Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-02-03
against divine arrangement. that is
gripping your own destruction,
Glad Greetings.

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gripping your own destruction!
Glad Greetings.
But shake hands the way William
Pitt shook hands with the Indians 70
their civilization. Shake hands tn,
way Missionary Carey shook hands
with the Ilindoos. for whose salvation
he became Il lifetime exile Shak,
hands the way IIavelock shook hand,
with bcsicged women at Lucknow
whom he had come to save from mas
sacre. Shake hands as David Brain
/ erd did with the American Indians
whom he offered Il glorious heaven
through the gospel Shake hands as
Lincoln shook hands with the agitatpl
mother TO whom he gave back the boy
who had fallen asleep from ovcrfatigue
as sentinel Shake hands as during
the civil war Anna Ross shook hands
with the wounded soldier in Cooper
Shop hospital. Philadelphia Shake
hands rs Naa Meter. the city pyangel.
ist, shook hands with The waif Of the
street coming ppnit?nt into the mid.
night mission Shake hands rs heaven
shook hands with earth that night
when a doyology in the gallery of
clouds woke the Bethlehem Shep.
herds
But 1t is not always i'm such glad
greeting that we can employ our iigtr
hand. Alas that so often we have to
employ the hand in farewell saluta.
tion, If your right hand retained soIV
Impress Of all such uses. it would be a
volume of bereavements. Oh. the
gOodbys in which your right hand has
participated. GOodby ut the steam
boat wharf Goodby at the rail train
window. Goodby before the opening
Of the battle. Goodby at the dying pill
low. We all needed grace for such
handshaking, though our hand was
strong and their hand was weak. and
we will need grace for the coming
goodbys and that grace we had better
seek while amid the felicties of health
and homes unbroken. Thank God
there will be no goodby in heavenl
Again, the hand is the chief execu-
tive Of the soul when employed in ben
ediction No gesture Of the human
hand means more than that outstretch-
ed gesture. In many of our religious
demonstrations we are not permitted
to pronounce an apostolic benediction
until we have been regularly ordained
m of a.
ire Kinds Of benediction that you may
III pronounce without especial permis- |
ion from preeshytery or conference or
You havSn a right TO spread |
broad both right hand and left hand
n bestowing a blessing Of kindness
nd good will upon all you meet. W.T. :
10Th hands bless the children. Take
hem in your arms and kiss their fair
heck. Take with them a round of
nerriment in the room before you ,
cave it. and by prayer put them in {
he arms Of that Christ. TO 20 TO whom 8
D olden time they struggled to get ont |
Z the arms Of their mothers God I
less the cradles and high chairs and I
urseres all round the world !
Extend your hands in benediction for Z
he aged Take their counsel and ask ;
heir prayers and smooth the path !
own the declivties BY neglect and :
nflial demeanor add no wrinkles to =
heir brow, no more stoop TO their +
houders They have their hand on q
n fph of hn II.
ley will soon 90 out Of sight Of your .
ONES and churches May the mantles 4
the EliiahS fall upon the EllShas! h
pread your hand for the benedction u
pOn all the men and women in the q
lg Of life. many Of them tired and q
uffeted and diShcartened. Never go 6
1t Of store or shop or office or field -
ithout prOnOuncing a benediction. n
And what better use can make of Il
y hands. which are the chief execu-
We officer Of my soul. than now to
)read them abroad in the apostolic
'nedictiOn which has been pronounced O
II centuries and over hundreds of t
OuSandS of aSSpmhlagpS nj corona. q
DnS and 0hSrIuips. ~ harvest homes Q
nj on fast days by all the ministers {
the gospel III the past as II will be G
: all the ministers Of the gospel until s
o church militant reaches up its right
Ind TO take the right hand Of b
q church triumphant-a benediction p
hch. when it has full sway. will S
ave nothing for our world to want or 7
'aven to bestow: May the grace of y
IT Lord Jesus Christ. and the love Of lt
Od. and the communion of the Holy L
host. be with you all forever. Amen" 81