The Russellville Democrat., 1888-10-04

a. b cllnch II on the other side. BY all
fts bones, and joints, and muscles. and
cartiiagaa and hgauents the voice o.
nature Joins with the voice or God In
commanding ron to shake hands. The
custom ID AZ old as the Bible, anyhow
Jehu said to Jahonadab:
IDS thine heart right as my heart Is with
thine hearth II it be. givc ms thine
hand
when hands Join in Christian saluta-
ton gospel electricity thrills across the
palm from heart 10 heart, aud fr ON the
shoulder Of one to the shoulder Of the
other. Shake hands all around With
the flmld and for their encouragement
shake hands. With the troubled and La
warm hearted sympathy. shake hands
vita the Young man Just catering busi-
ness and discouraged at the small sales
ana large expenses, shake hands. With
the child who Ia new from God and started
on an unendin0 journey for which he
needs to gather q great supply OF
strength, and who can hardly reach
M 10 rou now, because you are so much
taiisf, shaks hands. Across cradles
and dying beds and grases, shake
hands. With your enemies who have
done all to defame aud hurt you, but
whom you can afford to forgive, shake
hands. e the door OF churches where
people come in, and Ak TIE door OF
churches where people go out snake
hands. Let pulpit shake hands with pew.
and Sabbath day shake hands with week
day. aud earth shake hands with He aven.
Oh the strange, the mighty, the underlined,
the mysterious, the eternal power OF an
honest handsh aking. The difference be-
tween these times and tGs :sssss.SSIinial
times IL that now some SHAKE hands, but
then all will shake hands throne and
footstool, across seas ard nation ~ith
natiur God and man, church militant
and church triumphant
Yea, the maiformation OF t1.s teilen
giants foot gloriaes the ordinary foot,
for WHICH, fear, you have never once
thanked God. The twenty-six bones OF
the foot are the admiration OF the anat-
omist. The arch of the foo. fashioned
with grace and poige that Traian's arch
at Beneventum or Constaatine's arch at
Rome, or arch OF Triumph at the end OF
Champs Eiysees could not equal. Those
ar ches stand where they were planted,
but this arch of the foot is an adjustable
arch. a yielding arch, flying arch, and
ready for movements innum cradle. The
human foot 60 fasshioned ~ to enable
man to stand upright as no otl5ef Greats
ure and leave the hand that would 9th
erwise have TO help In balancing the body
free for any thing 1t chooses. The foot
OF the camel fashioned for the sand, the
foot or the bird fashioned for the tree
branch. the foot of the hind fashioned
for the slippery rock, the foot OF the lion
fashioned to read its prey, the foot OF the
horse fashioned for the solid earth, but
tie foot Of man made to cross the desert.
or climb the tree, Or scale the cliff, or
walk the eafth, or 60 anywhere he needs
to go.
With that Divine triumph OF anatomy
In your possession, yhere do you walk.
In what path OF righteousness or vs..
path OF sin have you set it downs Where
have you left the mark of your footstepss
Amid the petrifcations in the rocks hare
been found the mark OF the teet Of birds
aad beasts OF thousands of years ago.
And God eau trace out all OF the foot
steps Of your lifetime, and Those gou
made fifty years ago are as plain as those
made in the last soft weather. all OF them
petrified for the judgment day. On the
foot! How divsnely honored not only in
its construetio n. but in tile fact that God
represents Himself in the Bible as hav-
ing feet 1.-THE clouds on the dust
of His fest;p i.Iilrkiess was I'M
der His feet;n the earth is my
footstooln And representing cyclones,
and c1rocly dons. and whirlwinds, and
hurricanes as winged creatures, He de-
scribes Himself rs putting His foot on
these monsters OF the air and waking
from pinioa to pinion, saying: HE walk
eth upon the wings OF the wind" .Thou
hast put all things under His feet" cries
the v5salmist Oh, the footl Give me the
autobiography OF your foot from the time
you stepped out of the cradle until to-day
and will tell your exact character now,
and vitat are yuuf 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
Chris and both feet OF Christ were
spiked on the cross. Right through
the arch of both His feet to the hol-
low of His foot went the iron OF torture,
and from the palm of His hand TO the back I
OF it, and there is not q muscle or nerve
or bone among the twenty-seYen bones /
% the 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 a bear. Look
NAV Of the old Cerberus OF psrdition. 4
SIR Thomas Trowbridge, at the battle of 1
hike rman. lost his foot. aad when the sol. /
diers would carry him away he said: mo, I
I do not move uatll the battle ia Won"
So il our foot be famed or lost let it be in /
the service Of God. our home or our coun. (
try.
That is the most beautiful foot that goes
about paths Of greatest usefulness, and
that the most beautiful hand that does 1
the most to help others. / was reading
of three women who were In rivalry about I
the appearance of the hand. And the /
one Redeemed her hand with berries, and
said The beautiful tinge made hers the I
most beautiful And another put her
hand in the mountain brook, and said as
the waters drippe1 off that her hand was
the most beautiful. Aud another plucked 1
flowers off the bank nduhder the bloom I
contended that hen. hand was the most at
traetiye. Then poor old woman APP
peared and, looking up ia her decrepi- Z
tude, asked for aims. And woman who
had not taken part in the rivalry gave
her aims. And all the women resolved
to lea We TO tins beggar the question as 10
which, of all the hands present. was the
most attractive, and she said:
.fhe most beautiful of them all Is the
one that gave re lief TO my necessities"
and as she SO said her wrinkles and rag
and or decrepitude and her body disap- I
peared, and la place thereof stood the
Christ who loug ago said:
"lnasmuch as ye did it to one Of til
least OF these ye did il to me ~ and who
to purchase tl+e service Of our had aul
foot here on earthor in resurrection state.
had His own hand and foot laeerated.
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