The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-10-05
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citation of what Divine masterpieces they


gagged in amputations Of the woundecl
was so impressed with tho wondrous con-
struction of the human hand that when tho
Earl Of Bridgowater gave forty
thousand dollars for essays on
the wisdom aud. goodness OF God,
and eight books were written Sir
Charles Bell wrote his entire book on tha
wisdom and goodness Of God as displayed
IN the human hand. Tue twenty seven
bones in hand and wrist, With cartilsges,
and ligaEents. aud phalanges OF the
fingers all made Just ready to KNIT 60
sew, TO build up to pull down, to weave
to write, TO plow, to pound to wheel, 20
battle, to give friendly salutation. The
tips of its fingers are 50 many telegraph
Offices by reason of their sensitiveness %
touch. The bridges, the tunnels,
the cities OF the whole earth are
the victories Of the hand The
hands are not dumb, but often
speak as distinctly as the lips with
our hands we invite, we repel we invoke,
we entreat, we wiring them In grief or
clap them in 10y, or spread them abroad
in beuediction. The melformation OF the
giants hand in the text gloriies the
usual hand Fashioned Of God more exc
quisitely and wondrously than any hur
man mechanism that was ever contrived,
charge you use 1t for God and this lift-
ing Of the world out of its moral predica-
ment. Employ it in the sublime work Of
Gospel hand shaking. You can see the
hand is Just made for that -Four fingers
lust set right 10 touch your neighbours
hand on one side and your thumb set so
as to cliuoh it on the other side. By all
its bones, and joints, and muscles, and
cartilages, and igaments the voice OF
nature joins with the voice Of God in
commanding you to shake hands. The
custom is as old as the Bible. anyhow.
Jehu sal TO Jehonadab;
sis thine heart right as my heart is with
thine heart? If it be, give me thine
! hand"
When hands Join in Christian saluta-
ton a gospel electricity thrills across the
palm from heart to heart, aud from tho
shoulder Of one to the shoulder Of the
| other. Shake hands all around. With
the timid and for their encouI agement,
shake hands. With the troubled and in
warm hearted sympathy, shoko hands
| With the young man just entering busf-
ness and discouraged at tho small sales
and largo expenses, shake hands. With
| the child who IS new from God 8nd started
on Gn unending journey for which he
needs to gather q great supply or
strength, and who can hardly reach
/ up to you now, BECAUSE you gre so much
taller shake hands. Across cradles
| and dying beds and graves, shake
| hands. With your enemies who have
whom you can afford to forgive, shake
| hands at the door Of churches where
/ people come in, and at tbo door OF
| churches where people go out shake
! hands. Let pulpit shake hands with pew,
| and Sabbath day shake hands with week
| day, and earth shake hands with Heaven.
/ On the strange, the mighty, tho underlined,
| the mysterious, tho eternal power OF an
| honest handshoking. The difference be-
| tween those times and the millenntal
times is that now some shake hands, hut
| then all will shake hands, throne and
footstooI, across seas and naiion with
nation, God and man, church militant
| and church triumphant
With that Divine triumph OF nnor omy
! in your possession, whore do You walkg
| In what path OF righteousness or what
| path Of sin have you set it doWnf Where
| havs you left the mark Of your footstepsg
! Amid the petrihcatiOns In the rocks have
! been found the mark Of the feet Of birds
and beasts of thousands OK years ago.
And God can trace eat all OF the foot
steps Of your lifetime, and those you
/ made fifty years ago are as plain as those
| made in the last soft weather, all of them
| petrifed for the judgment day. On tho
footl How diyinely hOnored not only In
| it's construction II. but in tine fact that God
represents Himself in the Bible as hav-
| ing feet. ''The clouds the dust
Of His feet;" Darkness was uu-
der His feet;" "The earth is my
footstool." And re presen ting cyclones,
and curoclydons. and whirlwinds, and
hurricanes as winged creatures, He do
scribes Himself as putting His foot on
these monsters Of the air and walking
from pinion to pinfon, saying: Gle walk
eth upon the wings of the wind" "Thou
hast put all things under His feet" cries
the psalmist. Oh, the foot Give me the
autobiography Of your foot from the time
you stepped out Of the crsdle until to-day
and I will tell your exact character now
and what are your prospects for the world
to come. That there might be no dOube
about the fact that both these pieces
Of Divine chanism, hand and foot,
belong to ChrisRs service, both hands OF
Christ and both feet of Christ were
spiked on the cross. Right through
the arch OF both His feet TO the hol-
J low OF Ris foot won't the iron Of torture,
| and from the palm Of His hand 20 the back
Of Il, aud there is not G. muscle or nerve
or bone among the twenty-sevon bones
| Of the hand and wrist among tho
| tWGnty4sfx bones OF the foot, but IL be-
1 longs to Him now aud forever. Charles
| Reade, the great writer, lost the lout or
his forefnger by feeding q bear. Look
/ out that your whole hand gets not into tho
nav Of the old Cerberus OF porditiou.
| Sir Thomas Trowbridge, at the battle Of
| Inkermau. lost his foot. and when the aol-
/ diers would carry him away he said: mo-
/ do not move until the battle ts won"
/ So II our foot be famed or lost lot It bo IN
the service Of God, our home or our coun-
| try.
/ That Is the most bea utifu1 foot that goes
| about paths Of greatest usefulness, and
/ that the most beautiful hand that does
/ the most TO help others. / was reading
/ Of three women who were In rivalry about
the appearance OF the hand. And tho
| one reddened her hand with berries, and
/ said tbs beautiful tiuge mado hers tho
| most beautiful And another put hef
/ hand in the mountain brook, and said as
the waters dripped off that her hand was
/ the most beautiful And another pluc1ea
| flowers of The bank, and under the DIopm
| oontended that her hand was the most at
l tractive. Then "a poor old woman ap-
/ peared, aud, ooking up IN nor decrePl-
tude, asked or aims. Aud woman VINO
had not taken part in the rivalry gave
her aims. And all tho women resolve oa
! 70 leave to this beRgar the question as 70
| which, Of all the hands present was tho
| most attractive, and she said;
fThe most beautiful OF them All u the
! one that gave relief to my nocaasitiess't
and as she 50 said nor wrinkles anu rags
! and her decrepitude and her body diaap-
peared. and in place thereof stood tho
| Christ VINO long ago seidi
| ss1naannrtob a. 70 did it to one Of the
least Of these 20 did it 70 ms :" aud who
- nurchase tho service OF our hand and
goo4 here on earlh or in resurrection state
bad ria own hand and foot iaoarateds
/ -s-s-e--
Trfa a painful experience 70 BE- misun-
derstood By those whom we are trying 70
serve by self-denial and humiliation. But
we can barely hope 70 escape 40, and we
| should therefore prepare ~ accept 10 ia
thoroughly Christian spirit Christ here
as Ia other things Is cur example. He