The Penn's Grove record., 1892-09-02

Not willing to ave Col In the worit,
they roll up an idea OF ssntimentahty
n humanitarianism and impuiencs
and imbec,lity and call IL God. No
OF OF shoes on holy ground. xou can tell
from the way they tall they could have
made . better world than this and that the
God OF the Bible shocks every sense 81 pro-
priety. They talk OF the love of Cor in a
way that shows you they believe il does not
make any difference how bad . man 10 here.
he will come In at tie shining gate. They
shows you they think it is a general jail de-
livery for all the abandoned and the scoun-
drelism OF the universe No punishment
hereafter for any wrong done here.
The Bible gives 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 say God
plain Is plain can be. God through Christ
Il love. God out Of Christ Is FIRE. To WIN
the n and 70 escnpetha other We have only
to throw ourselves, pouy. MIND n soul in
II Christs keeping. mo- says Irrever-
ance, II want no atonement. ] want no par.
don, l want no intervention 1 will go up and
face God, and | will challenge Him, and l
will defy Him, and I will ask him what He
wants to do with me- So the inite con.
fronts the infinite, so q tack hammer tries to
break : thunderbolt. 50 the breath OF human
nostrils dsies tho everlasting God, while this
hierarchs Of heaven bow the head and bend
the knee as the Kings chariot goes by, and
ths archangel turns away because hecannot
endure the s~plendor, and the chorus OF all
the empires OF heaven comes In with full
diapason, "Holy, holy, holyF' :,
Reverence for sham. reverence for the old
merely because It Is old, reverence for stu
-tlrk- L----~,. ~~uL DEMONSTRATION FOR in.
capacity. however finely inaugurated, Ihave
none. But we want more reverence for
God. more reverence for the sacraments
more reverence for the Bible, more rever.
ence for the pure, more reverence for tho
COOL. Reverence a characteristic of all
great natures. You herr It in the roll of
the master oratorios. You see it in tho
Raphaels and Titians ami ~Ghirlandijos. You
study it in the architecture OF the Aboliabs
and Christopher Wrens. Do not be fiippant
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 unabashsd upon Him.
lnvoluntarily the wings come up. with
twain he covered his face
Another seraphic posture in the text. The
seraph must not always stand still. He
must move and it must be without clumsi-
ness. There must be celebrity and beauty in
the movement. with twain he did fly :"
Correction. exhiIaratiop. Correction at our
slow gait. for we only crawl in the service
when we ought to fly at the Twins bidding.
Exbilaration in the fact that the soul has
wings as the seraphs AVE wiegs. What is q
wings An instrument Of loconotion. 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 i'm.
age, and God has wings. The Bible says SO.
"Healing in His Wings tsUncer the shadow
of His wings Under whose wings thou
hast come to trust We have folded wing
now, Wounded wing, broken wing. bleeding
Gagged within bars Of bone and under cur
tains Of flesh, but one day to be free. i hear
the rustic of plnions in Seagraye's poem
which we often sing.
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings.
Ihear the rustic OF pinions in Alexander
Popes staDza. whica says.
o Death, whsre Is thy victory.
diving Christian not long ago cried out,
HWings. wings, wingsr' This air is full OF
them, coming and going. coming and going.
You lave seen how the duh, sluggish chrysa-
lid becomes the bright butterfly; the dull,
and the stupid, and tho letharsic III ned into
the alert and the beautiful. Well, my friends.
in this world we are in the chrysalid state.
Deatn VI uniuri tne Wlnss; IN - w9 e snt.
only realize wnat 2 gran ! mug y WI oe 70
get rld oil the oid cioa % . Doas anu inoati.
the heavens neithef seasuh hor 'ass no.
slbatross nor lalcon hor c'n .r p,so ~
from nignestr anseoe Ahaes' : puo'Au0
30 maJestic OF stroNe. r.
See that eagle IN the mounIain nest. ~
looks 50 sics, so ragged leasnefea, % S wors
out and 90 nal asleep. - mi sns IN asl9 uyitts
Mo- The o~rnitnoiogiss WI 'sn Nv 49, =
moltang season WIN tnaso i.u. - uynns,
but mo'tins Aou sse .nlv ~
and weary ana worn ou. ane ssas h poS
to expire on what y caiea als uea.noen
The world says he Is dying ! say y Is tne
melting season for nus sont-the pooy
dropping away, the ceieseiai pin'ons eem'
ing on. Not dying, put moilang. Moit ~,
out OF DARKNESS aud Sln 1 = s.l W. sho mtS
glory and into dod. WY ~ sou , n.y. ou ~
Why do you SIT snivel'ns ~ = 'g;lh,ua
death q trying 70 noia uacA : snah y
you could stay mere Ioreves, a.u spea ~ "
departure as though inc snoJec. s"ere aileu
with skeletons n the vasalsn Oh e saat y
ana a. .uyasA ~
O people Of God. let Us stop playing the
fool and prepare Tor r. psurous y n tsia n, m and
your SOU ssseo srsc;nicas bsneath and san
uh;rsd M domes above, woich way viii you ay2
WIN YOU swoop or will you soari Win you
fy downward or will you ny npwaraf
Everything on the wing tnis morning pio-