Democratic messenger., 1888-09-29

your possession, where do you walks In
what path Of righteousness or what path
OF sin have you SO. Il DOWN. Where have
you left the mark Of your footstepsf Amid
the petrifactions In the rocks have been
found tho 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 80 years ago
are as plain as those made In the last soft
weather. all of them petriiied for the judg-
ment day. OH the foot How divinely
honored not only In It's construction but
In the fact that God represents Himself
In the Bible as having feet: "The clouds
on the dust Of His fect;" Darkness was
under Ills feet;" The earth Is my foot
STOOL" And representing cyclones and
euroclydons and whirlwinds and huri.
canes as winged creatures. lie describes
himself rs putting His foot on these mons
icrs Of the air and walking from pinion to
pinion, saying: ale walkcth upon the
wings of the wind" "Thou hast put oil
things under Ills feet" cries the psalmist.
Oh the foot! 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 what are
your 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
Christs service, both hands Of Christ and
both feet Of Christ were spiked to the
cross. Right through the arch Of both His
feet to the hollow of Ills iootstcp went
the iron oftorturc, and from the palm OF
His hand 10 the back of Il, and there Is
not muscle or nerve or bone among the
% bones Of hand and wrist. or among the
90 bones Of the foot, but IL belongs to
him now and forever. Charles Reade, the
great writer. lost Iii: joint Of his forefin.
ger by feeding bear. Look out that your
whole hand gets not into the NAV Of the
old Ccrberus of pcrlition. Sir Thomas
Trowbridgc, at the battle Of Inkermann
los, his foot and when the soldiers would
carry him away he said mo, do not
move until the battle is won" 30 if our
feet he lamed or lost let IL he IN the service
of orr God, our home or oui country.
\ LEGEND.
That is the most beautiful foot that goes
about paths Of greatest usefulness. and
tha, does the most 10 help others. was
reading oi three women who were in
rivalry about the appearance of,hc hand.
And the one rcddenc,l her hand with her.
rics, and said the beautiful ,ingc made
hers the mos, beautiful And another
put her hand in the mountain brook and
said n the waters drirpcd of. that her
hand was the most beautiful. And an.
other pluckcd flowers off the bank, and
under the bloom Contcnded that her hand
was the most attractive. Then poor old
woman appeared, and, looking up in her
decrcpiludc, asked for aims And WON.
an who had hot taken part in the the
rivalry gave her aims. And all the
women resolved To leave to this bcggar
the question as 10 which of all the hands
pcrsent was most attractive, and she paid:
"The most beautiful Of them all is The one
that gave relies TO my necessities" and as
she 30 said her wrinkles and rags and her
dccrcpi,ude aud her body disappeared.
and in place ,hcrof stood the Christ, who
long ago said "lnasmuch as We did il To
one OF the least of ,hcscyc did tito Mer
and who to purchase the service Of our
hand and foot here ON earth or in rcsu.
rcction state had His own hand and foot
lacerated.