Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-24

nevolent societies tries to atone for his life
time close-fstedness, the heirs at law will
try to break the will by proving that the
old man was senile Or crazy, and the ex-
pense of the litigation will about leave in
the lawyers hands what was meant for
the American Bible Society. Oye over
weighted successful business men, wheth-
er this sermon reach your ear or Your eye,
let me say that if You are prostrated with
anIieties about keeping or investing these
tremendous fortunes, / 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 AND HUMANITY
the Bible ten per cent. of all your income
and il will make new man of you, and
from restless walking of the aoor at night
you shall have eight hours sleep without
the help of bromide of potassium, and from
no appetite you will hardly be able to wait
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
with violets. if it be spring, or gladiolus, if
il he autumn.
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 rhen-
matte foot by getting on it more toes, and
there will be sigh of relief when you are
gone out of the world; and when over your
remains the minister recites the words:
"Blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord" persons who have keen apprecis-
tion of the ludicrous will hardly be able
keep their faces straight. But whether in
that direction my words do good or not, 1
AIN anxious that all who have only ordi-
nary equipment be thankful for what they
have and rightly employ it.
Sir Charles Bell, the English snrgeon,
on the battlefield Of Waterloo, while en-
gagged in smputstions of the wounded wss
80 impressed with the wondrors construc.
tion of the human hand that when the
Earl of Bridgewater gave forty thousand
dollars for essays of the wisdom and good
ness Of God, and eight books were written,
Sir Charles Bell wrote his entire book on
the wisdom and goodness Of God as dis
played in the human hand. The twenty
seven bones in hand and wrist with cartil.
ages and ligsments and plalanges 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 bat.
tie, to give friendly salution. The tips of
its fingers are go many telegraph offices by
reason of their sensitiyeness of touch.
The bridges, the tunnels, the cities Of the
whole earth are the victories of the hand.
The hands are not dumb, bat often speak
as distinctly rs the lips.
WITH OUR HANDS WE INVITE,
we repel, we invoke, we entreat, we wiring
iGem in grief or clap them in joy, OF spread
them abroad in benediction. The malfor-
nation of the giants hand in the text glo-
rifles the usual hand. Fashioned of God
more exquisitely and wondrously than any
human rnechanicism that was ever con-
triVed, charge you use II for God and
the lifting of the world out of its mortal
predicament. Employ it in the sublime
work of gospel handshaking. You can see
the hand ia Just made for that. Four
fingers Just set hight TO touch your
neighbours band on one side and your
thumb set 10 ss 20 clench it on the other
side. By oil it's bones, and joints, and
muscles, and cartillages, and lgaments,
the voice of nature joins with the voice Of
God commanding you to shake bands. The
custom is as old as the Bible, anyhow.
Jehu said to Jehonsdad: 'Is thine hesrt
right ne my heart is with thine heart? III
it be, give me thine hand.n When hands
Join in Christian salutation gospel cleo
tricity thrills across the palm from heart
to heart. and from the shoulder Of one to
the shoulder OF the other. Shake hands
all around. With the timid and for their
encouragement, shake hands, With the
troubled and in warm hearted sympathy,
shake hands. With the young man just
entering business and discouraged at the
small sales and the large expenses, shake
hands. With the child who is new from
God and started an amending journey
for which ne needs to gather
great supply OF strength, and
who can hardly reach up TO you now, be-
cause you are 30 much taller, shake
hands. Acroes cradles and dying beds
and graves, shake hands. With your enc
mics who have done all TO defame and
hurt yen, but whom you can afford to for
give, shake hands. At the door OF
churches where people come in, and at tho
door Of churches where people 90 out,
shake hsnds. Let pulpit shake hands
with pew, and Sabbath day shake hands
with week day. and earth shake hands
with heaven. oh, the strange, the mighty,
the undefued, the mysterious, the eternal
power of an honest handshakipg. The
difference between these times and the
millenial times is that now some shake
hands but then all will shake hands,
throne and foot stool, across seas, nation
with nation, God and man, church mill
tant and church triumphant.
Yea; the malformstion OF this fallen
giants foot.
GLoRIFIEs THE ORDINARY FOOT,
for which ! fear you have never once
thanked God. The twenty-six bones OF
the foot are the admiration Of the snato-
mist. The arch of the foot fashioned with
a grace and poiss that Trajsn's arch at
Beneventum, or Constsntine's 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, flying arch, and ready
for movements inpumerable. The human
foot 80 fashioned rs 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 any
thing il chooses. The foot of the camel
fashioned for the sand, the foot Of the bird
fashioned for the tree branch, the loot 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 clif, or vsli the earth,
or 90 anywhere he needs TO 90. With that
divine triumph of anatomy In your posses
zion, where do you waikp In what path
of righteousness or what path of sin have
YOU set il down? Where have you left
the mark Of your footstepsr Amid the
petrifscticns in the rocks have been found
the marx Of the feet of birds and beasts of
thousands of years ago. and God can
trace out all the footsteps Of your lifetime,
and thoes you made fifty years sgo are &c
nIain as those made in the lsst soft wealth
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