The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-02-03

sight, or broken the skull. or crippled
us for a lifetime. While the eye has
discovered the approaching peril, the
hand has beaten it back. or struck 1t
down, or disarmed it. Every day thank
God for your right hand, and If you
want to hear it's eulogy ask him who
in swift revolution Of machinery has
had ii crushed, or at Chapultepec or
South mountain or San Juan hill or
Sedan lost 1t.
And in passing let me say that be
who has the weapon of the hand I'M
injured and in full use needs no other.
You towards who walk with sword
cane or carry a pistol in your hip
pocket had better lay aside your dead
ly weapon. At the frontier, or in bar
barous lands, or as an officer of the
law about to make arrest. such
arming may be necessary, but no citi-
zen moving in these civilized regions
needs such reinforcement. If you are
afraid to go down these streets or
along these country roads without
dagger or firearms, better ask your
grandmother to go with you armed
with scissors and knitting needle.
What towards. If not intended muir
derers. uselessly to carry weapons of
death! In our two hands God gave us
all the weapons we need to carry!
Again, the hand is the chief exec
utive officer of the soul for affording
help. Just see how that hand is con-
structed. How easily you "a lower
it to raise the fallen. How easily II
is extended TO feel the invalid's pulse.
CT gently wipe away the tear of or
phanage. or contribute aims. or
smooth the excited brow, or beckon
into safety. o the helping hands!
There are hundreds of thousands Of
them. and the world wants at least
1000. 900, 600 of them. Hands to bless
others, hands 10 rescue others, hands
TO save others. What are all these
schools and churches and asylums OF
rncrcy? Outstretched hands. What
are all those hands distributing tracts
and carrying medicines and trying to
cure blind eyes and deaf ears and
| broken bones and d~isordered intel
lects and Maynard sons? Helping
hands. Let each one of us add two
to that number il we have two. or, If
through casualty only one. add that
one. If these hands which we have
so long kept thrust into pockets
| through Incidence or folded in indif-
ference or employed in writing wrong
things or doing mean things or heav-
ing up obstacles in the way of right
eous progress might from this hour
be consecrated to helping others out
and up and on. they would be hands
worth being raised on the resurrec-
ton morn and worth clapping in eter-
nal gladness over a world redeemed.
The great artists of the ages
Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci and
Quentin Matsys and Rembrandt and
Albert Durer and Titan - have done
their best picturing the face of Christ,
but none except AIRY Scheffer seems to
have put much stress upon the hand OF
Christ. Indeed, the mercy of that hand,
the gentlepess of that hand, is beyond
all artistic portrayal. Some OF His mir
acles He performed by word of mouth
and without touching the subject be,
fore Him, but most of them He per-
formed 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? HE
took him by the hand" Was the demon
to be exercised from a suffering man
HE took him by the hand" The peo
pie saw this and besought Him to put
His hand on their afflicted ones.
His own hands free, see how thu
Lord s~ympathized with the mar wh(
had lost the use of his hand. 1t was
case of atrophy, a wasting away unit
the arm and hand had been reduced il
size beyond any medical or surgica
restoration. Moreover, it was his RICH
for the left side in all its parts is weak
er than the right side, and we involun
tarily, in any exigency, put out tn
right hand because we know it is tn
best hand. So that poor man had los
more than half of his physical arma
mept. 1t would not have been so bad i
it had been the left hand. But Chris
iOOhtU at tuC onllNClCQ up IlSEl IAN
dangling uselessly at the mans sid
and then cried out with a voice that ha,
! omnipotence in it: Stretch forth tn,
right hand!" and the record is "h
; stretched it forth whole as the other.
> The blood rushed through the shrunk
en- veins, and the shortened muscle
, heightened, and the dead nerve
| thrilled, and the l~ifeless fingers Jingle
: with resumed circulation, and the re
: stored mar held up in the presence @
: the skeptical Pharisee one of Jehovah
masterpieces-a perfect hand. No wor
s der that story is put three times in tn
Bible, SO that II a sailor were cast ava
: on a barren island, or a soldiers Me-
Testament got mutilated in battle an
T whole pages are destroyed, the sbiI
i wrecked or wounded man IN hospit;
d would probably have at least one {
) those three radiant stories OF WIFI
q Christ thought of the human hand.
E A pastor in his sermon :ol6 how
little child appreciated the value