Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-10-20
DR.. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: Enough Better Than Too Much
Certain Supernuities, Both Physical
and Mental. Are . HindrAncs Rather
Than u Help In Life.

and Mental. Are = HindrAncs Rather
Than Help In Life.
TEXT: "A man OF great stature. whose
fingers and toes Were four and twenty, six
on each hand, and six on each foot; and he
ulso WAS the soa OF a giant. But when he
detied Israel. Jonathan, the son of Shimea,
pavid's brother, slew him. IL Chron- Xxx,
s..
Malfermation photographed. and for
what ressonf Did not this passage slip IN
by mistake into the sacred Seristures, as
sometimes paragraph utterly obnoxious
TO the editor gets into his newspaper dur
ing his abseneeg Is not this Scriprural er-
raras No, no; there IS nothing haphazard
shout the Bible. This passage OF scripture
was as eerssinly intended 70 be put in the
Bible as the verse, IN the beginning God
ereaeei the heavens and the earth, or,
'.Goi SO loved the world that He gave His
only bsSottea Son.
And select it for Iy text to-day because
it is charged with practical sRi tremendous
meaning. BY the people o. God the PhtliS-
tines had been conquered, WIKI the exesp-
tion ot few giants. The race OF giants is
mostly extinct, am glad 10 say. There is
30 use for giants now except 20 enlarge rhs
income Of museums. But there were many
otthsIn in oldsn times. Goliath was ae-
eordinS 70 the Bible, eleven fee. four and
half inches high Or. IL you doub. this.
the famous Ptiny declares thst ii Crete,
open, discovering the remains Of stSnt
forty-Six eubirS long, o. sixty mine fee.
high. So, whether you take sacred or pro-
fame history, yGu uluSe come 70 the eonelu-
sion that there were in those times cases OF
human Stsl.uds EQnScr0US and appalling.
David hSt smashed the skull OF one OF
these giants bu. there were other giants
thsr .hs DayIia2n wX-s had not yer sub
duej, and one Of them stands IN my text
He was not only Of Alpine stature, but had
,fr-- - II 49, ffrg - ---x-
was annexed an additional ansar, and rhe
so0g had also supsrGg0uS addendum.
He had .wsney-toUr ssrwfnStioHs 70 hands
and feet. waere others hsye twenty. Il ySs
no. the only instance OF the kind. Tavsr-
rier the learned writer SAYS that the E,r-
psror ot Jaws had h son endowed with the
same number o. extrsmitiss. Vole2rIus.
sAs poet had SIX fingers On each hand.
MsGpsrsuGS, III his celebrated Letters, speaks
Of two families near Berlin similarly
equipped OF hand srd foot ALI OK which
can bsltsve.t0r have seen ewC eases Of the
same phystcAl superabun&anes- But this
giant OF the text ts in battle, and as David
sns sGrtpLins warrior h23 despatched one
giant, rhs nephew OF Dsvti Stays rhLs mon
srsr OF NV text, and there he Lies after the
b3Ecle in Gath, 3 dead .tan.. His stature
did not save him, and his Supsrfg0u> So
psnGtees ot hand and FOO. did ro- save him
The probability was that in the battle his
sixth finger On his hand made him clumsy
II The Use OF 1ts weapon. and his sixth toe
crippled his gait. Behold the proserace
ar3 u.2lt9ruaeG giant OF the text: "A u2r
ot great stature, whose fingers and toes
were tour and twenty, six on each hacd
&GG SIX On each foot; and he also was the
so1 ot 3 giant. But when he tsSsd Israel.
Jorsth&n, the son OF >hinss, DavlI's
egCeseE, slew him"
Behold how supsr1ai.tss Srs Il hin
dranee rather than s Aelpl IN all the bat
sle g. Gath thar day there WAS no: 8 rAn
with ordinary hand &1G ordinary foot and
Ordinary stature ch2- was nor better Oft
.kan this physfe2t curiosity OF -T e5x--
Dwarf On chs rish. side x stronger than a
Stsnt On The wrong side, and alI The oody
ard mind s1i sse4te and opportunity that
yo1 eaaEQ. use for God and -hs hes.sr-
r.ent et the world il 3 sixth finger and
sixth r0s, 4Ed o Terrible 1tn6rGaee. The
naosr ot the good done in the worit- and
sks most 81 those Who win the battle for
the right are ordinary people. Count the
fingers OF their Eteer hand, and they have
Just Evs-n0 more and 10 less. one Doe
cq- DUE among missile uaries but three
th0GsAnG E1EsStQaArte that would Esll you
rhey have ocly conUQn endowment One
ElQrenes Niss 1ttr ,iSls to nurse chs S[es IN
conspicuous places, hut lea thousand
women who are IGsr a. good nurses
though revsc heard Of The Swsu.p.
