Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1888-10-20
hands. With the Young man Just en-

shake hands. With the young man just e.
terlng business. AMI discouraged az the
small sales and the large expenses. SHAKE
hands. With the child who Is new fros
God. AMI started on unend journey for
which he needs to- gather great suoplv OF
strength. AMI WHO can hardly reach up u
Won now because YOU are 50 much taller,
shake hands. Arros rallies AMI dyins bals
and grayeS. shake hants With yolr
enemles, who have done al - d.
fame AMI hurt YOU. hut whom You
can afford to forgive. shake hand. Al I'll.
door Of churches whore people como in AMI
at the door If churcies where people 90
ou. shake hanis Let pulpit shak- hands
with p"vv. and sabbath day shake han i with
week Gav. and earth shake hani> with
heaven. oh the strange. tae mighty, thu I'M
defined. the mysterious, thu eternal power Of
atrhone>t hanis1aklng. The difference he
tween these times ana the millennial times :
that now some shake tFanis but then al " Il
shake hands. throne an foot stool, aaro~-
s-a- nation with nation, God AMI man,
church militant and church triumphant
Yea: the malformation Of this fallen
giants foot glorties the orI nary foot for
which | fear YOU have never once thanked
God. The tTenty-sIx bones of the foot are
the admiration of thu anat0m5 It. TIE arch
If the foot fashioned with a grace and q
poise that Irajan's arch at B-ueventun. or
tonetantlnas arch a ROM, OF arch Of
Trump, at the enl of Champs EIvsess
couli not e Iual. Those arches stani
where they were p'antal. hut this
,rch of the fo6r i an al Iu~.abie arch,a yield
Ing arch. Il tivin- arch. and ready for move
ments innunlel aila. The human foot 20
fashioned as to enable man to stand upright
as no other creatIra. and leave tn h1n.I that
would other wise have to neip IN b|alan~iag
tie 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 hind fashioned
for the slippery rock. the foot of the on
fashioned 10 rend its prev. the foot OF the
horse fashioned for the solid earth. but tn,
foot of man made t. cross the desert. or
climb the tree. or scale the cliff. or wax the
earth, or &c whore he needs to 90 With that
divlne triumph of anatomy in your possession
where DO You yak In what path If
set 1t down Where have YOU left the mark
OF Your footsteps Amid The petrifactioh> in
the rocks have been found the mark Of the
feet Of brls and beasts Of thousands
Of years ago. And God can trace
ont all the footsteps of your
lifetime. and thoss You made fifty
years ago are as plain as those made
III the last soft weather. all of them petrltie |
for the Judgment Day. oh, the foot, How
dtVlncIy honOrad not only in its construction
but III the fact that Goo represents Himself
in the Bible rs having feet: The could on
IL lfiNL ~ 1 1 = n is WIS n fnT
| His feet The earth Is Nv foot>tool" And
representing cyclones and eurpclvdons an |
VIII rlwlnds and hurricanes as wing.l
creatures He describes Himself as putting
HIS root on these monsters of the air ani
walking from pinion to pinion. saying: lie
walHeth upon the wings of the wind. , '1lOr
hast put all things under His feat. y cries the
psalmtst. oh, the foot, Give me tn, auto,
biography Of your foot from the time Won
stepped ont of the Grad lie until to dav and
l VIII tell your exact character now and
what are your prospects for the worll to
come; That there might be nodoubt about
the fa"t that both these pieces of divine
mechanism hand and foot, belong to Christs
service. both hands of Christ AMI both
feet of Christ We're spiked on the
cross. Right through the arch of
both His feet to the hollow OF
Ills ln>tep went the iron Of torture, and
from the palm of his hand to the back of it.
an there IS not a muscle or nerve. or bone
among tie t~wenty-seven bones of hand ana
wrist, or among the twenty-slx bones of The
loot but 1T belongs to Him now ana forever
Charles keade, the great writer. lost the
JoInt of his toretinger hy feeding a
bear. Look out that Your whole hand gets
not INTO the NAV of the old Cerber1s of
Ierdltlon. Sir Thomas Trowbridge. at the
hattie of lnkermann. lost his foot and wheI
the soldiers would carry him away, he said
NO. | do not move until the battle is won
~ IL our looI De lat1tU or lost let 1t he IN he
service OF our God, our home or our country
hat IS the most beautiful foot that goes
about paths of greatest usefulness. and that
the most teai!tltul hand that does the most
I" help others. | was reading Of three women
who wer" Ill rivalry about the appearance OF
the hand. And the one Redeemed her hand
with berries, and said the beautiful tince
made hers the most be utiful. And
another put her hanl in the mountain brook
and said as the waters dripped or. that her
hand was the most beautiful. And another
plncked flowers off the bank. and unIer the
bloom contende that her nan was the most
attractive. Then Il poor Id woman an
neared. and looking up in her docrepitude
asked for aims. And a woman " no had not
taken part IN the rivalry gave her AIMS. IN
al the women re Owed to leave to this beg
gar the question as to which of al the han Is
present was the most attractive, an she
taid: - he most beautiful OF them all is the
ne that gave relics to my necessities" AMI
IS she SO said her wrinkles and
rags and her decrepituI e and her body dis
pp"aret, and III place thereof stool the
tlfri>t who long ago SAID: "InaSmuch as We
1t Il 1t TO one OF the least Of these We did It to
Ute and who To purchase tie service of our
iaani and foot here on earth or in res,rrec-
ton state, had HIS own hand and foot lac
Grated. B