Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-12

Joins with the voice Of God commanding ycu
TO shake hands. The custom Is as old as the
Bible anyhow Jehu said to Jehonada0;
'ls thine heart right as my heart Is with
thine hearL4 III lt be. give me thine hand
When hands join in Christian salutatiou
gospel electricity thrills across the palm from
heart TO heart, and from the shoulder OF one
10 the shoulder OF the other. Shake hands I'll
around With the timid aud for their en-
enlargement, shake hands. With the trOO-
bted and IN Warm-hearted sympathy, shake
hands wan the young man Just en- Gerlug
business and discouraged ar tue small sales
and the large expenses, shake hands. With
the child who is new from God aud started
on unending journey for which he needs 70
gather a great supply of strength, and
who can hardly reach I'D to you now, because
you are so much taller, shake hands. Across
cradles ana dying beds and graves. shake
hands. With your enemies vino 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 pul pit shake hands with
pew, and Sabbath dag shake hands with week
day and earth shake hands with heaven On
the strange, the mighty, the underlined, the
mysterious, the eternal power of an honest
handshakIng- The difference between these
times and the nlillenntal times is that now
some shake hands but then all viii shake
hands, throne and fOOt-stOOl, across seas ma
ton with nation, God aud man. church mLi-
tant and church triumphant.
ca; the malfOrmatiOu Of this fallen GIANTS
foot gIOrihes the ordinary foot, for which I
lear you have never once thanked God The
tWentV-sIX bones OF the foot are the admira-
ton or the auatOmist- The arch Of the loot
fashioned with a grace and a pOise tha-
IraJan's arch at BeueFentum, or COnstan-
tines arch at Rome, or arch OF Triumph at
the end Of Champs Elysees could not equal.
IhOse arches stand where they were planted
but this arch Of the foot is an adjust bic
archs yielding arch, a flying arch, and ready
for movements innumerabe. The human
nt4n ua In. uah 70 CT On
uprighS AS no other creature, and leave the
hand that would otherwise have to help in
balancing the body free fO- any thing 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
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
vine triumph OF anatomy ia your possession,
where do you Wake In what path Of right
dOWns Where have you left the mark OF
your fOOtstepsl Amid the perifacJiOns in
the rocks have been fOnnd 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
ma de in the last soft weather, all of them
pc LriueQ Tor the Judgment day Oh, the
loot! How diVinely hOuOred not only in its
construction but in the fact that God repre-
SCENTS Himself in the Bible as having feet:
The clouds on the dust of His feet"
Darkness was under His feet" 1.-The
earth Is My fOOtstOOl" Aud representing
cyclones and eurOclydOns and WhirlWinds
and hurricanes as winged creatures, He de-
scribes Himself as putting His foot or these
monsters of the air and walking from pIujOu
10 plniOn, saying: ''He waikeLh upon the
wings OF the wind, Thou hasS put all
things under his feet" cries the psalnist.
Oh, the fOOtl Give me the autobiography of
your foot from the lime you stepped out Of
the cradle until to-day and J. WDI tell your
exact character now and what are your pros
poets for the world TO come That there
might be no doubt about the fact that both
these pieces OF divine mechanism, hand and
foot, belong to Chrisps service, both hands
OF Christ and both feet of Christ were spiked
on the cross. Right through the arch Of
both His feet to the hollow of His fOOtstep
of His hand to the back of It, and
there is not muscle or nerve
or bone among the twenty seven
bones Of hand and wrist or among the
tWenJy-sIx bones OF the foot but it belongs to
linn now and forever. Charles Reade, the
great writer, lost the iOiut of his fOrefnger
by feeding bear Look out that your whole
adnu gets NOT into the NAV OF tle old Cere-
bus OF perdILiOu. Sir Thomas IrOWbridEe,
az the battle of Inkermanu. lost his foot and
when the soldiers would carry him away, he
said: NO l do not move until the attic is
Won" So if our foot be famed or lost let it
be in the service Of our God, our home or our
country.
That IS the most beautiful foot that goes
about paths OF greatest usefulness, and that
the most beautiful haul 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 tinge
made hers the most beautiful. And another
put her hand iu the mountain brook, and
said as the waters DIR ppeI OF. that her hand
was the most beautiful And another pluck
ed towers OF the bank and under the bloom
cOntended that her hand was the most at
tractlVe. Then poor Old woman appeared,
ana looking up in her decrepitude asked for
aims. And a woman who had not taken part
in the rivalry gave her aims. And all the
women resolved to leave to this beggar the
question as to which OF all the hands present
was tile most attractive, and she said: The
most beautiful OF them all Is the one that
gave relief to my necessities" and as she so
said her wrinkles aud rags and her decrepi-
tude and her body disappeared. and in place
thereof stood the Christ vino long ago said:
'lnasmuch as We did it to Que OF the least OF
these ye did it to Me % and who to purchase
the service of our hand aud foot here
earth or IN resurrection stale, had his own
hand and foot iacerated.
A Beggar's Guild.
Perhaps the most curious of all