Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-29


Love.
copyright, Louis Klopsch. 1901
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-The discourse
of DR.. Talmage is a lesson of gratitude
for that which none of us fully appre-
ciate and shows the divine meaning in
our physical structure; text, l Corin-
thians xii, 81, 1.-THE eye cannot say
unto the hand, l have no need of thee"
These words suggest that some time
two very important parts of the human
body got into controversy, and the eye
became insolent and full of braggadO-
clio and said: Il am an independent
part of the human system. How far
can see, taking in spring morning and
midnight aurora! Compared with my
self what an insignificant thing is the
human hand! l look down upon it.
There it hangs, swinging at the side,
c1ump of muscles and nerves. and it
cannot see an inch either way. 1t has
no luster compared with that which I
beam forth" what senseless talk"
responds the hand. you, the eye,
would have been put out long ago but
for me. Without the food L have earn
ed you would have been sightless and
starved to death years ago. You can
not do without me any better than
can do without you" At this part Of
the disputation Paul Of my text breaks
I'm and ends the controversy by declar-
ing. THE eye cannot say unto the
hand, have no need of thee"
? Fourteen hundred and thirty-three
times. as nearly as l can count by aid
Of concordance. does the Bible speak of
the human hand. We are all familiar
with the hand, but the man has yet to
be born who can fully understand this
wondrous instrument. Sir Charles
Bell, the English surgeon, came home
from the battlefield of Waterloo, where
ne had been amputating limbs and
binding up gunshot fractures, and
wrote a book entitled THE Hand: It's
Mechanism and Vital Endowments as
Evidencing Design" But it is so pro-
found a book that only scientist who
:. is familiar with the technicalities of
anatomy and physiology can under
stand 1t.
r. So we are ali going on opening and
shutting this divinely constructed in
strument. the hand. ignorant of much
Of the revelation it was intended to
make of the wisdom and goodness of
God. You can see by their structure
that shoulder and elbow and forearm
are getting ready for the elimination
in the hand. There is your wrist, with
its eight bones and their igaments in
two rows. That wrist, with it's bands
of fibers and it's hinged joint and turn
ing on two aXeS-On the larger axis
moving backward and forward and on
the smaller axis turning nearly round.
And there is the palm of your hand,
with it's five bones, each having a shaft
and two terminations There are the
fingers of that hand. with Ii bones,
each finger with it's curiously wrought
tendons. five of the bones with ending
roughened for the Judgment of the
nails. There is the thumb, coming
from opposite direction to meet the
fingers, so that in conjunction they
may clasp and hold fast that which
you desire to take There are the long
nerves running from the armpit to the
46 muscles. so that all are under mas
terry. The whole anatomy of your
hand as complex. as intricate, as SYM
metrical, as useful, as God could make
it What can it not do? 1t can climb,
it can lift. it can push, it can repel, it
can menace. it can clutch, it can deny,
it can affirm, it can extend, it can
weave, it can battle, it can smite, it can
humble. it can eXalt, it can soothe, it
can throw. it can defy, it can wave, it
can imprecate. it can pray.
Illustrates Divine Wisdom.
A skeleton of the hand traced on
blackboard or unrolled in diagram or
hung in medical museum is nightly il
Illustrative of the divine wisdom and
goodness, but how much more pleasing
when in living action all it's nerves and
muscles and bones and tendons and
tissues and phalanges display what
God invented when he invented the
human handi Two specimens of it we
carry at our side from the time when
in infancy we open them to take toy
till in the last hour of long life we
extend them in bitter farewell.
With the divine help shall speak of
the hand as the chief executive officer
of the soul, whether lifted for defense,
or extended for help, or busted in the
arts, or offered in salutation, or wrung
in despair, or spread abroad in bene
diction. God evidently intended all
the lower orders of living beings
should have weapons Of defense, and
hence the elephants tusk. and the
horses hoof, and the cows horn, and
the lions tooth, and the insects sting.
Having given weapons Of defense to
the lower orders of living beings, of
course he would not leave man, the
highest order Of living beings on earth,
defenseless and at the mercy of brutal
or ruffian attack. The right-yea, the
duty-of self defense is SO evident 1T
needs no augmentation. The hand Is