Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-10-07

l.-f l. but a straw when compared o. tlaf
weight under which | labOrol. 1 have
si-rI more In four nights than / have dur
ins all my reign. l begin to live and % be-
a king myself Elect whom you choose.
A. for mr, am 50 we'll Il would bn madness
10 return TO court
We'll. says somebody. "such overloaded
persons ought 10 bee pitied for their worri-
Wrut~ are real and their insomnia and their
nervous lrastrItion are genuine" | reply
that they could get rid Of the botherslme
SURPLUS by giving il away. 10 a mau has
more houses than he can carry without
vrNati1n, let him drop few OF them 10
his estate j. So great he cannot manage II
without getting nervous dyspepsia from
having too much, let him divide with those
who have nervous dyspepsia because they
cannot get enough. No! they guard their
sixth finger with more care than they did
the original five. They go limping with
what they cali CONT ana know not That,
like the giant ot my text, they are famed
by a superlluous toe. \ few OF them by
charities bleed themselves OF this financial
obesity and monetary plethora, but many
of them hang on to the hindcring super
Huity till death: and then, as they are com
PEELED to give the money up anyhow. in
their last will and testament they gcner-
ouSly give some Of it to the Lord, expect
ing. no doubt. that lie will feel very much
obliged To them. Thank God that once in
a while we have a Peter Cooper, who, own
ing an interest in the iron works at Trcu-
ton, said to Mr.. Lester: II do not feel quite
easy about the amount We arc making.
Working under one of our patents, We have
Il monopoly. which seems to mo something
wrong. Everybody has to come to as for
it, and we are making money too fast."
SO they reduced the prize, and this while
our philanthrOpst was building Cooper III
atft11ta which mot hprs "a hundred iuEtitut 40
of kindness and mercy all over the land.
But the world had to wait five thousand
eight hundred years for Peter COOPER
| am glad for benevolent institutions
that get a legacy from men who during
their life were rs stingy as death, but who
in their last will and testament bestowed
money on hos pituls and missionary socie-
ties; but for such tcstators l have no re-
spect. They would have taken every cent
OF it with them il they could, and bought
up half Of heaven and let it out ut ruinOu5
rent or loaned the money to celestial citi-
Zens at two per cent. a month, and got Il
corner on harps and trumpGts. They
lived in this world fifty and sixty years in
the presence OF appalling suffering and
want, and made no efforts for their relief
The charities OF such people are in the
"Paulopost future' tense, they are going
to do them. The probability is that If such
u one In his last Will by a donation to
benevolent societies tries to atone for his
life time close llstrdness, the hers-at-law
will try to break the will by proving that
the Old man was senilo or crazy, and the
expense Of the litigation will about leave
in the LAWYERS hands what was meant for
the Bible Society. . y" over weighted, sue
cessful business men, whether this sermon
reach you ear or your eyes, let me say that
if you are Frustrated with anNrties about
keeping or investing these tremendous
fortunes, | can tell you how you can do
more to get your health back and your
spirits raised than by drinking gallons of
bad tasting water AT Saratoga. Homhur:
Carlsbad: Give to God, humanity and the
Bible ten per cent. of your income and it
will make a new man Of you, and from
restless walking of the floor you shall have
eight hours sleep, without thu help Of
bromide Of potassium, and from no appc-
tite you will hardly be able to await your
regular meals, and your wan cheek will I'LL
up, and when you die the blessings OF those
who but for you would have persisted will
bloom all over your grave.
Perhaps some OF You will take this ad-
vice, bat the most of You will not. And
you will try to cure your swollen hand 10y
getting On II more fingers, and your rheu-
matte foot by getting on 1t more toes, and
| there will be sigh OF relief when you are
gone ont of the world; and when over your
remains the minister rccites the words:
| Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. 80
| persons who have keen appreciation Of the
| iudicrous will hardly be able to keep their
faces straight. But whether in that direc-
! ton my words do good or not, | am anN-
| ious that all who have only ordinary equip
! ment he thankful for what they have uud
| rightly employ it. | think you all have
/ hgurativey rs well rs literally, fingers
| enough. DO not long for hindcrug super
] 4 s,,r. svs1 H. g
! fallen giant Of my text, and in this post
| norton examination of him, let Us laara
| how much better off we are with just the
| usual hand, the usual foot. You have
| thanked God for thousand things. bur
warrant you never thanked Him for those
! two implements OF work and locomOti0a
that no one but the Infinite and Omnlpptpnt
! God could have ever planned or mude--thr
| hand and tho foot Only that soldier cr
that mechanic who In a battle, or through
machinery, has lost them knows anything
adequately about their value, and only the
| Christian scientist can have any Appreciate
| tiOn Of what divine masterpieces they ARE.
Sir Charles Bell was so impressed with
the wOndrQus construction of the human
hand that when the Earl of Bridgewat"r
gave forty thousand dollars for essays on
the wisdom and goodness Of God, AMI
| eight books were written, Sir Charles Bell
wrote his entire book on the wisdom and
goodness fGol as displayed in the human
hand. The tWentY-seven bones in the
hand and wrist with cartilages and licl-
ments and phalanges of the fingers all
mako iust ready to knit, to sew, to build
up, to pull down, to weave, to write, to
plow, to pound to wheel, to battle, to give
friendly salutution. The tips or it's fingers
are so many telegraph offices by reason OF
their constituencies of touch. The bridges,
the tunnels, the cities of the whole earth
are the victories Of the hand. The hands
are not dumb, but often speak rs distinctly
rs the lips. With our hands we invite, we
repel, we invoke, we entrcat, we wiring
them in grief. or clap them in JOY, 81
spread them abroad in benedicti0n. The
malformatton Of the giaAt' hand in the text
glortles the usUalhan Fashioned OF Goa
moro eXquiStely and wOndrously than
any human mechanism that was ever con
trived, | charge you to use it for God and
the lifting Of the world out OF its mora
prcdtcament. Employ it in the sublime
work OF Gospel handshaIing. You can SEE
the hand Is just made for that Four ltnger,
just set right to touch your neighbor's hand
on ore side and your thumb set 50 rs t.
clench it on the other side. BY all its bone
and Joints and muscles and cartilages anl
ligGments the voice of Nature joins witt
the voice Of God handing you to shake
hands The custom is rs Old as the Biblo
anyhow. JGhu said to JehOnadab: SIS thine
heart right as my heart is with thine heart
If it be, give me thinc hand" When hand,
Join in Christian sulutatOn Gospel cleo
tricity thrills across the palm from hearttc
heart and from the shoulder Of one to tho
shoulder of the other