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THE DAILY YELLOWSTONE JOURNAL.
VOLUME VII. No. I. * MILES CITY, MONTANA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1888. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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REV. DR. TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE
LAST SUNDAY MORNING.
Nothlng naphamwd About the Ble-.a
perfiultie. a Hl.leaames Rather Than a
HelpWe All Rave Fingers Eneagh.
The Mait Beatll roet.
BaoorLYN, Sept. 28.-The Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, D. D., preached in the
Brooklyn tabernacle this morning on the
subject, "Superfluities a Hinderance."
Several ocean steamers arrive in pos
Sunday mornings, and many of the pas.
sengers, browned by the sea, come di
rectly from the wharf to the Brooklyn
tabernacle. The great congregation, led
by Professor All's cornet, and acoom
panied by the organ, at which Professor
Browne presides, joined in the opening
hymn:
We aoe thy people, we thy can,
Our soub and a1l our mortal tramn
What lastng hono shall we rar,
Alaghty Maker, to thy name?
Dr. Talmage's text was I Chron. xx,
6, 7: "A man of great stature, whose
fingers and toes were four and twenty,
six on each hand and six on ea h foot,
and he also was the son of the giant.
But when he defied Israel, Jonathan, the
son of Shimes, David's brother, slew
him."
Malformation photographed, and for
what reason? Did not this passage slip
in by mistake into the sacred Scriptures,
as sometimes a paragraph utterly obnox
ious to the editor gets into his newspaper
during his absence? Is not this script
ural 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 passage "In
the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth," or "God so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten
Son."
And I select it for my text today be
cause it is charged with practical and
tremendous meaning. By the people of
God the Philistines had been conquered,
with the exception of a few giants. The
race of giants is mostly extinct, I am
glad to say. There is no use for giants
now except to enlarge the income of mu
seums. But there were many of them
in olden times Goliath was, according
to the Bible, eleven feet, four and alalf
inches high. Or, if you do not believe
the Bible, the famous Pliny, a secular
writer, declares that at Crete, by an
earthquake a monument was broken
open, discovering the remains of a giant
forty-six cubits long, or sixty-nine feet
high. So, whether you prefer sacred or
profane history, you must come to
the conclusion that there were in those
olden times cases of human altitude mon
strous 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 a surplus of
digits. To the ordinary fingers was an
nexed an additional finger and the foot
had also a superfluous addendum. He
had twenty-four terminations to hands
and feet where others have twenty. It
was not the only instance of the kind.
Tavernier, the learned writer, says that
the emperor of Java had a son endowed
with the same number of extremities.
Volcatius, the poet, had six finge., on
each hand. Maupetius in his celebrated
letters speaks of two families near
Berlin similarly equipped of hand
and foot. All of which I can
believe, for I have seen two cases of the
same physical superabundance. But
this giant of the text is in battle, and as
David, the dwarf warrior, had dispatched
one giant, the brother of David slays
this monster of my text, and there he
ies after the battle in Gath, a dead giant.
His stature did not save him, and his
superfluous appendices of hand and foot
did not save him. The probability was
that in the battle his sixth linger on his
hand made him clumsy in the use of
his weapon. and his sixth toe crippled
his gait. Behold the prostrate and rnal
formated giant of the text: "A man
great of stature, whose fingers and toes
were four land twenty, six oI each hand,
and six on each foot: and heI also was
the son of t he giant. But sh'en he de
fied Israel, J. .nathaln, the son of Shimea,
David's I ,rther, slew him." ..
