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with nation, God and man, church will.
a I and church triumphant.
THE BEAUTY OF THE FaOT

4 { and church triumphant.
II BEAUTY OF THE foot
Yea. the malforma.ion Of this fallel
giants foot glorities the ordinary foot
for which | fear you have never one,
thanked God. The twenty six bones o
the foot are the admiration Of the anat
omist. The arch Of the foot fashioned
with y grace and a poise that Trojan
arch at Bencventum, or Constantine
arch at Rome, or arch OF Triumph at thu
end of Champs Elysees could not equal
Those arches stand where they were
planted, but this arch Of the foot is IN cd
Unstable arch, n yielding arch, a flying
arch, and ready for movements innumer
able. The human foot is SO fashioned rs
TO enable man TO stand upright as nc
other creature, and leave the hand that
would otherwise have 10 help in balanc.
ing the 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 hon fashioned to rend its prey, the
o O 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
clii, o. walk the earth. or gc
any "icre he needs TO 80. With
that divine triumph Of anatomy IN
your possession, where 10 you walk2 IL
what path OF righteousness or what path
of SIN have you set it down? Wher,
have you left the mark Of your foot
steps? Amid the petlifac'ions in lh(
rocks have been found The mark Of tb'
feet Of birds and beasts Of thousands 81
years ago. And God can trace out al
the footsteps of your lifetime, and thos,
you made fifty years ago are as plain "a
those made in The last soft weather. al
of them petrihed for the judgment day
oh, the foot, How divinely honored
not only in lis construction, but in The
fact that God represents Himself in the
Bible az having fees: The clouds on
the dust Of His feet" Darkness wa.
under His feet TIE earth is My foot.
stool" And representing
CYCLONES " E~UROCYLDoEs
And whiriwiLds and hurricanes is wing.
ed creatures, He describes Himself as pu,-
ting His foot on these monsters of the air
and walking from pinion to pinion, say.
ing: He walketh 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 cradle until today and ! will tell
your exact character now and what are
your prospects for the world TO come.
That there might be 40 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 ON the
cross. Right through the arch Of both
His feet to the hollow Of His footstep
went the iron Of torture, and from he
palm of His hand to the back Of il, and
IN re is not a muscle or nerve or bone
among the twenty seven bones Of hanJ
and wrist, or amOns the tweuty.siX bones
ofthe foot but il belongs to Him now and
forever. Charles Reade. the great writer.
lost the Joint Of his foretinger by feeding
a bear. Look out that your whole hand
gets not into The nav Of the old Cerberus
Of perlition. Sir Thomas Trowbri1ge.
az the battle Of lnkermann, lost his foot
aud when the soldiers would carry him
away, he said: no, | Go not move until
the battle is Won" So if our foot be
famed or lost let it be in the service of
our sod, our home or IA country.
TIE BEAUTIFUL HANDS.
That is the most beautiful foot that
goes about paths Of greatest u.efulness,
End that the most beautiful hand that
does the most 10 help others. ! was read
ing OF three women who were IN rivalry
about The appearance of the hand. And
the one redeemed he hand with berries.
and said the beautiful 1inge made hers
the most beautiful And another put her
ha q in the mountain brook. and said as
the waters dripped off that her hand was
The most beautiful. And another plucked
tioWtrsoT the bank, and under The bloom
cont"nded that her hand was the most
attractive. Then u poor old woman ap.
pearcd. and looking up in her decrepitude
asked for aims. And a woman who
had MOI taken part in the riv-
airy gave her aims. And ell
the woman resolved 10 leave 70 this beg.
gar the question as to which Of all the
hands present was the most attractive
and she said: The most beautiful one Of
them al is the one that gave relief to my
necessities aud "a She SO said her
wrinkles and rags and her dccrepitude
and her body disappeared, and in place
thereof stood The Christ who long AGO
said: 'lnasmuch as We did it 20 one of
tn, least Of these We did it to Me" and
who to purchase the service OF our hand
and foot here On earth or in resurrection
state, had his w hand and foot LAGER
ated.