Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-11-04
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during their life were as stingy as
death, hut who in their last will and
testament bestowed money on hospit-
ais and missionary societies; but for
such testators | have no respect They
would have taken every cent OF 1t with
them if they could, and bought up
half of Heaven and let it out the at
ruinous rent, or loaned the money to
celestial citizens at two per cent a
month, and got a corner on harTe
and trumpets. They lived in this
world so or GO years in the presence OF
appalling suffering and want, and
made no efforts for their relief The
charities of such people are in the
'Paulo-post future" tense, they are
going to do them. The probability is
that if such one in his last will by
donation to benevolent societies tries
to atone for his lifetime close-fisted-
ness, the heirs-at-law will try to break
the will by proving that the old man
was scnile or crazy and the expense of
the litigation will about leave in the
lawyers hands what was meant for
the Bible society oh, We oversighted,
successful business men, whether this
sermon reach your ear or your eyes,
let me say that if you are Frustrated
with anxieties about keeping or in
vesting these tremendous fortunes, l
can tell you how you can do more to
get your health back and your spirits
raised than by drinkingg gallons of bad
tasting water at Saratoga, Hamburg
or Carlsbad: Give to God, humanity
aud the Bible ten per cent. of all your
income, and it will make new man
of you, and from restless walking on
the floor at night you shall have eight
hours sleep, without the help of bro
mide of potassium, and from no appe-
! tite you will hardly be able to wait for
your regular meals, and your wan
cheeks 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
it more toes, and there will be sigh
of relief when you are gone out 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 appre-
citation of the ludcrous will hardly be
able to keep their faces straight. But
whether in that direction, my words
do good or not, | am anxious that all
who have only ordinary equipment be
thankful for what they have and
rightly employ it. ! think you all
have, figuratively as well as literally,
fingers enough. Do not long for hin.
dering superfluities. Standing in the
presence of this fallen giant of my
text, and in this post norton eXamina-
ton of him let us learn how much bet
ter off we are with just the usual
hand, the usual foot. You have
thanked God for n thousand things,
but | warrant you never thanked Him
for those two implements of work and
locomotion, that no one but the In
finite and Omnipotent God could have
ever planed or made-the hand and
the foot. Only that soldier or that
mechanic who in battle, or through
machinery, has lost them, knows any
thing about their value, and only the
probation of what divine masterpieces
they are.
With that divine triumph of anatomy
in your possession where do youwalk?
In what path of righteousness or what
path of sin have you set it down?
Where have you left the mark OF your
footsteps? Amid the petrifactions in
the rocks have been found the mark of
the feet of birds and beast thousands
of years ago. And God can trace out
all the footsteps of your lifetime, and
those you made so years ago are as
plain as those you made in the last
soft weather, all of them petrfed for
the Judgment day. Oh, the foot! Give
me the autobiography of your foot
from the time you stepped out of the
cradle until to-day, and / viii tell your
exact character now and what are
your prospects for the world to come.
That there might be no doubt about
the fact that both Of these pieces OF
) divine mechanism, hand and foot, be-
long to Chrst's service both hands OF
Christ and both feet of Christ were
spiked on the cross. Eight through
the arch of both His feet 10 the hollow
Of His instep went the iron of torture
and from the palm Of His hand TO the
q back of il, and there is not muscle
= or nerve or bone among the p bones
{ Of the hand and wrist, or among tho
, &c bones of the foot, but it belongs tC
: Him now and forever
That is the most beautiful foot that
e goes about paths of greatest useful
n ness, and that the most beautiful
4 hand that does the most to help 9th
n ers. / was reading of three womer
o in rivalry about the appearance of thu
d hand. And the one REDEEMED hel
Y hand with berries, and said the beau
S tiful tinge made hers the most beau
d tiful. And another put her hand il
V the mountain brook and said, as thu
# waters dripped off, that her hand wa
= the most beautiful. And anothe
e plucked flowers off the bank, and un
= der the bloom contended that he
Il hand was the most attractive. Thcl
e poor old woman appeared, and look
e ink up in her decrepitude asked TO
T. aims. And all the women resolved Il
e leave to this beggar the question ms t.
n which of all the hands present wa
D., the most attractive, and she said
IL U'Tbo ,noc4 haautifuI of fbaru nll /