News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-04


reduced the price. and this while our philan
thropist was building Cooper Institute, which
mothers hundred institutes of kindness anC
mercy all over the land. But the world haC
to wait five thousand eight hundred years fol
Peter Cooper. l am glad for the benevo!en
institutions that get a legacy from men who
during their life were as Stingy as DEATH but
who in their last will and testament bestowed
money on hospitals and missionary societies;
but for such teStatorS | have no respect.
They would have taken every cent of it with
them if they could, and bought up half OF
heaven and let it out at ruinous rent. or
loaned the money to CELESTIAL citizens at two
per cent. a month and got a corner on harps
and trumpets. They lived in this world
fifty or sixty years in the presence of appall-
ing suffering and want, AMI male no effort
for their relief. The charities of such people
are for the most part in "paulOpos future
tense and they are going to do them. The
probability is that if such a one in his last
will by donation to benevolent societies
tries to atone for his lifetime close listed
ness the heirs at law will try to break the
VIII by proving that the old man was senile
or crazy, and the expense of the litigation
will about leave in the lawyers hands what
was meant for the American Bible Society.
Q we overweighted successful business men
whether this sermon reach your ear or your
eye let me say that if you are PROSTATE
with aXietieS about keeping or investing
these tremendous fortunes, l can tell you
how you can do more to get your health
back and yonr spirits raised than by
drinking gallons of bad-tasting water al
Saratoga, HOmburg or Carlsbad give
to God and humanity and the Bible ter
per cent. of all your income, and it will make
a new man of you, and from restless walking
OF the floor at night you shall have eight
hours slsep without the help of bromide of
potassium, and from no appetite you viii
hardly be able TO wait your regular meals.
and your wan cheek viii fiji up, and when
you die the blessings of those who but for
you would have persisted will bloom all over
your grave with violetS If 1t be spring, OF
gadioluS, if it be autumn.
Perhaps some of YOU will take this advice.
but the most of you will not And YOU will
try to cure your swollen hand by getting on
it more fingers and your rheumatic foot by
getting on it more toes, anu there VIII be o
sigh OF relief when you are gone out of the
world; and when over your remains the min.
lister recites the words: Blessed are the dead
who die in the Lord, - persons who have keen
appreciation of the ludicrouS will hardly be
able to keep their face straight. But
whether in that direction my words do good
or not | am anxious that all who have only
ordinary equipment be thankful for what
they have ami rightly employ it. | think
you all have, figuratively as well as literally,
fingers enough. Do not long for hinderlng
superfluities Standing i'll the presence OF
this fallen giant OF my text and in
this poSt-mOrtem examination of him,
let us learn how much better OFF we
are with just the usual hand, the
usual foot. You have thanked God for
thousand things, but | warrant you never
thanked Him for those two implements of
work and locOmotiOn, that no one but the
Infinite and Omnipotent God could have
ever planned or made, the hand and the foot
Only that soldier or that mechanic VINO in a
battle or through machinery has lost them
knows anything about their value, and only
the Christian scientist can have any appre-
citation of what divine masterpieces they
are. Sir Charles Bell, the Eng, ish
surgeon. on the battlefield of Water
loo, while engaged in amputations
of the wounded was SO impressed with the
wOndrouS construction of the human hand
that when the Earl of Brdgewater gave
forty thousand dollars for essays on the wis
dom and goodness of God. and eight books
were written, Sir Charles Bell wrote his en-
tire book on the wisdom and goodness of
God as displayed in the human hand The
twenty seven bones in hand and wrist, with
nartilagcS and lgamentS and phalanges OF
the fingers. all made Just ready to knit, to
sew, to build up. to pull down, to weave,
10 write to piOw, to pound, to wheel, to bat
tie, to give friendly salutation. The tips OF
the fingers are 50 many telegraph ices by
reason of their SenSltlVeneSS OF tou II. Inc
bridges, the tunnels, the cities OF the whole
earth are the victories Of the hand. The
hands are not dumb, but often speak as dis
-ilctly as the lips With our hands
we invite, we repel we invoke, we
sntreat, we wiring them in grief or
IN Eenediction. The malformation of the
giants hand in the text glorities the usual
hand. Fashioned of God more equiSitely and
than any human mechanism
that ever contrived | charge you use it
for God ana the lifting Of the world out of
its moral predicament. Employ it i'll the
sublime work of gospel handshaking. You
can see the hand is just made for that. Four
fingers just set right o touch your neighbOr's
hand on one side and your thumb SET so as to
ciench it on the other side. BY all lis bones and
joints AMI muscles, and cartiageS, and Ign
ments, the voice of nature joins with the
voice of God commanding yOn to shaSe
hands. The custom is as old as the |
Bible, anyhow Jehu said to Jehonadeb: |
rs thine heart right as my heart is with |
.hine heartE II it lie, give me thine hand"
When hands JON in Christian situation |
gospel electricity thrills across the palm from
heart to bart, and from the shoulder of one !
