Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-10-18

,binery has lost them knows any thing aoou,
/ ,hair vaIue and only the Christian scientlsl
i can have any appreciation Of what divine
I ,,,asta,niaces they are Sir Charles Bell
+ the English surgeon, on the oattie-nelu %
4 waterloo. while engaged in amputations OF
/ Tho wounded was so impressed with the
,gondr ms construction of the human hand
that when the Earl of Bridgewater gave
fortv thousand dollars for essays on the
,,,is5om and goodness of God, and eight
hooks were written, Sir Charles Bell wrote
his entire book ON the wisdom and goodness
of God as displayed in the human hand Inc
tventy-seven bones in hand and wrist win
cartilages and ligaments and phalanges OF
the fingers all made just ready to Knit, 10
sew. TO build up, to pull down, to weave,
TO write. TO plow, TO pound, 10 wheel, 10
battle. to give friendly salutation. Inc
tips Of its fingers are so many telegraph
offices by reason of their sensitiyeness OF
touch. The bridges, the tunnels, the cities
If the whole earth are the victories OF the
hand.
The hands are not dumb, but often speak
"a distinctly as the lips. With our hands
we invite. we repel, we invoke, we entreat,
we wiring them in grief, or clasp them IN Joy,
or spread them abroad in benediction. The
malfornation of the giants hand in the
text glorifies the usual h..nd. Fashioned OF
God more exquisitely and wonderously than
any human mechanicism that was ever CON
triyed, charge you use it for God and the
lifting Of the world out of its moral predica-
ment. Employ II in the sublime work OF Cos
bel handshalxing You can see the hand is
lust made for hat -Four fingers just set right
to touch your neighbours hand on one side
and your thumb set so as 10 clonch II on
the other side BY all its bones, and
Joints and muscles, and cartilages, and
ligaments, the voice of nature joins with
the voice of God commanding you TO
shake hands The custom is as old as
the Bible, any how. Jehu said TO Jehona
dab: as thine heart right as my heart
is with thine hearts II IL be, give me
thine hand" When hands join in Christian
sautation a gospel electricity thrills across
the palm from heart to heart and from the
shoulder Of one to the shoulder of the
other Shake hands all around. With
the timid and for their announcement,
shake hands With the troubled and
in warm-he irted sympathy shake hands.
With the young man i1st entering busi-
ness aud discouraged at the small sales
and the large expense, shake hands. With
the child who is new from God and started
on amending journey for which he needs to
gather great supply OF 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 done
all to defame and hurt you, but whom you
can afford to forgive, shake hands. 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.
o, the strange, the mighty the underlined,
the mysterious, the eternal power of an
honest Handwriting. The difference be-
tween these times and the miliennial times
Is that now some shake hands, but then all
will shake hands, throne and fooistool,
across seas nation with nation, God and
man, church militant and church tri-
uuphant
Yea, the malformation Of this fallen
giants foot gloriies the ordinary foot, for
which fear YOU have never once thanked
God The twenty-six bones Of the foot are
the admiration Of the anatomists The arch
81 the foot fashioned with a grace and
3oise that Trajan's arch at Beneventum or
arch at Rome, or arch of
Triumph at the end of Champs Elysees could
not equal. Those arches stand where they
we're planted but this arch Of the foot is an
adjustable arch, yielding arch, a flying
arch, and ready for movements inuumer-
able The human foot is so fashioned as to
enable man 70 stand upright as no other
creatures, aud leave the nand that would
otherwise have to help in balancing the
body free from any thing it chooses. The
loot OF the camel fashioned for the sand, the
loot Of the hind fashioned for the slippery
rock, the foot OF the iioa fashioned TO rend
IL prey, the foot Of the horse fashioned for
he solid earth, but the foot Of man made to
ross the desert or climb the tree, or scale /
he cliff, or walk the earth, or 20 anywhere
10 needs 10 90. With that Divine triumph
" snatomy in your possession, where doyou
valki In what path Of righteousness or
what path of sin have you set il downl /
Where have you left the mark Of your foot
Itepsl Anid tho petrihcations in the rocks /
lave 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 |
our lifetime. and those you made fifty /
ears ago are as plain as those made in the |
asst soft weather. all Of them petrited for I
he judgment day o. the foot How di- |
-inely honored, not only in its construction, I
nut in the fact that God represents himself I
q the Bible AS having feet: The clouds |
N the dust of His feet THE darkness I
vas under His feet 'sThe earth is nv /
ootstooln And representing cyclones and |
uroclydons and whirlwinds as winged |
FEATURES. He describes himself as put
ing his foot on these monsters of the air
nd walking from pinion to pinion, saving:
He that walketh upon the wings of the
Wind Thou hast put all things under His
eet" cries the psalmist 20, the footl /
live me the autobiography of your foot
rom the time YOU stepped out of the cradle
ntil today, and win tell your exact char
cter now and what are your prospects for
be world to come That there might be no /
oubt about the fact that both these pieces
I divine mechanism, hand and foot. belong
D Christs service both hands of Christ
nd both feet Of Christ were spiked on the
ross. Right through the arch of both His
eet to the hollow of His footstep went the
ron of torture, and from the palm of His
and TO the back of il, and there is not a
MUSCLE or nerve or bone among the twenty
even bones of hand and wrist. or among
he twenty six bones of the foot but It be
lngs to Him now and forever Charlaa |