Behold how superfluities are a hinder
ance rather th:m a help! In all the bat.
tle at Gath that day there was not a man
with ordinary hand and ordinary foot
and ordinary taturo that was not better
off than tlth Iphysical curiosity of my
text. As pIy.ica:l size is apt to run in
families tith proja:htility is that this
brother of Da.tviI n Ito did the work was
of an abbr, vi:,ttd iaturae. A dwarf on
the right bid. i stronger titan a giant on
the wrot" side, and all the i txy and
mind and Illetit :a ti ,ul portlullity that you
cannot ut, f ,r C:-al aIl the betterment
of the w",rl i- n iýith tinger and a sixth
toe, and a t(.' iti, hittdtr:utce. The ruost
of the ea. t (nlt in tllhe world. and the
most of the: ,,°vho in the .attles for the
right, arne.utIlary people. 'wiunt the fin
ger of their riclit hand and they have just
ire, no mttor :,d no It-s. One Dr.
DIuf atnoit.' Ii..sionarie*, but three thou
sand mie.i-ulari' that .,etld tell you
they lhaine ,lyv common tldoH.mwent.
One Fhlor'nc Niihtingale+ to nurso the
sick in et I'- ,~hitus Ilaces, butt tn thou
sand wntd.t w itr -e j-t asi od n.rllses,
though i.v cr h. mil of. 'lbe ,thto np
AngtI ws:. , I i, :un that hllringl t0 w\:lr
made an ii ,I I it it.,-.klets of ordi
nary e:tlil ,r an I I.ii- l li . inary heft
did hit,' ,.." . 'r, i L^ t Tilcr
and hi, ':tl :it, t t" l d, - ' n tl P otoilll lie
daily t, xNpi't mn ht tlil 1;', I'.u.wualcr,
a grouti in.t 'in tL,.,t w, to ailriglht
with its thunder fori ,tn navies. Tihe
ygtlnr touches it oft luti it expllode and
La.er cabinet mhiisters dead on the
deck, while at that tune till tip and down
g Qatlls erl g~ loi.f urditary borj
able to be the defense of the I.:at.',d, ard
ready at the first touch tonnai aIl to duty.
The curse of the world is Lig guns.
After the politicians who hate made all
the noise go homo hoarse from angry
discusion on the evening of the first
.M'nlday in November, the next day the
people with the silent ballots will settle
everything, and settle it right, a million
of thle white slips of paper they drop
making about as much noise as the fall
of anl apple blossom.
Clear hack in the country today there
ars mothers in plain apron, and shoes
fashioned on a rough last by the shoe.
maker at the end of the lane, rocking
babies that are to be the Martin Luther.,
and the Faradays. and the Edisons, and
the Bismarck.. and the Gladstone., and
the Washington., and the George White.
fields of the year 1938, and who will
make the Twentieth century so bright
that this much lauded Nineteenth in
comparison will seem a part of the dark
ages. The longer I live the more I like
common folks. They do the world's
work, bearing the world's burdens, weep.
lag the world's sympathies, carrying the
world's consolation. Among lawyers
we see rise up a Rufus Choate, or a
William Wirt, or a Samuel L Southand,
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 a
Willard Parker rises up eminent
in the medical profession, but
what an unlimited sweep would
pnuemonia, and diphtheria, and scarlet
fever, have in the world if it were not
for ten thousand common doctors. The
old physician in his gig rolling up the
lane of the farmhouse, or riding on
horseback, his medicines in the saddle
bags, arriving 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, are looking on and
waiting for his decision in regard to the
patient, and hearing him say: "Thank
God, I have mastered the case, he is
getting well," excites in me an admira
tion quite equal to the mention of the
names of the great metropolitan doctors,
Pancoast or Groh or Joseph C. Hutchin
son of the past. or the illustrious living
men of the present.
Yet what do we see in all departmental
People not satisfied with ordinary spheres
of work and ordinary duties. Instead
of trying to see what they can do with a
hand of five fingers they want six. In
stead of usual endowment of twenty
twenty manual and pedal addenda they
want twenty-four. A certain amount of
money for livelihood and for the supply
of those whom we leave behind us after
we have departed this life is important,
for we have the best authority for say
ing: "He that provideth not for his own,
and especially those of his own house
hold, is w/,pe than an infidel;" but the
large and fabulous sums for which many
struggle, if obtained would be a hinder
ance rather than an advantage. The anx
ieties and annoyances that those have
whose estates have become plethoric
can only be told by those who posses
them. It will be a good thing when
through your industry and public pros
perities you can own the house in which
you live. But suppose you own fifty
uses and you leave all those rents to
collect and all those tenants to please.
