Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-01

get your health back and your spirits
raised than by drinking gallons OF bad
tasting water at Saratoga, Homburg or
Carlsbad. Give to God, humanity and
the Bible 10 per cent Of all your in
come, and it will mako new man Of
you, and from restless walking of the
floor at night 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
fill up, aud 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 tho 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 OH it
moro toes, and there will be a sigh of
relief when you are gone out of the
world, and when over your remains the
minister recites tho words, blessed are
the dead who die in tho Lord persons
/ who have keen appreciation of the ludi-
crous will hardly be able to keep their
faces straight But, whether in that di-
rection my words do good or not I 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 well as literally,
fingers enough. Do not long for hinder
ing superAuities Standing i'll the pres
ence Of this fallen giant OF my text and
in this post norton examination of
him, let US learn how much better off
wo 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 imple-
ments of work and locomotion that no
one but the infinite and omnipotent God
could have ever planned or made-tbo
hand and the foot Only that soldier or
that mechanic who in a battle or
through machinery has lost them
knows anything adequately about their
value, and only the Christian scientist
can havo any appreciation of what di-
vine masterpieces tney arc
The Hand That Works.
Sir Charles Bell was so impressed
with the wondrous construction of the
human hand that when the Earl of
Bridgowater gave $40 900 for essays on
tho 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 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, tho
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, wo
repel, we invoke, we entreat, we wiring
then 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 eYquisitely and wondrous-
~ than any human mechanism that was
ever contrived, l charge you to use it
for God and the lifting of the world out
of its moral predicament. Employ it in
| It, e,,I,I;,,,o IF oocno1 hand cbo L.
ing. You can see tho hand is just made
for that. -Four fingers just set right to
touch your ncighbor's hand on one side,
and your thumb set SO as to clinch it on
the other side By all its bones and
joints and muscles and cartilages and
ligaments the oice of nature joins with
the voice of God commanding you to
shake hands. Tho 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, n 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 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 aud 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 aud
hurt you, but whom you can afford to
forgive shake hands. At the door of
the churches where people come i'll and
at the door of churches where people go
out, shake hands. Let pulpit shake
hands with pew and Sabbath day shaGo
hands with weekday and earth shake
hands with heaven. Oh, the strange,
tho mighty, the underlined, tho mys-
ferrous, the eternal power of an honest
hand shaking The difference between
these times aud the millennial times is
that now some shake hands, but then
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
giants foot glcrifes tho ordinary foot.
for which I fear you have never once
thanked God. The 2G bones Of the foot
are the admiration Of the anatomist.
The arch of TIE foot fashioned with a
grace and poiso that Trajan's arch Or
Constantine's arch or any other arch
could not equal. Those arches stand
where they were planted, but this arch
of tho foot is an adjustable arch, a
yielding arch, flying arch and ready
for movements innumerable. The hui
man foot so fashioned as to enable q
man to stand upright as no other crea-
ture and leave the hand that would