The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-09-23

more about you than / want to know.
None OF US could endure the scrutiny.
Our feet not always in paths Of God.
Sometimes in paths of woridiness. Our
feet, a divine and glorious machinery
for usefulness and work, SO often max
ing missteps, so often going in the
wrong direction. God knowing every
step, the patriarch saying: Thou set
test a print on the heels of my feet"
Crimes of the hand, crimes Of the tongue.
crimes Of the eye, crimes Of the ear not
worse than crimes Of the foot Oh. We
want the wings Of humility to cover the
feet, Ought we not to 60 into self-abne-
CATION before the all-searching. all
scrutinizing, all-trying eye Of God? The
seraphs do. How much wore we. with
twain he covered the feet"
All this talk about the dignity OF hui
man nature is braggadociO and sin.
Our nature started at the hand OF God
regal. but it has been pauperiZed. There
is a we'll IN Belgium which once had very
pure water, and it was stoutly masoned
with stone and brick. but that well after
ward became the centre OF the battle OF
Waterloo. At the opening OF the battle
the soldiers with their sabers compelled
the gardner, William Won Kylsom, to
draw water out of the well for them.
and it was very pure water. But the
battle ragged, and three hundred dead
and half dead were flung into the we'll
for quick and easy burial, SO that the
we'll Of refreshmeut became the we'll OF
death, and long after people looked down
into the well and they saw the bIeached
skulls, but no water. So the human soul
was a we'll of good. but the armies OF sin
have fought around it and fought across
it and been slain. and it has become we'll
of skeletons. Dead hopes. dead resolu-
tions dead opportunities, dead ambitions.
An abandoned we'll unless Christ shall
reopen it and purify and clean it as the
well of Belgium never was. Unclean,
unclean.
Another seraphic posture in the text.
''With twain He covered the face" That
means reverence Godward. Never so
much Irreverence abroad in the world as
to-day. You see it in defaced .statuary, in
the cutting out of figures from fine paint
ings, in the chipping OF monuments for
memento in the fact that military guard
must stand at the graves Of Grant and
Garfield, and that old shade trees must
be cut down for frewood, though fifty
George P. Morrises beg the woodmen
to spare the tree. and that calls corpse a
cadaver. and that speaks of death as 60
Ing over to the majority, and substitutes
for the reyerent terms, father and
mother, "the old man" and "old woman"
and finds nothing impressive in the ruins
Of Baalbec or the columns OF karnac,
and sees no difference in the Sabbath
from other days except it allows more
dissipation, and reads the Bible in what
is called higher criticism. making it not
the Word Of God, but good book with
some fine things in it
Irreverence never so 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 imbecIlity, and call it 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 a better world than
this, and that the God of the Bible
shocks every sense of propriety. They
talk of the love of God in a way that
shows YOU they believe it does not make
any difference how bad a man is here he
will come in at the shining gate. They
talk of the love of God in such a way
which shows you they think it is a gen.
eral Jail delivery for all the abandoned
and the scoundrelism 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 the Bible
says God is love. In another place the
Bible says God is 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 the
other We have only to throw ourselves
body, mind ard soul-into Christ's keep
ing. NO" says lrreverence, II want
no atonement, l want no pardon, l want
no interyentlon: l will go up and face
God, and l will challenge Him, and l
will defy Him, and l will ask Him what
He wants to do with me-" So the finite
confrontS the infinite, so tack hammer
tries to break thunderbolt, SO the
breath OF human nOStrilS detieS 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 diapason. Holy, holy. holy"
Reverence for sham. reverence for the
old merely because it 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, more
reverence for the good. Reverence a
characteristic OF all great natures. You
hear it in the roll of the master ora
torios. You see it in the Raphaels and
Titians and GhirlandijOS. You study it
in the architecture of the Ahoia5s and
Christopher Wrens. Do not be f1ippant
about GOD. Do not joke about death.
Do not make fun Of the Bible. Do not
deride the eternal. The brightest and
mightiest seraph cannot look unabashed
upon him. Involuntarilv the wings
come up. with twain he covered his
face"
Who is this God before whom the arro-
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