Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-10-12

ing your first thousand dollars is not equal
to the anxiety on your brow now that you
| have won your three hundred thousand.
Disraen says that q king of Poland
and became a porter to carry burdens. And
some ono asked him why he did so, and he
replied: "Upon my honor, gentlemen, the
! load which cast off was by far heavier
| than the one you see me carry. The weight
est Is but a straw when compared to that
| weight under which I labored. 1 have
slept more in four nights than l have dur
ing all my reign. / begin to live and to be
king myself. Elect whom you choose.
As for me, am so well 1t would be madness
to return to court"
"Well," says somebody, "such overloaded
persons ought to be pitied, for their worri-
ments are real and their insomnia and their
nervous prostration are genuine" reply
that they could get rid OF the bothersome
surplus by giving It away. If a man has
more houses than he can carry without
vexation, let him drop few OF them. If
his estate Is so great he cannot manage 1t
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 call gout and know not that,
like the giant OF my text they are lamed
by a superfiuous toe. A few of them by
obesity and monetary plethora, but many
of them hang on to the hindering super
fluffy till death; and then, as they are COM
PEELED to give the money up anyhow, in
their last will and testament they gener-
ously give some of it to the Lord, expect
ing, no doubt, that He will feel very much
obliged to them. Thank God that once In
q while we have a Peter Cooper, who. own
ing an interest In the iron works at Tren-
ton, said to Mr.. Lester: II do not feel quite
-, ...A
Working under one Of our patents, we have
a monopoly. which seems to me something
wrong. Everybody has to come to US for
1t, and We are making money too fast"
SO they reduced the prize, and this while
our philanthropist was building Cooper In
stitute. which mothers a hundred Institutes
of kindness and mercy all over the land.
But tho world had to wait five thousand
eight hundred years for Peter Cooper!
1 am glad for benevolent institutions
that get a legacy from men who during
their life were as stingy as death, but who
in their last will and testament bestowed
money on hospitals and missionary socie-
ties; but for such testators l have no re-
spect. They would have taken every cent
OF it with them II they could, and bought
up half of heaven and let it out at ruinOus
rent, or loaned the money to celestial citi-
zens ut two per cent. a month, and got a
corner" on harps and trumpets. They
lived in this world nfty and sixty years In
tho presence Of appalling suffering and
want, and made no efforts for their relief.
Tho charities of such people are in the
"Paulopost future tense. they are going
to do them. The probability Is that il such
one In his last will by donation to
benevolent societies tries to atone for his
lifetime close-flstedness, the heirs at law
will try to break the will by proving that
the old man was senile or crazy, and the
expense OF the litigation will about leave
in the lawyers hands what was meant for
the Bible Society. o ye over-weighted, sue
cessful business men, whether this sermon
Ieach you ear or your eyes, let me say that
IL you are prostrated with anxieties 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, Homburg,
Carlsbad: Give to God, humanity and the
Bible ten per cent. Of your income and 1t
will make new man OF you, and from
restless Walking OF the hocr you shs,i have
eight hours sleep. without the help Of
bromide OF potassium, and from no appef
tite you will hardly be able to await your
regular meals, and your wan cheek will fill
up, and when you die the blessings Of those
who but for you would have perished will
bloom all over your grave.
Perhaps some Of you will take this ad-
vice, but the most OF you will not. And
you will try to cure your swollen hand by
getting on it more fingers, and your rheu-
matte foot by getting on 1t more toes, and
there will be sigh of relief when you are
gone out of the wofid; and when over your
remains the minister recites the words:
blessed are the dead who die in the Lord"
persons who have keen appreciation of the
ludicrous will hardly be able to keep their
faces straight. But whether in that direc-
tion my words do good or not, / am anx-
ious that all who have only ordinary equip
ment be thankful for what they have and
rightly employ 1t. I think you all have,
hguratively as well as literally, fingers
enough. Do not long for hindering super
fulties. Standing in the presence of this
fallen giant OF my text, and in this post
mortem examination of him, let us learn
how much better Off we with Just the
usual hand, the usual foot. You have
thanked God for thousand things but 1
warrant you never thanked Him fer those
two implements of work and locomotion,
that no one but the Infinite and Omnipotent
God could have ever planned or made-the
hand and the foot. Only that soldier or
that mechanic who In n battle, or through
machinery, has lost them knows anything
about their value, and only the
Christian scientist can have any apprecia-
tion Of what divine masterpieces they are.
Sir Charles Bell was so i'm mpressed with
the wondrous construction of the human
hand that when the Earl of Bridgewater
gave forty thousand dollars for essays on
the wisdom and goodness of God, and
eight books were written, Sir Charles Bell
wrote his entire book on the wisdom and
goodness of God as displayed In the human
hand. The twentv-seven bones in the
hand and wrist with cartilages and liga-
ments and phalanges of the fingers all
make just 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 salutation. The tips of its fingers
their constituencies oftoueh. The bridges,
the tunnels, the cities of the whole earth
are the victories Of the hand. The hands
are not dumb, but often speak as distinctly
as the lips. With our hands we invite, we
repel, we invoke, we entreat, we wiring
them in grief, or clap them in joy, or
spread them abroad in benediction. The
of the giant hand In the text
glories the usual hand. Fashioned of God
more exquisitely 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 moral
predicament. Employ 1t in the sublime
work of Gospel handshaking. You can see
he hand is just made for that. Four fingers
just set right to touch your neighbors hand
clench it on the other side. BY all its bones
and joints and muscles and cartllages and
ligaments the voice of Nature joins with
the voice of God commanding you to shake
hands. The custom Is as old rs the Bible,
anyhow. Jehu said to Jehonadab: "Is thine
heart right as my heart Is with thine heart?
Ii 1t be, give me thine hand" When hands
join in Christian salhtation a Gospel cleo
tricity thrills across the palm from heartto
heart, and from the shoulder OF one to the
ehoulder of the other.
ModcSty is a charm which no beauty
5 complete without.
We generally find the new lenf we turn
blotted through by the records pre-