Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-01

moro about YOU than | want W hho"'
Mono of rs could endure the scIut,"y'
our foot not always in paths OF YOU.
something's in paths Of woridinesS Our
foot divine and glorious machihetS
for usefulness and work, so olteh ih''N
irp misstcps, so often gong III VIZ"
wrong direction. GOD knowing every
step the patriarch saying: noi so,
test n print on the heels or my leou
Crimes of the hand, crimes OF thc toiSo',
crimes of the eye, crimes OF tno "a, nv
worse than crimes Of the foot oh' we
want the wings Of humility to cover 'hV
feet! Ought we not to go lnto seii-"olu0
cation before the all-Scarchlhe' ~, "''
scrutinizing, all-trying eye OF ooo ne
seraphs do. How much wore we. ''n
twain he covered the feet.
All this talk about the dignity Oh lu-
man nature is braggadoclo ana Il SIN,
Ournature started at the hand or Goa
regal, but it has been paupcflZea. ih'io
is a well IN Belgium which once hhu Nc'
puro water, and it was sto'itly lnasolou
with stone and brick, but that well AFTER
ward became the centre OF the battle OF
Waterloo. At the opening of the oattle
tho soldiers with their saOers compelled
the gardner, William Won kylsom, TO
and it was very pure water. But tho
BATTLE ragged, and three hundred dead
and half dead were flung into tho wei
for Quick and easy burial, so that the
well of refreshment became the well OF
death, and long after people looked down
into the well and they saw the bleachcd
skulls, but no water. So the human soul
was n well of good, but the armies or SIN
have fought around it and fought across
it and been slain, and it has become wen
OF skeletons Dead hopes dead resol'l-
tons, dead opportunities, dead ambitions.
An abandoned we'll unless Christ shall
reopen it and purify and clean 1T as the
we'll of Belgium never was. Unclcan,
unclcan!
Another seraphic posture in the text,
s'NVith twain He covered the face" That
means reverence Godward. Never so
much perseverance, abroad in the world as
to-day You see it in defaccd statuary. IN
the cutting out of figures from line paint
ings, in the chipping OF monuments Tor
memento. in the fact that military guard
must stand at the graves OF Grant ana
Garfield, and that old shade trees must
be cut down for iirewood, though illty
George y. Morriscs beg the woodmen
to spare tho tree, and that calls II corpse u
caduver. and that speaks OF death as go
ING over to the majority, and substitutes
for the rcycrcnt terms, father ana
mother, ''thc old man" and "old woman,
and finds nothing impressivci in the ruins
of Baalbcc or the columns OF karnac,
and sees no difference in the Sabbath
from other days except 1t allows moro
dissipation, and reads the Bible in what
is called higher criticism, making it not
the Word OF God but IL good book with
some fine things in it,
Irrcvercncc never 50 much abroad.
How many take the name OF God in vain,
how many trivial things said about the
Almighty! Not willing to have God in
the world, they roll up an idea OF senti-
mentality and humanitarianism and i'm
pudence and imbccllity, and call 1t GOD.
No wings Of reverence over the face. no
taking off Of shoes on holy ground. You
can tell from the way they talk they
could have made better world than
this, and that the God of the Biblo
shocks every sense of propriety. They
talk of the love Of God in n way that
shows You they believe it does not make
any difference how bad n man Is here he
will come in at the shining gate. They
talk of the love OF God in such Il way
which shows you they think it is Il gen
eral jail delivery for all tho abandoned
and the scoundrclism OF the universe.
No punishment hereafter for any wrong
done here.
The Bible gives us two descriptions of
God, and they are just opposite, and they
are both true. In one place tho Bible
says God is love. In another place tho
Bible says God is n consuming fire. The
explanation is plain as plain can be. God
through Christ is love. God out OF Christ
is fire. TO win the one and to escape tho
other we have only to throw ourselves
body, mind ard soul--into Chrsts keep
ing "No," says lrrevercnce, II want
no atonement l want no pardon, l want
no intervention; l will go up and face
God, and | will challenge Him, and |
will defy Him, and will ask Him what
He wants to do with me-" So the tinitc
confronts the infinite, so a tack hammer
tries to break n thunderbolt, SO the
breath OF human nostrils dciies the ever
lasting God, while the hierarchs of
heaven bow the head and bend the knee
as the Kings chariot goes by, and the
arch-angel turns away because he can
not endure the splendor, and the chorus
of all the empires of heaven comes in
with full dapason, "Holy. holy, holv!"
Reverence for sham, reverence for the
old merely because 1T is old. reverence
for stupidity however learned, reverence
for incapacity however finely inaugu-
rated l have none. But we want more
reverence for God, more reverence for
the sacraments more reverence for the
Bible, more reverence for the pure, moro
reverence for the good. Reverence Il
characteristic of all great natures. You
! hear it in tho roll of the master ORA
torios. You sec it in the Raphaels and
Titians and Ghirlandijos. You study it
in the architecture or the Aholiabs and
Christopher Wrens. Do not be tlippant
about God. DO not joke about death.
DO not make fun OF the Bible. Do not
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