The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-01-31
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sympathzed with the man who had lost
the use of his hand. 1t was a case OF
atrophy. wasting away until the arm
and hand had been reduced in size beyond
any medical or surgical restoration. More
over, it was his right hand, the most I'M
portant of the two, for the left side III all
its parts is weaker than the right side,
and we inyoluntarily, in any exigency,
put out the right hand because we know
it is the best hand. So that poor man
had lost more than half of his physlcai
armament. 1t would not have been so
bad if it had been the left hand. But
Christ looked at that shriyeled up right
hand dangling useessly at the mans side
and then cried out with a voice that had
cmnipotence in it, ''Stretch forth thy
handr and the record is ''he stretched it
forth whole as the other" The blood
rushed through the shrunken veins. and
the shortened muscles heightened, and
the dead nerves thrilled, and the lfeless
fingers tingled with resumed circulation,
and the restored man held up in the pres
ence OF the skeptical Pharisees one of
lehovah's masterpieces perfect hand.
The Hand of Destiny.
How often has the hand decided a des-
from Imprisonment at Lochlever in the
dress of laundress and had her face
thickly yelled. When q boatman attempt
ed to remove the veil, she put up her
hand to defend it and SO revealed the
white and fair hand OF queen, and so
the boatman took her back to captivity.
Again and again it has been demon
| strated that the hand hath a language as
certinly as the mouth. Palmistry, or the
science by which character and destiny
are read in the lines of the hand, is yet
crude and uncertain and unsatisfactory,
but as astrology was the mother Of as
tronomy and alchemy was the mother of
chemistry, it may be that palmistry will
| result in science yet to be born.
Again, as the chief executive officer of
the soul. behold the hand busy in the
arts. What comparatively dull place
this world would be without pictures.
without statuary, without music, without
architecture. Have you ever realized
what fifty seeming miracles are in the
five minutes lingering Of piano or harp
or flute? Who but the eternal God could
make a hand capable of that swift sweep
OF the keys. or that quick feeling of the
| pulses OF 4 flute. or the twirl of the fin
gers amid the strings Of the harp? All
the composers Of music who dreamed out
the oratorios and the cantatas of the ges
would have had their work dropped Hat
| and useless but for the translations Of the
hand. Under the deft fingers of the per-
former what cavalries gallop, and what
| batteries boom, and what birds carol. and
what tempestS march, and what oceans
blllow! The great architects of the earth
might have thought out the Alhambras
and the Parthenons and the st. Sophias
and the Tag Mahals, but all those visions
would have vanished had it not been for
the hand on hammer, on plummet, on
! trowel, on wall. on arch, on pillar, on
stairs, on dome.
| On two discourses, one concerning the
ear and the other concerning the eye, |
spoke from the potent text in the Psalms.
He that planted the ear, shall he not
hear" and He that formed the eve.
shall he not see,' but what use in the eve
and what use in the ear if the hand had
not been strung with all its nerves, and
moved with all its muscles, and reticu-
lated with all its joints, and strengthened
with all it's bones, and contrived with all
its ingenuites. The hand hath forward
tains through which the rail train thun-
| ders, and launched all the shipping, and
fought all the battles. and built all the
temples, and swung all the cables under
! the sea, as we'll as lifted to mid air the
wire tracks on which whole trains of
| thought rush across the continents, and
| built all the cities and hoisted the pyra-
mids.
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expense OF the hand, for the eye may be
blotted out, as in the case of Milton, and
| yet his hand writes a Paradise LOST or
Samson Agonistes;" as in the case of
| William FL. Prescott, and yet his hand
may write the enchanting Conquest of
Peru Or the ear may be silenced for
ever, as III the case of Beethoven, and yet
his hand may put into immortal cadences
the ninth Symphony" Oh, the hand!
| The God fashioned hand The triumph
ant hand! 1t is an open Bible of divine
revelation, and the five fingers are the
Isaiah, and the Ezekiel, and the David.
and the Micah, and the Paul of that al
mighty inspiration.
Value OF the Hand.
A pastor in his sermon told how a little
child appreciated the value of his hand
when he was told that on the morrow it
must be amputated in order to save his
| life. Hearing that, he went to quiet
place and prayed that God would spare
his hand. The surgeon, coming the next
! day to do his work, found the hand SO
much better that amputation was post
poned, and the hand got WELL The pas
tor, telling of this in a sermon, concluded
by holding up his hand and saying, THAT
is the very hand that was spared in an
swer to prayer, and hold it up, monu-
ment of divine mercy"
Again, the hand is the chief executive
officer of the soul when wrung in agony.
Tears of relief are sometimes denied to
trouble. The eyelids at such time are as
hot and parched and burning as the brow.
AT such time even the voice is suppress
ed, and there is no sob or cutlery. Then
the wrnging of the hand tells the story.
AT the close of a life wasted in sin some
times comes that expression of the twist
ed tingers-the memory of years that will
never return, Of opportunities the like of
which will never again occur and con-
science III it's wrath bouncing upon the
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