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TOO MDCH 18 MISEK Y DR. TALMAGE’S BERMON ON THE DAN GERS OF WEALTH. Tke CaeleaoMeaa of the Gleet The | Serviee of the Com moe piece—Th er Who Do the World's Work—The Divinity of Service. I 1898, by American Press Asso- I elation.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. From a passage ■ of Scripture that probably no other clergy- B man ever preached from Ker. Dr- Talmage E in this discourse sets forth a truth very I appropriate for those who have unhealthy ■ ambition for groat wealth or fame. The I text is I Chronicles xx, 6, 7: "A man of great stature, whose fingers I and toes were four and twenty, six on each ■ hand and six on each foot, and he also [ was tho son of a giant. But, when he de ’ fled Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimea, David's brother, slew him.” Malformation photographed, and for what reasoq? Did not this passage slip by mistake Into the sacred Scriptures, as sometimes a paragraph utterly obnoxious to the editor gets into his newspaper dur ing his absence? Is not this Scriptural errata? No, no; there is nothing haphaz ard about the Bible. This passage of Scripture was as certainly Intended to be put in the Bible as the verso, “In the be ginning God created the heavens and the earth,” or “God so loved the world that he gave bis only begotten Son. ” And I select it for my text today because it is charged with practical and tremen dous meaning. By the people of God the Philistines had been conquered, with the exception of a few g’ants. 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 But there were many of them in olden times. Goliath was, aqpordlng to the Bible, 11 feet 4}£ inches high, or, if you doubt this, the famous Pliny declares that at Crete by an earthquake a monument was broken open, discovering the remains of a giant 46 cubits long, or 69 feet high. So, whether you take sacred or profane history, you must come to the conclusion that there were in those times cases of human altitude monstrous and appalling. Impotent Giantism. David had smashed the skull of one of these giants, but there were other giants that the Davidean wars had not yet sub dued, 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 additlonaKnger, and the foot had also a superfluous adden dum. He had 94 terminations to hands and feet, where others have 20. It was not the only instance of the kind. Ta vernier, the learned writer, says that the emperor of Java had a son endowed with the same number of extremities. Volca tius, the. jjget, had six fingers on each hand. Maupertuis, in ,hls celebrated let ters, speaks of two families near Berlin similarly equipped of hand and foot. All of which I can believe, for I have seen two cares of the same physical superabun dance. But this giant of the text is in battle, and as David, the stripling warrior, had dispatched one giant the nephew of David slays this monster of my text, and there ho lies 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 probabil- Jty 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. Behold the prostrate and mal formed giant of the text: “A man of great stature, whore fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand and six on each foot, and he also was the son of a giant But when he deflect Israel, Jona than, the son of Shimea, David’s brother, slew him.” The Use of Everyday. Behold how superfluities are a hin drance rather than a help 1 In all the bat tle 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 a giant on the wrong side, and all the body and mind and estate and opportunity that you cannot use for God and the better ment of the world are a sixth finger and a sixth toe and a terrible hindrance. The most of the good done in the world and the most of those who win the battles for the right aro ordinary people. Count the fingers of their right hand, and they have just five—no more and no less. One Dr. Duff among missionaries, but 8,000 missionaries that would tell you they have only common endowment. One Florence Nightingale to nurse the sick in conspicu ous places, but 10,000 women who are just as good nurees, though never heard of. The “Swamp Angel” was a big gun that during the civil war made a big noise, but muskets of ordinary caliber and shells of ordinary heft did the execution. Presi dent Tyler and his cabinet go down the Potomac one day to experiment with the “Peacemaker,” a great iron gun that was to affright 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 ordinary 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 discus sion 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, a million 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 fash ioned on a rough last by a shoemaker at the end of flie lane, rocking babies that are to be the Martin Luthers and the Faradays and tho Edisons and the Bis marcks and the Gladstones and the Wash ingtons and the George Whiteflelds of the future. The longer I live the more I like common folks. They do the world’s work, 1 tear!ng the world’s burdens, weeping the worid’ferympathies, the world’s consolation. Among lawyers we see rise up a Rufus Choate or a William Wirt