Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-09-30

the hand and the foot. Only that sol.
der or that mechanic who in 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 malformation of this fallen
giants foot glorifies the ordinary foot,
for which | fear you have never once
thanked God. The twenty-six bones Of
the foot are the admiration Of the an
atomist The arch of the foot fash
Toned with a grace and poise that
Trajan's arch. or Constantine's arch. or
any other arch could not equal. Those
arches sand where they were planted
but this arch of the foot is an adjust
able arch, a yielding arch. a flying
arch and ready for movements innu-
merable. The human foot so fashioned
as TO enable q man to stand upright as
no other creature, and leave the hand
that would otherwise have TO help in
balancing the body. free for anything
it chooses. The foot of the camel fash
Toned for the sand, the foot of the bird
fashioned for the tree-branch. the foot
of the hind fashioned for the slippery
rock, the foot of the lion fashioned to
rend its prey. the foot of the horse
fas.- Oned for the solid earth. but the
foot of man made to cross the desert,
or climb the tree, or scale the cliff, or
walk the earth, or go anywhere he
needs to go.
With that divine triumph of anatomy
in your possession where do you walk?
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 marks OF
thefee of birds and beasts of thousands
of years ago. And God can trace out
all the footsteps of your lifetime, and
those you made fifty years ago are as
plain as those made in the last soft
weather, all of them petrifed for the
Judgment Day
That there might be no doubt about
the fact that both these pieces of Di
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 instep went the iron of torture,
and from the palm of his hand to the
back of it, and there is not muscle
or nerve or bone among the twenty
seven bones of hand and wrist, or
among the twentysix bones of the
foot but It belongs to him now and
forever.
That is the most beautiful foot that
goes about paths of greatest usefulness,
and that the most beautiful hand that
does the most help to others. 1 was
reading Of three women in rivalry
about the appearance Of the hand. And
the one Redeemed her hand with ber
rles, 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 off,
that her hand was the most beautiful
And another plucked flowers off the
bank, and under the bloom contended
that her hand was the most attractive
Then poor old woman appeared, and
looking up in her decrepitude asked for
aims. And a woman who had not
taken part in the rivalry gave her aims.
And all the women resolved to leave
to this beggar the question as to which
OF all the hands present was the most
attractive. and she said: THE most
beautiful of them all is the one that
gave relief to my necessities" and as
she so said her wrinkles and rags and
her decrepitude and her body disap-
peared, and in place thereof stood the
Christ, who long ago said: "Inas-
much as We did it to one of the least
of these. We did it unto me!' and who
to purchase the service of our hand and
foot here on earth had his own hand
and foot lacerated.