The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-02-14
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: The Wonders of the Human
Hand-Our Physical Structure Proof
of Divine Wisdoin-The Extended
Hand the Symbol Of Infinite Mercy.
Copyright, Louis Klopsch. $780,

HAMA inc SyUuDOl VI 'AeA>Js
copyright, Louis KIopsch. :aOc.!
WASHINGTON, d. C.-The discourse OF Dr.
Talmago Is a lesson Of gratitude for tina
which none OF us fully appreciate ant
shows the Divine meaning in orr physlca
structure; text, Corinthians XIII, q, "Th'
eye cannot sny unto the hand, have NJ
need OF thee"
These words suggest that some time two
very important parts OF tho human body go
into controversy, and the eye became inso
lent aud full of braggadoco and said: 81
am an independent part OF the human sys.
TEN. How farI can sec, taking in spring
morning and midnight aurora! Compared
with myself what IN Insignificant thing |:
the human band look down upon it
There it hangs, swinging at the side, {
cump Of muscles and ner7es, and IL can
not seq au inch either way. 1t has no lus
ter compared with that which beam
forth" "What senseless talk" respond:
the hand. "You, the eye, would have been
put out long ugo but for me. Without the
food have earned you would have been
sightless and starved to death years ago
You cannot do without me any better than
I can do without YOU" At this part OF the
disputation Paul OF my text breaks In and
ends the controversy nby declaring, 1.-THE
eye CauHot soy uAIo -shoS honoI u"'9 ~
need OF thee" R aSA
Fourteen hundred and thirty-three
times, as nearly as T can count BY aid OF
concordance, does The Bible speak {ofsktle
human hand, We are oil familiar with tle
hand, but the man has yet to be born Whd
can fully understand this wondrous instrd.
mens. Sir Charles Bell, the English sur.
geon, came home from the battlefield oil
Waterloo, where he had been ainputatlng
limbs and binding up gunshot fractures,
and wrote q book entitled 'The Hand: Its
Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evil
dencing Design" But 1t is 80 profound a
book That only scientist who is familiar
with the technicalities OF anatomy and
physiology can understand 1t.
SO We are all going on opening and shut
ting this divinely constructed instrument,
the hand, ignorant OF much OF the revela-
tion it was intended to make Of the Wis
dom and goodness OF God. You can see ~
their structure that shoulder and elbow
and forearm are getting ready for the cul-
mlnation in the hand. There is your
wrist, with its eight bones and their llga-
ments In two rows. That wrist, with its
bands OF nbres and its hinged joint and
turning on two aXes-on the larger axis
moving backward and forward and on the
smaller axis turning neariy around. And
there is the palm OF your hand, With Its
FIVE bones, each having shaft aud two
Examinations. There are the fingers OF
that hand, with fourteen bones, each I'm
ger with its curiously wrought tendons,
flvo OF the homes with ending roughened
for the lodgment OF the nails. There Is
the thumb, coming from opposite dlrec.
lion tc meet the fingers, so that In con-
junction they may clasp and hold fast that
.zl, otrn fn fn n
the long nerves running from the
go that all are uadsr = ,InastSfYt
The whole anatomy OF your sshan6xAs
complex, as intricate, as symmet tfcditg
useful, rs God could make 1t. What GAn 1t
not do? It Gun climb. it can lRs1 ikc9n
push, it can rcpel, ,jt, can menneA, Stk 4a8
cluch, It can deny, It can affirm, tseant
tend, it Gun weave, 1t can Ebatlle, itsscn1
smito, 1t can humble, 1t can exalt ,stts d11
soothe, it can throw, 1t can deiy,ff can
wave, 1t can imprecpte, 1t Gun pray.
A skeleton OF the hand traced on black
board or unrolled In diagram or hung In
medical museum is nightly illustrative ot
The Divine wisdom and goodness. but how
much more pleasing when In living action
nll its nerves and muscles aud bones and
tendons and tissues and phalauSes display
what God invented when He invented the
human hand! TWO specimens OF it Wa
carry ut our sido from the time when In
intaiicy we open them to take toy TIL In
lbe last hour OF II long life we extend them
In bitter farewell.
With the Divine help + shall speak OF the
hand rs tho chief executivo officer OF the
soul, whether lifted for deferse, or OK
londed for help, OR busled in tho arts. or
offered in sGlutnton, or wrun2 In despair,
or spread abroad in beDe1iction. God evi.
IDENTIFY intended oil tho loWor order OF liv-
Ing beings should hnvo wenpons OF defense,
and hence the elephants tusk, and thu
torse's hoo:, and the cows horn, and the
lions tooth, and tho insects sting. Having
given weapons OF dcfenss 10 tho lower
orders OF living bolngs, OF course H. would
not ieavo man, tho highest order Of living
beings on earth, defeuse,ess und at the
mercy OF brutal or ru.aan attack. The
eight yea. the duty-of self defense is so
evident it needs no augmentation. The
hand is the Divinely fashioned weapon oil
defense We may seldom have to use u
tor su ch purposes. but the fact that we are
eouippedsinsures safety Tho hand is q
weapon sooner loaded than my gun
sooner drawn than any sword. Its fingers
bent into the palm. it becomes i bolt o'
k;6emolltion. .
.s uStense ~ 10 aBSiust "eI.omt
: Desh TIMES ia a't ou5 oAp9.i,
1--WE nave WIN .!e nauu Wnsno,,
sliSES .uut %ouiu y! ;.SIo
~ o. orokeT e,,n Inc t Su.. ol GiiPp1i;e"
hes approaching peri! the hand
: n. !. b6xteh5it back or struck 1t dcwa OF
zz5} EyerS uay .unun uot ao'
j >! nana, anu II you WaGI i,,tsa 10 ,eu,
ksI! nsQgy nsK MIN VINO u, s"ltt Ieyo'u.'ou
Aensnerys nis hau it erusneo or ~
{ sepee or Soa,n Mountain OF oal
Estranst st!3lts or Sedaniost les
A7a anfpasstng !et me say tnat ne WnG
nn& ssN9eswsapon OF tne nhnuu1.nlnreu hhu
lIll9ts s,t Hsen no osnesi LOU eow"eHs .
wac Walk Wlen s@ofaghne or carIy Pts'
tofiht 9oul ~. NJ lpoeRyets petser lny asit!'
your lasalgly Wsap on.5fEAt tne lront,ee OF Il,
0arparonss stsnns orulsan omcer Oh tnc laM
ABOUT t2sMe6e1n arrest su cns snrm,ns may