Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-01


ears and broken bones and disordercd in
tcllccts and maynard sons? Helping
hands. Let each one Of us add two to
that number IL we have two, or, IL through
casualty only one add that one. IL these
hands which we have so long kept thrust
into pockets through Incidence or folded
in indifference or employed in writing
wrong things or doing mean things or
heaving up obstacles in the way of right
cous progress might from this hour be
cOnsecratcd to helping others out and up
and on, they would be hands worth being
raised on the resurrection morn and
worth clapping in eternal gladness over a
world redeemed.
The great artists of the ages-Raphael
and Leonardo da Ninci and Quentin Mat
sys and Rembrandt and Albert Durer
and Titian-have done their best pictur-
ing the face of Christ. but none except
AIRY Scheffer seems to have put much
stress upon tho hand of Christ. Indeed
the mercy Of that hand, the gcntleness of
that hand, is beyond all artistic portray
al. Some of his miracles he performed 10y
word of mouth aud without touching the
subject before him. but most OF them he
performed 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 to be
exercised from a suffering man? "He
took him by the nand." The people saw
this and besought him to put his hand on
their afflicted ones.
His own hands free, see how the Lord
sympathizcd with the man who had lost
the use Of his hand. 1t was q case Of
atrOphy, Il wasting away until the arm
and hand had been reduced in size be
yond any medical or surgical restoration.
Moreover it was his right hand, the most
important of the two, for the left side in
all its parts is weaker than the right side,
and we Involuntary, in any exigcncy,
put out the right hand because we know
it is the best hand. so that poor man
had lost more than half of his physical
armament. 1t would not have been so
bad if it had been the left hand But
Christ looked at that shriveled up right
hand dangling usccssly at the mans side
and then cried out with voice that had
omnpotcnce in it, stretch forth thy
hand" and the record is ''he stretched it
forth whole as the other" The blood
rushed through the shrunkcn veins, and
the shortened muscles heightened, and
the dead nerves thrilled, and the lifecss
fingers tingled with resumed circulation,
anu the restored nun ne,u up III the
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The Hand of Destiny.
How often has the hand decided DIES.
tiny! Mary, queen Of Scots. was escaping
from imprisonment at Lochlever in the
dress of a aundress and had her face
thckly yelled. When 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 language
as certainly as the mouth. Palmistry, or
the science by which character and des.
tiny are read in the lines of the hand. is
yet crude and uncertain and unsatisfacto.
ny, but as astroogy WAS the mother of
astronomy and alchemy was the mother
of chemistry, it may be that palmistry
will result in a science vet to be born.
Again, as the chief executive officer of
the soul, behold the hand busy in the