Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-20

bow is vOyaglng. ga, prayer can fly
clear down into the future. When the
father of Queen Victoria was dying, he
asked that the infant Victoria might be
brought while he sat up in bed, and the
babe was brought, and the father prayed,
eff this child should live to become
queen of England, may she rule in the
fear of God!'' Having ended his prayer,
he said, ''Take the child away But
all who know the history of England
for the last so years know that the
prayer for that infant more than 70
yef s ago has been answered, and with
what emphasis 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 continents,
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's wings which swept through
Ezekiel's vision. But, oh, 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 hayward boy
as soon as you can hear how to address
him. Christian souls must contribute to
the evangelism of that faroff land for
which they have been praying. Stop
singing ely abroad, thou mighty Cos
pei" unless you are willing to give
something Of your own eneans to make
it fly. Have you been praying for the
salvation of young mans soul? That
is right, but also cs-tend the hand OF in
vitation to come to religious meeting.
Useless Christian Hands.
1t always excites our sympathy to see
a man with his hand in a 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 a sling. They have
been hurt by indifference or wrong ideas
of what is best, or it is injured of con-
ventionalities, 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 we'll as for our
selves we were to hold fast, to lift, to
push, to pull, to help, to rescue. Won
drous hand You know something of
the "Bridgewater Treatises. - When
Rev. Francis Henry Bridgewater in his
will left $4,000 for essays on "The
Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God,
as Manifested in the Creation" and
Davies Gilbert, 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, 'The Hand; It's Mechanism
and Vital Endowments as Evincing De-
sign Oh, the hand It's machinery be-
ginning 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 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 suggestive when it reached down
to us from under the wings of the cher
ubim! 'The likeness of the hands Of
man was under the wings"
Christ's Uplifting Divinity.
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 fore
head. 1t flashed in his eyes. It's Ca
dences 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 sym
pathies of the centuries 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 hand in his warm grasp, and she
opens her eyes on the weeping house
hold 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 in
suit offered Christ, drew the sword from
sheath and struck at man with the
sharp edge, aiming, think, at his fore
head. But the weapon glanced aside
and took off the right ear at it's roots.
Christ with his hand reconstructed that
wonderful organ of soUsad, that whisper
ing gallery of the soul, that collector of
vibrations, that arched way to the audi
tory 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 q
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