Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-10-13

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 unending 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 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 is
that now some shake hands. but then all will
shake hands, throne and fcot-stool, across
seas nation with nation, God and man,
church militant and church triumphant.
Yea; the malformation of this fallen
giants foot gorifies the ordinary foot, for
which | fear YOU have never once thanked
God. The twenty-six bones Of the foot are
the admiration of the anatomist Tie arch
Of the foot fashioned with grace and a
poise that rrajans arch at Beneventum, or
COnstantine's 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, flying arch and ready for move
ments innumerable. The human foot so
fashioned as to enable man to stand upright
as 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
for the slippery rock, the foot of the lion
fashioned to rend its prey, the foot of the
horse fashioned for the solid 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 where he needs to 60 With that
divine triumph of anatomy in your possession
where do you walle2 In what path of
Righteousness or what path Of sin have you
set it down? Where have YOU left the mark
of your footstepsl Amid the petrifactions in
tho rocks have 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 your
lifetime. and those you made fifty
years ago are as plain as those made
in the last soft weather, all of them petrified
for the Judgment Day. Oh, the footl How
divinely honored not only in its construction
but in the fact that God represents Himself
in the Bible as having feet 1.-THE coulds on
the dust of His feet" Darkness was under
His feet" 1.-The earth is Myfootstooln And
representing cyclones and euroclydons and
whirlwinds and hurricanes as winged
creatures, he describes Himself as putting
HIS foot on these monsters of the air and
walking from pinion to pinion, saying: HE
walketh upon the wings Of the wind Thou
hast put all things under His feet, - cries the
psalmist. Oh, the footl Give me the auto.
biography of your foot from the time Won
stepped out of the CRADLE until to day and
| Will tell your exact character now and
what are your prospects for the world to
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present was the most attractive and she
said: ''Ihe most beautiful Of them all is the
one that gave relics TO my necessiJies,' and
as she so said her wrinkles and
rags and her decrepitude and her body dis
appeared, and in place thereof stood the
Christ who long ago said: ''Inasmuch as We
did it to one of the least of these ye did it to
Me!' and who to purchase the service of our
hand and foot here on earth or in resurrec-
ton state, had His own hand and foot lac.
Grated.