Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-05-24

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Prayer flies not only across continents,
but across centuries. II prayer had only
feet, it might run here and there and do
wonders. But it has wings, and they
are as radiant Of plume and as swift to
rise or swoop or dart or circle as the
cherubim's wings which swept through
Ezekiel's vision. But, oh, my friends,
the prayer must have the hand under
the wing, or it may amount to nothing.
The mothers hand, or the fathers
hand, must write to the wayward boy
as soon as you can hear how to address
him. Christian souls must contribute to
the evangelism Of that farof land for
which they have been praying. Stop
singing Fly abroad, thou mighty gos-
pei, " unless you are willing to give
something Of your own means to make
it fly Have you been praying for the
salvation Of young mans soul? That
is right, but also extend the hand Of in
vitation to come to religious meeting.
Useless Christian Hands.
It always excites our sympathy to see
a man with his hand in sling. We ask
him: "What is the matter? Hope it is
not a felon;" or, "Have your fingers
been crushed?" But nine out Of ten Of
all Christians are going their life long
with their hand in sling. They have
been hurt by indifference or wrong ideas
Of what is best, or it is injured Of con-
ventionalities, and they never put forth
that hand to lift or help or rescue any
one. They pray, and their prayer has
wings, but there is no hand under the
wings. From the very structure Of the
hand we might make up our mind as to
some of the things it was made for-to
hold fast, 10 lift, to push, to pull, to
help and to rescue. And endowed with
two hands, we might take the broad
hint that for others as well as for our
selves we were to hold fast, to lift, to
push, to pull, to help, TO rescue. Won
| drous hand You know something OF
the "Bridgewater Treatises " When
Rev. Francis Henry Bridgewater in his
will left $40 900 for essays on 1.-The
Power. Wisdom and Goodness Of God,
as Manifested in the Creation" and
Davies Gilbert, the president OF the
Royal society, chose eight persons TO
write eight books, Sir Charles Bell, the
scientist, chose as the subject OF his
great book, 1.-THE Hand; Its Mechanism
and Vital Endowments as Evincing De-
sign" Oh, the hand Its machinery be-
ginning at the shoulder, and working
through shafts Of bone, upper arm and
forearm, down to the eight bones Of the
wrist. and the five bones Of the palm,
and the fourteen bones Of the fingers
and thumb, and composed Of labyrinth
of muscle and nerve and artery and
flesh. which no one but Almighty God
could have planned or executed. But
how suggestive when it reached down
TO MS from under the wings Of the cher
ubim! 1.-THE likeness Of the hands OF
man was under the wings.
Christ's Uplifting Divinity.
This idea is combined in Christ. When
he rose from Mount Olivet, he took wing.
All ND and down his life you see the up
lifting divinity. 1t glowed in his fore
head. 1t flashed in his eyes. Its ca
dences were heard in his voice But he
was also very human. 1t was the hanc
} under the wing that touched the woes
of the world and took hold Of the sym
pathies of the centuries. Watch his hand
before it was spiked There was a deac
girl in a governors house, and Chris
comes into the room and takes her pale
cold hand in his warm grasp, and sh'
opens her eyes on the weeping house
} hold and saws: Father, what are yo'
: crying about? Mother, what are yol
: CRYING about?' The book says, ID
took her by the hand, and the mal'
! arose " A follower, angered at an IN
! suit offered Christ, drew the sword from
sheath and struck at a man with tn
4 sharp edge, aiming, think, at his fore
i head. But the weapon glanced asid
and took off the right ear at its roots
= Christ with his hand reconstructed tina
wonderful organ Of sound, that whisper
] ing gallery of the soul, that collector Q
g vibrations, that arched way to the audi
T. tory nerve. that tunnel without whic
all the musical instruments OF cart
, would be Of no avail The book says
g "He touched his ear and healed him.
e Meeting a full grown man who ha
d never seen a sunrise, or sunset, or
e flower. or the face Of his own father
mother. Christ moistens the dust fror
+ his own tongue and stirs the dust int
y an eve salve, and with his own hand
}, applies the strange medicament, an
o suddenly all the colors Of earth and SIX
y rush in upon the newly created opt
l. nerve, and the instantaneous noon droV
IS out the long night.
e When he sees the grief OF Mary an
II Martha he sits down and cries wit
} them. Some say it is the shortest vers
e I'm the Bible, but to me it seems becaus
d IF its far reaching sympathies abor
% she largest Jesus weptV So very
# human. He could not stand the sight {
o dropsy or epilepsy or paralysis or hui
If ger or dementia, but he stretches OF
n his sympathetic hand toward 1t. SO yerl
Il yery human. Omnipotent and maJesti
le and glorious, this angel Of the me-
l. covenant, with wings capable OF encii
cling a universe, and yet hands OF ger
tleness, hands of helpfulness, "Tf
of hands Of a man under the wings
(. There is a kind Of religion in our ds
D. that my text rebukes- There are me
a. and women spending their time in d
Y lectation over their saved state goir
er about from prayer meeting to pray
W meeting. and from church 10 churcl
N telling how happy they are. But sho
Of them subscription paper, or ask the
c. to 90 and visit the sick, or tell them
IN reclaim wanderer, or speak out 4
in some unpopular Christian enterpris
a and they have bronchitis or stitch in q
r, side or sudden attack Of grip. The
5, religion is all wing and no hand Th'
n. can fly heavenward, but they cam
a reach out earthward-
Lining the Burden.
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a chair of moral philosophy in ST. A
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