Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-03-06
Humility and Imperfection.

The most practical and useful lesson
for You ard me, Wien we SEQ the seraph
spreading his wings over the feet, is the
lesson Of humility at impcrfcction. The
brightest angels of God are so far be-
meath God that he charges them with
folly, the seraph so far beneath God
and we so far beneath the seraph i'll
service we ought to be plunged i'll hu-
mility, utter and complete. Our feet,
how laegard they have been in the di-
vine servicel Our feet, how many mis-
steps they have taEen Our feet, i'll how
many paths of worldliness and folly
they have walked
Neither God nor seraph intended to
put any dishonor upon that which is one
of the masterpieces of Almighty Cod
the human foot Psychologist and anat-
omist are overwhelmed at the Won
ders of its organization. The Bridge
wate~ treatise, written by Sir Charles
Bell, OH the wisdom and goodness of
God as illustrated III the human hand,
was a result of the $40, 600 bequeathed
in the last will and testament of the
Earl of Bridgewater for the encourage
ment of Christian literature. The world
could afford to forgive his ccccntricities,
though he had two dogs seated at his
table and though he put six Gogs alone
in an cquipage drawn by four horses
and attended by two footmen.
With his large hequcst inducing Sir
Charles Bell to write so valuable book
on the wisdom of God in the structure
of the human hand, the world could af-
ford to forgive his oddities. And the
world could now afford to have another
Earl of Bridgewater, however idiosyn-
cratic, if he would induce some other
Sir Charles Bell to write book on the
wisdom and goodness Of God i'll the con-
struction of the human foot, the artic-
ulation of its bones, the fabrication of
it's joints, the graccfulncss of its lines,
the ingenuity of its cartilages the deli
cacy Of its veins, the rapidity of its
muscular contraction, the sensitiveness
of its nerves.
sound the praises of the human foot
With that we halt CT climb CT march.
It is the foundation of the physical fab
vic. 1t is the base of God poised col
UNI. With it the warrior braces him.
self for battle. With it the orator plants
himself for eulogium. With it the toiler
reaches his work With it the outraged
stamps his indignation, its loss an irrep-
arabic disaster, its health an invalu-
able equipment If you want to know
its value, ask the man whose foot pa
ralysis hath shriveled, or machinery
hath crushed, or surgeons knife hath
amputated. The Bible honors it. Espe-
cial care, Lest thou dash thy foot
against stone, - He will not suffer
thy foot to be moved, y "Thy feet shall
not stumble. Especial charge, Keep
thy foot when thou goest to the house
of God Especial peril, "Their feet
shall slide in due time - Connected
with the worlds dissolution, HE shall
set one foot on the sea and the other on
the earth %
Wings Of Humility.
Give me the history of your foot, and
I will give you the history OF your NE
time. Tell me up what steps 1t hatn
gone, down what declivities and III
what roads and in what directions, and
I will know more about you than l
want to know. None of US could en-
dure the scrutiny. Our feet not always
ia paths of God, sometimes in paths OF
worldliness. Our feet, a divine ana