The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-02-03
VALUE OF THE HAND.
Dr.. Talmage Calls It the Souls
Executive Officer.
Iu Co~astruetIsA illustrates Div'as
wisdom aad It's Right Employ
ment Makes mankind Bet
ter sad Happier.

Copyright INo. BY Louis Klopsehl
Washington. Jan y
The discourse OF DR.. Talmage Is a
lesson of gratitude for that which
lone Of Us fully appreciate and shows
the divine meaning in our physical
structure; text. / Corinthians l2:Sl'
The eye cannot say unto the hand
/ have no need Of thee
These words suggest that some time
two very important parts OF the hu-
man body got into controversy ana the
eve became iusolent aud full OF brag-
esdocio and said: Il sm az independ-
.nt part OF the human system. o
far / can see, taking In spring morning
and midnight auroral Compared with
myself, what an Insignificant thing Is
tue human hand. look down upon H.
There It hangs, swinging at the SIDE,
a clump Of muscles and nerves, aud
II cannot see an inch either way. II
has no luster compared with that which
/ beam forth" what senseless talk
.ssponds the hand. "You, the eye,
would have been put out long ago but
for me. Without the food / have
earned you would have been sight
less and starved TO death years ago
You cannot do without me any better
than I can do without you" At this
part Of the dispuiation Paul OF my
text breaks 10 and ends the controversy
by declaring; The eye cannot say
unto the hand, | have no need Of thee.
Fourteen hundred and thirty-three
times, as nearly as | eau count by aid
OF concordance, does the Bible speak
Of the human hand. We are sl IA
utiljsr with the hand, but the mac has
vet TO be born who can fully under
stand this wondrous instrument. Sir
Charles Bell, the English surgeon, zane
home from the battlefield OF Water
loo. where he bad been amputating
limbs and binding up gunshot irae-
lures, and wrote a book entitled: The
Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital En-
1owments as ~Evidencing Design" But
I, is so profound a book that only a
scientist who is familiar with the
tschuicalities Of anatomy and Physi'
ology can understand it.
So we are all going on opening and
shutting this dlyiuely constructed IN
,trument-the hand-ignorant OF much
Of the revelation il was intended 10
make Of the wisdom and goodness OF
God. You eau see by their structure
that shoulder and elbow and forearm
are getting ready for the elimination
in The hand. There Is your wrist, with
lis eight bones aud their ligamenis in
two rows. That wrist, with lie bands
Of fbers and It's hinged joint and turn
ing on two axes-ou the larger Xxi
moving backward aud forward, and or
the smaller axis turning nearly round.
And there lie the pain Of your hand
with lis tive bones, each having a shaft
and two termipstions. There are the
fingers OF that hand, with u bones
each finger with It's c%uriousiy wrought
,eudons, Eve Of the bones with end
log roughened for the l%odgment OF The
uails. There is the thumb, coming
from opposite direction TO meet th'
Gngers, so that in conjunction thel
may clasp aud bold fast that whlet
you desire TO take. There are the lone
nerves running from the srmpit TO tn
80 muscles, so that all are under mas
terry. The whole anatomy Of your hant
as complex, as Intricate. as symnet
rieal. as useful as Goo could make II