Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-09-26

| testatOrs have no respect. They would
have taken every cent of it with them if
they could and bought up half OF heaven
and let it out at ruinOus rent or loaned
the money to celestial citizens at 2 per
cent month and got corner on
harps and trumpets. They lived III this
world so OF 60 years in the presence OF
appalling suffering and want and made
40 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 a
one in his last will by donation to be-
nevolent societies tries to atone for his
lifetime closefistedness the heirs at law
will try to break the will by proving
that the old man was senile or crazy,
and the expense of the litigation will
about leave in the lawyers hands what
was meant for the Bible society. Oh, ye
overweighted, 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 investing these tremendous fortunes
I can tell you how you can do more to
get your health back and your spirits
raised than by drinking gallons Of bad
ldSUluS WdGSI az SOL 0UOSoG, AAOLAOoASo Vi
Carlsbad Give to God, humanity and
the Bible 10 per cent of all your in
come, and it will make new man of
you, and from restless walking of the
floor at night you shall have eight
hours sleep. without the help Of bro
1nide of potassium, and from no appetite
you will hardly be able to wait for your
regular MEALS and your wan cheek 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 Oh it
more toes, and there will be a 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 appreciation Of the ludi-
crous will hardly be able to keep their
faces straight. But, whether in that di-
rection my words do good or not, l 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 we'll as literally,
fingers enough. Do not long for hinder
ing superfuities. Standing in the pres
ence of this fallen giant of my text and
in this post mortem examination of
him, let us learn how much better off
we are with just the usual hand, the
usual foot You have thanked God for
a thousand things, but I warrant you
him fO7. those two ir11T9In-
ments of work and Iocomotion that no
one but the infinite and omnipotent God
could have ever planned or made-the
hand and the foot. Only that soldier 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 Hand That Works.
Sir Charles Bell was so impressed
with the wondrous construction of the
human hand that when the Earl Of
Bridgewater gave $40, 900 for essays Oh
the wisdom and goodness of God and
eight books were written Sir Charles
Bell wrote his entire book on the wis
dom and goodness Of God as displayed
in the human hand. The 81 bones in
the hand and wrist with cartilages 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 its fingers are SO many telegraph
offices by reason Of their constituencies
of touch. The bridges, the tunnels, the
cities of the whole earth, are the vic
tories of the hand. The hands are not
dumb, but often speak as distinctly as
the lips With our hands we invite, we
repel, we invoke, we entreat, we wiring
them in grief, Or clap them in joy, or
spread them abroad in benedictiOn. The
malformation of the giants hand in the
text glorifes the usual hand. Fashioned
of God more exquisitely and wondrous-
ly than any human mechanism that was
ever contrived, I charge you to use it
for God and the lifting of the world out
of it's moral predicament. Employ it in
the sublime work of gospel hand shak
ing. You can see the hand is just made
for that. Four fingers just set right to
touch your nei ghbor's hand on one side,
and your thumb set SO as to cllnch it on
the other side. By all it's bones and
joints and muscles and cartilages and
ligaments the voice of nature joins with
the voice of God commanding you to
shake hands. The custom is as old as
the Bible anyhow. Jehu said to Jehon-
adab: sis thine heart right as my
heart is with thine heart? If it be, give
me thine hand.'' When hands join in
Christian salutation, a gospel electricity
thrills across the palm from heart to
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