Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-06-09

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vice for many years, but il seems you
must go Good-by
A celebrated surgeon told me of a
tcene in the clinical department OF
one of the New York hospitals.
when poor man with'a wounded leg
was brought in before the students To
be operated on. The surgeon was
pointing out thus and that To the stu.
dents and handling the wounded leg.
and was ABOUT 10 proceed TO amputa-
ton when the poor man leapcd from
the Ia Die and hobblcd To the door and
said, Gentlemen, | am sorry To disap-
point you, but by the help OF God |
will die with my leg on" What "A ter
rife loss is the loss of our physical fac
ultics.'
The way the battle of Crecy was de.
cided against France was by the
Wclshmcn 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
ical taking of! 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. II God allows part of your
resources TO be cut off in one place, he
will aid it on somewhere else. As
Augustus, the emperor, took off "A day
from February, making il the shortest
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-
er. But IT is amazing how much OF the
worlds work has been done by men of
subtractcd physical organization. :. =.
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 resoundcd 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 Philadel phia
with one lung raised his audience
nearer Heaven than most ministers can
raise them with two lungs. In the
banks, the insurance companies. the
commercial establishments, the reform
atory associations, 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 Chattanoopa
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 u finger joint stifrened
by a felon.
Put to full use all the faculties that
remain and charge on all opposing cir
cumstances with the determination of
John of bohemia, who was totally
blind, and yet at battle cried out. Il
pray and bescech you to lead me so far
into the fight that | may strike one
good blow with this sword OF mine-
DO not think so much of what facul-
ties you have lost as OF what faculties
remain. You have enough left to
make yourself felt in three worlds.
while you help the earth and balI
nell anu win Heaven. Arise from
your GIscouraTcmcnts, q men and
women OF depleted or crippled ply
slcal faculties, and see what, by the
special help of God, you can accom-
plish. The skilled horsemen stood
around Bucc phalus, unable to mount
or manage him, so wild was the stecd.
But Alexander noticed that the sight of
ms own shadow seemed 20 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 hmm and rode
of, 20 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 long pondercd.
and your head turned toward the sun
the glorious sun OF gospel consolation
and Christian hope and spiritual tri-
lmph.
And then remember that all physical
disadvantages will after awhile van
81 Let those who have been rheuna-
-lsmcd out OF foot, or cataractcd out
u an eve, or by the perpetual roar of
our cities Numbered out OF an ear.
ook forward 20 the day when this old
tenement house OF flesh will come
Town and better one shall be build
ed The resurrection morning will
provide you with better outfit.
Either the uustrung, worn out. blunt
ed and crippled organs will be so re-
constructed that you will not know
them, or an entire new set Of eyes and
ears and feet will be given you. just
what 10 means by corruption puttinr
on interruption wc do not know. save
That II will b." glory incFable. no
lmping in Heaven. no st-aiuinr of the
eyesight 90 see things little vyav off
no putting of the hand behind the car
TO double the capacity Of the tvmpan.
um, but faculties perfect, lll the KEYS
OF the instrument attuned for the
sweep OF the fingers OF ecstacy. But
until that day OF resumption comes let
MS bear each others burdens and SO
fulfill the law OF Christ
Another form Of sadvantaye under
which many labor i- lack of early edu-
cation. There will Boz uocxcusc for i.--
norancc in the next generation. Ere.
schools and i.Iim.fab.c our8rtuuity of
education will make iruurluce 10 crime.
] believe in comuu sorry education and
those parents who neglect 90 put their
children under educational advantages
have but one r.rutIcf and chat f.. tHe
pau.t..t ary. But tHercar. ma.t.t..I.s
~ men and women in mal.fe .Ho
have la. 500 opportunity Free schools
bad NOT rp been l.fa L.I-FrH and ...t