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TOO MUCH Is MISERY
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON ON THE DAN.
GERS OF WEALTH.

VI StFNiCc.
copyright 1898, by American Press Asso-
ciaton.l
WASHINGTON, Sept 25.-From passage
of Scripture that probably no other clergy
man over preached from Rev. DR.. Talmago
in this discourse sets forth truth very
appropriate for those who have unhealthy
ambition for great wealth or fame. Tho
text is l Chronicles Xxx, 9, Z:
"A man of great stature, whose fingers
and toes were four and twenty six on each
hand and six on each foot, and he also
was the son of giant. But, when he de-
fed Israel, Jonathan, tho son Of Shimca,
David's brother, slew him."
Malformaton photographed and for
what reason. Did not this passage slip
by mistake into tho sacred Scriptures, as
sometimes paragraph utterly obnoxious
to tho editor gets into his newspaper dur
ing his absence? Is not this Scriptural
crrata? No, no; there is nothing haphaz-
ard about tho Bible. This passage Of
Scripture was as certainly intended to be
put in tho Bible rs the verse, an the be-
ginning God created the heavens and tho
earth, or God so loved tho world that
he gave his only bcgotten Son"
And l select it for my text today because
dous meaning BY tho people of God tho
Philistincs had been conquered, with tho
exception of few giants Tho race of
giants is mostly extinct, / am glad to say.
There is no usc for giants now except to
enlarge tho income of museums. But
there were many of them in oldcn times.
Goliath was, according TO tho Bible, IL
feet az inches high, or, If you doubt
this, tho famous Iliny declares that ut
Cr0to by an earthquake monument was
broken opon discovering the romans of
giant &c cubitS long, or SO feet high. SO,
whether you take sacred or profAne history,
you must como to tho conclusion that
thorc were in those times eases of human
altitude monstrous and appalling
Impotcnt Giontism.
David had smashed the skull of one of
these giants, but there were other giants
that the Davidcan wars had not yet sub
ducd, and one of them stands in my text.
He was not only of Alpine stature, but
had n surplus of digits. To the ordinary
fingers was annexed an additional finger,
and the foot had also supcriuous addcn-
DUN He had 2i examinations to hands
and feet, where others have 30. 1t was
not the only instance of the kind. Ia
vernier, tho learned writer, says that tho
emperor of Java had a son endowed with
tho Same number of cxtrcmitios Volca-
titus, tho poet, had six fingers on each
hand. Maupcrtuis in his celebrated let
tiers, speaks of two families near Berlin
similarly equipped of hand and foot All
of which l can believe, for have seen two
cases of tao same physical superabun-
dance But this giant OF the text is in
battle, and rs David, the STRIPPING warrior,
had dispatched one giant the nephew of
David Stays this monster of my text, and
there no lies after tho battle in Gath, q
dead giant His stature did not save him,
and his superluous appendices of hand
and foot did not save him. The probable
ity was that in the battle 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 NAL
formed giant of the 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 also was the son of a
giant. But when no deiled Israel, iona.
than, the son of Shimea, David's brother
slew him..
The UBe of Everyday.
Behold how superfluities aro him
hranco rather than help In all the bat
tie mt Gath that day there was not man
with ordinary hand and ordinary foot and
ordinary stature that was not better off
than this physical curiosity Of my text, A
dwarf on the right side is stronger than u
giant on the wrong side, and all tho body
and mind and estate and opportunity that
you cannot uso for God and tho better.
ment of tho world are q sixth finger and a
sixth toe and n terrible hindranco, Tho
most of the good done in the world and
the most of those who win the battles for
tho right arc ordinary people. Count
tho fingers Of their right hand, and they
have just flve-no more and no less Ono
DIR. Duff among missionaries, but 5000
missionaries that would tell you they have
only common endowment Ono Florence
Nightingale 10 nurse tho sick in conspicu-
Gus places, but 10, 900 women who are Just
as good nurses, though never heard Of
The Swamp Angel" was big gun that
during the civil war mado n big noise, but
muskcts of ordinary calibor and shells of
ordinary heft did the execution Prcsi-
dent Tyler and his cabinet 90 down tho
Potomac ono day to experiment with the
"Peaccmakcr, a great iron gun that was
to alright with its thunder foreign naves.
Tho gunner touches it Off and it oxplodcs
deck, while ut that time, all UP and down
our coasts were cannon of ordinary bore,
able to be the defense of tho nation and
ready at tho first touch to wakcn to duty.
Tho curse of the world is big guns. After
the politicians, who have made all tho
noise, go home hoarse from angry discus
sion on tho evening of tho first Monday in
November, the next day tho people, with
the silent ballots, will settle everything
and settle 1t right, n million of tho white
slips of paper they drop making about as
much noise as tho fall of all apple blossom.
Clear back in the country today there
arc mothers in plain apron and shoes fash
Toned on u rough last by shoemaker at
the end Of tho lane, rocking babies that
nro to DO tho Martin Luthers and tho
Naradays and the Edisons and tho Bis
marcks and tho Gladstones and tho Wash
lngtons and tho George Whitclelds of the
future. The longer 1.-Two the more like
rommon folks, They do the world Is work,
bearing the worlds burdens, weeping tho
worlds sympathies, carrying tho world s
consolation. Among lawyers we see rise
up Rufus Choato or a William Writ or "a
Samuel l.. Southland, but society would 10
10 pieces tomorrow II there were not thou
Iands of common lawyers to SEQ that mon
md women get their rights. A Valentine
Mott or Willard Parker rises up emil
nent in the medical profession, but what
an unlimited sweep would pneumonia and
diphtherla and scarlet fever have in tho
world If it were not for 10000 common
doctorsl Tho old physician in his gig,
driving up tho lane of tho farmhouse or
riding on horseback, his medicines in tho
saddlebags, arriving on the ninth day Of