or a Samuel L. Southard, but society would go to pieces tomorrow if there were not thou sands of common lawyers to see that men and women get their rights. A Valentine Mott or a Willard Parker rises up emi nent in tho medical profession, but what an unlimited sweep would pneumonia and diphtheria and scarlet fever have in the world if it were not for 10,000 common doctors! The old physician in his gig, driving un the lane of the farmhouse or riding on norseback, his medicines in the saddlebags, arriving on tho 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, I hate mastered the case; he is get ting well!” excites in me an admiration quite equal to the mention of the names of the great mctroj»olitan doctors of the past or ths illustrious living men of tbs prosoDw ITseleao Addenda. Yet what do we see in all departments? 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 20 manual and ptdal addenda, they want 24. A cer tain amount of money for livelihood, and for the supply of those whom we leave be hind us after we have departed this life, is important, for we have the best authority for saying, “He.that provldeth not for his own, and especially those of his own household, Is worse than an infidel,” but the large and fabulous sums for which many struggle, if obtained, would be a hindrance rather than an advantage. The anxieties and annoyances of those whose estates have become plethoric can only be told by those who possess them. It will bo aCgood thing when, through your industry and prosperity, you ’ can own the house in which you live. But suppose you own 60 houses and you have all those rents to collect and all those tenants to please. Suppose you have branched out in business successes until in almost every direction you have invest ments. The fire bell rings at night; you rush up stairs to look out of the window to.see if it is any of your mills. Epidemic of crime comes, and there are embezzle ments and absconding in all directions, and you wonder whether any of your book keepers will prove recreant A panic strikes the financial world, and you are like a hen under a sky full of hawks and facing with anxious oluck to get your overgrown chickens safely under wing. After a certain stage of success has been reached you have to trust so many impor tant 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 81,000 is not equal to the anxiety on your brow now that you have won your SBOO,OOO. Monetary Plethora. The trouble with such a one is, he is spread out like the unfortunate one in my text. You have more fingers and toes than you know what to do with. Twenty were useful; 24 are a hindering super fluity. Disraeli says that a king of Poland ab dicated his throne and joined the people and became a porter to carry burdens. And some one asked him why he did so, and he replied: “Upon my honor, gentle man, the load which I cast off was by far heavier than the one you see me carry. The weightiest is but a straw when com pared to that weight under which I labor ed. I have slept more in four nights than I have during all my reign. I begin to live and to be a king myself. Elect whom you choose. As for me, I am so well it would be madness to return to court. ” y “Well,” says somebody, “such overload ed persons ought to be pitied, for their worriments are real, and their insomnia and their nervous prostration are gen uine.” I reply that they could get rid of the bothersome surplus by giving it away. If a man has more houses than he can car ry without vexation, let him drop a few of them. If his estate is so great ho cannot manage it without getting nervous dys pepsia from having too much, let him di vide with those who have nervous dyspep sia because they cannot get enough. No, they guard their sixth finger with more caro than they did the original five. They go limping with what they call gout and know not that, like the giant of my text, they are lamed by a superfluous toe. A few of them by charities bleed themselves of this financial obesity and monetary plethora, but many of them hang on to the hindering superfluity till death, and then, as they are compelled to give the money up anyhow, in their last will and testament they generously give some of it to the Lord, expecting, no doubt, that he will feel very much obliged to them. Thank God that once in awhile we have a Peter Cooper, who, owning an interest in the iron works at Trenton, said to Mr. Lester: “I do not feel quite easy about the amount wo are making. Working under one of our patents, we have a monopoly which seems to me something wrong. Ev erybody has to come to us for it, and we are mal. ing money too fast. ” So they re duced the price, and this while our philan thropist was building Cooper Institute, which mothers a hundred institutes of kindness and mercy all over the land. But the world had to wait 6,800 years for Peter Cooper! The Miser and Misery. I am glad for the benevolent institutions that get a legacy from men who during their life were as stingy as death, but who in their last will and testament bestowed money on hospitals and missionary socie ties, but for such testators I have no re spect. They would have taken every cent of it