The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-10-08
YOU shall have eight hours. sleep with

J. ADVICE, Dut the most OF you Will not
: And you will try to cure your swoller
!, hand by getting on 1t more fingers
: and your rheumatic foot by getting
Q on II more toes, and there will be q
: sigh of relief when you are gone out
q of the world, and when over your re-
/, mains the minister recites the words:
"Blessed are the dead who die in the
I Lord" persons who have keen appre-
citation of the ludicrous will hardly
. be able to keep their faces straight.
: But whether in that direction my
: that all who have only ordinary equip
ment be thankful for what they have
and rightly employ it. think you NIL
have, figuratively as well as literally,
fingers enough. Do not long for him
derng superhuities. 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 a thousand things, but / warrant
you never thanked Him for those two
implements of work and locomotion
that no one but the infinite and ON
nipotent God could have ever planned
or made-the hand and the foot. Only
that soldier of that mechanic who in
n battle or through machinery has
lost them knows anything adequately
about their value, and only the Chris
| tian scientist can have any apprec
tion of what divine masterpieces they
| are.
Sir Charles Bell was so impressed
with the wondrous construction Of
the human hand that when the earl
of Bridgewater gave $4,000 for es-
says on the wisdom and goodness of
God, and eight books were written,
Sir Charles Bell wrote his entire book
on the wisdom and goodness of God as
displayed in the human hand Tho
p bones in the hand and wrist with
cartridges 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 it's fingers are
so many telegraph Offices by reason Of
their sensitivtness of touch. Thu
bridges. the tunnels, the cities of the
whole earth are the victories of the
hand. The hands are not dumb, but
often speak as distinctly as the lips.
With our hands we invite, we repel,
we entreat, we wiring them in grief
or clap them in JOY. or spread them
abroad in benediction. The malforma-
ton of the giants hand in the text
glorifies the usual hand. Fashioned
Of God more eXquisitely and wondrous-
ly than any human mechanism that
was ever contrived. l charge YOU to
use il for God and the lifting of the
world out of its moral predicament.
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 entering business and discouraged
at the small sales and the large ex-
penses, shake hands. With the child
who is new from God and started on
amending 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. Across cradles and dy-
ing beds and graves. shake hands.
With your enemies who have done all
to defame and hurt you, but whom
you can afford to forgive, shake hands.
AT the door Of the churches where peo-
pie come IN, and at the door OF
churches where people go out, shake
hands. Let pulpit shake hands with
pew and 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 hand
shaking! The difference between
these times and the millennial times is
that now some shake hands, but then
all will shake hands, throne and foot
stool, across seas, nation with nation,
God and man, church militant and
church triumphant.
Yea, the malformation of this fallen
giants foot glorfies the ordinary foot
for which I fear you have never once
thanked God. The &c bones of the foot
are the admiration of the anatomist
The arch of the foot, fashioned with
a grace and poise that Trajan's arch
or Constantine's arch or any other
arch could not equal. Those arches
stand where they were planted, but
this arch of the foot is an adjustable
arch. yielding arch. flying arch,
and ready for movements innumer-
able. The human foot, so fashioned
as to enable man to stand upright
as no other creature, and leave the
hand that would otherwise have to
help in balancing the body free for
tanything it chooses
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 the feet of birds and beast Of thou
sands of years ago. And God can trace
that all the footsteps of your life
time, and those you made so years ago
are as plain as those made In the last
soft weather. all of them petrifed for
the judgment day. oh, the foot Give
me the autobiography of your foot