Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-09-29

of him, let us learn how much better
off we are with just the usual hand.
the usual foot You have thanked God
for thousand things, but l warrant
Won nrv,r thanked Him for those i'm.
PIGMENTS of work and locomotion, that
no one but the Infinite and Omnipotent
God could have ever planned or made
the hand and the foot. Only the sols
dicr or that IN, chanic who in n battle
or through machinery has lost them
knows anything adequately about
their value, and only the Chris
tian scientist can have any apprccia-
tion of what divine masterpieces they
are.
Sir Charles Bell was so impressed
with tine wondrous construction of
the human hand that when the earl of
Bridgewater gave $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 - bones in
the hand and wrist, with cartridges
and ligamcnts and phalanges of the
fingers all made just ready to knit, to
sew, tn build up. to pull down, to
weave, to write, to pillow, to pound. to
wheel, to battle, to give friendly salu-
tation. The tips of the fingers are so
many telegraph offices by reason of
their scnSitiveness to touch.
The bridges, the tunnels, the cities of
the whole earth are the victories of the
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often speak As distinctly as the lips
With our hands we invite. we repel, we
! invoke, we entreat, we wiring them in
grief, we clap them in joy, we spread
them abroad in benediction. The NAL.
| formation of the giants hand in
the text glorifics the usual hand,
| fashioned of God more exquisitely and
wondrously than any human mcchan-
| ism that was ever contrivcd. i charge
you To use it for God and the lifting of
the world out of its moral predica.
ment Employ it in the sublime work
OF Gospel Misunderstanding. You can
see the hand is just made for that
| Four fingers Just set right to touch
your neigh boris hand on one side, and
your thumb set so as to clinch il on
tine other side. By all its bones and
joints aud muscles and carriages and
! ligaments the voice of nature joins
| with the voice of Col commanding
you to shake hands. The custom is as
old as the Bible, anyhow. Jehu said
to Jehonadad: is thine heart right as
my heart is with thine heart? II it be-
| give me thine hand" When hands
| Join in Christian salutation a Cos
pel electricity thrills across the palm
from heart to heart, amt from the
shoulder of one to the shoulder of the
other
With the timid and for their encour.
! agemcnt, shake hands. With the
troubled in warm-hearted sympathy
shake hands With the young man
just entering business, and discour
AIRED at the small sales and the large
expenses, shake hands With the
child who is new from God and
started on amending journey, fol-
which he needs to gather great
supply of strength, and who car
hardly reach up to you now because
you are so much taller, shake hands
Across cradles and dying beds ant
graves, shake hands. With your en-
emies. who have done all to defam,
and hurt you, but whom YOU
can afford TO forgive, shake hands
| At the door of the churches, wher,
people come in, and at the door o
churches where people go out shall,
hands. Let pulpit shake hand
| 81. A.
hands with weekday. and earth shak,
hands with Heaven. On, the strange
the mighty, the undo fined, the mysteri
Gus, the eternal power of an homes
Misunderstanding! The difference between
these times and the millennial times i
that now some shake hands, but theI
all will shake hands, throne and foot
stool, across seas, nation with nation
God and man, church militant anC
church triumphant.