The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-05-23

Design" oh, the haAdl It's machinery be- |
ginning at the shoulder, and working |
Through shafts OF bone. upper arm and fore
arm, down to the eight bones OF the wrist,
and the five bones OF the palm, and the four
teen bones Of the fingers and thumb, and |
composed OF a labyrinth OF muscle and nerve |
and artery and flesh, which no one but Al |
mighty G,d could have planned or executed. |
But how suggestive when IL reached down to |
us from under the wings Of the cherubim |
The likeness OF the hands OF a man was un- |
derthe wings"
This Idea is combined in Christ. When He |
rose from Mount Olivet, He took wing. All |
up and down His life you see the uplifting |
divinity. II flashed Ia His eyes, Its cadences |
were heard in His voice. But He was also |
very human. II was the hand under the
wing that touched the woes OF the world
and took hold OF the sympathies OF the GEN.
turies. Watch His hand before IL was spiked.
There was dead girl In n governors house.
and Christ comes into the room and takes
her pale, cold hand In His warm grasp, aud
she opens her eyes on the weeping house,
hold and says: "Father. what are you crying
about? Mother, what are you crying about?'
The book SAYS, "He took her by the hand,
and the maid arose." A follower. angered
mt an insult offered Christ, drew the sword
from sheath and struck Mt n man with the
sharp edge, aiming, I think, at his fore
head. But the weapon glanced aside and
took of the right ear at Its roots. Christ
with His hand reconstructed that wonderful
organ of sound, that whispering gallery OF
the SOUL that collector of vibrations, that
arched way to the auditory nerve, that tun-
mel without which all the calinstruments
OF earth would be OF no avail. The book says,
"Ho touched his ear and healed him." Meet
ing full grown man who had never seen n
sunrise, or a sunset. or flower, or the face
OF his own father or mother. Christ moistens
the dust from His own tongue aud stirs the
| a. s..sa.
| hands applies the strange medicament, and
| suddenly all the colors OF earth and sky rush
| in upon the newly created optic nerve and,
the instantaneous noon drove out the long
night. ssf.s -...s ...
When He secs tho grief Of Mary and Mar
tina He sits down aud cries with them. Some
| say II IL the shortest verse in the Bible, but
TO me IL seems, because of its far reaching
| sympathies, about the largest-"Jesus
wept!" SO very human. lie could not stand
the sight of dropsy or epilepsy or paralysis
| or hunger or dementia, but He stretches out
| His sympathetic hand toward it. So very,
very human. Omnipotent and majestic and
glorious this angel OF the new covenant,
| with wings capable OF encircling "a universe,
and yet hands of gentleness, hands OF help
fulness. "The hands OF n man under the
wings" There Is a kind of religion In our
day that my text rebukes. There are men
and women spending their time in delecta-
tion over their saved state going about from
prayer meeting 10 prayer meeting, and from
church TO church, telling how happy they
are. But show them n subscription paper
or ask them TO 20 and visit the sick, or tel
them to reclaim n wanderer. or spek out
for some unpopular Christian enterprise
and they have bronchitis or stitch I'm the sid,
or sudden attack Of grip. Their religion l.
all wing aud no hand. They can fly
heavenward, but they cannot reach GU
| az RI ynrl
While Thomas Chalmers occupied tn
chair of moral philosophy in st, Andrew
University he had at the same time Sabbatl
: school class OF poor boys down in the slum
, OF Edinburgh. While Lord Fitzgerald wa
travelling in Canada he saw poor Indiai
; squaw carrying crushing load, and he tool
! the burden on his own shoulders. That wa
: Christlike. That was "a hand under tn
wing" The highest type OF religion say
, little about itself but is busy for God and IL
) helping to the heavenly shore the crew an,
I passengers of this shipwrecked planet Sucl
I people are busy now up the dark lanes o
{ this city, and all through the mountain
, glens, and down in the quarries where tn
! sunlight has never visited, and ami
) the rigging, helping TO take in anofhe
} reef before the Caribbean whirlwlnd
: A friend was telling me of an exquisit
1 thing about Seattle, then OF Washing
n ton Territory. now Of Washington State
o The people Of Seattle had raised n generou
4 sum OF money for the Johnstown sufferer
|, from the food. A few days after Seattl
y was destroyed by fire. l saw 1t while tn
o whole city was living in tcnts. In publ
:. meeting some one proposed that the none
4 raised for Johnstown be used for the reli,
/, OF their own city, and the cry was No! NJ
= No Send the money to Johnstown, and
10 acclamation the money was so sent Notl
ing more beautiful or sublime than tina
1 Under the wing of fire that smote Seatt
d the sympathetic hand, tho helping hand, ii
,s mighty hand of Christian relief for peop
r. thousands Of miles away.
II Why, there are 100000 men and wome
/ whose one business Is to help others. Hell
le ing hands, inspiring hands, lifting hand
lf emancipating hands, saving hands. SUI
ID enough, those people had wings of faith m
le wings OF prayer and wings of consolatio
m but "the likeness of the hands OF a man VI
m under the wings" There was much sen
e. In that which tine robust boatman said wh'
m three were in boat Off the coast in IA su
a. den storm that threatened to sink the boa
IS and one suggested that they all kneel dow
e. In the boat to pray. and the robust man too
ry hold of the oar aud began TO pull, sayin
* Let you, the strong, stout fellow, lay no
III the other oar, and let tho weak one who en-
~ not pull give himself up to prayer
,n PRAY by all means, but at the same time pi
IN with all your might for the worlds rescu
nj An arctic traveller hunting beaver while {
III Ice WIS Dfeukiup up, anu suppOSinS III
he there was no human being within 100 mile
10 heard the ice crackle, and 10! a lost man, 1
In sane with hunger and cold, was wading
IT. the ice water. The explorer took the mi
ut into his canoe and made for land, and I
T. eople gathered on the shore. All the islam
at ers had been looking for the lost man, "A
ty finding him, according to prearrangeme
at all the bells rang and all the guns fired. Q
he you can make gladder time among I
sls towers and hilltops OF heaven If you c
cd fetch home a wanderer,
In opr time 1t is the habit to denounce
mt cities and TO speak OF them as the perditi
II of all wckedness. Is 1t not time for so
rs one to tell the other side OF the story and
of say that the city is the heaven OF practi
lrt helpfulness? Look at the.embowered n
ch fountained parks, where the invalids n
NY come and be refreshed; the Bowery missl,
IN through which annually over 100000 GO
~. 10 get bread for this lite and bread for
Id, life to come, all the pillows Of that insti
as tion under the blessing OF Him who had
an where to lay His head; the free schoC
of | vhare tha most imDOyerished are elucAt