The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-02-03

or gently wipe away the e a OF or
rhauarc. or Ccutr. butte aims, NJ
smooti the excited brow or hcckon
into safety - the helping handsl
There ere hundreds OF thousands Of
them end thr world wants az least
i6OO.Oo0O0O OF them Hands to bless
others hands 90 rescue Others, hands
10 save others What are all these
schools and churches and asyiums OF
mcn,e Oii>jretyHrj hands What
are an those hlujs di%stribuhng tracts
aud carrying medicines and trying TO
cur blind eyes aud deaf ears and
broken bones and d%isordered intel
lec,s and wayvaud sous2 Helping
hands. Let each one of US add two
10 that nsmbcr Il we have two, or, II
through casualty only one. add That
ue. II these hands which we have
SO long kent thrust into pockets
through Incidence ur folded in indif-
ference or employed in writing wrong
things or doing mean things or heay-
ing up obstacles 20 'he way OF right
eous progress might from this hour
be c-onsecratcd TO helping others out
and up and on. they would be hands
worth being raised on the resurrec-
ton morn and worth clapping in eter-
nal cladne,s over a world redeemed.
The great artists Of the ages
Raphael and Leonardo da Nnci and
Quentin Matsys and Rembrandt and
Albert Durer and Titan - have done
their best %picturiug the face OF Christ,
but none except AIRY Scheffer seems 10
have nut much stress upon the hand OF
Christ. Irdced, the mercy OF that hand,
the rentleness Of that hand, is beyond
all artistic portrayal. Some Of His mir
acles He performed ty word Of mouth
and without touching the subject be-
fore Him, out most Of them He per-
formed through the hand. Was the
dead damsel TO be raised to life? HE
took her by the hand" Was the blind
man TO have optic nerve restored? He
took him by the hand Was the demon
10 be exercised from a suffering MANI
"He took him by the hand The peo-
pie saw this and besought Him to put
His hand on their afflicted ones.
His own hands free, see how the
Lord synpathiled with the mai who
had lost the use Of his hand. Il was a
case Of %atrophy, a wasting away until
the arm and hand had been reduced in
size beyond any medical or surgical
restoration. Moreover, It was his right
hand, the more important Of the two,
for the left side ID all its parts is weak
err than the right side, and we involun-
tarily. In any eXigency, put out the
right hand because VT know it is the
best hand. So that poor mat had lost
more tLan half OF his physical arma-
meut. 1t would not have been so bad IL
it had been the left hand. But Christ
looked at the shriyCled up right hand
dangling uselessly at the mans side
and then cried out with a voice that had
omuipnteuce 10 IL: stretch forth thy
right haud!" and the record is "he
stretched It forth whole as the other
The blood rushed through the shrunk'
en- veins, and the shortened muscles
heightened, and the dead nerves
thrilled, ard the l~ifeless fingers tingled
with resumed circulation, and the re-
stored man held up 10 the presence OF
the skeptical phariSee one Of Jehoyah'S
Masterpieces perfect hand. No won.
der lhst story is put three times In the
Bible, so thar Il a sailor were cast away
on u barren island. or Il soldiers New
Testament got mutilated 10 battle and
Tho,e pages are destroyed, the ship,
wrecked or wounded man in hospital
would probably have at least one OF
those three radiant stories OF what
Christ thought Of the human hand.
a pastor 70 his sermon told how q
little child appreciated The value OF
his hand wien he was told that on
the morrow +, must be amputated in or.
der TO save bis life, Hearing that, he
went 10 o quiet place aud prayed that
God would spare his baud. The sur