The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-05-22

been answered, and with what empha-
sis and affection millions of the queens
subjects have this day in chapels and
cathedrals, on land and sea, supplicated,
"God save the Queen!"
Prayer flies not only across conti-
nents, but across centuries. If prayer |
had only feet, 1t 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 Ezekiels vision. But 0!
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 way
ward boy as soon as you can hear how
to address him. Christian souls must
contribute to the evangelism of that
far-off land for which they have been
praying. Stop singing: ely abroad,
thou mighty gospel" 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 ex-
tend the hand of invitation to come to
religious meeting. 1t always excites
our sympathy to see a man with his
hand in sling. We ask him: what
is the matter? Hope it is not 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 indif'
ference, or wrong ideas of what is best;
or it is injured of conventionalities; 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 minds as to some of the
things it was made for, to hold fast, to
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 ourselves we
were to hold fast, to push, to pull, to
help, to rescue. Wondrous hand You
know something of the "Bridgewater
Treatises." When Rev. Francis Henry
Bridgewater in his will left $40, 900 for
essays on "The Power, Wisdom and
Goodness of God, as Manifested in
the Creation" and Davies Gilbert
the president of the Royal So
ciety, chose eight persons to write
eight books, Sir Charles Bell, the sci
enlist, chose as the subject of his great
book, "The Hand; its Mechanism ant
Vital Endowments as Evincing De
sign" Oh, the hand! Its machinery
beginning at the shoulder, and work
ing through shafts of bone, upper arm
, and forearm, down to the eight bones
. of the wrist, and the five bones of tn,
+ palm, and the fourteen bones of th'
6 fingers and thumb, and composed Of I
I labyrinth of muscle, and nerve, ant
+ artery, and flesh, which no one but Al
q mighty God could have planned or eX
4 ecuted But how suggestive when /
t reached down to us from under tn
+ wings of the cherubim! THE likenes
!. of the hands of man was under tn
|; wings"
S This idea is combined in Christ
). When He rose from Mt Olivet He too
v wing. All up and down His life yo
l. see the uplifting divinity. 1t glove
r in His forehead. 1t flashed in His eyes
5; It's cadences were heard in His voice
If But He was also very human. 1t wa
e the hand under the wing that touche
n the woes of the world, and took hol
r. of the sympathies of the centuries
f. Watch His hand before it was spiked
ID There was dead girl in the governor
n house, and Christ comes into the rool
le and takes her pale, cold hand in ii
es warm grasp, and she opens her eyes O
h. the weeping household, and say
ID "Father, what are you crying about
e. Mother, what are you crying about
W The book says, He took her b
as the hand and the maid arose"
I'd follower, angered at an insult o
I'd fered Christ, drew the sword fro
C. the sheath and struck at a ma
w with the sharp edge, aiming, thin
VS. at his forehead. But the weapC
m glanced aside and took off the right Ell
rs at its roots. Christ with His hand r
os constructed that wonderful organ
of sound, that whispering gallery of tt
%: soul, that collector of vibrations, tn
IS arched away to the auditory nerV
n that tunnel without which all the m
he steal instruments of earth would be
IL no avail The book says; "Ile touch
"a his ear and healed him Meeting
M full-grown man who had never seen
it sunrise, or sunset, or flower, or t
IL face of his own father or mother, Chr
ch moistens the dust from His own tong
m and stirs the dust into an eye sal0
re- and with His own hands applies t
h. strange medicament, and suddenly
NV the colors of earth and sky rush
Iot upon the newly-created optic ner'
ho and the instantaneous noon dro
us out the long night. When he st
an the grief of Mary and Martha, he S
Die down and cries with them. Some say
in is the shortest verse in the Bible;
he to me it seems, because of the far-rea'
s." ing sympathies, about the larg
nv -"Jesus weptp SO very human.
rk could not. stand the sight of drop
nd or epilepsy, or paralysis, or hunger,
So dementia; but He stretches out
1v- sympathetic hand toward it. So We
AN very human. 0mnipotent, and maj
, | tic, and glorious, this Angel of the n
of covenant, with wings capable of en'
to cling the universe, and yet hands
ia. gentleness, hands of helpfulness, '"l
me hands OF man under the wing
a There is a kind of religion in our {