Democratic messenger., 1888-09-29
Superduity flinders.
Confined From FeMrta Rhae.l

more to get your health back and your
spirits raised than by drinking gallons of
bad.iasting water at Saratoga, llomburg
or Carlsbad--give to God 10 per cent Of
oil your income. and to humanity the Bi-
bic, and II will make new man Of you, and
from restless walking Of the floor at night
you shall have eight hours sleep without
the help Of bromide ofpotasium. and from
no appetite you will hardly be able to wait
your regular meals, and your wan check
will I'LL mp. and when you die the blessings
those who hut for you would have
pcrishcd will bloom all over your grave
with vioIets, if II be spring, or gladiolus,
&c Il he autumn.
NOT ALL WILL. TAKE ADVICE.
Perhaps some Of you will take this ad.
vice but the most Of you will not. And you
will try to cure your swollen hand by get
ting OF 1t more fingers. and your rlcuma.
tic foot by getting ON 1t more toes, and
there will he sigh of relief when you
are gone out Of the world and when over
your remains the minister rcciics the
words blessed are the dead who die In
the Lord" persons who have keen apprc.
citation of the lud,crous will hardly bc able
TO keep their face straight. But whether in
that direction my words do good or not,
am anxious that all who have only ortli-
nary equipment he thankful for what they
have and rightly employ II. think you all
have fisurcatiyely as well as literally, fin
gers enough. Do not long for hindcring
supcriiuities Standing In the presence of
this fallen giant o. my text and in this
yos,.mo,iem examination Of him, let us
learn how much better of we are with just
the usual hand, the usual foot. You have
thanked God for thousand things, hut
warrant, you never thanked Him for those
two implements 0s work and locnmotion
that no one hu, the liini;c aud Omnipot-
cnt God could ever have planned or made
the hand and the foot only that soldier
or ilia, mechanic who IN la,tlc OF through
machinery has los, them knows anything
about their value. and only the Christian
scicniis, can have any appreciation Of
what divine masterpieces they are. Sir
Charles Bell, the English surgeon, on the
battlefield Of Waterloo. while engaged in
amru,a,ion of ihe wounded was So i'm.
pressed with the w"ndcrous construction
oi the human hand that when the Earl Of
Bridtcway gave $i0,0oO ioi essays ON the
" is,lom and goodness oi God and eight
books were written, Sir Charles Bell wrote
his entire book on the wisdom and goo,l.
ness of God as displayed in the human
hand. The % homes in hand and wrist
with cartilagcs and ligamcnts and plalan.
yes Of the fingers all made just ready TO
knit, to sew, 10 build up, topull down, 10
wcayc, TO write, TO plow, to pound. 10
wheel, to hattie, to give friendly salu,alion.
The tips Of It's fingers are so many tclc.
grapl, Offices by reason Of their sensitive.
ness OF touch The bridges. the tunnels.
victories of the hand The hands nrc not
dumb, hut often speak as distinctly as the
lips. With our hands we invite, We repcl,
we invoke, we cntrcat, we wiring them in
grief ar clap them in joy, or spread them
abroad in hcncdiciion. The malformation
ofihc giants hand in the text glorines
the usual hand. Fashioned Of God more
cxquisitely and wondcrously than any
human mechanism that was ever con.
trived, charge you use il for God and
the lifting Of the world out of lis moral
predicamcnt. Employ It in the sublime
work Of the Gospel Misunderstanding. You
can see the hand is just made for that.
Four fingers just set right to touch your
ncighbor's hand Oh one side and your
thumb set so as TO clencl IL on the other
side by all lis bones, and joints, and
and cartilases, and ligamcnts,
the voice Of nature joins with the voice
Of God commanding you To shake hands.
The custom is as old rs the Bible, anyhow.
jel.u said 10 Jchonadad: "Is thine heart
right as my hear, is with thine heart? II il
be. give me thine hand" When hands Join
in Christian saluta,ion n Gospel electricity
thrills across the palm from hear, 10 heart.
and from the shoulder of one 20 the sh0ul.
der Of the other, Shake hands all around.
With the imid and for the encouragement,
shake hands With the troubled and in
warm-hcnrtcd sympathy, shake hands.
W iih the young man just entering bust
ness and discouraged At the small sales
and the large expenses, shake hands.
With the child that Is new from God AMI
started ON uncnding journey for which he
needs 10 gcthcr great supply OF strength.
and who can hardly reach up I" you now
because you are :" much taller. shake
hands Acros> cradles IND dying beds and
graves shake hands With your enemies
who have done Ill 10 ,lciamc AMI hurt you,
hut whom yun eau afford 1" forgive, shake
hnntls. ~ The door ui churchc, where
people come ia, anl ~ the door " here
people gu "u', shake hands. lie, pulpit
shake hands with pew, and sabbath da,
shake hand, with week day, and carh
shake hands with Heaven Oh the strange.
the mighty, The underlined, the mysterious,
the eternal power of an honest handslla!;
ing The difference between these times
and millcnnial times is thai now some
shake hands hut then all Nill shake hands,
throne aud foolsio"I. across seas nation
with nation, God and man. church milt.
ant and church triumphant
Ali. To TnE cLOgIFiCATION az GOp.
Yea the malformaiion Of this fallen
giants fnol glorites the ordinary foo,. for
when fear you have never once thanked
God The aG bones of the f,ol are llIe al.
mira,lln nl The tnatomi>i The arch Of
the fout fashioned with grace aud poise
tia, Trajahs arch a, licncycnium, or Con
stan,lne's arch nj Rome, or arch of Tri-
umph ai the end of Champs Elysces could