Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-05

Joins with The voice of God commanding Yeu
10 shake hands. The custom Is as old as the
Bible, anyhow. Jehu said 10 JehOuadab;
ISIS thine heart right as my heart is with
thine hearts If &c be. give me thine hand. "
When hands JOIN IN Christian saiutaGiOn a
gospel electricity thrills across the palm from
heart 70 heart and IRON the shoulder Of one
TO the shoulder Of the ether. Shake hands eli
around With the timid aud for their en-
cOuragement, shake hands. With the croU-
bled and In Warm-hearted sympathy, shake
hands With the young man lust entering
business and discouraged at the small salea
and the large expenses, shake hands With
the child who Is new from God and started
on unendiug journey for which he needs to
gather a great supply Of strength, and
who can hardly reach uD 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 come in, and
at the door OF churches where people 90 out
shake hands Let pulpit shake hands with
pew, and Sabbath daV shake hands with week
day, and earth shake hands with heaven. Oh
the strange, the mighty, the underlined, the
mysterious. the eternal power Of an honest
Handwriting. The difference between these
times and the millenuiaI times is that now
some shake hands but then ali will shake
hands, throne and fOOt-stOOl, across seas ma
tlon Win nation, God and man. church mill
liant and church triumphant.
Yea; the malfOrmatiOn Of this fallen giants
foot glOrifes the ordinary foot for which /
fear you have never once thanked God The
JWentY-siZ bones Of the foot are the admira-
ton Of the anatOmist. The arch of the foot
fashioned with a grace and a pOise tha-
IraJan's arch at BeneYentum, or COnstan-
tines arch at Rome. or arch of Triumph at
the end of Champs EIVsees could not equal.
Those arches stand where they were planted,
but this arch OF the foot is adjustable
arch, yielding arch, flying arch, and ready
Tor movements 1nnumerable. The human
foot so fashioned as to enable man to stand
upright as no other creature, aud leave the
hand that would otherwise have to help in
balancing the body free for any thing il
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 for the slippery rock, the foot of
lion fashioned to rend its prey, the
foot Of the horse fashioned for
the soldid earth. but the foot of
man made to cross the desert, or climb the
tree, or scale the cliff, or walk the earth, Or
go anywhere he needs to go. With that dl-
vine triumph OF anatomy in your possession,
where do you wake In what path of right
eousuess or what path Of sin have you set it
down! Where have you left the mark of
your tOOtsteps9 Amid the pstrifacCiOus in
the rocks have been fOnnd the mark of the
ieet OF birds and beasts Of thousands Of
years ago. And God can trace out all the
footsteps Of your lifetime, and those you
made fifty years ago are as plain as those
ma dc In the last soft weather. all of them
pc trlned for the Judgment day. Oh, the
foOtl How diVinely houOred not only in its
construction but in the fact that God repre-
SenES Himself IN the Bible as having feets
1.-The clouds on the dust of His feet;'s
DARKNESS was under His feet" 'The
earth is My fOOtsCOol.H And representing
cyclones and eurOclydOns and WhirIWinds
ana hurricanes as winged creatures, He de-
ScrlDes Himself as putting His foot OF these
monsters of the air and walking from piniOu
to piutOn, saying: t'He WulSelh upon the
wings of the wind" Thou hast DUt all
things under his feeE'7 cries the psalmist
On, The 1OOtl Give me the autobiography of
Your foot from the lime you stepped cut of
Iue cradle until to-day and viii tell your
exact character now and what are your pros
poets Tor the world te come That there
might be no doubt about the fact that both
these pieces Of divine mechanism. hand and
1901, belong &c ChrIsts service, both hands
OF Christ aud both feet of Christ were spiked
on the cross Right through the arch oil
both His feet to the hollow of His LoOtsteL
went the iron OF torture and from the palm
of His hand to tie back of It and
there is not muscle or nerve
bones of haad and wrist, or among The
tWenty-slE benes of the 1901 but it belongs to
Him now and forever. Charles ReaGe, tue
great writer, Cost the 5oiut of his foretngeI
Band gets not into the NAV OF the old Cere.
bus of perditiOn. Sir Thomas TrOWbridge.
at the battle Of Inkermauu, lost his foot and
when me soldiers would carry him aEay, he
said: No. 90 not move until the ba title is
won" So if our foot be lHIued or lost let il
be In the service OF our Sod, our home or .OuI
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That is the most beautiful foot thzt goes
about paths Of greatest usefulness, and that
the most beautiful han that does the most
TO help others. was reading of three women
who were in rivalry about the appearance OF
the hand. And the one Redeemed her hand
with berries. and said the beautiful tiuge
made hers the most beautiful. And mother
put her hand in the mountain brook, and
said as the waters dr. ppeI of. that her hand
was the most beautiful. And another pIuck-
ed flowers of the bank and under the bloom
eOntended that her hand was the most at
tractiVe. Then poor Old woman Appeared
ana looking up iR her decrePitude asked for
aims And "A WOMAN who had not taken part
la the rivalry gave her aims. And all the
women resolved to leave to this beggar che
question as to which of all the hands preseat
WAS the most attractive, aud she said: The
most beautiful OF them all is the one that
gave relief to my necessities" and as she 50
said her wrinkles and rags and her decFepi-
tude and her body disappeared, aud in place
thereof stood the Christ who long ago said:
'InGsmuch as We did it to one of the least of
these sc did it to Met" aud who to purchase
the service of our hand and foot here on
earth or Ia resurrection stale, had his own
hand aad foot Iacerated
A Beggar's Guild.
ParhaDE the noSt curiOust of all