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


carry weapons OF death. In our tw
hands God gave us all the weapons W
need to carry.
Asylums of Mercy.
Again. the hand is the chief eXecu
tive officer Of the soul for affOrdin
help. Just see how that hand Is cor
structed. How easily you can lower
to raise the fallen How easily it /
extended to feel the invalid's pulse. 0
gently wipe away the tear of orphan
age, or contribute aims. or smooth th
excited brow. or bcckOn into safety
Oh. the helping hands. There are hun
dredS of thousands Of them. and In,
world wants at least O,OOO.O00 q
them Hands 10 bless others: hands L
rescue others: hands TO save others
What are all these schools and church
es and aSylulHS Of mcrc"? OutSlwtch
ed hands What are all those hands
distributing tracts and carrying mcdi
cines and trying to cure blind eyes ant
deaf ears ana broken bones and disOr
dered ntcllcclS and wayward sons
Helping hands Let each one Of us
add to that number. if we have Two
or If through casualty only one add
that one II these hands which we
have so long kept thrust into pockets
through Incidence or folded in ind.ifer-
ence or employed in writing wrong
things or doing mean things or heaving
up obstacles in the way Of righteous
progress might from this hour be con
secratcd to helping Others ont and up
and on. they would be hands worth
being raised on the resurrection morn
hid worth clapping in eternal gladness
,ver ~ world redeemed
The great ARTISTS of the ages-Ra-
,hael aud Ieonar 10 da Ninci and
)urntln Nntsvs and Rembrandt and
Albert Durer and Tltian-naSve done
heir best in plcturing the face On,
'hrlSt. but none except AIRY Schefer
GEMS TO nave put much stress upon
he hand of Christ Indeed. the mercy
f that hand. the genilcneSs Of that
and. Is beyond all artistic portrayal.
,Ome of his miracles he performed by
rord Of mouth and without touching
he subject before him. but most of
hem he performed through the hand.
Vas the dead damsel TO be raised TO
fe? "He took her by the hand" Was
be blind man to have optic nerve re-
tored? He took him by the hand"
Vas the demon TO be exercised from
man? "IIe took him by the
and" The people saw this and be.
ought him TO put his hand upon their
hlicted ones
The Lords sympathy.
His own bands free, see how the
ord sympathized with the man who
ad lost the use of his hand 1t was a
lse of atrOphy. wasting away until
le arm and hand had been reduced IN
re beyond any medical or surgical
Moreover. 1t was his righi4y
and. the most important of the tw4u-
n the left side lnIllI its paI9SJs y"Rev
: than the lfght S1jle. and N<iiilr and
rily in any exigency put out the rigL
and because we know ii is the best ,
and SO that poor man had lost more
ian half of his physical armament
would not have been so bad If it
I'd been the left hand But Christ
Oked at that shrivcled up right hand
angling uSclcssly at the mans side
I'd then cried out with voice that
Id OmnipOtence in it. Stretch forth
" hand" and the record is "IIe
retched it forth whole as the other"
be blood rushed through the shrunk-
veins. and the shortened muscles
ngthened. and the dead nerves thrill
!, and the lfPlCSS fingers tingled with
sumed circulation. and the restored
optical PhariSceS one of JehOvah's
asterpieces perfect hand No won
r that story is put three times iG the
bic. so that if a sailor were cast
way on n barren island or soldiers
NV Testament got mutilated in battle
ID whole pages are destroyed the
ipwrecked or wounded man in hos
tai would probably have at least one
those three radiant stories Of what
lriSt thought Of tie human hand
How often has the hand decided
stiny. Mary. queen Of Scots. was {
raplng from imprisonment at Loeb
'cr in the dress Of laundresS and Z
d her face thickly yelled. When a
Altman attempted 10 remove the veil. ,
e put up her hand to defend it and q
revealed the white and fair hand of :
1uppn. ana so the hOatman took her I
ok TO captivity. Again and again il =
s been demonstrated that tile hand ;
tn Il language as certainly as the Z
Duth Palmistry. or the science by ;
lich character and destiny are read G
the lines of the hand. is yet crude a
d uncertain and unsatisfactory. but I, Z
astr0logy was the mother of aStron q
~ and alchemy was the mother Of Z
nmiStry il may be that pamistry
II result in science yet to be born. h
Again. aS the chief executive officer V
the soul. behold the hand busy in Z,
, arts What comparatively dull u
ce this world would be without pic o
'eS. without Statuary. without music. Il
thOut architecture. Have you ever o
lizpd what 80 seeming miracles are n
the five minutes lingering of piano n
harp or flute? Who but the eternal q
d could make hand capable of that p
ift sweep Of the keys or that quick h
ling Of the pulses Of flute or the n
lrI Of the fingers amid the strings Of h
. harp? All the composers Of music o
10 dreamed out the oratoros and the II
ltatas Of the ages would have had fl
,lr work dropped fiat and useless but O
the translations of the hand. Un- q
, the deft fingers of the performer q
at cavalries gallop and what bat h
les boom and what birds carol and k
at tempests march and what oceans 6,
lowl The great architects Of the II
.th miOht have thOupht ont the AL 49,