Angel WAS & big gun gh2. iuring the Civil
&1r made = big noise. bat glGskeEs Of QrltI-
ltG the execution Presidant Tylsr and
and hEs Cabinet go GGwc the Potomac one
day TO experiment With ths Peace
Daasrs \ grenl iron gun that was TO
alright with iss thunder foreign navteg
The gunner touches It off. anG Il sxP1qdes
and Leaves Cabinet Ministers dead on the
Geck, while ar cnaE Eiue, Gil Up md down
GS1r ellast, were cAnnQG et ordinary 1ore
3ehs to es cl,ss defense Of the nation an.i
ceasly Ut the FIRST 1eCei. to wa8en 90 4uGy
The curse OF the Ecrld is big guns. After
thss. gcEl.t.i4as who have made all the
noise 60 cQnse 1Qarse trulr angry discus
sion On tho evening Of the trsG MonGap In
November, the next day the people, with
the slenE 6allQrs, will setEi,a eEsrvrhinAc
a2t s4EEl- u right. 3 million Gg the Ehte4
slips 9t gagec they Gr9p making Lh0u1 TX
ul4GA Noise IL the 1alI Of an Erls-blgssorn
Ctsir ea.S IL the country r0-GIY rhece
age mothers in plain aprons, and shoes
ra.shtcaeG on rough last by 4 shoenlsisr
II cn4 md Of rhe Lane, reeAing Babies Cka-
4rs TO Do the Mlrtfl Luchefs IsG chs Fara-
lays and sha Ettsons and tie Biss,uArcfs
and the enlsLsst@aas and rhs w1shiugrpns
9nd the eiecrge whirsstali, Of rhs- FUTURE.
Ehs Longer 1ve the more Hlse e~mmQn
folks. Thew DO the worlds wQrs h.arinr
rhs worlds sGrttsns, weeping THE wccid's
sYmEaEh1.s, earryiag the wort1t's ecr.s,sla-
tbln- Among Iwyers We see rise up q
El4rlss ShGaEs. OF q WLlllaIu Writ, or u Sam
Gei L. Southland bat society wuuIt 20 10
rteces tc-uorrow i3 there were uGe ehGu
sands OF common Lawyers to see that men
and women get 1tsIr citstrs. 4 Valentine
M9er CO u Willard Parter rises api eminent
N the medical pr@Eesgfens hut what an I'M
hsntted sweep wcdld pleuneniit and tIgnr-
uneriA 1nit scartst fsvec have In tbs. world
Y II were noe toe ten Thousand common
isacrocsa The OLD physician IN III. zig,
triVtlS up che lins at Ges farmhouse. Or
riding en- hGcsebaei his medicines IN rhe
sa'lIss-hIsss, arrtyin.s On the ninth iay of
the tevar, a1st comi1g In TO fase hold az hh..
efllse OF ene EarenE, whi1e cn. fiLuilNr uala
With anxiery and booking on and wairing
fer hts 1s.eisShan IN ragarf rc tina pnEianE
llt2 hehring him say, -rhals God. T have
mastered the ca.e la Is gatria,r weillf' ex-
flres III me- an n,tuIrati@n qIiEe equal To
the msntian ct the names Gf the sresth
metropolitan doctors at the gas1 Qr tin. H.
hl:.trions living men OF rhs present.
KeS wnar e2 we see In all Geparrmanrsa
Re0ele noe satisfied With ard:jaary spharu..
oh wors and gr'iinary daltit.s. Instead qe
aryins 20 see wlaE they CAN TO With hand
sr hss hnRars, they wanE six. Instead CT
astial sndQwinen5 eE twanty MAMMAL and
pedal ad'isnsii, tiag wanr twensy-sour