with them if they could and bought up half of heaven and let it out at ruinous rent or loaned the money to celestial citi zens at 2 percent a month and got a “cor ner” on harps and trumpets. They lived in this world 50 or 60 years in the presence of appalling suffering and want and made no efforts for their relief. The charities of such people are inthe“Paulo-post future" tense. They are going to do them. The probability is that if such a one in his last will by a donation to benevolent societies tries to atone for his lifetime closefisted ness the heirs at law will try to break the will by proving that the old man was se nile or crazy, and the expense of the liti gation will about leave in the lawyer’s hands what was meant for the Bible so ciety. O ye overweighted, successful busi ness men, whether this sermon reach your ear or your eyes, let me say that if you are prostrated with anxieties about keeping or investing these tremendous fortunes I can tell you how you can do more to get your health back and your spirits raised than by drinking gallons of bad tasting water at Saratoga, Homburg or Carlsbad—give to God, humanity and the Bible 10 per cent of all your income, and it will make a new man of you, and from restless walk ing of the floor at night you shall have eight hours’ sleep without the help of nromide of potassium, and from no appe tite you will hardly be able to wait for your regular meals, and your wan cheek will fill up, and when you die the bless ings of those who but for you would have perished will bloom all over your grave. Perhaps some of you will take this ad vice, but the most of you will not. And you will try to cure your swollen hand by getting on it more fingers, and your rheu matic foot by getting on it more toes, and there will boa sigh of relief when you are gone out of the world, and when over your remains the minister recites the words, “ Blessed arc the dead who die in the Lord,” persons who have keen apprecia tion of the ludicrous will hardly be able to keep their faces straight.’ But whether in that direction my words do good or not, I am anxious that all who have only or- di nary equipment be thankful for what they have and rightly employ it I think you all have, figuratively as well a* liter ally, finger, enough. Do not long for hindering superfluities. Standing in the presence of this fallen giant of my text and in this post mortem examination of him. lot us learn how much better off we are with just tho usual hand, the usual foot. You have thanked God for a thou sand things, but I warrant you never thanked him for those two implements of work and locomotion that no one bgfi tho infinite and omnipotent God could have »ver planned or made—the hand and the foot. Only that soldier or that meehMio who in a battle or through machinery has tost them knows anything adequately •bout their value, and only the Christian scientist can have any appreciation of what divine masterpieces they are. The Haman Hand. Sir Charles Bell was so impressed with the wondrous construction of the human hand that when the Earl of Bridgewater gave $40,000 for essays on the wisdom and goodness of God, and eight books were written, Sir Charles Bell wrote bis entire book on the wisdom and goodness of God as displayed in the hu man hand. The 27 bones in tho hand and wrist with cartilages and liga ments and phalanges of the fingers all made just ready to knit, .to sew, to build up, to pull down, to weave, to write, to plow, to pound, to wheel. to battle, to give friendly salutation. The tips of its fingers are so many telegraph offices by reason of their sensitiveness of touch. The bridges, the tunnels, tho cities of the whole earth are the victories of the hand. The hands are not dumb, but often speak as distinct ly as tho lips. With our hands we invite, wo repel, we Invoke, we entreat, we wring them in grief or clap them in joy, or spread them abroad in benediction. The malformation of the giant’s hand in the text glorifiesjhe usual hand. Fashioned of God more exquisitely and wondrously than any human mechanism that was ever contrived, I charge you to use it for God and the lifting of tho world out of Its moral predicament. Employ to-in the sub lime work of gospel handshaking. You can see tho hand is just made forthat. Four fingers just set right to touch your neighbor’s hand on one side, and your thumb set so as to clinch it on the other side. By all its bones and joints and muscles and cartilages and ligaments the voice of nature joins with the voice of God commanding you to shako hands. The custom is as old as the Bible, anyhow. Jehu said to Jehonadab: “Is thine heart right as my heart Is with thine heart? If it be, give me thine hand. ” When hands join in Christian salutation, a gospel elec tricity thrills across the palm from heart to heart, and from the shoulder of one to the shoulder of the other. With the timid and for their encourage ment, shake hands. With the troubled in warm hearted sympathy, shake hands. With the young man just entering busi ness and discouraged at the small sales and the large expenses, shake hands. With the child who is new from God and started on unending journey, for