The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-10-11
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Yea; the malformation of this fallen
giants foot glorifles 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. The arch
of the foot fashioned with grace and
poise that rrajan's arch at Beneyentum, OF
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 I'D Unstable arch,a yield
ing arch, flying, arch, and ready for move
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 go. With that
divine triumph of anatomy in your possession
where do you walk' In what path Of
Righteousness or what path of sin have you
set it down! Where have YOU left the mark
OF your footstepsf Amid the petrifactions in
the 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 petr1ed
for the Judgment Day. Oh, the foot! How
divinely honored not only in its construction
but in the fact that God represents Himself
in the Bible as having feet: "The coulds on
the dust of His feet" DARKNESS was unler
His feet" "The earth is Ny footstooln And
representing cyclones and euroclydons and
wbirlwinds and hurricanes as winged
creatures, He describes Himself as putting
His foot on these monsters of the air and
walking from pinion to pinon, saying: HE
walketh upon the wings of the wind" Thou
hast put all things under His feet" cries the
psalmist Oh, the foot! Give me the auto
biography 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 no 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
cross. Right through the arch Of
both His feet to the hollow OF
His instep went the iron of torture, and
from the palm of his hand to the back of it,
and there Is not muscle or nerve, OF bono
among tie twenty-seven bones of hand and
wrist, or among the twenty-six bones of the
foot but it belongs to Him now and forever.
Charles Reade, the great writer lost the
joint of his forefinger ny feeding a
bear. Look out that your whole hand gets
not into the nav Of the old Cerberus of
perdition. Sir Thomas Trowbridge, at the
battle of 1nkermann, lost his foot and when
the soldiers would carry him away, he said:
"No, do not move until the battle is woa.n
So il our foot be lamed 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 hand 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 reddened her hand
with berries, and said the beautiful tinge
made hers the most beautiful. And
another put her hand in the mountain brook,
and said as the waters dripped off, that her
hand was the most beautiful. And another
plucked flowers of the bank, and under the
bloom contended that her hand was the most
attractive. Then poor old woman ap-
peared.. and looking up in her decreptude
asked for aims And a woman who had not
taken part in the rivalry gave her aims. And
gar the question as to which Of all tie th ha}as sR
present was the most attractive, and she
said: "The most beautiful of them ali is the
one that gave relics to my necessities" 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: "1nasmuch as We
did it to one of the least of these ye did it to
Mep and who to purchase the service of our
hand and foot here on earth or in resurrec-
lion state, had His own hand and foot lac
srated.