Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-06-06

child away" But all who know the
history Of England for the last fifty
years know that the prayer for that il
FAINT more than seventy years ago has
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, duplicated,
God save the Queen!'
Prayer flies not only across conti-
nents, but across centuries. If 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 wings which
swept through Ezekiel's vision. But o!
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
lhr-of 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
q religious meeting. 1t always excites
our sympathy to see 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 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
,iety, chose eight persons to write
eight books. Sir Charles Bell, the sci
enlist, chose as the subject of his great
book, ''The Hand; it's Mechanism and
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 the
palm, and the fourteen 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 God could have planned or ex-
acuted. But how suggestive when it
reached down to us from under the
wings Of the cherubim! 1.-THE likeness
Of the hands Of man was under the
Wings
This idea is combined in Christ.
When He rose from Mt. Olivet He took
wing. All up and down His life you
see the uplifting divinity. 1t glowed
in His forehead. 1t flashed in His eyes
Its cadences were heard in His voice.
But He was also very human. 1t was
the hand under the wing that touched
the woes of the world, and took hold
of the sympathies of the centuries.
Watch His hand before it was spiked.
There was dead girl in the governors
house, and Christ comes into the room
and takes her pale, cold hand in His
warm grasp, and she opens her eyes on
the weeping household, 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 at an insult Of
fered Christ, drew the sword from
the sheath and struck at man
with the sharp edge, aiming, think,
at his forehead. But the weapon
glanced aside and took off the right ear
at it's roots. Christ with His hand re.
constructed that wonderful organ OF
sound. that whispering gallery OF the
soul, that collector Of vibrations, that
arched away to the auditory nerve,
that tunnel without which all the mu-
steal instruments of earth would be OF
10 avail. The book says: HE touched
his ear and healed him" Meeting
full-rrown man who had never seen
sunrise, or sunset, or flower, or the
face Of his own father or mother, Christ
moistens the dust from His own tongue
and stirs the dust into an eye salve'
and with His own 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. When he sees
the grief of Mary and Martha, he sits
down and cries with them. Some say 1t
is the shortest verse in the Bible; but
to me it seems, because Of the far-reach-
ing sympathies, about the largest
-sJesus wept!'' So very human. He
could not stand the sight OF dropsy'