Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-09-29
THE ORDINARY PEOPLE.
Society Would Go TO Pieces Without
the Common Folk.


MOI Cure the S.ck->crmnn by
Rev. DR. Taim,Gc, u. ID.
From a passage of Scripture that
probably no other clergyman ever
preached f,om. Rev. Dr.. 1a.magc, in
this discourse, sets forth truth very
appropriate for those who have un-
healthy ambition tor great wealth or
fame. The text is |. Ihron. M, Il, ::
"A man of great stature, whose
fingers and toes were -four aud twenty,
six ON each hand, and sin on each foot;
and he also was the son of giant.
Eut when hc dciied Israel, Jonathan,
the son of Shimca, David's son, slew
him"
Maltormation photographed, and Tor
what reason? Did not this passage
slip in 10y mistake into tine sacred
Scriptures, as sometimes paragraph
utterly obnoxious to the editor gets
into his newspaper during his absence?
Is not this Scriptural errata? No, no.
there is nothing haphazard about the
Bible. This passage of Scripture was
as certainly intended To be put IN the
Bible as the verse, In the beginning
God created the heavens and the
Garth, or, God 50 loved the world
that lie gave His only bcgottcn SON.
And | select it for my text to-day be-
cause it j. charged with practical and
tremendous meaning. by the people
of God the rhilistincs had been con
qucred, with the exception of few
,ria ,ri1 *
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 oldcn times.
Goliath was, according To tine Bible,
eleven feet four ami a half inches high.
Or. if you doubt this, the famous Pliny
declares that at Crete, 10y an earth
quake, monument was broken open,
discovering the remains of giant 46
cubits long, or 60 feet high. So.
whether you take sacred or profane
history, you must come to the con-
clusion that there were in those times
cases of human altitude monstrous and
appalling.
David had smashed the skull of one
of these giants. but there were other
giants that the Davidcan wars had not
vet subdued, and one of them stands
in nv text He was not only of AL
pine stature, but had n surplus of dig
its. To the ordinary fingers was an
nexed an additional finger, and the
foot had also an additional addendum.
lie had "a Examinations to hands and
feet, where others had 20. 1t was not
the only instance of the kind.
Tavernier, the learned writer,
says that the emperor of Java
had son endowed with the
same number of cXtremities. Volca-
titus, the poet, had six fingers on each
hand Maupertuis, in his celebrated
letters, speaks of two families
near Berlin similarly equipped
of hand and foot All of
which | can believe, for l have seen
two cases of the same physical super
abundance. But this giant of the text
is in battle. and rs David, the strip
ling warrior, had dispatched one giant,
the nephew of David Stays this mon
ster of my text, and there he lies after
the battle in Gath, dead giant His
perfluous appendices of hand and foot
lid not save him. The probability was
hat in the battle his sixth finger on
mis- hand made him clumsy in the use
of his weapon, and his sixth toe Grip
pied his gait Behold the PROSTATE
nd uniformed giant of the text: "A
man of great stature, whose fingers
and toes were four and tvs, ". six on
each hand and g 70 eeg1 ----: and
he also was the san u cant -G.as
when he defied i-rar., Jn4ajnan, N
son of Shimea, DAVID brother, slew
him."
Behold how supcrtiuities are hind
rance rather than a help! In all the
battle at Gath that day there was not
man with ordinary hand and ordin-
airy 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 n giant on
the wrong side, and all the body and
mind and estate and opportunity that
you can not use for God and the bet
terment of the world is sixth finger
and a sixth toe, and a terrible hind
rance. 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 five-no more and no less
One DIR. Duff among missionaries, but
200 missionaries that would tell you
they have only one common endow-
ment One Florence Nightingale to
nurse the sick in conspicuous 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 made big noise,
but muskets of ordinary caliber and
shells of ordirar! heft did the
execution. President Tyler and his
cabinet go down the Potomac
one day to experiment with the
''Peacemakcr," II 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 or
binary 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 gurs. After the pol
iticians, who have made all the noise,
go home hoarse from angry discussion
on the evening of the first Monday in
Mover Der, the next day the people,
with the silent ballots, will settle
everything, ami 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 lack in the country to-day
there are mothers in plain apron and
shoes fashioned on n rough last by a
shoemaker at the end of the lane, rock.
ing babies that are to be the Martin
Luthers, and the Faradays, and the
Edisons, and the Bismarcks, and the
Gladstones and the Washingtons, and
the George Whitefield of the future.
The longer | live the more / like
common folks. They do the worlds
work, bearing the worlds burdens,
weeping the worlds sympathies
carrying the worlds consolation.
Among lawyers we see rise up Rufus
Choate. or William Writ, or a Samuel