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

they cou.u ant. uou9it up iiali OF neaven
and let it out at ruinous rent or loaned
the money to celestial citizens at per
cent a mcnth and got "corner' on
harps and tIumpess. They lived in this
world SO OF 90 years in the presence of
appalling suffering and want and made
no efforts for their relief. The charities
of such people are in the 'Paulo post
future tense. They are going to do
them. Tho probability is that if such
une ia his last will by a donation to be-
nevoient societies tries to atone for his
lifetime closefstedness 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. On, ye
oyerweighted, successful business men,
whether this sermon reach your ear or
your eyes, let me say that il you are
progtrated 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
tasting water at Saratoga HoTburg or
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 right you shall have eight
hours sleep. without the help Of bro
mide of potassium, and from no appetite
you will hardly be able to wait for your
regular meals, and your wan cheek will
FIJI up and when you die the blessings
of those who but for you would have
perished 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 on it
more toes and there will be 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 abla to keep their
faces straight. But. whether in that di-
rection my words do good or not, am
anxious that all who have only ordinary
equipment be thankful for what they
have and rightly employ it. Think you
all have, fguratively as we'll as literally,
fingers enough. Do not long for hinder
irg superfuities. Standing in the pres.
ence of this fallen giant Of my text and
in this post mortem examination of
him, let rs learn how much better off
we are with just the usual band, the
usual foot You have thanked God for
a thousand things, but l warrant you
never thanked him fer those two imple-
ments of work and locomotion that no
one bat the infinite and omnipotent God
could have ever planned or made-tbe
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 gava $40, 900 for essays on
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 q 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 plow, to pound, to wheel, to
battle, to give friendly salutation. The
tips of its fingers are SO many telegraph
Offices by reason of their sensitlveness
of touch. Tho bridges, the tunnels, tho
cities CT 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 cloriiies the usual hand. Fashioned
of Gcd more exquisitely and wondrous-
~ than any human mechanism that was
ever ccntri@ed. charge you to use it
for God and the lifting of the world out
of its 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 neighbours hand on one side,
and your thumb set so as to clinch it on
the other side. By all its bones and
Joints aud muscles and cartilages and
ligaments the voice of nature joins with