Connecticut western news., 1892-09-01
TALMAGE IN EUROPE.
IMMENSE CONGREGATIONS IN BlR-
 MINGhAM, AND OTHER PLACES.

IMMENSE CONGREGATIONS IN BR- MINGhAM, AND OTHER PLACES. The Wonderful Powers and Beauties of
 the Seraphim-Yet They Were So Far
 Beneath God That He Charged Them
 with Folly.
 LONDON, Aug. 28.-During the past week Dr. Talmage has been preaching to enormous audiences in the great man. ufacturing towns of the English mid land counties. In Birmingham, in spite of the great size of the churches placed at his disposal, it was necessary to en- gage the town hall, the spacious build- ing in which John Bright delivered his famous speeches to the electors, and even this edi6ce would not contain half the people who tried to get entrance. At Leicester, Cardiff and Swansea there was the same eagerness to hear him, and he was received with unbounded en- thusiasm. The sermon selected for pub lication this week is on Isaiah vi, 9, "With twain he covered his face, with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
 In 8 hospital of leprosy good King Uzziah had died, and the whole land was shadowed with solemnity, and theo- logical and prophetic Isaiah was think ing about religious things, as one is apt to do in time of great natioGal bereave- ment, and forgetting the presence of his wife and two sons, who made up his family, he had dream, not like the dreams of ordinary character, which generally come from indigestion, but vision most instructive, and under the touch of the hand of the Almighty.
 The place-the ancient temple; build ing-grand, awful, majestic. Within that temple throne higher and grand CT than that occupied by any czar or sultan or emperor. On that throne the eternal Christ. In lines surrounding that throne the brightest celestials, not the cherubim, but higher than they; the most exquisite and radiant of the heav- en1y inhabitants, the seraphim. They are called burners because they look like fire. Lips of fire, eyes of fire, feet of fire. In addition to the features and the limbs, which suggest human be- ing, there are pinions, which suggest the hthest, the swiftest, the most buoyant and most inspiring of all intelligent creation-a bird. Each seraph had six wings, each two of the wings for diff ferent purpose. Isaiah's dream quivers and flashes with these pinions. Now folded, now spread, now beaten in loco motion. "With twain he covered his feet, with twain he covered his face, and with twain he did fy."
 The probability is that these wings were not all used at once. The seraph standing there near the throne over whelmed at the insignifcance of the paths his feet had trodden as compared with the paths trodden by the feet of God, and with the lameness of his loco motion amounting almost to decrepitude as compared with the divine velocity, with feathery veil of angelic modesty hides the feet. "With twain he did cover the feet"
 Standing there overpowered by the overmatching splendors of Gods glory, and unable longer with the eyes to look upon them, and wishing those eyes shaded from the insufferable glory, the pinions gather over the countenance. "With twain he did cover the face" Then as God tells this seraph to go to the farthest outpost of immensity on message of light and love and joy, and get back before the first anthem, it does not take the seraph~a great while to spread himself upon the air with unim- agined celerity; one stroke of the wing equal to ten thousand leagues of air. "With twain he did fy."
 HUMILITY THE PROPER STATE OF MAN.
 The most practical and useful lesson for you and me, when we see the seraph spreading his wings over the feet, is 8 lesson of humility at imperfection. The brightest angels of God are so far be- meath God that he charges them with folly. The seraph so far beneath God, and we so far beneath the seraph in serv- ice we ought to be plunged in humility utter and complete. Our feet, how lag gard they have been in the divine servicel Our feet, how many missteps they have takenl Our feet, in how many paths of worldliness and folly they have walked!
 Neither God nor seraph intended to put any dishonor upon that which is one of the masterpieces of Almighty God the human foot. Physiologist and anat- omist are overwhelmed at the wonders of it's organization. "The Bridgewater Treatise" written by Sir Charles Bell, on the wisdom and goodness of God, as illustrated in the human hand, was a result of the $40,000 bequsathed ill the last will and testament of the Earl of Bridgewater for>the encouragement of l-; T afford to forgive his eccentricities, though he had two dogs seated at his table, and though he put six dogs alone in an equipage drawn by four horses and attended by two footmen.
 With his large bequest inducing Sir Charles Bell to write so valuable book on the wisdom of God in the structure of the human hand, the world could af- ford to forgive his oddities. And the world could now afford to have another Earl of Bridgewater, however idiosyn. cratic, if he would induce some other Sir Charles Bell to write book on the wisdom and goodness of God in the con struction of the human foot-the ar. ticulation of it's bones, the fabrication oi its joints, the gracefulness of it's lines the ingenuity of it's cartridges, the deli oacy of it's veins, the rapidity of it's mus cular contraction, the sensitiveness oi its nerves.
 I sound the praises of the human foot With that we halt or climb or march It is the foundation of the physica fabric. It is the base of 8 God poised column With it the warrior braces himself for battle. With it the orator plants himself for eulogium. With i the toiler reaches his work. With i the outraged stamps his indignation Its loss an irreparable disaster. It health an invaluable equipment. Ifyo, want to know it's value, ask the mar