The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1888-12-14

Z cartilagss and ligaments and phalanges Of
the hngers. all made Just ready to knit, to
sew, TO huild up, 20 pull down. to weave,
{ 10 write, 10 plow, TO pound, to wheel, TO bat
tie, 10 give friendly salutation- The tips u
the fingers are 50 many telegraph Offices BY
reason OF tl|IsF sensitiveness of-tou b. The
I bridges tie rnnnel,, the cities OF the whole
earth are inc victories Of the hand. The
( hands are not dumb, but often speak as dis
tiactly as the lips With our hands
we invite, we repel, we invoke. we
entreat. we wiring them in grief or
Gasp them in JOY, or spread them abroad
in tenediction- The malformation of the
giant hand IN the text glorifes the usual
hand Fashioned Of God more equisitely and
wondrousiy than any human mechanism
that ~ as ever contrived, l charge you Use it
for God anu the Sitting Of the world out Of
its moral prsdieament- Employ it in the
sublime work Of gospel hanishaking. You
can see the hand Is Just made for that. Four
fingers just set right o iouch your neighhor ;
hand on one side and your thumb set 50 As to
cench il on the other side. By all its bones, and
joints, ami muscles. and carriages, and liga-
ments, the voice OF nature joins with ths
voice OF God commanding Won 10 shake
hands. The custom is as old as the
Bible, anyhow. Jehu said to Jehonadeb:
as thine heart right as my heart is with
thine hearth II it be, give me thine hand"
When hands Join in Christian salutation
ttIAlltAAf Aili NAllA At tlAA
heart 10 heart, and from the shoulder Of one
TO the shoulder OF the other. Shake hands
all around With the timil aud for
their encouragement, shake hands. With
the troubled and in warm hearted sympathy,
shake hands With the young man Just en-
tering business, and discouraged at the
snail 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. AMI wto can hardly reach up 10
you now because YOU are so much taller,
shake bands. Across cradles and dying beds
and graves, shake hanis With your
fame AMI hurt you, but whom you
can afford to forgive, shake hands. At the
door Of 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 hanis with
week day, and earth shake hands with
heaven. Oh the strange the mighty, the un-
defined. the mysterious, the eternal power OF
an honest handshaking. The difference be
tween these times and the millennial times IS
that now some shake hands. but then all will
shake hands, throne AMI foot stool, across
seas nation with nation. God and man,
church militant and church triumphant
Yea; the malformation OF this fallen
giants foot gloriiies the ordinary foot, for
which fear you have never once thanked
God. The tweutv-six bones Of the foot are
the admiration Of the anatomist. The arch
Of the foot fashioned with n grace and
poise that rraj janis arch at Baneventum. or
ConStantine's arch at Rome, or arch Of
Triumph NJ the end of Champs Eiysees
couli not equal. Those arches stand
where they were planted, but this
arch Of the foot Is an adjustable arch,a yield
ing arch, flying arch. and ready for move
ments innumerabe. The human foot 50
1 i HH~hUF
as no other creature, ana leave the hand that
would otherwise have 10 hep in balancing
the body free for anything 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 nd 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 nude to cross the desert, or
climb the tree. or scale the cliff, or walk the
earth. or 60 where he needs to 20. With that
divine triumph of anatomy in your possession
where do you walk In wlat path Of
righteousness or what path OF in have you
set it down. Where have YOU left the mark
OF your footsteps Amid :he peirifactions in
the rocks have been found the mark OF the
feet Of birds and beasts Of thousands
of years ago And God can trace
lifetime. and those you made fiftv
years ago are rs plain as those made
in the last soft weather. all of them petrified
for the Judgment Day. Oh, the foot How
divinely honored not only in its construction
but in the fact that God represents Himself
in the Bible as having feet; The coulds on
the dust OF His feet Darkness was unler
His feet" The earth is NY fOotstooln And
representing cyclones and euro ,lydous and
whriwinds and hurricanes as winged
creatures he describes Himself as putting
HIS foot on these monsters Of the air and
walking from pinion 10 pinion, saying: He
walkeih upon the wings Of the wind - Thou
hast put all things under His feet. cries the
psainist Oh. the foot Give mo the auto
biography of your foot from the time YOU
stepped ou- OF the CRADLE until 70 day and
VIII tell your exact character now and
what are your prospects for the world TO