The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-06-30
WINGS, WINGS,
Emblems of Humility at Human
lmperfectiOns.
And Marks of Reverence for the True and
GOOd-Olsregard for Divine
Teachings.

Jn6 cnurcu DeluB SOmeLnlnR over 2,SOO.
He also baptized a large number of
adults. DIR. Talmage also gave an ex-
position of the thirteenth chapter of
Matthew.
Opening hymn:
"RIse. my SOUL and stretch thy wings,
Thy better portion trace"
Subject of the sermon: "The Six
wings"
TExT-Isaiah vi, 2: with twain he
covered his face, with twain he covered
his feet, and with twain he did fly"
In the hospital of leprOsy good King
Uzziah had died, and the land was
Swallowed with sOlemnity, and the theO.
logical and prophetic Isaiah Is think
ing about religious things, as one will
in time of national bereavement, when,
forgetting the presence of his wife and
two sons, which make up his family,
Isaiah has dream-nOt like most
dreams, which are the result of indiges-
tiOn, but an instructive vision under the
touch of God. Place, the temple, a
building grand, majestic and awful; in
that temple a throne higher than any
ever occupied by Gear or Sultan or EN-
perOr; on that throne the eternal Christ;
on either side Of that throne line of
beings for fairness and power and grace
such as you and L never saw; no cher
rubin, but higher than they, the most
exquisite and radiant of the celestial in
habitants-the seraphim, so illustriOus
they are called burners, for they look
like fire, eyes of fire, lips of fire, hands
of fire, feet of fire. They have added to
their features and limbs, which suggest
the human race, piniOns, which suggest
the lightest and most buOyant and the
swiftest and most aspiring of all the un
Intelligent creatures of GOd-the bird.
Six wings had each of these seraphs
and each two for different purposes,
lsaiah's dream quiveTs and flashes with
these piniOns, now folded, now spread,
now beaten in lOcOmOtiOn. with twain
he covered his face, with twain he
covered his feet, and with twain he did
fly" Probably his wings were not all
used at once, but standing there around
the throne of Christ, overwhelmed with
the insignificance of the paths their feet
had trOd as compared with those trOdden
by the feet of God, and their lOeOmOtiOn
on foot amounting almost to lameness
and decrepitude as compared with the
Divine velocity In feathery veil of an
gelic mOdesty they hid their feet. with
twain they covered their feet" Then,
overwhelmed at the overwhelming and
all-eclipsing splendOrs of Gods glory,
and their eyes unable longer to look,
and needing to be shaded, they folded
their piniOns over the eOuntenance.
with twain he did cover his face"
want you to go to that world on the
outskirts of immensity on message of
light and love and get back before the
next anthem" 1t did not take them long
to spread themselves on the air for un-
imagined celebrity. One stroke of piniOn
to 10000 leagues of air, with twain he
did fly"
All this ls full of practical lesson for
you and me. The two wings that hid
the seraphic feet mean humility at Inn
perfection. Brightest celestial inhabi-
tantS, so far beneath Christ that He is
said to charge His angels with folly. III
so many degrees below God is a seraph,
and we are so many degrees below the
seraph in service, it ought to plunge us
into humility, utter and complete.
with twain he covered his feet" Our
feet-hOw laggard in the Divine SER
Vicel Our feet-hOw many missteps
they have madel Our feet-hOW many
paths OF wOrthlessnesS and folly they
have walkedl Neither God nor seraphs
intended to put any dishOnOr upon that
which is one Of the masterpieces of AL
mighty GOd-the human foot. PhyslO.
lOgists and anatOmists are OVerpOwered
with its wonders and organization.
The Bridgewater treatise on the evils
dom and Goodness of God In the Con-
struetiOn of the Human Hand" was
written and printed as result of the
$4,000 which the Earl of Bridgewater
left In his last will and testament for
the encouragement of such Christian
literature. The world could afford to
excuse his eceentricitles when he
allowed two dogs to sit with him at
table, and six dogs, dressed like himself,
to ride out alone In his carriage, drawn
by four horses, with two fOOtmen. His
large bequest for the writing and print
ing Of books, like that of Sir Charles
Bell on the human hand, atOned for any
Oddity, and the world could afford to
have another Earl of Brldgewater, how
ever idiOsyncratic, If he would induce
another Charles Bell to write another
treatise on the human foot, the articula-
tiOn of its bones, the lucubratiOn of its
joints, the graeefulness of its lines, the
ingenuity of its cartilages, the delicacy
Of its veins, the sensitiveneSs of its
nerves, the rapidity of its muscular con-
traction. L speak the praises Of the hu-
man foot, Its power to halt or march OF
climb. 1t is the foundation Of the en-
tire physical fabric, the base of a-GOd
poised column. With that the warrior
braces himself In battle. With that the
toller reaches the place Of his work.
With that the orator plants himself for
eulogium. With that the. outraged
stamps his Indignation. The loss of IL
iTTeparRble disaster; the health of it. an
invaluable equipment. Ask him its
worth whose feet paralysis hath shriveI.
ed, or machinery hath crushed, or sur.
geOn's knife amputated. The Bible hon
Ors 1t. Especial projections: Lest thou
dash thy feet against a stOne:" will not
suffer thy feet to be mOved;'' "thy feet
shall not stumble" Especially warned:
keep thy feet when-thOu gOest to the
house Of God" Indispensable: "The
head cannot say to the feet, Il have no
need of thee" Source of danger:
Their feet shall slide in due time"
Connected with the worlds dissolution:
He set his right foot upon the sea, and
his left foot on the EARTH" The history
of your feet Is the history your earth
ly existence. Tell me where your foot
has taken you all these years, up what
steps, into what roads, in what
directions, and I will know more
than want to know about you.
We can none of us bear the scrutiny.