Milford chronicle., 1895-05-24

long Win tlclt mana IN q sing luel
have been hurt by Indifference or wrong
ideas Of what is best, or It is injured o.
conventionalities, and they never put fortl
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, to lift, tc
push, to pull, to help and to rescue, and
endowed with two hands we might take
the broad hint that for Others rs we'll as
for ourselves we were to hold fast, to lift,
to push, to pull, to help, to rescue. Won
drous hand You know something OF the
"Brldgewater Treatises." When Rev
Francis Henry Bridgewater, in his will,
left $40, 600 for essays on 1.-THE Power,
Wisdom and Goodness of God as Mani
tested In the Creation, and Davies Gil
bert, 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,
It's Mechanism and Vital Endowments as
Evincing Design" Oh, the hand It's
machinery beginning 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 II bones of the fingers and
thumb, and composed Of a labyrinth Of
muscle and nerve and artery and flesh,
which no one but Almighty God could
have planned or executed. But how sug-
gestive when it reached down to us from
undor the wings Of the cherubim "The
likeness Of the hands Of man was under
the wings"
Another Application.
This idea is combined in Christ When
he rose from Mount Olivet, he took wing
All up and down his life you see the up
lifting divinity. 1t glowed in his forehead.
1t flashed in his eye. Its cadences were
heard in his voice. But he was also very
human. It was the hand under the wing
that touched the woes Of the world and
took hold of the sympathies of the centu-
ries. Watch his hand before it was spiked.
There was dead girl in a governors
house, and Christ comes into the room and
takes her pale, cold hands in his warm
grasp, and she opens her eyes ON the weep
ing household and says: Father, what
are you crying about? Mother, what are
you crying aboutg' The book says, "He
took her by the hand, and the maid rose"
A follower, angered at an insult offered
Christ, drew the sword from sheath and
struck at a man with the sharp edge, aim
ing, I think at his forehead. But the
weapon glanced aside and took off the
right car at its roots. Christ with his hand |
that wonderful organ of |
sound, that whispering gallery of the soul, |
that collector of vibrations, that arched |
way to the auditory nerve, that tunnel |
without which all the musical instruments |
Of earth would be of no avail. The book |
says, He touched his ear and healed him. -
Meeting a full grown man who had never
seen n sunrise, or sunset or a flower, or
The face of his own father or mother, Christ
the dust from his own tongue
and stirs the dust into an eye salve, and
with his own hands applies the strange
and suddenly all the colors
IF earth and sky rush in upon the newly
treated optic nerve, and the instantaneous
noon drove out the long night.
When he sees the grief of Mary and Mar
ha, he sits down ana cries with them.
some say it is the shortest verse in the BIZ
DE, but to me it seems because Of its far
eaching sympathies about the largest
Jesus weptW So very humane He
ould not stand the sight of drnpsy or cpl
epsy or paralysis or hunger or dcmentia,
mt he stretches out his sympathetic hand
OWard II. 30 very very human. Omnlp-
tent and majestic and glorious, this an
el of the new covenant, with wings capa-
lie of encircling a universe, and yet hands
f gentleness, hands Of helpfulness, 1.-THE
lands of a man under the wings" There
5 n kind of religion in our day that my {
ext rebukes. There are mon and women
pending their time in dedication over I
heir saved state, going about from prayer {
netting to prayer meeting and from church
} church telling how happy they are. But
how them a subscription paper, or ask
lem to go and visit the sick, or tell them 9
} reclaim a wanderer, or speak out for /
lme unpopular Christian enterprise, and
iey have bronchitis or stitch in the side, }
{ sudden attack of grip. Their religion J
all wing and no hand. They can fly 7
but they cannot reach out a
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