which' he needs to gather great supply of strength, and who can hardly reach up to you now because you are so much taller, shake hands. Across cradles and dying beds apd graves, shake hands. With your ene mies who have done all to defame and hurt you, but whom you can afford to for give, shake hands. At the door of the churches where people come in, and at the door of churches where people go out, shake hands. Let pulpit shake hands with pew and Sabbath day shake hands with weekday/and earth shake hands with heaven. Oh, the strange, the mighty, the undefined, the mysterious, the eternal power of an honest handshaking! The difference between these times and the millennial times is that now some shake hands, but then all will shake hands, throne and footstool, across seas, nation with nation, God and man, church mili tant and church triumphant. The Errant Foot. Yea, the malformation of this fallen giant’s foot glorifies tho ordinary foot, for which I fear you have never once thanked God. Tho 26 bones of the foot are the ad miration of the anatomist. The arch of tho foot, fashioned with a grace and a poise that Trajan’s arch or Constantine’s arch or any other arch could not equal. Those arches stand where they were planted, but this arch of the foot is an adjustable irch, a yielding arch, a flying arch, and ready for movements innumerable. The human foot, so fashioned as to enable a man to stand upright as no other creature, and leave the hand that would otherwise have to help in balancing the body free for any thing it chooses. The foot of the camel fashioned for the sand, the foot of the bird fashioned for the tree branch, the foot of the hind fashioned for the slippery rook, the foot of the lion fashioned to rend its prey, the foot of the horse fashioned for the solid earth, but the foot of man made to cross the desert, or climb the tree, or scale the cliff, or walk tho earth, or go anywhere he needs to go. With that divine triumph of anatomy in your possession where do you walk? In what path of righteousness or what path of sin have you set it down? Where have you left the mark of your footsteps? Amid the petrifactions in the rocks have been found the marks of the feet of birds and beast of thousands of years ago. And God can trace out all the footsteps of your life time, and those you made 50 years ago are as plain as those mode in the last soft weather, all of them petrified for the judg ment day. Oh, the foot! Give me the autobiography of your foot from the time you stepped out of the cradle until today, and I will tell your exact character now and what are your prospects for tho world to come. That there might be no doubt about the fact that both ‘these pieces of divine mechanism, hand and foot, belong to Christ's service both hands of Christ and both feet of Christ were spiked on the cross. Right through the arch of both his feet to the hollow of his Instep went the iron'of torture, and from the palm of his hand to tho back of it, and there is not a muscle GT nerve or bone among the 27 bones of hand and wrist or among the 26 bones of the foot but it belongs to him now and forever. A Fafcle of Servloo. That is the most beautiful foot that goes about paths of greatest usefulness, and that the most beautiful hand thatdoes tho most to help others. I was reading of throe women tn rivalry about the appear ance of the hand. And the one reddened her hand with berries and said the beauti ful tinge made hers the most beautiful. And another put her hand in the moun tain brook anfl said as the waters dripped off that her hand was the most beautiful. And another plucked flowers off the bank, and under the bloom contended that her hand was the most attractive. Then a poor old woman appeared, and, looking, up in her decrepitude, asked for alma. I And a woman who had not taken port in the rivalry gave her elms. And all the women resolved to leave to this beggar the ‘ ..f. question as to which ct ail the hand* pres •nt was the most attractive, and aha arid. “The most beautiful of th. rn all la the one that gave relief to my nmaattfoe ” And as she ao Mid berwrinktee and rags and her decrepit udo and her body disappeared, and in place thereof stood the Christ, who tong ago said, “Inasmuch as ye did it to ona of tho least of there ya did it unto ma.” and who to purchase the sarvtoa of our hand and foot here on earth had hte own toed and foot lacerated. Jo ha Brt*ht*s Piwrfhvoy. Colonel Birch tolls in a Plattsburg paper of the following conversation be bad 80 years ago with Colonel Vincent Marma duke. and its application to present condi tions to such that wo give it to the public. Every Missourian knows that Colonel Marmaduke, like his brother, was a de cided Confederate, and during the war be was the bearer of dispatohee from Mr. Davis to Mr. Meson, who repreoeoted tho southern Confederacy in England. Mar maduke says that one evening Mr. Mason said to him: “Mr. Marmaduke, John Bright to to make a speech tonight in the bouse of commons, and I think it would be to your pleasure and interest to go down to bear him." It.will be remembered * that at that day Mr. Bright vas the teost conspicuous fig ure in England. Marmaduke