Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-25
WHEELING. W. VA. MORNING. JUNE 25 1883.

Second, and Charles the Third an Charles
the Fourth, but from everlasting to ever
lasting he is God God the first, God the
last, God the only. With one telescope ne
sees every thing-his omniscience.
. with one Bridge az.
He crosses everything-His omni potence
With one hammer He bolts every thing
His omnipotence. Two tablespoonfnls OF
water would be as much as you could mold
in the palm of your hand. But II Isaiah
was right God holds the Atlantic and Pa
cific and Arctic, the Antarctic, the ,Medi-
terranean and the Black Sea in the hollow
OF His hand. As you would take pinch
Of salt or powder between two fingers and
the thumb, so Isaiah says God takes up
the dust of the earth in measure, or es
the original suggests, takes il up between
the thumb and two fingers. As you would
take q piece Of blue ribbon and wind 1t
around your hand five or ten times and
say it was five or ten hand breadths In
length, so Isaiah says God measures the
blue ribbon of the skies. HE meeteth
out the heavens with a spoon. a balance
as YOU know is a beam suspended in the
middle, with baskets OF equal weight hang
ing to the extremities. Vast hefts have
been weighed by such balan ces. But what
are all the balances Of
Human Manipulation,
compared with what was suspended when
God put Mount Washington, and the Ap-
perimes, and the Alps, and the Sierra Ne
yadas into the scales. You see the earth
had to be ballasted with mountains. There
must not be too much weight in Europe,
or in Asia. or Africa, or in America to in
terfere with the worlds rotation. and so
when God makes the mountains he weighs
them in a balance. They have all been
weighed. He knows Just how many tons,
how many pounds avoirdupois, how many
ounces, how many grains, how many mllli-
arammes all the great ranges OF mountains
across all the continents weighed at the
start and how much they weigh now.
Isaiah declares it. He hath weighed the
mountains in q scale and the bills in bal
ance. What God to run against. What
God to defy What a God to dishonor .
What God to disobey, Not one angel OF
the long line OF seraphs bowling before the
throne, dares With uncovered eye to look
upon Him. With twain he covered His
face
One More Seraphic Feature
in the text. These celestials were not al
ways to stand still, and when they move
they must not move clumsily. There must
be grace and solemnity and grandeur in
the movement. With twain he did n.y.
That means swiftness of motion, Wilderness
OF range, correction and exhilaration. Cor
rection for the soul limping to Gods SER
vice. We crawl where we ought to fly to
do his bidding. Exhilaration-our souls
are like the sersphim in one respect; they
have wings. What is wing? lntrument
OF lOComOtion. 1t may not be just like the
BIRDS wing or the seraph's wing, but wing
it is. The Bible says so: Thou shalt
mount up on wings as eagles" We are
made in the image OF God aud he has
wings. The Bible says so: Healing in
his wings" "In the shadow OF thy wings"
In whose wings they are come to trust
Thus Our Soul Has Wings,
folded wings now, perhaps chained wing
broken wing, wounded wing, Gagged wing.
have it now-caged with bars OF bone and
curtains OF flesh. And one day to be set
free. 1t is a rustic of pinions when Sea.
grave the poet writes, "arise my soul and
stretch thy wings" and rustic OF pinions
when Alexander Pope writes, II mount,
/ fly. 0 grave where is thy victory A
dying Christian not long ago cried out,
wings! wings! wings! The air is full OF
them, coming and going, coming and 60
ing. You have seen the dull, stupid Chrys.
aid become butterfly, its old and slug
gsh form left and its brighter and more
alert form taken. My friends We are now
in the chrysalid state.
Death will Unfuri
the wings. Whata JOY it will be to get rid
of this old clumsy body. Neither seagull
nor lark nor albatross nor falcon nor con-
dor, pitching from highest chain of the
Andes, has such buoyance or majesty OF
stroke. What is the matter with that
mountain eagle yonder in its nest; its
wings ragged feathered, and half asleep
and sick? What is the matter, is II dying?
No: the ornithologist will tell you it is
with il the moulting season. It's old plu-
mage is falling Off and new plumage COM
ing on. Not dying, but moulung. See
that Christian sick and weary and worn
out and seemingly about to expire on what
is called
His Dying Bed.
The world says he is dying. | say it is the
moulting season for his. soul, the body
telling OIL, the celestial pinious coming on;
Moulting out of WEAKNESS and struggle and
sin into glory and into God. At the trans
porting thought why don't you shout?
You sit shiyering about death and shrink
ing back from the Journey and wish you
could only stay here and find departure
subject full of skeletons and the yarnish OF
Ccifins and prefer lame foot to swift wing.
o people of God, let US stop playing the
fool and prepare ourselves for rapturous
flight. Which way will you face as you
stand on the
Brink OF This Life:
Vast precipices beneath and sapphire domes
above. Will you swoOp or will you soar?
Free agents, will you fly downwards or up.
wards? Everything on the wing call thee
to aspire. Holy Spirit on the wing. Angel
of the new covenant on the wing. Golden
opportunities on the wing. Time on the
wing flying away from US. Eternity on
the wing flying toward us. Wings. wings.
wings, Live so near to Christ that when
YOU are dead people will not
Stand by YOnr Lifeless Body
soliloouiZing: What a disappointment his
life was What pity he had TO go. How
ayerse he was to departure, What an swful
calamity, But rather may there be some
thing in Your still face more marked than
the yestiges of pain to indicate that it was
a happy exit, clearance from oppressive
quarantine, q cast off chry said, mouLting
of the faded and worthless, an ascent from
malarial valleys to cool, shining mountain
tous, leading some one to say as he econtem-
plates the humility and reverence OF your
life, end the happiness OF your death:
"With twain he covered his feet, with twain
he covered his face. with twain he did n.y.
Wings, wings wings
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