Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-02-03

vine Wisdom-Thc Extended Hand
the symbol of Infinite Mercy and
Love.
Copyright. Louis Klopsch 1901
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2S-The discourse
of DR.. Talmage is lesson of gratitude
; for that which none of us fully appre-
ciate and shows the divine meaning in
our physical structure; text, Corin-
thians xii, 21. The eye cannot say
unto the hand. | have no need of thee"
-, These words suggest that some time
two very important parts of the human
body got into controversy. and the eye
became inSOlent and full of braggado.
clio and said: Il am an independent
part Of the human system. How far
can see. taking in spring morning and
midnight aurora Compared with my
self what an insignificant thing is the
human hand. | look down upon it,
There ii hangs. swinging at the side.
clump of muscles and nerves. and ii
' cannot see an inch either way 1t has
no luSter compared with that which
: beam forth" What Senseless talk"
responds the hand You, the eye.
would have been put out long ago but
for me. Without the food have earn
ed you would have been sghtless and
starved to GVath years ago YOu can
not do without me any better than |
can do without YOU" AT this part Of
the disS2uIaIion Paul Of my text breaks
ia aud ends fEc-5cUriaIIlroversy by declar-
ing, THE ore cannot Say unto the
hand. | h0 no need of thee"
Fourteen hundred and thirty-three
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 Sir Charles
Bell. the English surgeon. came home
from the battlefield OF Walrrloo where s
he had been aWpuialu@ hlnbS ana
binding Up gunShor frarlarrs. ana {
wrote book entitled The Hand: It's /
Mechanism and Wal r3lowncHlS as 5
Eyidcncing pr>igu iuI II > 81 pro '
found book that uult Il scientist who t
is familiar with i!ir trrhura.hicS of I
anatomy anl physiology can under '
stand it. |
So we are all gnuS on Opening and t
shutting this divinrly constructed in S
strument. the hand. ignorant Of much y
of the revelation ii WAS intended 10 S
make of the wisdom and goodness Of b
Cod You can see by their structure S
that shoulder and elbow and forearm a
are getting ready for the elimination
In the hand There is your wrist. with
its eight bones and their ligaments in T
two rows That wrist. with its bands h
of fbers and its hinged joint and turn. q
ing on TWO aXtS-On the larger axis n
moving backward and forward and OF G
the smaller axis turning nearly round. =,
And there is the palm Of your hand. h
with its five bones. each having shaft z,
and two termnarions. There are the o,
fingers Of that hand. with II bones. +,
each finger with its curiOuSly wrought h
tendOns. five of the bones with ending n
roughened for the lOdgment of the II
nails. There is the thumb. coming T,
from opposite direction to meet the h
fingers. so that in conjunction they L.
may clasp and hold fast that which H.
you desire to take. There are the long n,
nerves running from the armpit to the H.
46 muscles so that all are under mas II
terry The whole anatomy Of your Ct
hand as complex. as intricate, as sym r
metrical as useful. as God could make o,
it. What can 1t not do? 1t can climb. 10
1t can lift it can push. it can repel, it o,
can menace. it can clutch. it can deny. re
it can affirm. it can extend. it can m
weave. it can lathe, it can smite, it can 81
humble. ii can pXalt. it can soothe. it m
can throw, it can defy. it can wave, it Il,
can imprecate, it can pray. r
Illustrates Divine Wisdom. a,
A skeleton of the hand traced on n
blackboard or unrollcd in diagram or al
hung in medical museum is nightly il sl
Illustrative of the divine wisdom and nj
goodness. but how much more pleasing of
when in living action all its nerves and CT
and bones and tendOns and
tissues and plalanges display what de
God invented when he invented the es
human hand. Two specimens Of il we le
carry at our side from the time when ha
in infancy we open them to rake toy be
till in the last hour Of long life we sh
extend them in bitter farewell so
With the divine help shall speak OF q
the hand as the chief executive officer ba
Of the soul. whether lifted fol defense. ba
Or extended for help or busted IN the ha
arts. or offered in salutat!on. or WIRING m,
n despair or spread abroad in bcne. wi
liction God evidently intended all in
he lower orders of living beings m
should have weapons Of defense. and as
hence the elephants tuSk. and the OF
lOrse's hOof. and the cows horn. and Oh
he lions tooth. and the insects sting. wi
Having given weapons Of defense to
he lower orders of living beings, Of of
course he would not leave man. the tb,
highest order Of living beings on earth, nj;
lefenseleSs and at the mercy Of brutal tuI
n rnffian attack. The right-yea, the wi
luty-of self defense is so evident II re,
reeds no augmentation. The hand is IN
he divincly fashioned weapon of de- or
ense. We may seldom have to use it Go
or such purposes but the fact that sv
We are equipped insures safety The fec
land Ia weapon sooner loaded than tw
ny gun. sooner drawn than any III,
word Its fingers bent into the palm wi
becomes Il bolt Of demolition 90
What defense II is against acci- th,
lent! There have been times in all fo,
ur experiences WhPh we nave WIN de
he hand warlrd Off something that wi
would have rX,inguishpd our rypSight ter
# broken tie skull or crippled us for a wi
fetime While the eye has discovered hill
he approl~hin. peril the hand has 40,