The morning news., 1888-09-24

| forty thousand dollars IOT ESSAYS oii uho "i@
dom and goodness of GOD, ana eigHt Doors
tire book on the wisdom aud GODDESS OF God
as displayed in the human hand. The
twenty-seven bones in hand and wrist
with cartilages and ligaments and
phalanges of the fingers all made just ready
to knit to sew, to build up, to pull down,
to weave, to write, to plow, to pound, TO
wheel, to battle to give friendly salutatlon.
The tips of its fingers are so many tele-
graph Offices by reason OF their sensitive
ness of touch The bridges, the tunnels,
the cities of the whole earth are the victo-
ries of the hand. The hands are not dumb,
but often speak as distinctly as the lips.
With our hands we invite, we repel, we
invoke, we enJreat, we wiring them III grlei
or clap them i'll joy, or spread them ABROAD
in benediction. The malformation OF the
| giants hand in the text glorifies the usual
band. Fashioned of God more exquisitely
and wondrously than any human mechani-
cisrn that was ever contrived, | charge you
use it for Sod aud the lifting OF the world
| out of its moral predicameht. Employ 1t
in the sublime work of gospel handshakIng
You can see the hand is just made for
that Four tingers Just set right to
touch your neighbor's hand on one
side and your thumb set SO as to
clench it on the other side. BY all IFS bones,
and Joints, and muscles, and cartilages, and
| ljpaments, the voice of nature Joins " ith
! the voice of God commanding you to shake
| hands The custom is as old as tie Bible,
ANYHOW. Jehu said to Jehonadab: rs
| thy heart right as mv heart Is with thine
! heart? If it be, give me thine hand. When
! hands Join in Christian salutation 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 encouragement, shake hands With
! the troubled and III warm hearted sym
I pathv. shake hands With the young man
| lust entering business and discouraged ut
| the small sales and the large expenses,
shake hands With the child who Is new
from God and started on an unendiDg
| Journey for whic1 he needs to
gather great supply of strength and
who can hardly reach up to you now, be-
cause you are so much taller, shake hands
Across cradles and diving 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
go out, shake hands. Let pulpit shake
hands with pew, aud Sabbath day shai g
hands with week day, and earth shake
hands with heaven. Oh the strange, the
mighty. the un tetined, the mysterious, the
eternal power of All honest handShakng. The
difference between these times aud the
millennal times is that now some shake
hands but then all will shake hands, throne
and foot-stool, across seas, nation with
nation, God and man, church militant and
church triumphant,
Yea, the malfurmation of this fallen
giants foot glorifies the ordinary foot, for
which | fear you have never once thanked
God. 1he twenty-six bones of the foot are
the admiration OF the anatomist. The arch
of the foot fashioned with a grace and a
poise that Trajans 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 yielding arch,
flying arch, and ready for moveme ats in
Vulnerable. 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 1t 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 hon
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 anywhere he needs to go. With that
divine triumph of anatomy in your posses
sion, where do you walk! In what path of
Righteousness, or what path of sin, have you
set it downf Where have you left t mark
of your footsteps9 Amid the petrifactions
in the rocks have been found the mark of
the feet of birds and teaSts of thousands OF
years ago. And God can trace out all the
footsteps of your lifetime, and those you
made nifty years ago are as plain as those
made in the last soft weather, all of them
petriied for the Judgment day. Oh, the
foot How divinely honored, net only III Its
construction, but in the fact that God rep
reSents Himself i'll the Bible as having feet
The clouds ON the dust of His feet ,
Darkness was under His feet" "Tne
earth is Ny tootstool." And repre-
senting cyclones, and euroclydons, and
whirlwinds, and hurricanes, as winged
creatures. He describes himself as putting
his foot upon these monsters of the air an
walking from plnion 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 autobiography of your foot from the
time you stepped out of the cradle until to
| day and | will tell your exact character
now and what are your prospects for the
world to come That there might be nc
| doubt about the fact that both these pieces
of divine mechanism, hand and foot, belong
to Christ's service, both hands of Christ
and both feet of Christ were spiked on the
cross. Right through the arch IF both his
feet to the hollow of his footstep went the
iron of torture, and from the palm of his
hand to the back of it, and ther,
| is not muscle or nerve OF
bone among the twenty bone:
| of hand and wrist, or among the
twenty-six bones of the foot. but it belong.
to him now and forever Charles Rea1e,
| the great writer lost the joint of his fore
| finger by feeding a bear Look out that
| your whole hand gets not into the NAV OF
| the old Cerberus of perditon. Sir Thomas
| Trowbridge, at the battle Of Inkermann
lost his foot, and when the soldiers would
carry hun away, he said: mo, | do no,
move until the battle is won.n SO, if our
foot be lamed or lost, let it be in the serv
ice of our God, our home or our country.
That is the most beautiful foot that goe,
about paths of greatest usefulness, and that
the most beautiful hand that does the most
to help others. / was reading OF three
women who were in rivalry about the ap
| pearance of the hand. And the one red
dened her hand with berries, and said tn,
beautiful tinge made hers the most beauti-
full. And another put her hand in the
mountain brook, and said as the waters
dripped off that her hand was the mos
beautiful. And another plucked flowers of
the bank, and under the bloom contendeC
that her hand was the most attractive
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