Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-09-01
THE USE OF WINGS.
rALMSCE STILL PREACHING TO
THE ENGLISH.
Large and Enthusiastic Audiences Greet
Him erywhere-Seraphic Pastures
from the Word Of Divine Inspira-
tior.

Him Everywherc-Seraph Pastures
from the Word Of Divine Inspira-
ton.
! LONDON, Aug. as, 1892 During the past
| week, DIR. Ta!magc has teen preaching to
enormous audiences in tho great manufao tur-
| ing towns q the English Midland counties
| In Birmingham in spite OF the great size OF the
| churches placed at his disposal IL was neccs-
| sary TO engage the Town hall, the spac, Gus
building in which John Bright delivered his
famous spec ches 10 the electors and even this
edlice would not contain half the people who
| tried 10 get entrance At Leicester. Cardiff
| and Swansea there the same cagerness TO
| hear him and he was received with unboundcd
| enthusiasm. The sermon selected for publica-
| tion this week is on Isaiah 6: = with twain
he covered his face: with twain he covered his
| feet: and with twain he did fy.'
In a hospital of leprosy good King
Uzziah had died, and the whole land
was Swallowed with solemnity, and
theological and prophetic Isaiah was
thinking about religious things, as one
is apt to do in time Of great national
bereavement, and forgetting the pres
cncc of his wife and two sons, who
made up his family, he has dream,
not like the dreams of ordinary char
acter which generally come from
; Indigestion, but Il vision most in
structivc, and under the touch of the
! hand of the Almighty.
The place, the ancient temples. build
ing, grand, awful, majestic. Within
that temple throne higher and
grandcr than that occupied by any
Car or Sultan or Emperor. On that
throne, the eternal Christ. In lines
surrounding that throne the brightest
cclcstials, not the chcrubim, but higher
than they: the most exquisite and
radiant of the heavenly Inhabitants;
the scraphim. 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 sug-
gcst human being, there are pinions
I which suggest the lithest, the swiftest,
the most buoyant and most inspiring
of all intelligent crcation-a bird.
Each scraph had six wings, each two of
the wings for a different purpose
lsaiah'S dream quivcrs and flashes with
these pinions. Now folded, now spread,
now beaten in locomotion. with twain
he covered his feet. with twain he cover
I'd his face, and with twain he did fly"
The probability is that these wings
were not all used at once. The seraph
standing there near the throne. over
whclmcd at the insignficancc of the
paths his feet had troddcn as compared
with the paths troddcn by the feet of
God. and with the lamcncSs of his loco
motion amounting almost to decrcpi-
tude as compared with the divine
velocity, with feathery veil of angelic
modcsty hides the feet. with twain
he did cover the feet"
Standing there overpowercd by the
overwhelming splcndors of God $ 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
countcnancc. with twain he did
cover the face. Then as God tells this
seraph To go to the furthcst outpost of
immensely on messages of light and
love and joy, and get back before the
first anthem, it does not take the
seraph IA great while to spread himself
upon the air with unimagined CELEBRITY,
one stroke of the wing equal to ten
thousand leagues of air. with twain
he did fly"
The most practical and useful lesson
for you and ne-when we see the
seraph spreading his wings over the
feet, is a lesson of humility at imper-
lection. The brightest angels of God
are so far beneath God that he charges
them with folly. The seraph so far
beneath God, and we SO far beneath
the seraph in service we ought to be
plunged in humility, utter and COM
plete. Our feet, how laggard they
have been in the divine service. Our feet,
how many misstcps they have taken.
Our fect,in how many paths of worldli-
ness 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. Psychologist
and anatomist are overwhelmed at the
wonders of its organization. The
Bridgewatcr Treatise, written by Sir
| Charles Bell, on the wisdom and good.
ness of God as illustrated in the hui
man hand, was a result of the $40, 600
bequcathed in the the last will and
testament of the Earl of Bridgwater for
the encouragement of Christian liter
ature. The world could afford to for
give his eccentricitics, though he had
two dogs seated at his table. and
though he put six dogs alone in an
equipage drawn by four horses and at
tended by two footmen. With his
large bequcst inducing Sir Charles
Bell To write so valuable book on the
wisdomc of God in the structure of the
human hand, the world could afford to
forgive his oddities. And the world
could now afford to have another Earl
of Bridgcwater, however idiosyncratic,
if he would induce some other Sir
Charles Bell to write a book on the
wisdom and goodness of God in the
construction of the human foot. The
articulation of its bones. the lubrica.
! ton of its joints, the graccfulness of its
lines, the ingenuity of its cartilagcs,
the dclicacy of its veins, tho rapidity of
/ its muscular contraction. the sensitive
ness of its nerves. sound the praises
of the human foot With that we halt
or climb or march. II is the foundation
OF the physical fabric. 1t is the base of
God-poiscd column. With it the war
rior braces himself for battle. With it
the orator plants himself for eulogium.
| With it the toiler reaches his
work. With it the outraged stamps
his idignation. Its loss an irreparable
! disaster. Its health an invaluable
/ equipment. If you want to know it,
value, ask the man whose foot paraly-
sis hath shriveled, or machinery hath
crushed, or surgeons knife hath am
putated it. The bible honors it.
Especial care: Lest thou dash thy
foot against stone;" "He will not suf.
fer thy foot to be moved" ''thy feet
shall not stumble" Especial charge:
keep thy foot when thou goest to