Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-25
IRREVERENCE.
The Body the Mere chrysaIid OF
the Soul.
LET US STOP PLAYING THE FOOL
And Prepare Ourselves for the Rapturous
Flight" - Shuddsring at Death
When We Should be Happy
to Meet God.
SPECIAL TO the Register.

SPECIAL to the Register.
NEW YORK, June 24.-The Rev. I. Dewitt
Tslmage spoke as follows in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle this morning:
Before the sermon DR.. Talmage gave the
right hand of fellowship to 1O5 new men,
bers, the present membership being some
thing over $500. He also baptized large
number of adults. DR.. Talmage also gave
an exposition Of the 18th chapter Of Mat
thew.
Opening hymn:
Rise my soul. and stretch thy wings,
Thy better portion trace"
Subject Of the sermon: The six wings"
Text-Isalah vi. 2: "with twain he covered
his face, with twain he covered his feet, and
with twain he did fly"
In hospital of leprosy good king Uzziah
had died and the land was shadowed with
solemnity, and the theological and proph.
etic Isaiah is thinking about religious
things as one will in time OF national be-
reavement, when, forgetting the presence
Of his wife and two sons which make up his
family, Isaiah has a dream, not like most
dreams, which are the result of indiges-
ton, but
An Instructive Vision
under the touch of God. Place The TEN.
pie, a building grand, majestic and awful;
in that temple throne higher than any
ever occupied by Car or Sultan or EN-
peror; on that throne the eternal Christ,
on either side Of that throne line of be-
ings for fairness and power and grace such
as you and never saw, no Cherubim, bat
higher than they, the most exquisite ami
radiant Of the celestial inhabitantS-the
seraphim of fire, hands Of fire. feet of fire.
They have added TO their features and
limbs which suggest the human race, pin
ions which suggest the lightest and most
buoyant and the swiftest and most aspiring
OF all the unintelligent creatures Of God
the bird.
Six wings
had each OF these seraphs and each two for
different purposes. lsaiah'S dream quiy.
ers and flashes with these pinions, now
folded, now spread, now beaten in locomo-
tion. With twain ne covered his face
with twain he covered lis feet and with
twain he did fly" Probably the wings
were not all used at once, but standing
there around the throne OF Christ, over
whelmed with the insignihcance OF the
paths their feet had trod as compared with
those trodden by the feet Of God, and their
lOComotion on foot amounting almost to
lameness and decrepitude as compared
with the divine velocity, in feathering
Veil of Angelic Modesty
they hid their feet. with twain they COW
cred their feet" When overwhelmed at
the overwhelming and all-eclipsing splen-
dors of Gods glory and their eyes unable
longer to look and needing to be shaded,
they folded their pinions over the counten-
anCe. With twain he did cover his face"
And when God said to one Of them; II
want you to 60 to that world on the out
skirts of immensity on message OF light
and love and get back before the next an
them, it did not take them long to spread
themselves on the air for unimagined Gel
erity. One stroke of pinion to 10000
leagues of air. With twain he did fly
Notice I'm the Text
another seraphic posture, the buried coun-
tenance with twain he covered his face
That meant reverance. IrreverauCe never
so widespread as to-day. lt mutilates
statuary, chips a piece off monument as
q mementO, cuts figure out OF line
painting, and makes necessary military
guard al the graves of Lincoln and Car
field. puts a butcher shop under Fsnueil
Hall, news down old shade trees for fire.
wood, though fifty George z. Morrises
should beg them to spare that tree, sub
slituting for the word father and
mother the terms "old man and
"old woman" calling corpse
''cadaver," speaks of dying as $50.
ing over to the majority,
sees nothing impressive in the ruins OF
Baalbec or the columns OF karnac; con-
siders the Sabbath no different from any
other day, except as an opportunity for
More Dissipation:
reads the Bible in what is called the spirit
of higher criticism;' not as the divine
word, but as book having much good IN
it. Hear how many take the name OF God
in vain. See what trivial things are said
about the Almighty, Many, not willing
that God should have much place In our
world, make their own God. They roll up
an idea of sentimentallty and humanlta
rianism and impudence and lmoeclIlty
and call il God. No wings OF reverence
cover their face no taking oil OF shoes on
holy ground. You can hear from the way
they talk that they think they could have
made a better world than this and organ
i2ed a better government of human affairs,
and the God Of the Bible is an otense to
| their sense of propriety. They talk about
the
Love Gf God
in a wsv that shows US they expect that
love will let a man do Just as he PleassS
and vet gain bliss eternal. and that his love
will be a general Jail delivery, banishtng
all idea of punishment hereafter for mis-
doings here. Now, there are in the bible
two descriptions OF God exactly opposite,
and vet both true. The one says God IS
love, and the other says God is consum-
suming fire. The explanation is plain as
plain can be. God, through Christ, is love.
God out OF Christ is fire. To win the
former and escape the latter we have only
to throw ourselves, body, mind and soul
into
Christ'S Keeping.
NO, no." says irreverence, 81 will do
no such thing; l want no atonemeut;
want no pardon; l want no revelation. |
can stand without any Intervention and
look God in the eye and ask Him what He
wants of me, and defy Him" So the Unite
confronts the infinite. So the tack ham
mer strikes at a lhunderbolt. So the breath
in human nostrils deties the everlasting,
while the hierarchs of heaven bow the
head and bend the knee when the kings
chariot passes and the arChangel turns
away unable to endure the insutferab'e
brightness and the
Chorus OF Empires Rolls
up with full diapsson OF holy, holy, molly.
With twain he covered his face. Rever-
ence for sham, reverence for the old merely
because il is old, reverence for stupidity,
however learned, reverence for incapaclty,
however grandly surrounded, have none.
But cultivate we ought more reverence for
God, more reverence for the SCRIPTURES,
more reverence for the sacraments, more
reverence for the good, more reverence for
the pure, reverence a Characteristic OF ali
the