The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-10-01

AZ The sinai sales and the large eS.
peuseS shake haudS With the child
who is new born from God and started
on unending journey, for which he
needs 10 gather great supply Of
strength, aud who g hardly reach
up To you now because you are so much
taller. shake hands Across cradles
and dying beds and graves shake
hands With your enemies who have
done all to deiame and hurt you, but
whom you can afford to forgive, shake
hands Al the door Of the churches
where people come in, and at the
door OF churches where people go
out shake hands Let pulpit shake
hands with pew, aud sabbath day
shake hands with week day, and earth
shake hands with Heaven. oh. the
strange, the mighty, the underlined,
the mysterious the eternal power Of
an honest handShakiugl The differ
enee between these times aud the mil
lennial times is hat now some shake
hands but then all will shake hands
throne aud tOotst0ol, across seas, ma
ton with nation, God and man, church
militant and church triumphant
Yea, the maliormation OF this fallen
giants foot gloriies the ordinary foot,
for which fear you have never once
thanked God. The &c bones Of the
foot are the admiration of the anato-
mist The human foot so fashioned as
TO enable a man 10 stand upright as
no other creature, and leave the hand
that would otherwise have to help to
balance the body free for anything IL
chooses. With that divine triumph Of
anatomy in your possession where do
you walk? In what path of righteous
ness 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 beasts of thousands Of
years ago And God can trace out all
the footsteps OF your lifetime, aud
those you made so years ago are as
plain as those made in the last sof.
weather, all Of them petrifed for the
Judgment day. oh, the footl Give
me the autobiography Of your foot
from the time you stepped out of the
cradle until to-day, and l will 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 these pieces of d.
vine mechanism, hand and foot belong
to Christ's service, both hands Of Christ
and both feet Of Christ were spiked on
the cross. Right through the arch of
both his feet TO the hollow of his in
step went the iron of torture, and
from the palm Of his hand to the back
Of II, and there isnot a muscle or nerve
Or bone among the q bones of hand
and wrist, or among the 20 bones of
the foot, but 1t belongs to him now and
forever.
That is the most beautiful foot that
goes about paths of greatest useful
ness, and that the most beautiful hand
that does the most To help others. |
was reading Of three women In rivalry
about the appearance of the hand.
And the one Redeemed her hand with
berries, and said the beautiful tinge
made hers the most beautiful. And
another put her hand in the mountain
brook. and said, as the waters dripped
Of, that her hand was the most beauti.
full And another plucked flowers of
the bank, aud under the bloom con.
tended that her hand was the most at.
tractive. Then a poor old woman ap
I. peared, and looking mp In her decrepi
tude asked for aims And a woman
: who had not taken part in the rivalry
gave her aims, And all the women re
. solved to leave to this beggar the ques
ton as 10 which OF all the hands pres
. emit was the most attractive, and sh,
said: The most beautiful OF them al
! Is the one that gave relief to my ne
: cessities," and as she so said he
wrinkles and rags and her decrepitud,
3 and her body disappeared, andi in placI
: thereof stood the Christ, who long agt
said: ~"Inasmuch as We did II to one O.
the least of these, We did it unto Met
and who 70 purchase the service Of on
Il hand and foot here on earth had Lii
T own hand and foot lacerated.