went, and during his speech Marmaduke says that Bright stopped, and, changing nto line of remarks, said, “Mr. Speaker, if our kins folk on the other side of the Atlantic net tle their civil war satisfactorily and get back together in peace, in 40 years there will not be a gun fired in the world with out their consent.” This statement at that day seemed pre posterous, and no one but a man with Bright's comprehensive mind could have dared to make such an assertion to go be fore the world. It has been but 85 years since Mr. Bright made that statement, and yet events have happened in the last few months which give to Mr. Bright's words the spirit of prophecy, and no ons would now hesitate to reproduce it— Kansas City JournaL ANNOUNCEMENTS. For Mayor, At the solicitation of many citizens I hereby respectfully announce myself a candidate for mayor, subject to the prim mary of October 11th, promising if elected to faithfully perform the duties of the of fice in the interest of all concerned. JNO. L. MOORE. Having faithfully served the City of Griffin as Mayor for one term, I announce as a candidate for re-election. and respect fully solicit the votes of the citizens. W. D. DAVIS. For Aiderman. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Aiderman from the First Ward, and if elected I promise to do what in my honest Judgment is to the good of the greatest number of tax payers, regardless of friend or,foe. Yours, etc., C. HOMER WOLCOTT. I respectfully announce myself as a can didate for Aiderman from the first ward and solicit the support of my friends. J. H. SMITH. At the solicitation of friends I respect fully announce myself a candidate for Ai derman from the Fourth Ward, and so licit the support of the citizens. Having a pride in the welfare of our city and her institutions I promise, if elected, to act for the best interest of the city and citizens and perform conscien tiously every duty assigned me. DAVID J. BAILEY. Having served the city as Aiderman from the 4th ward for the past two years, and conscientiously discharged my duty, I announce myself as a candidate for re election and respectfally solicit the votes and support of the citizens. M. D. MITCHELL. To the Voters of Griffin : lam a can didate lor Aiderman from Second Ward, and respectfully ask your support. M. J. PATRICK. TAX ORDINANCE FOR 1898. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun cil of the city of Griffin and it is hereby ordained by authority of the same, that the sum of 25 cents be and the same is hereby imposed on each and every one hundred dollars of real estate within the corporate limits of the city of Griffin and on each and every one hundred dollars valuation of all stocks in trade, horses, mules, and other animals, musical instru ments, furniture, watches, Jewelry, wag ons, drays and all pleasure vehicles of every description, money and solvent debts, (except bonds of the city of Griffin) and upon all classes of personal property, including bank stock and capital used for banking purposes, in the city of Griffin on April Ist, 1898, and a like tax upon all species of property of every description held by any one as guardian, agent, ex ecutor or administrator or in any other fiduciary relation Including that held by non-residents, to defray the current ex penses of the city government. Section 2nd.—That the sum of 65 cents be and the same to hereby imposed upon each and every one hundred dollars valu ation of real estate and personal property of every description as stated in section First of thia ordinance, within the corpo rate limits of the city of Griffin for the payment of the public debt of the city and for the maintainance of a system of electric - lights and water works. Section B.—That the sum of 20 cento be and the same to hereby imposed upon each and every one hundred dollars valu ation of real estate and personal property of all descriptions, as stated in section First of this ordinance, within the corpo rate limits of the city of Griffin, for the maintainance of a system of public schools. The ftmds raised under this section not to be appropriated for any other purpose whatever. Section 4.—That persons failing to make returns of taxable property as herein pro vided in section First, Second and Third of this ordinance shall be double taxed as provided by the laws oi the state and the clerk and treasurer shall issue executions accordingly. Section s.—That all ordinances or parts ofordinznees militating against this ordi nance be and the same are hereby repeal ed. To Cara CoaallpatLon Faravev. Take Cascareta Candy Cathartic. Mo or Me, m G C. C. fail to eare, druKXlats refund naoae> -,• • . A ——————————————————j- ■ <|Tf|nl ■ i iiuin rfliimiiiSii |UHUI Ullin -gy M For Infante and Children. ISTOR|A|The Kind You Have I "ways Bought Bears the / Ig. tufe ZVf Ju Promotes ■ JF •/ I|F ne^sandltestContains neither M A >il Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. ■ vl I M 4M n > Ift iTV l/J S* Ikp A perfect Remedy for Co ns lipa- I lion. Sour Slomach.Diarrtoea, Ml 11T Worms .Convulsions,Feverish- Ml ts Fre m f|«ereja ness and Loss OF SLEEP. 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