The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-07-13

ana tnere and do wonders. But It h,
wings, and they are as radiant
plume. and as swift to rise. or swoo
or dart, or circle. as the eherubinl's '
sion. But, oh, iny friends; the prayi
must have the hand tindeE The viii,
Or it ihAt aiiiosnt t8 nothing. III
fnoAhef's hand, or the fathers
hand, must write to the hayward be
as soon as you can hear how to a,
dress him. Christian souls must CO,
tribute to the evangelism OF that IA
of land for which they have bee
praying. Stop singing. Fly abroad
THOU mighty Gospel unless y6u iii
willing TO give s5mething Of your ow
means to make it fly.
Have you been praying for the salvs
ton OF young mans soul? That /
right; but also extend the hand of in
vitation to come to religious meeting
1t always excites our SYMPATHY to Sc
man with his hand in a sling. w
ask him: what is the matter? Hop
1t is not felon;" or, "lIave your fin
gers been crushed?" But nine out O
ten of all Christians are going thei
lifelong with their hand in sling
They have been hurt by indifference
or wrong ideas of what is best, or b,
conventionalities, and they never pu
forth that hand to lift, or help, OF
rescue anyone. They pray, and theii
prayer has wings, but there is nc
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, to lift, to push, to pull, to
help, and to rescue. And endowed
with twp hands, we might take the
broad hint that for others as we'll as
Tor ourselves we were to bold fast, to
lift, to push, to pull, to help, to res
cue. Wondrous hand! You know some.
thing OF the "Bfidgewater Treatises. -
When Rev. Francis Henry Bridgewa-
ter in his will left forty thousand dol
lars for essays on 1.-THE Power, Wis
dom and Goodness of God, us Manifest
ed in the Creation" and Davies Gil.
bert, the president of the Royal So
ciety, 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 Endow-
ments as Evincing Design" Oh. the
hand! Its machinery beginning at the
shoulder, and working through shafts
of bone, upper arm and forearm, down
10 the eight bones of the wrist, and
'he five bones of the palm, and the
bones of the fingers and
numb, and composed of labyrinth of
MUSCLE, and nerve, and artery. and
iesh, which no one but Almighty God
Gould have planned or executed. But
low suggestive when it reached down
o us from under the wings of the
herubim! 1.-THE likeness of the hands
Il man was under the wings"
This idea is combined in Christ
When He rose from Mount Olivet, He
ook wings. All up and down His life
ou see the uplifting divinity. 1t
lowed in His forehead. 1t flashed in
lis eyes. Its cadences were heard in
lis voice. But He was also very bu.
ian. TWAS the hand under the wing |
hat touched the woes of the world. |
nd took hold of the sympathies of the
enturies. Watch His hand before it
'as spiked. There was dead girl in
governors house, and Christ comes |
Ito the room and takes her pale, cold
and In His warm grasp. and she opens I
er eyes on the weeping household, and
lys: Father, what are you crying
bout? Mother, what are you crying
oout?'' The book says: He took her
7 the hand, and the maid arose" A
llower, angered at an insult offered
1rist, drew the sword from sheath
I'd struck ut man with the sharp
zee. aiming, think, at his forehead
at the weapon glanced aside and took
the right ear, at its roots. Christ
it'll his hand reconstructed that won.
rful organ of sound. that whisper
z gallery of the soul, that collector
vibrations, that arched way to
auditory nerve, that tunnel ,
thout which all the musical instru- ,
,nts OF earth would be of no avail.
lie book says: ''He touched his ear .
d healed him." Meeting a full s
own man who had never seen a sun
e, or sunset, or a flower, or the 6
e OF his own father or mother. i,
lrist moistens the dust from His own
1gue, and stirs the dust into an eve =
We. and with His own hands applies y
strange medjcament, and suddenly I
the colors of earth and sky rush in y
on the newly-created optic nerve. =
the instantaneous noon drove out =
long night. When He sees the .
ef OF Mary and Martha, He sits =
vn and cries with them. Some 9,
1T is the shortest verse in the h
lie; but to me it seems, because of !,
far-reaching sympathies. about the Il
gest-"Jesus wept!" So very hui a,
n. He could not stand the sight of h
psy, or epilepsy, or paralysis, or "
nentia; but He stretches out His 81
,pathetic hand toward it. So very. =,
Y human. Omnipotsnt. and majestic. ~
glorious, this angel of the new =,
enant, with wings capable of en- ~
ling the universe. and yet hands of h,
tleness, hands of helpfulness. THE -
DIS OF man under the wings. =,
re is a kind of religion in =;
day that my text rebukes. a.
re are men and women spend -
their time In delectation over their A.
"a state. going about from prayer Oh
ting to prayer meeting, and from -,
rch to church, telling how happy o.
are. but Shnw them a s,, hso,.;, -