The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-09-15
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIyINE'S sun
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "seraDhic Pastures and
Human Imperfections-'

In hospital Of Ieprosy COOL King Uzziah
had died, and the whole land was Swallowed
with solemnity, and theological and prOph-
etc Isaiah was thinking ABOUT religious
things, as one Is apt 70 do IN time OF great
national bereavement, and forgetting the
presence Of his wife and two sons, who made
up his family, he had a dream, not Ike the
dreams OF ordinary character. which gen.
orally cone from indigestion, but VISION
most instructive, and under the touch OF
the hand OF the Almighty.
The place-the ancient temple: building
grand, awful, majestic. Within that
temple throne higher and grander than
that occupied by any car or sultan or en-
peror. On that throne the eternal Christ
In lines surrounding that throne toe bright
est celestials, not the cneruoim, but higher
than they, the most exquisite and ratiaut
OF the heavenly inhabitants, the seraphin.
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 being, there
are pinions, which suggest the Ilghtest, the
swiftest, the most buovan5 and most IN
spring of all intelligent creatiOn-a bird.
Each seraph had SIX wings, each TWO Of the
wings Tor different purpose. Isaiahs
dream quvers and flashes with these
pinions. Now folded, now spread, now
beaten in locomotion. ''With twain he COW
cred his feet with twain ne covered MS face,
ami with twain he did lT.'
The probability is that these wings were
not all used at once. The seraph standing
there near the throne overwhelmed at the IN
significance of the paths his feet had trodden
as compared with the paths trodden by the
feet OF God, and with the iameness OF his
locomotion amounting almost to decrepItude
as compared with the divine velocity, with
feathery veil of angelic mo lesty hides the
feet. with twain ne aid cover mis- feet"
Standing there overpoNered by the over
matching splendors Of God's glory, an un-
ahle longer with the eyes 10 loo upon them,
and wishing those eyes shaded from the in
siderable glory. the plniOns gatuer over le
countenance. "W tn twain he did cover the
face. Then as Coo tells TINS serapn to 20 to
the farthest outpost OF Immenslt ~ on message
of light and love and JOY, and get back be-
fore the first anthem, 1t does not tate the
seraph great while TO spreat himself upon
the air with unimagined celebrity: one stroke
OF the wing equal 10 ten thousand leagues of
air. with twain he did fly"
The most practical AMI useful lesson for
you and me, when we see the seraDh
Spreading his wings over the feet Is a lesson
OF humility at lmper. ection. The bright st
angels OF Col are 30 Tar beneath Go1 tnaJ
He charges them with folly. The seraon 50
far beneath Cod, and we 50 far beneath tns
serapn in service we ought to 0e plunged in
humility, utter and Complete. Our feet, how
laggard they have been in the divine service!
Our feet, how many mlssteps they have
taken! Our feet, III how many paths OF
worloliness and folly they nave walked.
Neither God nor serapn iuten led to put
any dishonor upon that which Is one of the
OF Almighty GJ1-the human
foot. ply siologIst and ana omist ars over
whelmed at the wonders OF Its organization.
1.-THE Bridgewater Treatise written by sir
Charles Bel, on tue vision and goodness Of
Goo, as illustrated in the human mani, was
u result 0. the 40. 900 pequeaUned IN the last
will aud testament Of the Eafl Of Bridge
water Tor the encouran cement of Christian
literature. The world could afford TO for
give his eccentrlcltles, though ns had two
dogs seated at his taoie and though he put
Six dogs alone in an equipage drawn by four
horses AMI attended by TWO Iootmen.
With his large bequest nducing Sir
Charles Bell TO write so valuable book on
the vision OF God in tue structure OF ths
human hand, the world could afford II ior-
give MS Oddities. And the world could now
afford 10 have another Ear of BriIgewater,
however ldiosyncratic, II he would induce
some other Sir Char4es Bell TO write a Dooi
on the wisdom and goodness Of tod in tns
construction OF the human foot-tne ar
ticulatlon or its bones, the luorlcltlol OF Its
JOINTS, the graceIu.ness OF its lines, toe ia
genuity or its carriages, the dehclcy Of us
VEINS, the raoldity OF It's muscular cJntrac-
ton, the sensltIyeuess OF its nerv-s.
l sound the praises Of the human foot.
With that We halt or climb or marcl. Its
the foundation OF the physical fabric. It'll
the base O. God poised column. With it
the warrior braces himself for cattle. WITH
1t the orator plants himself tor eulog,un.
With it the toller reaches MS WORK. Nitn
it the outraged stamps his Indignation. It's
loss an lrreparab!e disaster. is hsaith an
invaluable equipment. II you want TO
know its value, the man waose fO0J
paralysis hath snrlyeled, or machinery hath
crusneG, OF surgeons knife hatu anpuuate,..
the biUie honUrs II. Espec.a car, 'Les5
thou dasn uny tood against a stone;" IA
will not suffer thy loot 10 oe moyeI;' tiny
feet snail not stumole." Especla. charge,
keep thy loot when thon gossC 10 une
house of God" Especial peril, "lnelr feet
shall slide III due tine" CONNECTED with
the worlds dissolution, "he snail SGT one
loot on the sea anu the other on tue eartl.
Give me the hIs,oryot your DOT AMI wall
give you the history Of your lifetime. Iell
me 10 what steps IL hatl eona, 10 vn what
declivlties, AMI in w1at roa Is AMI in wat
directions, and | will know nora about YOU
than want to know. y one OF US clul en-
dure the scrutiny. Our feet not aiwtvs in
paths of God. Some times in paths OF
worldliness. Our feet, a divine AMI glorious
machinery for usefulness anu work. % often
making missteps, 50 often going in tho
wrong direction. Go KNOWN every step,
the patriarch saying, "lnou settest print
on the heels of my feet" Crimes oil the
hand, crimes OF the tongue, crimes OF the
eye. crimes OF the ear not worse than the
crimes o. the foot. On, we want the wings
OF humility to cover the feet. Ga int we not
to 90 into self aOegnation before the all
searching, all scrutlnizlng, all trying eye OF
God? The serapls do. How mucn more
We? with twain he covere the feet"
All this talk about the digaitv OF human
nature is braggadoe.o and sin. Our ma
ture started at the haui OF God regal, but
II has been pauperlzei. There is a well in
Belgium whicn oncs mad very pure water,
and 1t was stoutly masone with stone and
brick; but that well a terward became the
centre OF the battle OF Waterloo At the
opening of the battle the soldiers vita their
81 bers compelled the gardener. William Won
kyisom, to draw water out of the well for
Their, and 1t was very pure water.
But the battle ragged, and three hundrel
dead and halt dead were flung into the well
TO: quick and easy burial, so that the well
OF reireShment became tue well of death.
and long after people looked down into the
well, ami tney saw the hleached skulls, but
no water. SO the human soul was q well OF
good. but the armies of sin nave fought
around 1t, and fought across it and been
SLAIN, and it has become We'll of sSeietols.
Dead hopes, dead resolutions dead oppor