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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 fashioned for
the tree branch, the foot Of the hind fashioned
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 where he needs to go. With that
divine triumph of anatomy in your possession
where do you walks In what path Of
Righteousness or what path of sin have you
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
in the last soft weather, all of them petrifed
for the Judgment Day. Oh, the foot! How
divinely horored not only in its construction
|! but in the fact that God represents Himself
in the Bible as having feet: "The coulds on
the dust of His feet;" Darkness was under
His feet" THE earth is My footstool." And
representing cyclones and euroclydons and
whrlwinds and hurricanes as winged
creatures, He describes Himself as putting
His foot on these monsters of the air and
walking from pinion to pinion, saying: "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 auto.
biography of your foot from the time you
stepped out of the craddle until today 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 Christ's
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 inStep went the iron of torture, and
from the palm Of his hand to the back of it,
and there is not muscle or nerve, or bone
among the twenty-seven bones OF hand and
wrist. or among the twenty-six bones Of the
foot but it belongs to Him now and forever.
Charles Reade, the great writer, lost the
Joint of his torefinger by feeding q
bear. Look out that your whole hand gets
perdition. Sir Thomas Trowbridge, at the
battle of Inkermann, lost his foot and when
the soldiers would carry him away, he said:
"No, do not move until the battle is won.'
So if our foot be lamed or lost let it be in the
service Of our God, our home or our country.
That is the most beautiful foot that goes
about paths of greatest usefulness. and that
to help others. was 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. And
another put her hand in the mountain brook,
and said as the waters dripped off, that her
hand was the most beautiful. And another
plucked flowers off the bank. and under the
bloom contended that her hand was the most
attractive. Then a poor old woman ap-
peared, and looking up in her decrepitude
asked for aims. And woman who had not
taken part in the rivalry gave her aims. And
all the women resolved to leave to this beg
gar the question as to which of all the hands
present was the most attractive, and she
said: "The most beautiful of them all is the
one that gave relics to my necessities" and
as she so said her wrinkles and
rags and her decrepitude and her body dis
appeared, and in place thereof stood the
Christ who long ago said: "Inasmuch as ye
did it to one of the least of these ye did it to
Me- and who to purchase the service of our
hand and foot here on earth or in resurrec-
tion state, had His own hand and foot lac
Grated.