The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-04-22

h'1O bHS SyHdSoSue dnQ Idu9ntS ana
there was man whose right hand was
withered." Luke, 9Th chapter, 9th
verse.
Speaking on "The Withered Hand"
Saturday afternoon, Rev. w. A. Sun
day said:
He was not dead man, waiting
to be carried out to the graveyard;
he was not a paralyzed man, unable
to move; neither was he deaf; neither
was he blind; he was a man with
whom 1t was impossible to do GER
tain things, because he had a with
cred hand. A withered hand is worse
than no hand; it is in the way, for it
can't be used.
| knew a boy when / was a boy
that had a withered hand; he was
born with a withered hand. He
could not move the wrist, and when
he wanted to move it, he had to move
Il with the other hand A withered
hand is no better than a dead hand;
there is no work you can perform
with it. There is no design you can
execute with a withered hand. You
might be a person of great genius
and of great ability. but you can
readily see how your genius would
be handicapped if you had no hands
with which to express your genius.
For most things, you see, are the
expression of thought and, if people
had no hands with which to form and
shape it, then you would never know
what was in their minds at all
There are thousands of things he
would have liked to do, but he could
not take hold of anything, he could
ch Ia i,,rf hoI
of "a man.
Only Believers Are
Complete Men.
You may have a great mind, you
may have great wealth, and you may
have fine physique but if your
heart is not in sympathy with God
you are just half of man or hall
of a woman. Salvation isn't a mat
ter of intellect or physique or wealth
but without God you are just half OF
a man or half of woman, because
you can have mind and know all that
there is to be taught in all the books,
you can have all the wealth of all
the world and all the honor, but all
those things combined won't save
you; while if l do what God Almighty
tells me to do it will save me.
So the world can be saved If IT
will do what God Almighty tells Il
to do. If the world could do without
God, then it was useless for Jesus to
come into the world; but you can't
do it. So, the poorest. as well as the
richest, need Jesus. the ignorant as
well as the intelligent need Jesus.
q The hand is the most useful mem
ber of the human body. Without
the hand you cannot execute your
will. You might have all the genius
of Phidias or Raphael, an Angelo
or of a Christopher Wrenn, but none
of your immortal conceptions woult
ever find expression either in marble
or in bronze or on canvass or in grea
buildings like the st. Paul which
Christopher Wrenn built.
Your soul might be as full of mus
ic as the soul of Ole Bull, Handel, O.
Paganini or Paderewski or Jose
Hofmann, but it would remain for
ever still because you could not givt
expression to it if you had no hands
for you could not play, a violin, yol
couldn't play cornet, you could no
play piano.
Hand Is Body's
Most Important Servant.
The hand is the most useful sci
want of your body. No matter wha
you bid it to do it will do it, whethe
you tell it to do right or wrong. You
hand will double the fist, or it will
hold the pistol, or shoot your friend
or stab your loved one. if you tell
to do it. The hand will rock tn
cradle. The hand built the shi
with which Columbus crossed tn
seas and discovered a new world
the hand built the battleships, tn
hand buiIf 40 Ev1o 1oid III
forest low. erected the sky scraperS
built railways, constructed you
home. built this tabernacle, bull
your church, planted homes in tn
wilderness. The hand wrote the B
BILE The hand wrote the Declaratio
N of independence, the grandest dot
W ument ever written by the skill c
man and it was not without the il
spiration of the Lord | think tn
Lord was watching Thomas Jefferso
when he did the job.
The hand made the telescope tina
goes leaping from star to star an
from planet to planet and can te
you the minute when the eclipse {
the sun will take place ten thousan
wears from now; and the sun move
with wonderful precision and she
never late a minute. The hand ca
send your thoughts under the sea III
on the cable, or over the land on Ii
tie steel wires. until they can read
human thought in every tick, tic
tick
The hand built the pyramids
Egypt The hand built the ark th;
saved the human race from extinc
ion, when God said, Il am going I
drown this world because of man
cussedness." and for one hundred an
twenty years Noah pounded board
and built according to the direction
of the Lord.
The hand committed the first mu
der, when Cain took the club an
slew his brother, Abel. in the fiel
The hand held the surgeons kni
that has kept you out of the grav
because of the skill of man. tt
hand broke the vase of precious DIN
ment and poured it on the feet
Jesus Christ The hand of the blac
hearted traitor. Judas, reached o.
and took the price of betrayal, thir
= pieces of silver, 1852 in our stan
= ard of money.
The hand stripped and scourgt
Jesus. The hand made the eros
The hand drove the nails through b
hands and feet, and the hand raise