The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30

ended his prayer, he said, "Take the
child away" But all who know the
history of England for the last fifty
years know that the prayer for that
infant more than seventy years ago
has been answered, and with what
emphasis and affection millions of the
Queens subjects have this day in
chapels and cathcdrals, on land and
sea, duplicated, God save the
Queen" 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 cherrl-
bins wings which swept through
Ezekiels vision. But, oh, my friends,
the prayer must have the hand under
the wing, or 1T may amount to moth
ing. The mothers hand, or the faith
er's hand, must write to the hayward
boy as soon as you can hear how 10
address him. Christian souls must
contribute to the evangelism of that
far-otf land for which we have been
praying. Stop singing, oily abroad,
thou mighty Gospel, unle So you are
willing to give some thing of your own
means to make it fly.
Have you been praying for the sal
walton of a young mans soul? That
is right; but also extend the hand of
Invitation to come to religious meet
ing. 1t always eXcites our sympathy
to see man with his hand in a sling.
We ask him, "What is the matter?
Hope it is not felon;" or, "Haye
your fingers been crushed?' But nine
out of ten of all Christians are going
their lifelong with their hand in a
sling. They have been hurt by in
difference, or wrong ideas Of what is
best; or by conventionalities and they
never put forth that hand to lift, OF
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 fnr; 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 we'll as for ourselves
we were to hold fast, to lift to push,
to help. to rescue. Wondrous hand!
You know something of the BRIDGE
water Treatises." When Rev. Francis
Henry Bridgewater in his will left
100000 for essays on 1.-THE Power,
Wisdom and Goodness of God, as
Manifested in the Creation" and Da-
Vles Gilbert, the president of the Royal
society, chose eight persons to write
eight books, Sir Charles Bell, the sci
enlist, chose as the subject of his
great book. ''The Hand; Its Mechan-
ism and Vital Endowments as Evinc-
Ing Design On, the hand! Its ma
chlnery 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 fourteen bones
of the fingers and thumb, and COM
posed of a labyrinth of muscles, and
nerve, and artery, and flesh, which no
one but Almighty God could have
planned OF executed. But how sug-
gestlye when it reached down to US
from under the wings of the cheru-
BIN! 1.-The likeness of the hands of a
man was under the WINGS"
This idea Is combined in Christ.
When he rose from Mount 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 hu-
man. 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
1t was spiked. There was a dead girl
IN 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 weep
ing 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. an
gered at the insult offered Christ, drew
the sword from it's sheath and struck
at man with the sharp edge, aiming,
l think, at his forehead. But the
weapon glanced aside and took off
the right ear at it's roots. Christ with
his hand reconstructed that wonder
full 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 sunrise, or a 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 COL
ors OF earth and sky rush in upon the
neWly-created optic nerve, and the in
Simultaneous noon drove out the long
night. When he sees the grief of Mary
and Martha he sits down and cries
with them. Some say it is the short
est verse in the Bible; but to me it
seems, because of it's far-reaching
sympathies, about the largest-"Jesus
wept! So very human. He could not
stand the sight of dropsy, or epilepsy,
or paralysis, or hunger, or dementia ;
but he stretches out his sympathetic
hand toward it. So very, very human.
Omnipotent, and majestic, and glori-
GUS, this angel Of the new covenant,
with wings capable of encircling a uni
verse, and yet hands of gentleness,
hands of helpfulness. "The hands of
a man under the WINGS" There is a
kind of religion in our day that nv
text rebukes. There are men and
women spending their time in delecta-
! tom over their saved state .ro;,,,r