Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06

| gallons Of ha6-tastiug water at Sara
toga, Hamburg or Carlshad-give to
God. humanity and the Bible ten per
cent, OF all Your Income, and il will
make Il new man f. Vow. HNd from
restless walking ~ 49, ""Nr 4! r'Ght
you shall have eight hours sleep with
out the help Of bromide Of potassium.
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 ii more fingers,
and Your rheumatic foot by getting
on il more toes, and there will be a
sigh Of relief when YOU are gone out
Of the world, and when over your re-
mains the minister rvcites 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 ordE.ary equip
meut be thankful for what they have
and rightly employ it. think you all
have. fguratively as we'll as literally,
! fingers enough. Do not long for him
dering superfiuities, Standing in the
presence of this fallen giant of my
text and in this post mortem examina-
tion 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 l warrant
YOU never thanked Him for those two
implements of work and locomotion
that no one but the infinite and ON
nipotent God could have ever planned
or made-the hand and the foot, Only
that soldier of that mechanic who in
a battle or through machinery has
lost them knows anything adequately
about their value, and only the Chris
tiaR scientist can have any apprecia-
ton OF what divine masterpieces they
lare,
Sir Charles Bell was so impressed
with the wondrous construction OF
the human hand that when the earl
of Bridgewater gave $4,000 for es-
says on the wisdom and goodness Of
Sod. and eight books were written,
Sir Charles Bell wrote his entire book
on the wisdom and goodness of God as
displayed in The human hand, The
- bones in the hand and wrist with
.artilagesand 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 plow. to pound
to wheel, to battle, to give friendly
salutation. The tips of its fingers are
so many telegraph offices by reason of
their sersitiveness of touch. The
bridges the tunnels. the cities of the
whole earth are the victories Of the
hand. The hands are not dumb, but
often speak rs distinctly as the lips
with our hands we invite, we repel
we entreat, we wiring them in grief
or clap them in JOY, or spread them
abroad In benediction. The malforma
ton of the giants hand in the text
glorifies the usual hand. Fashioned
Of God more eXqusitely and wondrous
~ than any human mechanism that
was ever contrived. ] charge YOU &c
use II for God and the lifting of the
world out Of its moral predicament
With the timid and for their encour
agement, shake hands With the trou
bled, in warm-heartcd sympathy
shake hands. With the young mar
just entering business and discouraged
at the small sales and the large eX
penses. shake hands. With the chile
who is new from God and started or
amending journey, for which he ncel
10 gather great supply of strength
and who can hardly reach up to 70,
now because you are so much taller
shake hands. Across cradles and dy
ing beds and graves. shake hands
With your enemies who have done al
to defamo and hurt you, but whom
you can afford to forgive, shake hands
At the door Of the churches where PEG
pie come in, and a. the door o
churches where people go out, shak,
hands. Let pulpit shake hands will
pew and Sabbath day shake hand
with week day, snd earth shake hand
with heaven. Oh. the strange, tn,
mighty, the underlined, the mysterious
the eternal power of an honest hand
shaking, The difference between
these times and the mil,cnnial times /
that row some shake hands, but the
all will shake hands throne and foot
stool, across seas, nation with nation
God and man, church militant an
church triumphant.
Yea, the malformation of this falleI
giants foot glorifes the ordinary foot
for which fear yon have never ono
thanked God. The 26 bones Of the foo
are the admiration Of the anatomist
The arch Of the foot, fashioned wit
a grace and poise that Trajan's arc
or Constantine's arch or any othe
arch could not equal. Those archie
: stand where they were planted, bu
this arch Of the foot is an adjustab l
arch, yielding arch. flying arch
and ready for movements innumer
able. The human foot, so fashione
as to enable a man TO stand uprigh
. as no other creature, and leave tn
hand that would otherwise have {
help in balancing the body free 70
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