Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-09-30

your eyes, let me say that il you are
Frustrated with anxieties about keeping
OF investing these tremendous fortunes
l can tell you how you can do more to
get your health back and your spirits
raised than by drinking gallons OF bad
tasting water at Saratoga, Homburg or
Carlsbad. Give to God, humanity and
the Bible 10 per cent of all your in
come, and it will make a new man OF
you, and from restless walking OF the
floor at night you shall have eight
hours sleep, without the help of bro
mide of potassium, and from no appetite
you will hardly be able to wait for your
regular meals, and your wan cheek will
fill up, and when you die the blessings
of those who but for you would have
persisted will bloom all over your grave.
Perhaps some Of you will take this
advice, but the most Of you will not,
and you will try to cure your swollen
hand by getting on it more fingers and
your rheumatic foot by getting ON 1t
more toes, and there will be sigh Of
relief when you are gone ont OF the
world, and when over your remains the
minister recites the words, blessed are
the dead who die in the Lord, " persons
who have keen appreciation Of the ludi-
crous will hardly be able to keep their
faces straight. But, whether in that di-
rection my words do good or not L am
anxious that all who have only ordinary
equipment be thankful for what they
have and rightly employ it. l think You
all have, figuratively as well as literally,
fingers enough Do not long for hinder
ing superhuities Standing in the pres
ence of this fallen giant of my text and
in this post norton examination OF
him, let us learn how much better off
we are with just the usual hand, the
usual foot. You have thanked God for
thousand things, but warrant you
never thanked him for those two nipple
ments of work and locOmOtiOn that no
one but the infinite and omnipOtent God
could have ever planned or made-tbe
hand and the foot. Only that soldier or
that mechanic who i'll battle or
through machinery has lost them
knows anything adequately about their
value, and only the Christian scientist
can have any appreciation OF what di'
vine masterpieces they are.
The Hand That Works.
Sir Charles Bell was so impressed
with the wondrous construction Of the
human hand that when the Earl OF
Bridgewater gave $40, 600 for essays on
the wisdom and goodness Of God and
eight books were written Sir Charles
Bell wrote his entire book on the wis
dom and goodness of God as displayed
in the human hand. The q bones in
the hand and wrist with cartilages and
ligaments and phalanges Of the fingers
all made just ready to knit, to sew, to
build up, to pull down, to weave, to
write, to pillow, to pound, to wheel, to
battle, to give friendly salutation. The
tips of its fingers are so many telegraph
offices by reason of their sensitiveness
Of touch. The bridges, the tunnels, the
cities Of the whole earth, are the vic
tories Of the hand. The hands are not
dumb, but often speak as distinctly as
the lips. With our hands we invite, we
repel, we invoke, we entreat, we wiring
them in grief, or clap them in JOY, or
spread them abroad in benediction. The
malformation Of the giants hand ID the
text glorifies the usual hand. Fashioned
Of God more exquisitely and wondrous'
ly than any human mechanism that was
ever contrived, charge you to use it
for God and the lifting Of the world out
Of its moral predicament. Employ 1t in
the sublime work of gospel hand shak-
ing. You can see the hand is just made
for that Four fingers just set right to
touch your neighbours hand on one side,
and your thumb set so as TO clinch 1t on
the other side. BY all its bones and
Joints and muscles and cartilages and
ligaments the voice of nature joins with
the voice of God commanding you 10
shake hands. The custom is as old as
the Bible anyhow Jehu said to Jehon-
adab: "Is thine heart right as my
heart is with thine heart? If it be, give
me thine hand" When hands join In
Christian salutation, gospel electricity
thrills across the palm from heart to
heart, and from the shoulder Of one to
the shoulder Of the other.
With the timid and for their encour-
agement, shake hands. With the trou-
bled in warm hearted sympathy, shake
hands. With the young man just enter
ing business and discouraged at the
small sales and the large expenses.
shake hands With the child who is
new from God and started on unending
journey, for which he needs to gather
great supply of strength and who can
hardly reach up to you now because
you are so much taller, shake hands.
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