St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-07-03
COVINGTON ST SATURDAY,

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economically built that We can not af-
ford the obliteration of any physical
faculty. We want our two eyes. our
, two ears, our two hands, our two feet,
our eight fingers and two thumbs Yet
what multitudes Of people have but
one eye or Int one foot! The ordinary
casualties Of life have been quadrupled,
quintupled, sextupled, aye, centupled,
in our time by the civil war. and ut the
north and south great multitude are
! fighting the great battle Of life with
half or less than half the needed ply s
ical armament I do not wonder st
the pathos of . soldier during the war,
who, when told that he must have his
hand amputated, said, doctor, can't
you save it?' and when told that II
was impossible, said, with tears roll
ing down his cheeks: swell, then,
good-by, old hand Ihatc TO par 18th
| you. You have done me . gooa -
vice for many years, but it seems yol-
must go Good-by."
/ A celebrated surgeon told m =
scene in the clinical department OF
one Of the New York hospitals.
when . poor man with . wounded leg
was brought in before the students to
be operated on. The surgeon was
pointing out this and that to the stu.
Edents and handling the wounded leg,
and was about to proceed to amputa-
ton when the poor man leaped from
the table and hobbled 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 . ter
rife loss is the loss Of our physical fac
| ulties!'
Yet how many suffer from this phys
ical taking OF! Good cheer. my broth
er! 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 IT God allows part Of your
resources to be cut OF in one place, he
will add it on somewhere else. A
Augustus, the emperor. took on . day
from February, making it the shortest
mouth 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 o: the
worlds work has been done by men oi
| 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 50
far rs his clubfoot, Beethoven was 50
deaf that he could not hear the crash
of the orchestra rendering his orator.
los. Thomas Carlyle, tho 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 audiences
nearer Heaven than most ministers can
raise them with two lungs. In the
banks, the insurance companies, the
commercial establishments, the reform.
atory associations. tho churches. there
are tens Of thousands Of men and
women to-day doubled up with rheu-
matism or subject to the neuralgiaa
or with only fragments of limbs. the
rest of which they left 1t Chattanooga
or South Mountain or the Wilderness.
and they are worth moro to the world.
and more to the church, and moro "a
God than those of ms who have never
so much ~ had . finger joint stidened
by fel0n.
Put to full use al the faculties that
remain and charge on all opposing cir
| cumstances with the determination oi
John of Bohemia, who was totally
blind. and yet 1t . battle cried ont, II
! pray and beseech You to lead me 90 far
into the fight that may strike one
good blow with this sword of miner
Do not think 20 much Of what facul.
ties you have lost as Of what faculties
remain. You have enough left ia
make yourself felt in three worlds.
while you help the earth and bslk
hell and win Heaven. Arise from
your discouragements. 0 men and
women Of depleted or crippled ply.
sical faculties, and see what, by the
special help of God, you can accom-.
plish! The skilled horsemen stood
around Rucephalus, unable to mount
or manage him, so wild was the steed.
But Alexander noticed that the sight o1
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,
| aud the horse's agitation was gone,
| and Alexander mounted him and rode
on, to the astonishment Of all who
stood by. And what you people need
is 10 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 tri
umph.
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 IN eye. or BY the perpetual roar o.
our cities thundered ont Of IN ear
look forward to the day when this old
tenement house Of flesh will come
down and better one shall b build
ed. The resurrection morning viii
provide you with . better outfit
Either the unstrung. worn oat blunt
ed and crippled organs will be 20 re
constructed that you will not know
them, or IN entire new set Of eyes and
ears and feet will be given you. Just
what it means by corruption putting
on interruption we do not know, save
that it viii b glory iue6Able. nc
limping in Heaven, NO straining OF thu
eyesight to eco things . little way of
no putting Of the hand behind the ca
to double the capacity Of the tympan
um, but faculties perfect all the key
of the instrument attuned for thu
sweep Of the fingers OF ecstscy. Ru
until that day Of resumption comes le
m bear each Others burdens and q