The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-29

brick; but thai we'll afterward became the
center Of the battle OF Waterloo. AT the
opening of the battle the soldiers with their
sabers compelled the gardener, William
Won Kyisom, to draw water out Of the we'll
for them, and it was very pure water. But
the battle ragged, and three hundred dead
and half dead we're flung into the well for
quick and easy burial; 50 that the we'll of
refreshment became the we'll Of death and
long after psople looked down into the
we'll and they saw the bleached 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 n well of skeletons.
Dead hopes. dead resolutions, dead oppor-
tunIties, dead ambitions. An abandoned
well unless Christ shall reopen and purify
and fill 10 as the well OF Belgium never was
Uncleau, uncleanl
Another seraphic posture In the text:
"With twain he covered the face.n That
means reverence godward. Never so much
irreverence abroad In the world as to-day.
You see it In she defaoed ssatuary, in tho
cutting out Of figures from fine paintings,
in the chipping of monuments for me-
mento, in the face that military guard must
stand at the grave Of Grant and Garfield,
and that old shade trees must be out down
for tirewood. though fifty George p Nor
rises beg the woodmen TO spare the tree, and
that calls a corpse a cadaver, and that
speaks of death as going over to the
majority, and substitutes for the
reverent terms, father aud mother,
"the old man. and ''the old
woman" and find nothing impressive In the
ruins of Baalbeo or the columns of Karnac,
and see no difference In the Sabbath from
other days except 1t allows more dissipa-
tion, 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. lrreverence never 30 much abroad.
How many take the name of God 10 vain,
how many trivial things they say about the
Almighty. Not willing to have God in the
world, they roll up an idea of ssntimentaliry
and humanitarianism and impudence and
imbecility, and call 1t 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
q 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 IL does not make any
difference how bad man Is here, he will
come in at the shining gate. They talk OF
the love Of God in such way which shows
you they think it is general jail delivery
for all the abandoned and the sooundrelism
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 a consuming fire. The expla-
nation Is plain as plain can be. God through
Christ is love. God out OF Christ 10 fire. To
win the one aud escape the other we have
only to throw ourselves body, mind and
soul into Christs keeping. NO." says
Irreverence, 81 want no attonement. /
no pardon, want no Intervention; / will
60 up and face God, and l will challenge
him, and / will defy him, and will ask
him what he wants to do with me-" SO the
finite oonfronts the infinite, SO a tack ham
mer tries to break a thunder bolt, 30 the
breath Of human nostrils deies the ever
lasting God. while the heirarchs of heaven
bow the head and bend the knee as the
kings chariot goes by, and the archangel
turns away because he cannot 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 stu
pidity, however learned; reverence for In
capacity, however finely ;naugurated,
have 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 the
good Reverence q characteristic of all
great natures You hear IL in the roll of
the master oratorios. You see it In the
Raphasls and Ti1ans aud Ghirlandijos.
You study IL Ia toe architecture OF the
Ahollabs and Christopher Wrens. Do not
be fippant 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. Involuntarily the wings come
up. with twain he covered his face"
Who is this God before whom the arro-
giant and intraotable refuse reverencei
There was an engineer by the name of Stra-
siorates who was in the employ of Alexan-
der the Great, and he offered to hew a
mountain il the shape OF his master, the
emperor the enormous figure to hold in the
left hand a city of ten thousand inhabit-
ants, while with the right hand 10 was to
hold q basin large enough TO collect all the
mountain torrents. Alexander applauded
him for his ingenuity, but forbade the en-
terprise because of its costliness Yet have
to tell you that our king holds in one hand
all the cities of the earth, aud all the
oceans, while he has the stars OF heaven for
his tiara.
Earthly power goes from band TO hand.
from Henry /. TO Henry III. aud Henry
Ill, from Charles !. to Charles H., from
Louis l. 10 Louis III. and Louis I'LL, but
from everlasting 20 everlasting is God.
God the first, God the last, God the only.
He has one telescope with which he sees
everything: his omniscience. He has one
bridge with which be crosses everything:
his omuipreseuce. He has one hammer
with which he builds everything: his omni-
potence. Put two tablespoonfuls Of water
in tue palm of your hand and IL will over-
flow; but Isaiah indicates that God puts the
Atlantic and the Pacific and the Arctic aud
the Antarctic aud the Mediterranean and
the Black sea and all the waters Of the
earth In the hollow OF his hand The
fingers the beach on one side, the wrist the
beach on the other HE holdeth the water
in the hollow of his hand"
AS you take pinch OF salt or powder be-
tween your thumb and two fingers, so
Isaiah indicates God takes up the earth.
He measures the dust OF the earth, the
original there indicating that God takes all
the dust of all the continents between the
thumb and two fingers. You wrap around
your hand a blue ribbon five times, ten
times You say IL is five hand-brsadths, or
1t Is ten hand-breadths 50, indicates the
prophet, God winds the blue ribbon of the
sky around bis hand. "He meteth out
the heavens with span." You
know that balances are made OF
beam suspended in the middle with two
basins at the extremity Of equal heft. In
that way what vast hoft has been weighed.
But what are all the balances Of earthly
manipulation compared with the balances
that Isaiah saw suspended when he saw God
putting into the scales the Alps and the APP
pennies aud Mount Washington and the