The Iola register., 1898-09-30

of the names of the great metropolitan
doctors of the past or the illustrious
living men of the present
Yet what do we see in all depart-
ments? People not satisfied with
ordinary spheres OF work and ordi'
nary duties. Instead of trying to see
what they can do with hand of five
fingers, they want six. Instead of
usual endowment of 20 manual and
pedal addenda, they want "a cer-
tain amount of money for livelihood,
and for the supply of those whom we
leave behind us after we have de-
parted this life, is important. for we
have the best authority for saying,
He that provideth not for his own
household. is worse than an infidel,"
but the large and fabulous sums for
which many struggle, If obtained
would be hindrance rather than an
advantage.
The anxieties and annoyances of
those whose estates have become
plethoric can only be told by those
who possess them. IL will be good
thing when, through your industry
and prosperity, you can own the house
in which you live. But suppose you
own 80 houses, and you have all those
rents to collect, and all those tenants
to please. suppose you have branched
out in business successes until in almost
every direction you have investments.
The fire bell rings at night, you rush
upstairs 10 look out of the window to
see if it is any of your mills. Epi-
demic of crime comes, and there are
embellishments and absconding in all
directions, and you wonder whether
any of your bookkeepers will prove
recreant. A panic strikes the financial
world, and you are like a hen under a
sky full of hawks, and trying with
anxious cluck to get your overgrown
chickens safely under wing. After n
certain stage of success has been
reached, you have to trust so many
important things to others that you
are apt to become the prey of others,
and you are swindled and defrauded,
and the anxiety you had on your brow
when you were earning your first 81, 900
is not equal to the anxiety on your
brow now that you have won your
$500, 900.
The trouble with such one is, he is
spread out like the unfortunate one in
my text You have more fingers and
toes than you know what to do with.
Twenty were useful, "a is hindering
superfuity. Disraeli says that a king
of Poland abdicated his throne and
joined the people, and became porter
to carry burdens And some one 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
weightiest is but IA straw when COM
pared to that weight under which
labored. | have slept more in four
nights than | have during all my
reign. begin TO live and to be king
myself. Elect whom you choose AS
for me, ! am so well it would be mad
ness to return to court"
WELL" says some body, "such over
loaded persons ought to be pitied, for
their worriments are real, and their
insomnia and their nervous prostra-
tion are genuine" l reply that they
could get rid of the bothersome sur
plus by giving it away. II man has
more houses than hecan carry without
vexation, let him drop few of them.
II his estate is so great he cannot
manage IL without getting nervous
dyspepsia from having too much, let
him divide with those who have nerv-
Gus 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 superhuous toe.
A few of them by charities bleed them
selves of this financial obesity and
monetary plethora, but many of them
hang on TO the hindering superfuity
| till death; and then, as they are com
PEELED to give the money up anyhow,
in their last will and testament they
expecting, no doubt, that he will feel
very much obliged to them.
Standing in the presence of this
| fallen giant of my text, and in this
post-mortem examination of MIN let
us learn how much better off we are
with just the usual hand, the usual
foot You have thanked God for Il
thousand things, but l warrant you
never thanked Him for those two i'm.
plements of work and locomotion,
that no one but the infinite and ON.
nipotent God could have ever planned
or made the hand and the foot. Only
that soldier or that mechanic who in
a battle, or through machinery, has
lost them, knows anything adequately
about their value, and only the Chris
tian scientist can have any apprecia.
tion of what divine masterpieces they
are.
Sir Charles Bell was so impressed
with the wondrous construction of the
human hand that when the earl oi
Bridgewater gave $40, 900 for essays or
the wisdom and goodness of God, and
eight books were written, Sir Charles
Bell wrote his entire book on the wis,
dom and goodness of God as displayed
| in the human hand. The 27 bones In