10 the shoulder of the other. Shake hands |
all around. With the timid and for |
their encouragement, shake hanls. With |
the troubled and in warm helrte sympathy,
shake hands. With the young man just en- |
terlng business, and discouraged at the |
small sales and the large expenses, shake |
hands. With the child who is new from |
sod, and started on unendiny journey for |
which he needs to gather great suDply OF |
strength, AMI 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 done all to de- |
anne and hurt you, but whom you |
an afford to forgive, shake hands. At the /
loor of churches where people come in and |
at the door of churches where people 90 |
1ut. shake hands Let pulpit shake hands |
with pew, and Sabbath day shake han1s with |
week day. and earth shake hands with /
heaven. Oh the strange, the mighty, the I'M
tefined, the mysterious, the eternal power of |
III honest handshaking The difference be-
ween these times and the millennial times is
hat now some shake hands. but then all VIII |
hake hands, throne and fCotstool, across |
cas- nation with nation, God AMI man,
'hurch militant and church triumphant
ga; the malformation of It's fallen |
giants foot glorifes the ordinary foot. for |
Shich l lear you have never once thanked |
5od. The twenty-siX bones of the foot are |
ne admiration of the anatOmist The arch |
II the foot fashioned with a grace and a |
1olse that Irajan's arch at Baneventum. or |
ConstantIne arch at Rome, or arch of |
triumph az the end of Champs Elvsees |
oult not equal. Those arches stand |
vhere they were planted, but this |
lrch OF the foot is an adjustable arch. a Weld |
ng arch, flying arch, and ready for move /
menus Llnumerable. The human foot so |
sshloned as to enable man to stand upright |
IS no ether creature, and leave the hand that |
would otherwise have to help in balancing |
he body free for anything it chooses The |
DOT OF the camel fashioned for the |
'and, the foot of the bird fashioned for
he tree branch, the foot of the hind fashioned |
or the slippery roc, the foot of the lion /
to rend its prev, the foot of the |
lorse fashioned for the solid earth but thu |
DOT OF man made to cross the desert. or
'ilmb the tree, or scale the cliff, or wa * the |
Earth, or 90 where he needs to 20. With that |
llVIne triumph of anatomy in your possession
where do you walk! In what path Of |
righteousness or what path of sin have you
set IL down! Where have YOU left the mark
u your footstepsl Amid the petrifactions in
,he rocks have been found the mar of the
eet of b.rls and beasts of thousands
II years ago. And GCd can trace |
put all the footsteps of your
lfet ale, and those you made fifty
years ago are as plain as those made |
N the last soft weather, all of them Detrified |
for the Judgment Day. Oh, the FOOT How
iivinely honored not only in its construction |
N the Bible as having feet: 1.-The cOulds on |
he dust of His feet" Darkness was under |
His feet" the earth is My fOOtstooLn And |
presenting cyclones and eurOclydons and |
VII rlwinds and hurricanes as winggI |
creatures, He describes Himself as putting |
MS loot on these monsters of the air and |
walking from pinion TO pinion, saying: "He |
"alketh upon the wings of the wind" Thou |
nasG put all things under His feet - cries the |
Dsamlst Oh, the foot! Give me the auto
biography of your foot from the time Won
stepped out Of the CRADLE until to day and |
VIII tell your exact character now and |
what are your prOSpe It's for the world to |
'ome. That there might be no doubt about
5he ia"t that both these pieces of divine |
mechanism hand and foot, belong to Christ's |
service both hands of Christ and both |
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