The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-05-24

mothers hand. or the fathers hand,
must write to the hayward boy as soon
as you car 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: Fly 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 saliva
ton of young mans soul? That is
right; but also extend the hand of in
vitation to come to a 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 felon;" or. have your fingers
been crushed?' But nine out of ten of
all Christians are going their lifelong
with their hand in sling. They have
been hurt by Indifference, or wrong
ideas of what is best: or by conven-
tionalites; 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
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 two hands. we might
take the broad hint that for others as
well as for ourselves we were to hold
fast, to lift, 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
coo for essays on The Power, Wisdom
and Goodness of God, as mani
tested I'm 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 and
Vital Endowments as Evi1cing 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-
ecuted. But how suggestive when it
reached down to US from under the
wings of the cherubim! THE likeness
of the hands of 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 cadencies were heard in
His voice. But He was also very hui
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 it
was spiked. There was a dead girl in
governors house, and Christ come 5
into the room and takes her pale, cold
hand in His warm grasp, and she opens
her eyes on the weeping household,
hand says: Father, what are you cry
y
ing about?" The Book says: He took
her by the hand. and the maid arose. :"
\ follower. angered at an Insult offered
Christ. drew the sword from sheath and
struck at n man with the sharp edge,
aiming. / think. at his forehead. But
the weapon glanced aside and took
off the right ear at its roots. Christ
with His hand reconstructed that
wonderful organ of sound, that whis-
pering gallery of the soul. that col
lector of vibrations, that arched way
to the auditory nerve, that tunnel
without which all the 'lusical instru-
ments 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 a sun
rise, or a sunset, or a 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
it is the shortest verse in the Bible;
but to me it seems, because of its far
reaching sympathies, about the largest
Jesus weptr' 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. 0mnipotent, and ma
jestic, and glorious. this angel of the
new covenant. with wings capable of
encircling a universe, 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 de-
location over their saved state, going
about from prayer meeting to prayer
meeting. and from church to church,
telling how happy they are. But show
them a subscription paper, or ask them
to 90 and visit the sick, or tell them to
reclaim a wanderer, or speak out for
some unpopular Christian enterprise,
and they have bronchitis, or stitch in
the side, or sudden attack of grip.
Their religion is all wing, and no hand.
They can fly heavenward, but they
cannot reach out earthward.
While Thomas Chalmers occupied
the chair of moral philosophy in st.
Andrews university he had at the same
time a Sabbath school class of poor
boys down in the stu ms of Edinburgh.
While Lord Fitzgerald was travelling
in Canada he saw poor Indian squaw