The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12

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our eight fingers and two thumbs. Ye
what multitudes of people have bu
one eye or but one foot! The ordinary
casualties of life have been quadrupled
quintupled. sextupled, aye, centupled,
in our time by the civil war, and at the
north and south a great multitude are
| fighting the great battle of life with
half or less than half the needed phys
| ical armament. / do not wonder a,
the pathos of soldier during the war
who. when told that he must have his
hand amputated, said: Doctor, CAM
you save it?" and when told that i:
was impossible, said, with tears roll.
ing down his cheeks: "Well, then.
good-by, old hand. / hate to part with
you. You have done me a good ser
vice for many years, but it seems you
must go. Good~by."
A celebrated surgeon told me of a
scene in the clinical department of one
of the New York hospitals. where a
poor man with wounded leg was
brought in before the students to be
operated on. The surgeon was point
ing out this and that to the students
and handling the wounded leg, and
was about to proceed to amputation
when the poor man leaped from the
table and hobbled to the door and said:
Gentlemen, am sorry to disappoint
you, but by the help of God will die
with my leg on" What terrific loss
is the loss of our physical faculties!
The way the battle of Crecy was de-
cided against France was by the
Welshmen killing the French horses,
and that brought their riders to the
ground. And when you cripple this
body, which is merely the animal on
which the soul rides, you may some
times defeat the soul.
Yet how many suffer from this phys
zeal taking off! Good cheer, my broth
err. God will make it up to you some
how. The grace, the sympathy of God,
will be more to you than anything you
have lost. If God allows part of your
resources to be cut off in one place, He
will add it on somewhere else. As
Augustus, the emperor, took off day
month in the year, and added it to Au-
gust, the month named after himself,
so advantages taken from one part of
your nature will be added on to anoth-
err. But it is amazing how much of the
worlds work has been done by men OF
subtracted physical organization. S. S.
Preston, the great orator of the south
west, went limping all his life, but
there was no foot put down upon any
platform of his day that resounded SO
far as his clubfoot. Beethoven was so
deaf that he could not hear the crash
of the orchestra rendering his orator
los. Thomas Carlyle, the dyspeptic mar
tyr, was given the commission to drive
can't out of the worlds literature.
Rev. Thomas Stockton, of Philadelphia,
with one lung raised his audience
raise them with two lungs. In the
banks, the insurance companies. the
establishments, the reform
atory association, the churches, there
are tens of thousands of men and
women to-day doubled up with rheu-
matism or subject to the neuralgias
or with only fragments of limbs, the
rest Of which they left at Chattanooga
or South Mountain or the Wilderness,
and they are worth more to the world,
and more to the church, and more to
God than those of us who have never
SO much as had finger joint stiffened
by felon.
Put to full use all the faculties that
remain and charge on all opposing cir
with the determination of
John of bohemia, who was totally
blind, and yet at a battle cried out: II
pray and beseech you to lead me so far
into the fight that / may strike one
good blow with this sword of miner!
Do not think SO much of what facul-
ties you have lost as of what faculties
You have enough left to
make yourself felt in three words
while you help the earth and balk
hell and win Heaven. Arise from
your Heterogeneous, o men and
of depleted or crippled phys
ical faculties, and see what, by the
special help Of God, you can accom-
plish! The skilled horsemen stood
around Bucephalus, unable to mount
or manage him, SO wild was the steed.
But Alexander noticed that the sight of
his own shadow seemed to disturb the
horse. So Alexander clutched him by
the bride and turned his head away
from the shadow and toward the sun,
and the horses agitation was gone,
and Alexander mounted him and rode
off, to the establishment of all who
stood by. And what you people need
is to have your sight turned away from
the shadows of your earthly lot, over
which you have so long pondered, and
your head turned toward the sun-the
glorious sun of gospel consolation and
Christian hope and spiritual triumph.
And then remember that all physical
disadvantages will after awhile van
ish. Let those who have been rheuma-
tismed out of foot, or cataracted out
OF an eye, or by the perpetual roar of
our cities Numbered out of an ear,
look forward to the day when this old
tenement house of flesh will come
down and a better one shall be builded.
The resurrection morning will provide
you with q better outfit. Either
the unstrung, worn out, blunted
and crippled organs will be SO re-
constructed that you will not know