The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-09-28

The arch OF The loot Fashioned with a
grace and poise that Trajan's arch or
Constantine's arch or any other arch
could not e1nal Those arches stand
where they were planted, but this arch
of the foot is an adjustable arch,
yielding arch, a flying arch and ready
for movements innumerable. The hu
man foot so fashioned as to enable a
man to stand upright dis no other crea-
ture and leave the hand that would
otherwise have to help in balancing the
body free for anything it chooses. The
foot Of the camel fashioned for the sand,
the foot of tho bird fashioned for the
tree branch, the foot of the hind fash
ioncd FOR the slippery rock, the foot of
the lion fashioned to rend its prey, the
foot Of the horse fashioned for the solid
earth, but the foot of man made to cross
the desert or climb the tree or scale the
cliff CT walk the earth or go anywhere
he needs to 60.
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 foot
steps? Amid the potrifactions 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, and those
You made so years ago are as plain as
those mada in the last soft weather, all
of them petrifed for the Judgment day.
Oh, the foot! Give me the autobiography
of your foot from the time you stepped
out Of the cradle until today, and 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 divine
mechanism, hand and foot, belong to
Christ's service both hands Of Christ
and both feet CT Christ were spiked on
the cross. Right through the arch Of
both his feet to the hollow of his instep
went tho iron of torture, and from the
palm CT his hand to the back of it, and
there is not a muscle or nerve or bone
among the q bones of hand and wrist
or among the 26 bones Of the foot but
it belongs to him now and forever.
The Beauty OF Service.
That is the most beautiful foot that
goes about paths Of greatest usefulness
and that the most beautiful hand that
does tie most to help others. l 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
band in the mountain brock 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 wom-
an 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 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 dis
appeared, and in place thereof stood
the Christ, who long ago said, "Inas-
much as ye did it to one Of the least Of
these, ye 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.