The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-28

omist. The arch Of the foot fashioned
with a grace and a poise that Trajan's
arch at Beneventum. or Constantine i
arch at Rome, or arch Of Triumph
at the end Of Champs Elysees could not
equal Those arches stand where they
were planted, but this arch Of the foot is
an adjustable arch, yielding arch, q
flying arch, and ready for movements In
Vulnerable. The human foot so fash
Toned as to enable man to stand upright
as no other creature, and leave the hand
that would otherwise have to help in
balancing the body free for anything it
chooses. The foot Of the camel fashioned
for the sand, the foot Of the bird fash
toned for the tree branch, the foot Of the
hind fashioned for the slippery rock, 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 the 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 down9 Where have you
left the mark Of your footsteps? Amid
the petrifactions in the rocks have been
found the mark of the feet of birds and
beasts of thousands of years ago. And
God can trace out all the footsteps of
your lifetime, and those you made fifty
years ago are as plain as those made
in the last soft weather, all Of them
pertrified for the judgment day. Oh,
the footl How divinely honored
not only in its construction but in
the fact that God represents himself
in the Bible as having feet: ''The clouds
on the dust of his feet;" Darkness was
under his feet;" "The earth is my foot
STOOL" And representing cyclones and
euroclydons and whirlwinds and hurri-
canes as winged creatures, he describes
himself as putting his foot on these mon
sters of the air and walking from pinion
to pinion, saying: ale walketh upon
the wings of the wind" "Thou hast
put all things under his feet, cries the
psalmist. Oh, the foot! Give me the auto
biography of your foot from the time
you stepped out Of the cradle until to-
day and I will tell your exact character
now and what are your prospects for the
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
t,,o o,oL ~ lX,%I, his foot m tho l,olloxx, ~
his footstep went the iron of torture, and
from the palm of his hand to the back
of it, and there is not a muscle or nerve
Or bone among the twenty-seven bones
of hand and wrist, or among the
twenty-six bones of the foot, but it be-
longs to him now and forever. Charles
Reade, the great writer. lost the joint of
his forefnger by feeding bear. Look
out that your whole hand gets not into
the nav of the old Cerberus of perdition.
Sir Thomas Trowbridge, at the battle of
Inkermann, lost his foot, and when the
soldiers would carry him away, he said:
mo, do not move until the battle is
won." So if our foot be famed or lost
let it be in the service Of our God, our
home or our country.
That is the most beautiful foot that
goes about paths Of greatest usefulness,
arid that the most beautiful hand that
does the most to help others. was
reading of three women who were in
rivalry about the appearance of the hand.
And the one Redeemed her hand with
berries, and said the beautiful tinge made
lers the most beautiful. And another
out her hand in the mountain brook,
md said as the waters dripped off, that
ler hand was the most beautiful. And
mother plucked flowers off the bank,
md under the bloom commended that her
land was the most attractive. Then a
,oor old woman appeared, and looking
Up in her decrepitude asked for aims.
And woman who had not taken part in
he rivalry gave her aims. And all
he women resolved to leave to this beg
,ar the question as to which Of i the
lands present was the most attractive,
md she said: 1.-The most beautiful of
hem all is the one that gave relief to
ny necessities, and as she so said her
wrinkles and rags and her decrepitude
nd her body disappeared, and in place
hereof stood the Christ who long ago
aid: ''Inasmuch as We did it to one of
he least of these ye did it to mer' and
Who, to purchase the service of our hand
nd foot here on earth or in resurrection
tate, had his own hand and foot LAGER