The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-22
/ am glad for the benevolent insti.


during their life were as stingy as
death, but who in their last will and
testament bestowed money on hospit-
ais and missionary societies; but for
such 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 the at
ruinous rent, or loaned the money to
celestial citizens at two per cent.
month, and got corner" on harps
and trumpets. They lived in this
world so or 60 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. The probability is
that if such one in his last will by
donation to benevolent societies tries
to atone for his lifetime close-fsted-
ness, the heirs-at-law will try to break
the will by proving that the old man
was senile or crazy, and the expense of
thC lAtikatlOh Will dDOuO itdNC thC
lawyers hands what was meant for
the Bible society. Oh, We oversighted,
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 in
vesting these tremendous fortunes, !
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, Hamburg
or Carlsbad: Give to God, humanity
and the Bible ten per cent. of all your
income, and it will make new man
of you, and from restless walking on
the floor at night you shall have eight
hours sleep, without the help of bro
mide of potassium, and from no appe-
tite you will hardly be able to wait for
your regular meals, and your wan
cheeks 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 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 appre-
citation of the ludicrous will hardly be
able to keep their faces straight. But
whether in that direction, 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. I think you all
have, figuratively as well as literally,
fingers enough. Do not long for him
dering superfuities. 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 thousand things,
but | warrant you never thanked Him
for those two implements of work and
locomotion, that no one but the In
finite and Omnipotent God could have
ever planed or made--the hand and
the foot. Only that soldier or that
mechanic who in battle, or through
machinery, has lost them, knows any
thing about their value, and only the
Christian scientist can have any ap.
probation of what divine masterpiece
they are.
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 1t down!
Where have you left the mark of your
footsteps? Amid the petrifactions In
the rocks have been found the mark OF
the feet of birds and beast thousands
of years ago. And God can trace out
all the footsteps of your lifetime, ant
those you made so years ago are as
plain us those you made in the last
soft weather, all of them petrified fol
the Judgment day. Oh, the foot! Gir'
me the autobiography of your ft",
from the time you stepped out of sa'
cradle until to-day, and / will tell YOU
exact character now and what are
your prospects for the world to come
That there might be no doubt abou
the fact that both of these pieces O
divine mechanism, hand and foot, be
long to Christ's service both hands o
Christ and both feet of Christ wer,
spiked on the cross. Right through
the arch of both His feet to the hollow
of His instep went the iron of torture
and from the palm of His hand to TIL
back of it, and there is not muscl
or nerve or bone among the ~ bone
of the hand and wrist, or among tn
&c bones of the foot, but it belongs t
Him now and forever.
That is the most beautiful foot tina
goes about paths of greatest useful
ness, and that the most beautiful
hand that does the most to help 9th
, ers. / was reading of three womel
, in rivalry about the appearance of tn
. hand. And the one redeemed he
hand with berries, and said the beau
J tiful tinge made hers the most beau
| tiful. And another put her hand il
the mountain brook and said, as tn
{ waters dripped off, that her hand wa
the most beautiful. And anothe
, plucked flowers off the bank, and un
der the bloom contended that he
/ hand was the most attractive. The
; poor old woman appeared, and look
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