The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-29
USE OF WINGS IN HEAVEN
THE ETERNAL HOME SEEN IN THE
DREAM OF ISAIAH.


Heavenly Inhabitants, the Sersphim,
Each With Six Wings. y
LONDON. Aug. 2S-During the past week
DR.. Talmage has been preaching TO enor-
nous audiences in the great manufacturing
towns of English midland counties. In Bir-
mingham, in spite OF the great size of the
churches placed al his disposal. it was neces-
sary TO engage the town hall, the spacious
building in which John Bright delivered
his famous speeches 10 the electors, aud ieven
this edince would not contain half the peo-
pie who tried to get entrance. At Leicester
Cardiff and Swansea there was the same
eagerness to hear him and be was received
with unbounded enthusiasm. The sermon
selected for publication this week is on
Isaiah vi. Q: "With twain he covered his
face; with twain he covered his feet; and
with twain he did hy."
In hospital Of leprosy good King Uzziah
had died, and the whole land was shadowed
with solemnity, and theological and pro-
phetic Isaiah was thinking about religious
things, as one is apt to do In time OF great
national bereavement, and forgetting the
presence Of his wife and two sons who
made up his family, he has a dream, not
like the dreams OF ordinary character which
generally comes from indigestion, but a
vision most instructive, and under the
touch OF the hand Of the Almighty.
The place, the ancient temple; building,
grand, awful, majestic. Within that tenn
pie throne, higher and grander than that
occupied by any car, or sultan or emperor.
On that throne, the eternal Christ. In lines
surrounding that throne the brightest celes-
tials, not the cherubim, but higher than
they; the most exquisite and radiant Of the
heavenly inhabitants; the seraphim. They
are called burners because tney look like
fire. Lips OF fire, eyes Of fire, feet of fire.
In addition to the features and the limbs,
which suggest a human being, there are
pinions which suggest ths lithest. the swift
est, the most buoyant and most inspiring of
all intelligent creation-a bird. Each ser
aph had six wings, each two of the wings
for q different purpose. Isaiah's dream
quiVers and flashes with these pinions. Now
folded now spread, now beaten in locomo-
tion. "With twain he covered his feet with
twain he covered his face, aud with twain
he did fly."
The probability is that these wings we're
not all used at once. The seraph standing
there near the throne, overwhelmed at the
insigni1cance OF the path his feet had trod-
den by the feet of God, and With the lame
ness of his locomotion amounting almost to
decrepitude as compared with the divine
velocity, with feathery veil OF angelic mod
esty hides the feet. with twain he did
cover the feet"
Standing there overpowered by the over
matching splendors of Gods glory, and un-
able longer with the eyes TO look upon
them, and wishing those eyes shaded from
the unsufferable glory, the pinions gather
over the oountenance with twain he did
cover the face. Then as God tells this SER
aph to 90 to the farthest outpost Of in~
menslty on message OF hight aud love, and
JOY, and get back before The first anthem
1t does not take the ssraEh a great while to
spread himself upon the air With unim-
agined 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 me-when we see tho seraph
spreading his wings over the feet, 10 a les
son Of humility and inperfection. The
brightest angels of God are so far beneath
God that he charges them with folly. The
seraph so Ifar 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 laRgard they have
been In the divine servicel Our feet, how
many missteps they have taken.
Our feet, in how many paths Of
worldliness and folly they have walked
Neither God nor seraph intended 20 put
any dishonor upon that which Is one Of the
masterpieces Of Almighty God-the human
foot. Psychologist and anatomist are over
wheimed at the wonders Of its organization.
The Bridgewater Treatise, written by Sir
Charles Bell, on the wisdom and goodness
OF God as illustrated in the human hand,
was the result Of the $40, 900 bequeathed in
the last will and testament of the Earl of
Bridgewater for the encouragement of
koRa RsTHn he "a
afford to forgive his eccentricities, though
he had two dogs seated at bis table, and
though he put six dogs alone IN an eaulpage
drawn by four horses and attended by two
footmen. With his large beQuest Inducing
Sir Charles Bell TO write SO valuable a
book on the wisdom of God in the struct-
ure OF the human hand, the world could
afford 20 forgive his oddities. And the
world could now afford to have anothsr
Earl OF Bridgewaser. however, fdiosyn-
cratic, IL he would induce some other Sir
Charles Bell TO write book on the wisdom
and goodness Of God in the construction of
the human foot. The articulation Of its
bones, the lubrioation Of its joints, the grace
fulness of its hnes, the ingenuity of its
cartilages. the dslicacy OF its veins the
rapidity Of its muscular contraction. the
sensitiveness Of its nerves. I sound the
praises Of the human foot With that we
halt or climb or maroh Il Is the founda-
tion Of the physical fabric II is the base
OF god-poised column. With 10 the
warrior braces himself for battle. With Il
the orator plants himself for eulogiun,
With it the toiler reaches his work.
With 1t the outraged stamps
bis indignation. It's loss an irreparable
disaster. It's health an invaluable eouip-
ment. II you want TO know its value. ask
the man whose foot paralysis hath
shriveled, or machinery hath crushed. or
surgeons knife hath amputated. The Bible
honors it. Especial care Lest thou dash
thy foot a9ainsS a stone - "he will not suffer
thy foot to be moved :" thy feet shall NOT
stumble" Especial charge: keep thy
foot when thou goest 10 the house Of God y
Especial peril, Their feet shall slide Ia due
time.n Connected with the worlds dissolu-
tion: "He shall set one foot on the saa and
the other on the EARTH"
Give me the history Of your foot, and /
will give you the history 0t your lifetime
Tell me up what steps II hath gone, down
what declivitiss and In what roads and in
what directions, aud ] will know more
about you than want b know. None Of
us could endure the scrutiny. Our feet not
always In paths Of God Sometimes in
paths OF worldliness Our feet, q divine
and glorious machinery for usefulness and
work, 90 often making missteps, 80 oftsn
going IN the wrong direction. God know
log every step, the patriarch saying "Tkou
settsst print on the heels Of my feet p
Crimes Of the hand, crimes OF the tongue,
crimes o. the eye, crimes OF the sar not
WOrSe than the crimes Of the foot D, we