Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-24

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
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 arc
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 d.
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, figuratively as we'll as literally,
fingers enough. Do not long for hinder
ing superfluities. 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
thousand things, but I warrant you
never thanked him for those two imple-
ments Of work and locomotion that no
one but the infinite and omnipotent God
could have ever planned or made-tho
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 on
the wisdom and goodness of God and
eight books were written Sir Charles
Bell wrote his entire book OH the wis
dom and goodness Of God as displayed
in the human hand. The ~ 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 sensitiveness
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 glorifies the usual hand. Fashioned
of God more exquisitely and wondrous-
ly than any human mechanism that was
ever contriyed, 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 80 as to clinch it on
the other side. By all its bones and
joints and muscles AM. Ga. gos %
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
heart, and from the shoulder Of one to
the shoulder of the other.
With the tirnid and for their encour-
agement, shake hands. With the trou-
bled in warm hearted sympathy, shake
hands. With the young man just enter
ing business and discouraged at the
small sales and the large expenses,
shake hands. With the child who is
new from God and started on unending
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 enc
mics, 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 weekday and earth shake
hands with heaven. Oh, the strange
the mighty, the underlined, the mys
terious, the eternal power of all honest
hand shaking! The difference between
these times and the millennial times is
that now some shake hands, but thea
all will shake hands, throne and foot
stool, across seas, nation with nation,
God and man, church militant and
church triumphant.
The Human Foot.
Yea, the malformation of this fallen
giAnt's foot glorifies the ordinary foot
for which l fear you have never once
thanked God. The 26 bones Of the foot
ere the admiration Of the anatomist
The arch Of the foot fashioned with a
grace and poise that Trajan's arch or
Constantines arch or any other arch
could not equal. Those arches stand
where they were planted, but this arch
Of the foot is an adjustable arch, a
yielding arch, flying arch and raady
for movements innumerable. The hu-
man foot so fashioned as to enable
man to stand upright as no other crea.