The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-25


cradles and dying beds and graves, shake
hands. With your enemies who have done all
TO deiaIne 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 underlined, the mys-
teriolis the eternal power of an honest hand
shaking. The difference between these times
and the millennial 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 malformation of this fallen giants
loot glorifies the ordinary lfoot, for which
rear you have never once thanked God.
The twenty-stx bones of the foot are the ad-
mration OF the anatomist The arch OF the
foot fashioned with grace and polse that
Trajan's 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,
yielding aroh,a flying arch and ready formoVe-
ments innumerable. The human foot so
fashioned MS 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. Ihe 1901 OF
tho camel fashioned for the sand, the 1oot OF
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
anywhere 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 1t down? Where
have you left the mark of your footsteps?
Amid the petrifcations 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 pet
rilied for the judgment day. OH the loot!
How divinely honored not only in its construc-
ton but in the fact that God represents Him
self in the Bible as having feet "Iho clouds
His feet" 1.-THE earth is My footstool." And
representing cyclones and eurocly-
dons 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
psamist. Oh, the footl Give me the auto
biography Of your foot from the time you
stepped out of the cradle until today, 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 loot, belong to Christs 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
went the iron of torture, and from the palm of
His hand to the back of it, and there is not a
muscle or nerve or bone among the 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 fore6nger by
feeding 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 Inkermann, lost his foot, and when
the soldiers would carry him away he said:
ono, ] do not move until the battle 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 hand that does the most to
who were in rivalry about the appearance of
the hand. And the one Redeemed her
hand with berries, and said the beauti-
full 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 off the bank and under the
bloom commended that her hand was the most
attractive. Then poor old woman appeared
and looking up in her deerepitude, asked for
aims And woman who had not taken part
in the rivalry gave her aims. And all the wo-
men resolved to leave to this beggar the ques-
ton as to which of all the hands present was
the 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 and rags and her decrepitude and her
body disappeared, and in place thereof stood
the Christ who long ago said: "Inasmuch as
ye did 1t to one of the least of these We did it
TO Mel" 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 lacera-
ted