The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-10-08
TOO MUCH rs MISERY.
Or. Talmage's Sermon on the Dan
> gers Of Wealth.
VIE UseIessness of the Gtant-The
Service of the Commonplace
They Who DO the
worlds Work.

appropriate for those who have IN
healthy ambition for great wealth o
fame. The text is Chronicles Ky
g.,
"a man Of great stature, whose fin
gers and toes were four and twenty
ak on each hand and six on each foot
and he also was the son of giant
But. when he defed Israel, Jonathan
the son Of Shimea, Dayid's brother
slew him."
Malformation photographed, and fol
what reason? Did not this passage
slip by mistake into the sacred Scrip
lures, as sometimes a paragraph ut
terly obnoxious to the editor gets
into his newspaper during his alb
sence? Is not this Scriptural errataI
No, no; there is nothing haphazard
about the Bible. This passage of
Scripture was as certainly intended
20 be put into the Bible as the verse,
.In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth" or God so
loved the world that He gave His only
-bcgotten Son"
And | select ii for my text to-day
because it is charged with practical
and tremendous meaning. BY the peo-
pie of God the Philistines had been
conquered, with the exception of
few giants. The race of giants is
mostly extinct, am glad to say. There
fs no use for giants now except TO
enlarge the income Of museums. But
there were many of them in olden
times. Goliath was, according 10 the
Bible, II feet 4h inches high, or, Il
YOU doubt this, the famous Pliny de-
elares that at Crete by an earthquake
q monument was broken open, discov-
ering the remains of giant &c cubits
long, or 60 feet high
David had smashed the skull of one
of these giants, but there were other
giants that the Dayidcan wars had
not yet subdued, and one Of them
stands in my text. He was not only OF
Alpirc stature, but had a surplus OF
digits. To the ordinary fingers was
annexed an additional finger, and the
foot had also n supernuous addendum.
He had "a examinations to hands and
feet. where others have 90, II was
not the only instance of the kind. Ia
WERNER, the learned writer, says that
the emperor Of Java had a son endowed
with the same number of eXtremities.
Volcatius, the poet, had six fingers
on each hand. Maupertius, in his
celebrated letters, speaks of two fam
ilies near Berlin similarly equipped of
III e y,shi Tl, | -
Hcvc, for | have seen two cases of the
same physical superabundance. But
this giant of the text is in battle, and
MS David, the STRIPPING warrior, had
dispatched one giant the nephew Of
David Says this monster of my text,
and there he lies after the battle in
Gath, a dead giant. His stature did
not save him, and his supe rtluous APP
pendiccs Of hand and foot did not save
him. The probability was that in bat
tie his sixth finger on his hand made
him clumsy In the use Of his weapon
and his sixth toe crippled his gait,
Behold the PROSTATE and malformed
giant OF the text: "A man of great
Mature, whose fingers and toes were
six on each foot, and he also was the
son of a giant. But when he defiet
Israel. Jonathan, the son of Shimea
David's brother. slew him.
Behold how superfluties are hin
drance rather than help! In all The
battle at Gath that day there was not
one man with the ordinary hand ant
ordinary foot and ordinary stature
that was not better off than this physi
cal curiosity OF my text. a dwarf OF
the right side is stronger than giant
on the wrong side, and all the body
and mind and estate ard opportunity
that you cannot use for God and The
betterment Of the world are sixth
finger and a sixth toe and terrible
hindrance. The most of the good done
In the world and the most of those who
win the battles for the right are or
binary people. Count the fingers OF
their right hand, and they have just
five--no more and no less. One DIR. Duff
among missionaries, but 1900 mis-
sionarics that would tell you they have
only. common endowment. One Flor.
ence Nightingale to nurse the sick in
conspicuous places, but 10000 women
who are just as good nurses, though
never heard Of. The Swamp Anger
Wns big gun that during the civil war
made a big noise. but musEets of or
binary caliber and shells of ordinary
heft did the execution. President Ty-
Ter and his cabinet go down the Poto.
mac one day to experiment with the
"Peacemaker," great iron gun that
was to alright with its thunder for
cign navies. The gunner touches II
of and II explodes and leaves cabinet
ministers dead on the deck, while al
that time, all up and down our coas' S
were cannon Of ordinary bore, able 10
be the defense of the nation and ready
at the first touch to waken to duty
The curse of the world is big gums
After the politicians. who have made
all the noise, go home hoarse from
angry discussion on the evening of the
first Monday in November, the next
day the people, with the silent ballots
will settle everything and settle Il
right, million OF the white Sins OF
paper they drop making about as mi
noise as the fall of an apple blossom.
EIaar hnrly L.,