Suppose you have branched out in busi
ness successes until in almost every di
rection you have investments. The fire
bell rings at night; you rush up stair to
look out of the window to see if it is any
of your mills. Epidemic of crime comes
and there are embezzlements and ab
acondings in all directions, and you won
der whether any of dour bookkeepers
will prove recreant. A panic strikes the
financial world, and you are like a hen
under a sky full of hawks and try
ing with anxious cluck to get your
overgrown chickens safely under wing.
After a certain stage of success has been
reached you have to trust so many im
portant things to others that you are apt
to become the prey of others, and you
are swindled and defrauded, and the
anxiety you had on your brow when you
were earning your first thousand dollars
is not equal to the anxiety on your brow
now that you have won your three hun
dred thousand. The trouble with such a
one is he is spread out like the unfortu
nate one in my text. You have more
fligers and toes than you know what
to do with. Twenty were useful,
twenty-four is a hindering super
fiuity. Disraeli says that a king
of Poland abdicated his throne
and joined the people and became a por
ter to carry burdens. And some one
asked him why he did so and he replied:
"U'pon my honor, gentlemen, the load
which I quit is by far heavier than the
one you s, * une carry. The weightiest is
but a sxraw when compared to that world
under whwih I labored. I have slept
more in four nights than I haxe during
all mvy rml;n. I begin to live amnd to be a
king ni,.elf. L.ect whomi you choose,
for In' eho, am so well it would be mad
se,, to ret lurn to court."
S"Well," says omebody, "such over
loaded persons ought to he pitied, for
their worrintnts are real and their in.
somnia and their nervous prostration
are genuine." I reply that ther could
gt rid of the Iothersome surplus by giv.
Init away. If a man has more houses
than he can carry without vexation, lst
him drop a few of them. If his estate is
so great he cannot manage it witlh ut
getting nervous dyspe~-,a from having
too much, let him divide up with thcoe
who have nervous dyspelsia because
they can'.t get et nough. No They
'u:ud tlhItr sixth lh)ner with more
(:lr, thal: they did the orlinal five.
Th4.y -g liim!inqg with what they call
gout u1(l know not that, like
the ilntl of ny text, they
ar lanl I by a superfluous toe. A few
of thetm Iby large charities bleed thcm
selves of tlis tlhancial obesity and mone
tary pl.t Khra, but many rof them hang
on to the hindering superfulty till death,
s..d .h.n a thaw O mumas i g d ito
the money up anybow, Iin their last wi
and testament they generously give some
of it to the I.rd, expecting no doubt
that He will feel very much obliged to
them. Thank God that once in a while
we have a Peter Cooper who, owning an
interest in the iron works at Trentoo,
said to dMr. L~ster: "I do not feel quite
easy about the amount we are making.
Working under one of our patents, we
have a monopoly which seems to
me something wrong. Everybody has
to come to us for it and we are makng
money too fast." So they reduced the
prioe, and this while our philanthropist
was building Cooper intitute, which
mothers a hundred institutes o kind.
neas and mercy all over the land. Bot
the world had to wait Ave thoumn
eight hundred years for Peter Cooper. I
am glad for the benevolent nilsmtatln
that get a legacy from men who duding
their life were as stingy a dath, but
who in ther last will and tstmaent be.
stowed money on hospitals and milioa.
