, but
three thousand missionaries that would tell
you they have only common eadowmentS
ono Florence nightingale 10 nurse tho sick
in conspicuous places, but ten thousand
women who ere Just ~ good nurses though
never heard OF. Tho Swamp Angel was \
big gun that during the war made big
noise, but nuskets OF ordinary calihcr and
shells of ordinary heft did tho execution
President Tyler and his cabinet go down the
Potomac one day 70 experiment with the
Poaoemaker. great iro2 gun that was u af-
right with ia thunder foreign navies. Tho
gunner touchcs IL OF and 1t expiodes and
leaves cabinet ministers dead on tho deck,
while a. that time al up aud down our coasts
were cannon q ordinary bore able 10 DO the
defense q tle nation. eud ready st the first
touch % wa-en 10 duty. The curse II tho
world is big Vurs After ths politicians who
have made Cll sac nois- 80 home hoarse from
au<ly ass-as1.11 on tie evening Of the frzt
Monday 81 November. toe next DAY the p<o-
re With tle silsa1 ballots viii settle every
tbinZ and sctt'- 10 right. million Of tbs
white {. ~ 81 paper they drop making about
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