Connecticut western news., 1898-09-29
THE LIMITS OF LIFE.
DR.. TALMAGE TALKS ON THE DANGER
 OF HAVING TOO MUCH.

- Always the Strong Man-The Ev-
 eryday Man Does the Work-The
 Worry of UseIess Addenda. ICopyright. 1898. by American Press Asso-
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-From Q passage of Scripture that probably no other clergyman ever preached from Rev. Dr. Talmage in this discoyrse sets forth 8 truth very appropriate for those who have unhealthy ambition for great wealth or fame. The text is Chron. K, 6. 2:
 "A man of great stature, whose fin- geEs and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand and six on each foot, and when he defied Israel, Jonathan, the son of, Skimea, David's brother, slew him. ,"
 Nalformation photographed, and for what reason? Did not this passage slip by.mistake into the sacred Scriptures, as sometimes a paragraph utterly ob- noxious to the editor gets into his news paper during his absence? Is not this Scriptural errata? No, no; there Is noth- ing haphazard about the Bible. This passage of Scripture was as certainly in- teGded to be put in the Bible as the verse, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," or, "God sosloved the world that he gave his only begotten Son."
 And select it for my text today be- carlse 1t is charged with practical and tramendous meaning. By the people of G1i the Philistines had been conquered. with the exception of few giants. The racs of giants is mostly extinct, I am glad to say. There is no use for giants now except to enlarge the income of mlseums. But there were many of them in oldan times. Goliath was, according to- the Bible, Il feet AZ inches high, orr if you doubt this, the famous Pliny de3l1fes that at Crete, by an earthquake, . monument was broken open, discover ing the remains of giant 46 cubits lopg, or 69 feet high. So, whether you take sacred or profane history, you must oan9A to the conclusion that there were in ntlfose times cases of human altitude m0nstzous and appalling.
 The Giant In History.
 Spavid had smashed the skull of one q these giants, but there were other o3k4ts that the Davidean wars had not y4t subdued, and one of them stands in H3 yext. He was not only of Alpine sS3tare, but had . surplus of digits. T6 the ordinary fingers was annexed an a1ditional finger, and the foot had also aag4perhuous addendum. He had 24 tl4Slnations to hands and feet, where oeaays have 90. It was not the only in- sekARe of the kind. Tavernier. the laax3ed writer, says that the emperor ofsyAva had . son endowed with the sAS1S number of extremities. Volcatius, th9 Host, had six fingers on each hand. Maupertuis, in his celebrated letters, speats of two families near Berlin sim ilafl3 equipped of hand and foot. All of which can believe, for have seen two cases of the same physical super abundance. But this giant of the text is in battle, and as David, the stripling warrior, had dispatched one giant the nephew of David stays this monster of my taxt, and there he lies after the bat tie in Gath. dead giant. His stature did not ave him. and his superfuous appendices of hand and foot did not save him. The probability was that in the battle his sixth finger on his hand made him clumsy in the use of his weapon and his dxth toe crippled his gait Be- hold the prostrate and malformed 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 giant. But when he defied Israel, Jona- than the son of Shimea, David's broth CT, dew him"
 sss The Common Man.
 aHehold how opportunities are hin dfance rather than helpi In all the battle at Gath that day there was not a maniwith ordinary hand and ordinary footsand ordinary stature that was not better of than this physical curiosity of my text. A dwarf on the right side is stronger than giant on the wrong side, and all the body and mind and estate and opportunity that you cannot use for Sod and the betterment of the world is asixth finger and asixth toe, and ter rible yhindrance. The most of the good done in the world and the most of those who win the battles for the right are ordinary people. Count the fingers of their, right hand, and they have just Aye--no more and no less. One pr. Duff among missionaries, but 3, 1000 mission aries that would tell you they have only common endowment. One Florence Nightingale to nurse the sick in con- spiouous places, but 10, 900 women who are just as good nurses, though never heard of. The Swamp Angel' was a big gun that during the civil war made . big noise, but muskets of ordinary caliber and shells of ordinary heft did tho execution. President Tyler and his cabinet go down the Potomac one day to experiment with the "Peacemaker, 1" . great iron gun that was to alright with its thunder foreign navies. The gunner touches it of, and it explodes and leaves cabinet ministers dead on the deck, while at that time, all up and down our coasts, were cannon of ordi- nary bore, able to be the defense of the nation, and ready at the first touch to waken to duty. The curse of the world is big guns 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 it right, 1000, 900 of the white slips of paper they drop making about as much noise as the fall of an apple blossom.
 Clear back in the country today there are mothers, in plain apron and shoes fashioned on rough last by shoe
 maker at the end of the lane, rocking babies that are to be the Martin Luthers end the YAxanays and the Edisons and the Bimarcks and tho Gladstones and the Washingtons and the George WhiteAelds of tho future. The longer live the more like common folks Thay do the worlds work, bearing the worlds burdens, weeping the world $ aympathies. carrying the worlds conso- 1akion. Among lawyers we sec rise up