New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-03


human mechanism tha at was ever contrlyed,
Icharge you use it for God and the lifting of
i the world out of it's moral preolcament.
i Employ it in the sublime Work of gospel
handshaking You can see the hand is just
made for that. -Four fingers just set right to
touch your neighbours hand on one side and
your thumb set SO as to clench it on the
other side. By all it's bones, and joints, and
muscles, and cartilages, and Ggaments, the
voice of nature joins with the voice of God
commanding you to shake hands. The GUS
tom is as old as the Bible, anyhow. Jehu
said to Jehonadab lis thine heart right as
4 my heart is with thine heart? If it be,
give me thine hand" When hands JON
IN Christian salutation a gospel electricity
j thrills across the palm from heart to
heart, and from the shoulder of one to the
j shoulder of the other Shake hands all
around. With the tinid and for their en-
4 couragement, shake hand. With the trou-
bled, and in warm hearted sympathy, shake
hands. With the young man just entering
business, and discouraged at the small sales
4 and the large expenses, shake hands. With
the child who is now from God, and started
i on an intending journey for which he needs to
i gather great supply of strength, and who
can hardly reach up to your 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 go 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 I'M
defined, the mysterious, the eternal power of
/ an honest handshaking. The difference be-
tween 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.
Yes; the malfornation of this fallen giants
foot glorifes the ordinary foot, for which /
fear you have never once thanked God. The
/ 26 bones of the foot are the admiration of
the anatomist. The arch of the foot fash
/ Toned with grace and a poise that Trolan's
/ arch at Beneventum, or Constantine's arch
| at Rome of the 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, flying arch, and ready for
movements innumerable. The human foot
| SO fashioned as to enable man to stand up
| right 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 fash
Toned for the sand, the foot of the
| bird fashioned for the tree branch,
| the foot of the lion fashioned to rcnd it's 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, OF scale the cliff, or
| walk the earth, or go anywhere he needs to
go. With that divine triumph OF anatomy
| in your possession, where do you walk? In
| what path of righteousness or what path of
| sin have you set it down? Where have you
left the mark of your footsteps? Amid the
petrifcations in the rocks have been found
! the mark of the feet of birds and beasts
! tb0,, Dc 81 4 Tod +,,oo
| out all the footsteps of your lifetime, and
| those you made SO years ago are as plain
| as those made in the last soft
weather, all of them petrifed for the
| Judgment day. Oh, the footl How divinely
honored not only in its construction but
in the fact that God represents himself in
the Bible as having feet: ''The clouds on the
dust of His feet:'' Darkness was under
His teet:) "The earth is Ny footstool"
And representing cyclones aud euroclydons
and whirlwinds 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: ssHe
walketh upon the wings of the wind"
Thou hast put all things in order under His
feet, cries the psalmist. On, 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 charac-
ter now and what are your prospects for the
|
/ 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 ofHis footstep went the iron of
torture, and from the palm ofHis hand to the
| back Oft, and there is not a muscle or nerve
or among the q bones of hand and wrist, or
among the 26 bones ofthefoot but it belongs
| to Him now and forever. Charles Reade, the
/ great writer, lost the joint of his forefnger
by feeding bear. Look out that your whole
hand gets not into the NAV of the old Ger
berus of perdition. Sir Thomas Trowbridge,
| at the battle OF Inkermann lost his foot and
when the soldiers would carry him away, he
said, mo, | 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 our
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. was reading of three
| women who were in rivalry about the APP
pearance of the hand. And the one Redeemed
/ her hand with berries, and said the beau
/ tiful tinge made hers the most beautiful.
| And another put her hand in the mountain
brook, and said as the waters dripped of,
that her hand was the most beautiful. And
! another plucked flowers off the bank, and
|
/ was the most attractive. Then poor old
woman appeared, and looking up in her
/ decrepitude asked for aims And a woman
who had not taken part in the rivalry gave
her aims And all the women resolved to
lea re to this beggar the question as to
| which of all the hands present was the most
attractive, and she said: The most beauti-
full of them all is tile one that gave relief to
my necessities, y and as she SO said her wrinkles
nd rags and her decrepitude and her
body disappeared, and in place thereof stood
the Christ who long ago said, "Inasmuch as
We did it to one of the least of these, We did
| it to me!' and who to purchase the service of
our hand and foot here on earth or in resur-
reetion state, had his own hand and foot
lacerated.
/ Many Uses of Castor Oil.
The average boy has an idea that