Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-30
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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 on amending journey for which
he needs to gather great supply of
strength, and who can hardly reach up
to you now, because you are SO much
taller, shake hands. Across cradles and
dying beds and graves, shake hands.
With your enemies who have done all
TO defame and 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 60 out,
shake hands. 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 underlined, the mysterious,
the eternal power Of an honest hand
shaking. The difference between these
times and the millennial times is that
now some shake hands but then all will
shake hands, throne and footstool, 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 twenty-six bones OF
the foot are the admiration Of the anat-
omist. The arch of the foot fashioned
with a grace and a pose that Trajan's
arch at Beneventum, or C~onstantine'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, a yielding arch, a
flying arch, and ready for movement 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 L go. With
that divine triumph Of anatomy in your
possession, where do you walk? In what
path of righteousness OF what path Of sin
have you set il downl 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
pertrifed for the judgment day. oh,
the foot! How d~ivinely honored
not only in its construction but in
the fact that God represents himself
in the Bible as having feet: 1.-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 o
sters Of the air and walking from pinion
to p~lion, saying: "He wallleth 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 aud | win tell your exact character
now and what are your prospects for the
world 10 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 II Christ and both feet of Christ
were spiked N the cross. Right through
the arch OF both his feet TO the hollow Of
his fpyitep vent 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 t~wenty-seyen bones
Of hand and wrist, OF among the
twenty-six bones Of the foot. but it be-
longs 10 him now and forever. Charles
Reade, the great writer. lost the joint Of
his forefinger by feeding a 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
lnkermann, lost his foot, and when the
soldiers would carry him away, he said;
"No, l 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 country.
, That is the most beautiful foot that
goes about paths Of greatest usefulness,
and that the most beautiful hand that
does the most TO help others. | wa:
| 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
hers the most beautiful. Aud another
. put her hand In tho mountain brook,
and said ms the waters dripped of, that
/ her hand was the most beautiful. AND
another plucked flowers of the bank.
, and under the bloom contended that hcl
hand was the most attractive. Then 9
poor old woman appeared, and looking
up in her decrepitude asked for aims
And a woman who lad not taken part il
; the rivalry gave her aims. And al
) the women resolved to leave 10 this beg
; gar the question rs 10 which Of all tb,
, hands present was the most attractive
! and sLa said: 1.-THE most beautiful nj