The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-10-04

shake hands With the young man just en-
tering business, and discouraged at the
small sales and the large expenses, shake
hands With the child who Is new from
God. and started on unendiny journey for
strength, and who can hardly reach up to
you now because YOU are so much taller,
shake hands. Across cradles and dying beds
and graves shake hands. With your
enemies, who have dono all to de-
fame 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 un-
defined, the mysterious, the eternal power Of
an honest handshaking. The difference be-
tween these times and the millennial times il
that now some shake hands but then all will
shake hands, throne and foot.stoo across
seas nation with nation, God and man,
church militant and church triumphant
Yea; the malformation of this fallen
giants foot glorifies the ordinary foot, for
which l fear you have never once thanked
God. The twenty-six bones of the foot are
the admiration of the anatomist The arch
OF the foot fashioned with n grace and n
poise that TraJan's arch at Beneventum, or
Gonstantines arch at Rome, or 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 yield
ing arch. n flying arch, and ready for move
ments innumerable The human foot so
fashioned as to enable man TO stand upright
rs 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
Tor the slippery rock, the foot Of the lion
fashioned TO rend its prev. the foot OF the
horse fashioned for the solid earth. but the
loot OF man made to cross the desert OF
climb the tree, or scale the cliff. or walk the
earth, or 60 where he needs to 90 With that
divine triumph OF ofanatomy in your possession
whore do YOU walk In what path of
righteousness or what path Of sin have you
set IL down. Where have Won left The mari
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 trnce
out all the footsteps of your
nietine, and those you made fifty
years ago are rs plain as those made
IN the last soft weather all of them petrified
Tor the Judgment Day Oh, the FOOT How
dlvinely honored not only in its construction
but IN the fact that God represents Himself
IN the Bible MS having feet: "The couds on
III ta, " " ,1,i, nj ''ee parkhess was under
ra,sr'.a,,,, , nc Jhrtn Is NY tootStool" And
- y ,,,,i,,aaH onciones anu euroclydons and
Z, e-y.,.. ar- ,,,,.r,n nI.r,,nnes n rs wingei
His foot on these monstors ~ ,La pu''.nS
walking from pinion to ninior si m1 a' nm nm
walketh upon tbe ,yin,s ~ ,hn sayi"y ne
hast put ali tbings undnr III H. ,sa, " ,apu .p
psalmist Oh the foot d. NV, ,"s .no
biography of your foot from, tho ~ .',, "u.o ..
stepped out of the crnd1io ,,nt;i % .,.,e d you
/ will tell yonr ayact chara,,, "., W uay ana
what are your prosn.,t, o. H. ~" ana
come That thora ,,i,,h, ~ -, .Io moI,i 70
the fact TINT both tSaso "V ,,no no uoup' m ao1ue
mechanism, hand md foot balon,, =, Chr,l.,,
seryico both banJs 81 'rb,.ia,S w ,1 ~ I.,
feet Of Christ wora s'ii'n, anu poLn
cross Ricbt ,brnr,h 'iN'u i,h Oh the
both His feat toH ,ha odI,. v,
His insten went tho iron 30 ,n,.,,', "a W
from the pnlm of Lis bnnd 90 ,ho h''i "i,u
and there ia not muscle o ~ ,ar,.n ,r VI ~,
among the twcntv.sevon bonos - us oons as
wrist, or among The twant y'si, honns ~, nj. ~,
foot but il belonps In Him nov, onh sora,. ~ .n.
Charles Rcnde The great ,.r;,o. a' n, ~. y.
joint of his fore1inger NV ,ondin, '"e =
bear Look out tbnt yonr whole bond so,.
not into tho nav ~ Tho ola Tara.k ma,i ke's 20
perditon. Sir Thomas T,owbridge at ~. y.
bo,tIa ~ t,Larr,a,,. i.. h1H"o'Iuse, ao the