The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-03
LUE OF THE HAND.
rainage Calls 1t the SOUPS
Executive Officer.
illustrates Divine
|Nm1iA and Its Right Employ
..ont Makes Mankind Bet
tea and Happier.
1900, by Louis Klopsch.l
NY. 4. -lAH

II ID fully appreciate. and shows
lit|ne meaning in our physical
fI.tet text, l Corinthians 1921:
eve cannot say unto the hand,
no need of thee"
se words suggest that some time
xerv important parts of the hui
body got into controversy, and the
became insolent and full of bragg
10 md said: ~ am an independ-
art of the human system. How
CHI See, taking in spring morning
nidnight aurora! Compared with
IL What an insignificant thing is
imam hand. / look down upon 1t.
n hangs, swinging at the side,
mp of muscles and nerves, and
mot see an inch either way. 1t
o ulster compared with that which
ii Birth" "What senseless talk,
nds the hand. "You, the eye,
h have been put out long ago but
ne. Without the food l have
d YOU would have been sight
and starved to death years ago.
eannot do without me any better
/ can do without YOU" At this
Of The disputation Paul of my
5reaks in and ends the controversy
eclaring: 1.-THE eye cannot say
the hand, have no need of thee
,rteen hundred and thirty-three
as nearly as 1 can count by aid
ncordance, does the Bible speak
human hand. We are all IA
With the hand, but the man has
o be born who can fully under
this wondrous instrument. Sir
es He'll, the English surgeon, came
from the battlefield of Water
Where he had been amputating
and binding up gunshot frac-
and wrote book entitled: 1.-The
ITS Mechanism and Vital En-
ents as Evidencing Design" But
s6 profound book that only a
ist who is familiar with the
icalities of anatomy and physi-
can understand it.
We are all going on opening and
InR this divinely constructed in
IentHthe hand-ignorant of much
revelation it was intended to
0f the wisdom and goodness OF
You can see by their structure
shohlder and elbow and forearm
citing ready for the elimination
hand. There is your wrist, with
yht bones and their ligaments in
lows. That wrist, with its bands
er1 ind its hinged joint and turn
d Two axes-on the larger axis
X backward and forward, and on
halter axis turning nearly round.
here is the palm of your hand,
Is Eve bones, each having shaft
W0 Examinations. There are the
81 that hand, with IA bones,
anKer with it's curiously wrought
hs, five of the bones with end
buehened for the Judgment of the
There is the thumb, coming
opposite direction to meet the
Il. 10 that in conjunction they
clasp and hold fast that which
esire to take. There are the long
winning from the armpit to the
scies. so that all are under mas
Khe whole anatomy of your hand
nplex, as intricate, as symmet-
lis Useful as God could make it.
can it not do? 1t can climb, it
{k 1T can push, it can repel, it
enace, it can clutch, it can deny,
hffirm. it can extend, it can
Il can battle, it can smites it can
n. Il can exalt, it can soothe, it
brow. it can defy, it can wave,
imprecate, it can pray.
EtIeton of the hand traced on
nd, or unrolled in diagram. or
medical museum, is nightly
1--WE of the divine wisdom and
@s, but how much more pleas
tn in living action all its nerves
IN8cles and bones and tendons
hsnes and phalanges display
iod invented when He invented
man hand. Two specimens of
arry at our side from the time
II Infancy we open them to take
iii in the last hour of long life
ttnd them in bitter farewell.
the divine help 1 shall speak |
hnnd as the chief executive Off
The soul, whether lifted for de-
VA extended for help, or busted
ITS, or offered in salutation, or
ID despair, or spread abroad in
ciion. God evidently intended
lpwer orders of living beings
have weapons of defense, and
the elephants tusk, and the
hoof, and the cows horn, and
MS tooth, and the insects sting.
given weapons of defense to
wei orders of living beings, of
He would not leave man, the
rider of living beings on earth,
eless and at the mercy of brutal
lah attack. The right, yea, the
81 self-defense is so evident it
nj augmentation. The hand
divinely fashioned weapon of
e.H We may seldom have to use
such purposes, but the fact that
SO equipped insures safety.
hnd is a weapon sooner loaded
nT gun, sooner drawn than any
Its fingers bent into the palm,
mes bolt of demolition. Sol
speaks of the hands as the
IS of the house." or the defend
rely such a castle as the hui
Nv needs such protection as the
1ne can offer.
defense it is against acct
There have been times in all
eriences when we have with
q wardedsoff something that
lave extinguished our eye
broken the skull or crippled
d lifetime, While the eye has
ed the approaching peril, the
Is beaten it back. or struck it
IA disarmed it. Every dav thank