The Iola register., 1898-09-30

thumb set so as to clench it on the
other side. BY all its bones and joints
and muscles and cartilages and liga-
ments 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
Jehonadab: as thine heart right as
my heart is with thine heart? If it be,
give me thine hand" When hands
Join in Christian salutation gospel
electricity thrills across the palm from
heart to heart and from the shoulder
of one to the shoulder of the other
With the timid and for their encour-
agement shake .hands. With the
troubled 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 born from God and started
on unendinR 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 dying 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 people 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 handshakiug! The differ
ence between these times and the mil
| lennial times is that now some shake
hands, but then all will shake hands,
throne and footstool, across seas, ma
tion with nation, God and man, church
militant and church triumphant.
Yea, the malformation of this fallen
giants foot glorifies the ordinary foot,
for which | fear you have never once
thanked God. The 20 bones of the
foot are the admiration of the anato-
mist. The human foot so fashioned as
to enable u man TO stand upright as
no other creature, and leave the hand
that would otherwise have to help to
balance the body free for anything 1t
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 IL DOWN. Where have
you left the mark of your footstepsP
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, and
those you made so years ago are as
plain as those made in the last soft
weather, all of them petrified for the
Judgment day. Oh, the foot! Give
me the autobiography of your foot
from the time you stepped out of the
cradle until to-day, 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 di-
vine mechanism, hand and foot belong
to Christs 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 il, and there Is not a muscle or nerve
or bone among the 81 bones of hand
and wrist, or among the 20 bones Of
the foot, but IL 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
Off, that her hand was the most beauti-
full. And another plucked flowers off
the bank, aud under the bloom con-
tended that her hand was the most at
tractive Then poor old woman APP
peared, and looking up in her decrepi-
tude asked for aims. And n 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-
tion as TO which of all the hands pres
ent was the most attractive, and she
said: "The most beautiful of them all
is the one that gave relief to my ne-
cessities," and as she so said her
wrinkles and rags and her decrepitude
and her body disappeared, and in place
thereof stood the Christ, who long ago
said: "lnasmuch 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.
Not His Kind OF "A Glass.
A rich Glaswegian, while shooting
over his estate in Perth, treated an at.