Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-01
THE LIMITS OF LIFE.
DIR. gALMAeE TALKS ON THE DANGER
OF HAVING TOO MUCH.

OF HAVING TOO MUCH.
The Symbol of the Ginnt-He rs Not
Always the Strong Mnn-The Ev-
eryday Man Does the WorlS-The
Worry of Useless Addenda.
Copyright. 1885, by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Sept 25.-From q
passage of Scripture that probably no
other clergyman ever preached from
Rev. Dr. Talmago in this discourse sets
forth truth very appropriate for those
who have unhealthy ambition for great
wealth or fame. The text is Chron.
Xxx, 6, Z:
"a man of great stature, whose fin
gers and toes wero four and twenty, six
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. David's brother, slew him. y
Malformation photographed, and for
what reason? Did not this passage slip
by mistake into the sacred Scriptures
rs sometimes paragraph utterly OBJ
noxious to the editor gets into his news
paper during his absence? Is not this
Scriptural errata? No, no. there is moth
ing haphazard about the Bible. This
passage of Scripture was rs certainly in
tended to be put in the Bible as the
verse; "In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth, :" or, Good
so loved the world that he gave his only
begotten Son. -
And | select it for my text today be-
cause it is charged with practical and
tremendous meaning. By the people OF
God the Philistines had boon conquered,
with the exception of q fow giants. The
race of giants is mostly extinct am
glad to say There is no use for giants
now except to enlarge the income Of
museums But there were many of them
in olden times Goliath was, according
to the Bible, II feet Az inches high,
or if you doubt this the famous Pliny
declares that ut Crete, by an earthquake,
monument was broken opeu, discover
ing the remains OF a giant 20 cnbits
long, or 60 fees hisi So, whether You
take sacred CT prnfano history, you must
como to tho confusion tlpt there were
in those times cases CT l.G@:n altitude
monstrous aud appalli::s
The Giant In History.
David had smashed tia sknll of one
of these giants, but there were ether
giants that the Dayidean wars had not
yet subdued and one of them stands in
my text He was not only of Alpine
stature, but had a surplus of digits.
To the ordinary fingers was annexed an
additional finger, and the foot had also
supcrlluous addendum. Ho had "a
examinations to hands and feet, whero
others have 20 It was not the only in
stance of the kind Tavernier, the
learned writer, says that the emperor
of Java had son endowed with the
same number Of extremities. Volcatius,
the poet, had six fingers Oh each hand.
Maupertuis in his celebrated letters,
speaks of two families near Berlin SIM
ilarly equipped Of hand and foot All of
which | can believe, for l have seen
two cases of tho same physical super
abundance But this giant of the text
is in battle, and as David, the STRIPPING
warrior, had dispatched one giant the
nephew of David Stays this monster Of
my text, and there he lies after the bat
tie in Gath, dead giant. His stature
did not save him, and his superf1uous
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 sixth toe crippled his gait. Be-
hold the PROSTATE and malformed giant
of the text: "a man of great stature,
whose fingers aud toes were four and
J twenty, six Oh each hand and six on
each foot, and be also was the son Of q
giant. But when he dehed Israel, Jona-
than, the son Of Shimea. David's broth
er, slew him. -
The Common Man.
: Behold how superhuities are hin
drance rather than help In all the
battle at Gath that day there was not a
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 giant on the wrong side,
and all the body and mind and estate
and opportunity that you cannot use for
God and the betterment of the world is
sixth finger and sixth toe, and a ter
rible hindrance 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
fve-no more and no less One DR.. Duff
among missionaries, but 5000 mission
aries that would tell you they have
= only common endowment. Ono Florence
Nightingale to nurse tho sick in con-
spicuous places but 10, 600 women who
are Just as good nurses, though never
heard of. The "Swamp Angel" was o
big gun that during the civil war made
big noise, but muskets of ordinary
caliber and shells of ordinary heft did
the execution President Tyler and bis
cabinet go down the Potomac one day
to experiment with the "Peacemaker, y
great iron gun that was to alright
with its thunder foreign navies. The
gunner touches it off, 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 tc
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 shoe:
: fashioned on rough last by shoe
2 maker at the end of the lane, rocking