The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-09-26
On, DELAWARE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, Is

win 1ug child who Il now from God and
started on unending journey, for which b.
needs to gather great supply Of strength,
and who can hardly reach up to you now
because you are % much taller, shake
hands. Across cradles and dying beds
and graves, shake hands. With your enc
niles who have done al to defame and
hurt you, but whom you can afford to for
give, shake hands At tho door of the
churches where people come in, and at tho
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 mysterious, the eternal
power Of an honest handshakingl The
difference between these times and the
millennial times Ia that now some shake
hands, but then all will shake hands,
throne and footstool, across seas, nation
with nation, God and man, church mill
taDt and church triumphant.
The Errant Foot.
Yea, the malformation Of this fallen
giants foot glori0es the ordinary foot, for
which fear you have never once thanked
God. The 26 bones Of the foot are the ad
miration of the anatomist The arch of
the foot, fashioned with grace and poise
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 the foot Is an adjustable arch,
yielding arch, a flying arch, and ready
for movements inpumerable. The human
foot, so fashioned as to enable man to
stand upright as no other creature, and
leave the hand that would otherwise have
to help in balancing the body free for any
thing 1t chooses The foot Of the camel
fashioned for the sand, the foot Of the bird
fashioned for the tree branch, the foot Of
the hind fashioned for the slippery rock,
the foot Of the lion fashioned to rend It's
prey, the foot Of the horse fashioned for
tho solid earth, but the foot Of man made
to cross the desert, or climb the tree, or
scale the cliff, or walk the earth, or 60
anywhere he needs to 60.
With that divine triumph of anatomy in
your possession where do you walkp In
what path OF righteousness or what path
ofsin have you set 1t DOWN. Where have
you left the mark Of your footstepsP Amid
the petrifaOtions In the rocks have been
found the marks Of the feet OF birds and
beast Of thousands Of years ago And God
can trace out all the footsteps Of your life
time, and those you nado 30 years ago
are as plain as those made in the last soft
weather, all Of them pstrifled for the judg-
ment day. Oh, the footl Give ME the
autobiography Of your foot from the time
you stepped out Of the cradle until today,
and will tell your exact character now
and what are your prospects for the world
to o0rne.
That there might be no doubt about the
fact that both these pieces Of divine
mechanism, hand and foot, belong to
Christ's service both hands Of Christ and
both feet Of Christ were spiked on the
cross. Right through the arch of both his
feet to the hollow of his instsp went the
iron of torture, and from the palm of his
hand to the back of 1t, and there is not
muscle or nerve or bone among the ~
bones Of hand and wrist or among the IS
bones of the foot but it belongs to him
now and forever.
A Fable Of Service.
That is the most beautiful foot that goes
about paths Of greatest usefulness, and
that the most beautiful hand that does the |
lAoSo W ucIp OUAolo. WAS EcsulDS VI |
three women In rivalry about the appear
ance of the hand And the one Redeemed
her hand with berries and said the beauti-
|ul tinge made hers the most beautiful.
And another put her hand in the noun
ain brook and said as the waters dripped
IF that her hand was the most beautiful.
And another plucked flowers off the bank,
md under the bloom contended that her
rand was the most attractive. Then q
Door old woman appeared, and, looking
Up In her decrepitude, asked for aims.
And woman who had not taken part in
he rivalry gave her aims. And all the
women resolved to leave to this beggar the
question as TO which Of all the hands pres.
mt was the most attractive, and she said,
The most beautiful Of them all is the one
hat gave relief to my necessities. And
Is she 10 said her wrinkles and rags and
'er deorepitude and her body disappeared,
nd in place thereof stood the Christ, who
ong ago said, "Inasmuch as ye did 1t to
ne Of the least Of these ye did 1t unto
ne" and who to purchase the service Of
ur hand and foot here on earth had his
wn hand and foot lacerated.