Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-09-03

the only. lie mas one telescope VIII
which, he sees everything-his =omnis-.
cience. lie has enc bridge with which
he crosses every thing-his omnipres-.
ence. He has one hammer with which
he builds evcrything-his omnipotence.
Put two tablespoonfuls of water in the
palm of Your han.l and it will overflow;
butIsaiah indicates that God puts the At
lantic, and the Pacific, and theArctic, and
the Antarctic, and the Mediterranean,
and the Black sea, and all the waters Of
/! the earth in the hollow Of his hand.
The fingers the beach son ono side, the.
wrist the ssbeacha on the other. He
''SSholdeth the water in the hollow of Ills
I hand"
REVERENCE THE INFINITE.
AS you take pinch of salt or powder
between your thumb and two fingers, SO
Isaiah indicates God takes up the earth.
He measures the dust of the earth, the
original there indicating that God takes
all the dust of all the continents between
the. thumb and two fingers. You wrap
around your hand blue ribbon five
times. ten times. You say it is five hand
,breadths OF it is ten handbreadths. So,
indicates the prophet, God winds tie
blue ribbon Of the sky around his hand.
"He meteth out the heavens with a span
You know that balances are made of a
beam suspended in the middle, with two
basins at the extremity of equal heft.
In that way what vast heft has been
weighed But what are all the balances
of earthly manipulation compared with
the balances that Isaiah saw suspended
when lie saw God putting into the scales
the Alps, and the Apennines, and Mount
Washington, and the Sierra Nevadas?
You see the earth had to be ballasted.
It would not do to have too much
weight in Europe, or too much weight
in Asia, or too much weight in Africa,
or in America; SO when God made the
mountains he weighed them. The Bible
distinctly says 3d.. God knows the
weight Of the great ranges that cross
the contincnts-the tons, the pounds
avoirdupois, the. ounces, the grains,
the lnillisrams-just how much they
weighed then, and just how much they
weigh now. He weighed the noun
tains in scales and the hills in bal
ance." Oh, what God to run against;
oh, what God to disobey; oh, what a
God to dishonor; OH. what God to
defyl The brightest, the mightiest an
gel takes no familiarity with God. Tho
wings of reverence are lifted. "With
twain he covered the face"
Another serapliic posture in the text.
The seraph must not always stand still.
He must move and it must be without
clumsiness. There must be celebrity and
beauty in the movement. with twain
he did hs." Correction, exhilaration.
i Correction at our slow gate, for we only
crawl in the service when we ought to
! fly at the divine bidding. E1hilaration
4 in the fact that the soul has wings as the.
! serapi1s bave wings. What is wing?
An instrument of locomotion. They may
not be like seraph's wing, they may not
be like birds wing, but the soul has
wings. God says so. she shall mount
up on wings as eagles" We are made
in the divine image, and God has wings.
The Bible says so. Healing in his
Wings Under the !. shadow of his
wings" Under whose wings thou hast
come to trust" We have folded wing
now, wounded wing, broken wing,
bleeding wing, Gagged wing. Aye! l
have it now. Gagged within bars of bone
and under curtains of flesh, but one day
to be free. hear the rustic Of pinions
in Seagrave's poem, which we often
sing:
Rise, my soul. and stretch thywings.
I hear the rustic of pinions in Alexan-
der Popes stanza, which says:
Imount, fly;
Death. 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 going. You have seen how the dull,
sluggish chrysalid becomes the bright
butterfly; TIE dull, and the stupid, and
the lethargic turned into the alert and
the beautiful. Well, my friends, in this
world we are in the chrysalid state.
Death will unfurl the wings. Oh, if we
could only realize what grand thing
it will be to get rid of this old clod of a
body and mount the heavens, neither
reagull nor lark nor albatross nor falcon
Inor condor pitching from highest range
IF Andes, so buoyant or so majestic Of
Ltroke.
SORROW GoETH BEFORE FORGIVENESS.
See that eagle in the mountain nest.
It looks so sick, SO ragged feathered, so
worn out and so half asleep. Is that
eagle dying? No. The ornithologist
will tell you it is melting season with
that bird. Not dying, but melting.
You see that Christian sick and weary
and wcl:, out and seeming about to ex-
pire on what is called his deathbed. The
world says he is dying. I say it is the
moltipg season for his soul-the body
dropping away, the celestial pinions
coming on Not dying, but melting:
Molting out of darkness and sin and
struggle into glory and into God. Why
do you not shout? Why do you sit shiv-
ering at the thought of death and trying
to hold back and wishing you could stay
here forever, and speak Of departure as
though the subject were filed with skel-
etons and the Tarnish of collins, and as
though you preferred lame foot to swift
wing?
O people of God, let us stop playing
the fool and prepare for rapturous fight.
When your soul stands on the verge of
this life and there are vast precipices
beneath and sapphired domes above,
which way will you fly? Will you
swoop or will you soar? Will you fly
downward or will You fly upward:
Everything on the wing this morning
Ehiddinr ns asnire Holy Shirt on the