The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-03-08
gALUE OF THE HAND.
!, ralnage Calls It the Souls
Executive Officer.
c..strsction Illustrates Divine
1900 and It's Right Employ
lest Makes Mankind Bet
ter and Happier.

nent Makes
ter and Happier.
Copyright. isoo' %. Sy .h'unton. hGu,s n'0psen'l
-. discourse of DR.. Talmage is a
- * gratitude for that which
-. Il Us fully appreciate and shows
3. divine meaning in our physical
..,.eture; u, text, l Corinthians 1891:
IN I'VE cannot say unto the hand,
/ Ave no need Of thee"
Th,,e words suggest that some time
ID y,ry important parts Of the hui
..p body got into controversy, and the
=. became insolent and full Of brag-
s.soc;o and said: II am an independ-
- nart Of the human system. How
s, / can see, taking in spring morning
IA midnight aurora! Compared with
.r,elf, what an Insignificant thing is
\. human hand. look down upon it.
slee it hangs, swinging at the side.
y damp Of muscles and nerves. and
d esnuot see an inch either way. 1t
g no luster compared with that which
ih.am forth" "What senseless talk"
n.pcnds the hand. "You, the eye,
.vaN have been put out long ago but
- me. without the food I have
uned you would have been sight
il and starved to death years ago.
1sr eannot do without me any better
tisa can do without you." At this
purt Of the disputation Paul OF my
iext breaks in and ends the controversy
81 declaring: "The eye cannot say
ssto the hand, I have no need of thee"
/ Fourteen hundred and thirty-three
tnea, u nearly as I can count by aid
4 concordance, does the Bible speak
Il the human hand. We are all IA
niliar with the hand, but the man has
ri to be born who can fully under
sland this wondrous instrument. Sir
Charles Bell, the English surgeon, came
Aene from the battlefield Of Water
~, where he had been amputating
limbs and binding up sdnsbot frac-
tsfes, and wrote book entitled: "Tbe
Hand; Its Mechanism and Vital En-
1ovments a. Evidencing Design" But
4 4 80 profound a book that only a
1liehtist who Is familiar with tn.
iehnicalities Of anatomy and physi-
l1ey can understand 1t.
3 We a. all going on opening and
.iantting this divinely constructed in
erument-the hand-ignorant of much
4 the revelation it was intended to
nake Of the wisdom and goodness of
I'd. You can see by their structure
saat shoulder and elbow and forearm
lre getting ready for the elimination
2 the hand. There is your wrist, with
y eight bones and their ligaments in
sNo rows. That wrist, with its bands
g abers and its hinged joint and turn
ny On two axes-on the larger axis
noving backward and forward, and on
tae smaller axis turning nearly round.
40 there is the palm of your hand,
MN its i've bones, each having a shaft
ga two Examinations. There are the
aheefs OF that hand, with IA bones,
eaca nnger with its curiousiy wroug> I
ehdonA five Of the bones with end.
as ronghened for the lodgment of the
.aih. There is the thumb, coming
.Ion opposite direction to meet the
a1sefs. 50 that in conjunction they
y clasp and hold fast that which
ypo oesife to take. There are the long
.efves !. running from the armpit to the
noscles, so that all are under mas
Nly. ihe whole anatomy of your hand
:. sompiex, as intricate, as symmet-
nsal, Is useful as God could make it.
~Ass can It not do? It can climb, it
ga nlt' It can push, it can repel, it
aa J. menace, It can clutch, it can deny,
can antrm. it can extend, it can
ses.e, It can bathe, it can smite, it can
ssmeie' It can exalt, it can soothe, it
! s s.n throw, it can defy, it can wave,
3 san imprecate, it can pray.
2 sfnieton of the hand traced on
ssAocard, or unrolled in diagram, or
'.eng :, IN medical museum. is nightly
s.o.tfative OF the divine wisdom and
ouness, but how much more pleas
s. when in living action all it's nerves
~ muscles and bones and tendons
49, 80 nssues and phalanges display
~. 8. uod invented when He invented
!. human hand. Two specimens OF
g carry at our side from the time
u Il q infancy we open them to take
: 81 iill in the last hour of a long life
- sasend them in bitter farewell.
",sa s the divine help shall speak
e nsnd as the chief executive off.
M g the soul, whether lifted for de.
100, of extended for help, or busted
] sae arts, or offered in salutation, q,
~ despair, or spread abroad in
q ~ aletlon. God evidently intended
9 lower orders of living beings
a have weapons Of defense, and
she elephants tusk, and thu
ss.r moot, and the cows horn, anl
.'ons tooth, and the insects sting
- given weapons of defense 4
- Wer orders of living beings, o,
~ ne would not leave man, thu
order of living beings on earth
siess and at the mercy of bruta
~ z attack. The right, yea, tn.
- self-defense is SO evident i
81 g augmentation. The han.