The Iola register., 1898-09-30

W&Nilk NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. was as
" certainly intended
REV. TALMAeE. to be put in the BIZ
= BILE as the verse, I'm the beginning
God created the heavens and the
EARTH" or God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten Son"
And select it for my text to-day be-
cause it is charged with practical and
tremendous meaning. BY the people
Of God the Philistnes had been con-
quered, with the exception of a few
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 IL you
doubt this, the famous Pliny declares
that at Crete, by an earthquake,
monument was broken open, discover
-4ng the remains of a giant As cubits
long, ar 80 feet high. So, whetheryo
take sacred or profane history, you
must come to the conclusion 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 Davidean wars had not
yet subdued, and one of them stands
In my text He was not only of Alpine
stature, but had surplus of digits.
TO the ordinary fingers was annexed
an additional finger, and the foot had
- also superfluous addendum. He had
- examinations to hands and feet,
where others have 20. II was not the
only instance of the kind. Tavernir,
the learned writer, says that the EN-
-peror of Java had son endowed with
the same number OF extremities Vol
eatius, the poet, had six fingers on
zach hand. Maupertuis, in his cele-
brated letters, speaks of two families
near Berlin similarly equipped of hand
and foot. All of which can believe,
for have seen two cases of the same
physical superabuudance. But this
giant of the text is in battle, and as
David, the STRIPPING warrior had dis
patched the giant, the nephew of
David Stays this monster of my text,
and there he lies after the battle in
Gath, dead giant His stature did
not save him, and his superfuous ap.
-pendices 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 the sixth toe crippled his
gait
Behold how superfuities are a him
drance rather than help! In all
the battles at Gath that day there was
not a man with ordinary hand and
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 cam
not use for God and the betterment of
the world is a sixth finger and a sixth
toe, and n terrible hindrance. 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 DR.. Dutfe among mis-
sionaries, but 5000 missionaries that
would tell you they have only common
endowment One Florence Nightiu-
gale to nurse the sick in conspicuous
places, but 10, 900 women who are just
as good nurses, though never heard Of.
Clear back 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,
rocking babies that are TO be the Mar
tin Luthers and the Faradays and the
Edisons and the Bsmarcks and the
Gladstones and the Washingtons and
the George White fields of the future
The longer l live the more like com
mon folks. They do the worlds work,
bearing the worlds burdens, weeping
athe worlds sympathies, carrying the
worlds consolation. Among lawyers
we see rise up a Rufus Choate, or a
William Writ, or a Samuel L. South
ard, but society would go to pieces to-
morrow If there were not thousands of
common lawyers TO see that men and
women get their rights. A Valentine
Mott or Willard Parker rises up emil
nent in the medical profession; but
what an unlimited sweep would pneu-
monia and diphtheria and scarlet fever
have in the world il it were not for
10000 common doctors! The old physi-
clan in his gig, driving up the lane of
the farmhouse, or riding on horse back,
his medicines in the saddlebags, ar
irving on the ninth day of the fever,
and coming in to take hold of the
pulse of the patient, while the family,
pale with anxiety, and looking on and
waiting for his decision in regard to
the patient, and hearing him say:
'Thank God, have mastered the case;