The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-01-31

shows the divine meaning IN our ph! el1t'i
structure: text, [. Corinthians Kill, =,
THE eye cannot say unto the manu.
have no need of thee"
These words suggest that some time
two very important parts of the huihah
body got into controversy, ana the eye
became insolent and full of braggadocio
and said: II am an independent part Vi
the human system. How far L can see
taking in spring morning and mlohlgnt
aurora! Compared with myself what
an insignificant thing is the human hahu'
T look down upon it. There it hangs,
swinging at the side, n clunp OF muscles
and nerves, and it cannot see an men
either way. 1t has no lusteE compared
with that which ] beam forth. w nat
senseIess talk" responds the hand.
You. the eye, would have been put out
long ago but for me. Without the food L
have earned you would have been sight
less and starved to death years ago. You
cannot do without me any better than
can do without you At this part OF
the disputation Paul Of my text breaks IN
and ends the controversy by declaring,
1.-The eye cannot say unto the hand' L
have no need OF thee"
l.
times, as nearly as | 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 The whole anatomy Of your
hand as complex, as intricate, as symmet-
rical. as useful as God could make 1t.
What can it not do? 1t can climb. 1t can
lift, it can push, it can repel, it can men
ace, it can clutch, it can deny. 1t can al
firm. it can extend, it can weave, 1t can
battle, it can smite, it can humble, it can
exait, it can soothe, it can throw, 1t can
defy, it can wave, it can imprecate, 1t
can pray.
Illustrates Divine Wisdom.
A skeleton of the hand traced on black
board, or unrolled in diagram, or hung in
medical museum, is nightly Illustrative
of the divine wisdom and goodness, but
how much more pleasing when III living
action all its nerves and muscles and
bones and teudons and tissues and pha-
langes display what God invented when
he invented the human hand. Two specl-
mems Of it we carry at our side from the
time when in infancy we open them to
take a toy till in the last hour of a 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
extend for help. or busted in the arts,
or offered in salutation, or wrung in de-
spair. or spread abroad in benediction.
God evidently intended all the lower or
ders of living beings should have weapons
Il <1n y. ING
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 high
est order Of living beings on earth de-
fenseless and at the mercy Of brutal or
ruffian attack. The right, yea, the duty
of self-defense is so evident it needs no
augmentation. The hand is the divinely
fashioned weapon of defense. We may
seldom have to use it for such purposes,
but the fact that we are so equipped in
sures safety. The hand is u weapon soon
er loaded than any gun, sooner drawn
than any sword. It's fingers bent into the
palm, it becomes bolt Of demolition.
Solomon speaks Of the hands as the
keepers of the house," or the defenders.
Surely such castle as the human body
needs such protection as the hand alone
can offer.
Souls Executive Officer.
Again, the hand is the chief executive
officer Of the soul for affording help. Just
see how that hand is constructed. How
easily you can lower it to raise the fallen.
How easily it is extended to feel the in
valid's pulse, or gently wipe away the
tear Of orphanage, or contribute aims, or
smooth the excited brow, or bcckon into
safety. o the helping hands! There are
hundreds Of thousands Of them, and the
world wants at least LOGO, 100000 of
them. Hands to bless others, hands to
rescue others, hands to save others.
What are all these schools and churches
and asylums of mercy? Outstretched
hands. What are all those hands dis
tributing tracts and carrying medicines
and trying to cure blind eyes and deaf
ears and broken bones and disordered in
teilects and hayward sons? Helping
hands. Let each one Of us add two to
that number if we have two, or, il
through casualty only one, add that one.
If these hands which we have so long
kept thrust into pockets through indo-
Ience or folded in Indifference or employ
ed in writing wrong things or doing mean
things or heaying up obstacles in the way
Of righteous progress might from this
hour be consccrated TO helping others
out and mp and on, they would be hands
worth being raised on the resurrection
morn and worth clapping in eternal glad
ness over world redeemed.
The great artists OF the ages-Raphael
and Leonardo da Vinci and Quentin Mat
sys and Rembrandt and Albert Durer
ald Titian--have done their best picturing
the face Of Christ, but none except AIRY
Schefer seems to have put much stress
upon the hand Of Christ. Indeed the
mercy of that hand, the gertleness of
that hand, is beyond all artistic portrayal.
Some Of his miracles he performed by
word of mouth and 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? lie took
him by the hand Was the demon to be
exercised from a suffering man? HE
took him by the hand" The people saw
this and besough. him 10 put his hand on
their :tiefed ones