ary societies; but for such tstatrss I
have no respect. They would have takes
every cent of It with them If they aoddl
and bought up half of Leaven end l
out at ruinous rent, or loaned the
money to celestial itiens at I per
cent. a month and got a c rner an hare
and trumpets. They lived in this d
fifty or ixty years in the .reence of ap
palling suffering and want and made so
effort for their relief. The charities of
such people are for the ost part
"paulo-post future" tense and theyare
going to do them. The probability s
that if suchaone in his last will by a
donation to benevolent societie trim to
atone for his lifetime closelstednen, the
heirs at law will try to break the will by
proving that the old man was senile or
crazy, and the expense of the liti
will about leave in the lawyers' hands
what was meant for the American Bible
society. Oh, ye overweighted accesmul
business men, whether this sermon reach
your ear or your eye, let me say that
if you are prostrated with anxie
ties about keeping or invt
these tremendous fortunes, I can te
you how you can do more to get your
health back and your spirits raised (thaa
by drinking gallons of bad tasting water
at Saratoga, Homburg or Carlbad-give
to god and humanity and the Bible 10 per
cent. of all your income, andit will make
a new man of you, and from restles walk
ing of the floor at night you shall have
eight hours sleep without the help of
bromide of potassium, and from no ape
tite you will hardly be able to wait your
regular meals, and your wan cheek will
fill up, and when you die the bleminp
of those who but for you would have per.
ished will bloom all over yourgrave with
violets, if it be spring, or gladiolu,I it t
be autumn.
Perhaps some of you will take this ad
vice, but the most of you will no Ad,
you will try to cure your swollen bead
by getting on it more fingers. and yoat
rheumatic foot by getting aon it more
toes, and there will be a sighfd rliu
when you are gone out of the werdf
and when over your remains the minis
ter recites the words. "Blessed are the
dead who die in the Lord," persons who
have keen appreciation of the ludicrous
will hardly be able to keep their tr.es
straight. But whether in that dlrecies
my words do good or not, I am anio0s
that all who have only ordinary equip.
went be thankful for what they have
and rightly employ it. I think yeo
all have, figuratively a well a
literally, fingers enough. Do ad
long for hindering superfluities. Stand
ing in the presence of this fallen giant o
my text and in this post-mortem exami
nation of him, let us learn how much
better off we are with just the unsal
hand. the usual foot. You have thanked
God for a thousand things, but I warrant
you never thanked him for those two
implements of work and locomotion, that
no one but the infinite and omnipotent
God could have ever planned or made,
the hand and the foot. Only that sl
slier or that mechanic who. in a battle or
through machinery. has lost them, knows
anything alout their value, and only the
Christian w'ientist can have any apprecs
tion of what divine masterplccs they are.
Sir Charles Bell, the English surgeon, on
the battle tield of Waterloo, while en
gaged in amputations of the wounded
was so impreesed with the wondrous on
struction of the human hand that when
the Earl of Bridgewater gave $40,000 ftar
essays on the wisdom and goodness of
God. and eight books were written, Sir
Charles Bell wrote his entire book on the
wisdom and goodnes of God as displayed
In the human hand. The twenty-seven
bones in hand and wrist with
and ligaments and phalanges W the
fingers all made just ready to knit,
to sew, to build up, to pull down,
to weavr, to write, to plow, to
pound, to wheel, to battle, to
give friendly salutation. The tips of Its
fingers are so many telegraph ofioes by
reason of their sensitiveness of totch.
The bridges, the tunnels, the cities of the
whole earth are the victories of the had.
The hands aret not dumb, but often speak
as distinctly as the lips. With our hma
we invite, we repel, we invoke, we am
treat, we wring them in grief or
them In joy, or spread them abroadl L
benediction. The malformarson of tf
giant's hand in the test glorifies the
and. Fashioned of uod more eaqubi
Itely and wondrously than any hoes
mechanism that was ever contried, I
charge you use it for God and the lfting.
the world out of its moral predkaset,
Employ it in the sublime work of
handshakinmg. You can see the
just made for that. Four fingers
cet ri~ght to touch your neighbor's bo
on one' l,,' and your thumb set s as
clench it on the other side. By all
bones, ard joints, and muscles, and
lagos, and ligaments, the voloe of ntg
joins with the voice of God
you to shake hands. The custo
old as the Bible, anyhow. iohe
Jehonadab Is thies e I
(Usstsead a