Show SATURDAY NIG NIGHT ANT SERMONS BY THE unconscious HAND text what Is that in thine hand and he said A rod exodus iv 2 poor moses stands leaning on ills his shepherds staff weighing himself in the balance gods just called him to lend lead millions of slaves from bondage lie ile thinks of his shepherds shep heida garb and tough lough speech who am I 1 he be asking the difference they will not hearken to my voice well what it if they do not god himself ba has spoken to men aud and they would not listen moses soliloquizes this Is a 0 stupendous undertaking the etian man who I 1 to lead this ahk people ought to be a wise and ready man to persuade this people he ought to be above all a fluent speaker ile he is startled by god saying haying what is that in in th tb I 1 hand band why only a rod a stick cut front from a common bush buh his bis shepherds wok carried so long ong lies hes unconscious of its being iu in ills his hand what has that hut to do with willi tile the question ot of leal leading out slaves cast tho the led iod upon the ground ne ile obeys and ant behold that despi des d stick so commonplace mon place to moses became a writhing twisting serpent when moses saw its poisonous fangs and its vicious little eyes he fled in terror gods touch can make a fearful and wonderful thing thin 9 out of a contemptible stick slick when god put the stick blich back in moses hand moses had bad a new respect tor for that common thins thing and bad learned a lesson that every christian ought to learn god touched powers when god touches human powers they can no longer be limited by human man measurements from that time they are under the law of gods omnipotence flip ni just like common things taking on higher value by passing through skilled human hands out i in the lie neld field lies lump of clay cannot give shade like tt a tree perfume like a hower tl oer ie freshment like a fruit just it a mass of soil clay tho the potter throws throw it on wheel turns it to shape puts it in fire it comes forth a thing of 0 beau ty a vae for the gaze of multitudes at the exposition A few ers ago was a child deaf dumb aud blind it if the poor little thing could only die said the world A young moman miss sullivan said let me try the child could not see her hear bear her nor speak to her then commenced a long tedious process its a marvelous marv olous story but the child grew up prepared for and entered radcliffe Had cliffe college mastered english french Fr elleb german latin and greek she can call converse freely but cannot hear bear what she is saying she knows what you are saying by putting her finger tips tipi to your lips publishers are willing billin NI llin to pay helen keller a pape page for anything she will write are you retting getting it brother it if under touch of human hands a mass of soil clay beames thing of beauty and mass of human day clay becomes a happy intellectual soul can we wonder when god touches men and things this power I 1 is multiplied a sand sund fold conditions of god success the same conditions for human clay as for soil clay simply self surrender and obedience leane yourself in G gods hands lay aside sour jour 0 jovn a es innate ut or rna weakness success and failure work when and where here he IAN bids you use the he give no matter how ridiculously in mink bent they may seem by the time moses moes had bad brought plagues on egypt been red ked sea open up a dry path water gueli from bare rock be had bad differ aut idea of gods tools one thing that keeps us from using the little things thing about us that god bids us use is ib our worship of size we think nothing can call be of much importance unless it I 1 is bl big travelers tell of highest t mountain longest tunnel biggest glacier and swear by jupiter because its the larget largest planet men are all fur for quantity god for quality we seldom praise a I 1 humble man physical social and political big nesses are the idols before which we bow but the sun suit is mirrored in a dewdrop as well as in fit the ocean every stem is a laboratory every blade of grass a light diug conductor great doors small hinges while wo we are despising the day of small things ob obscuring euring perfection I 1 in our haste for bigness forgetting that the almighty may be speaking in a till still small voice the scriptures are constantly le ie minding us that we ire are wrong A dove I 1 is the earliest weather meather bureau A look back turns a woman moman into salt the little images image nea rl cost rachel her life A sisters fore saved moses to tile the A plant haq slain with a pebble A nin mustard tard seed typifies the kingdom of gud god A lad inc furni furnishes flies the means for feeding a multitude A mite is the measure of all giving A lily teaches divine providence whit Is iq that in thine hand moes ilos ps A simple himple rod gideon A soldiers soldier 9 word sword shamgar gir an it ox goad david A 1 shepherds aling lone woman A flask of oil oi hinry A ia lase e of bpi spikenard kenard poor widow only two mites dorcas A needle say friend what is that in thine hand A 1 broom A trowel A pen wealth Is it only it a mildly kindly grasp while you are grumbling at your lack of opportunity lack of prep ration lack of tools tool weir hiu your ability or lack of ability god Is 14 q asking askin I in you ahat is that in fit thine ian hand 1 ive iv it to lim him by using it L let t him i I 1 multiply it by lik his own omnipotent arithmetic that from one kernel of lorn produces a hundredfold |