The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-09-23
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
MANUFACTURE IN TOWNS
OF MIDDLE ENGLAND.
The Seraph Covered His Face When He
Approached the Throne Of GOd-This
Seems to Be an Age OF reverence
Fools Make O Mock Of ST..
The Seraph Wings.

During the past week DIR. Talmage
has been preaching TO enormous audi
ences in the great manufacturing towns
OF the English midland counties. In
Birmingham, In spite of the great size
of the churches placed at his disposal,
it was necessary to engage the town
hall. the spacious building in which
John Bright delivered his famous
speeches to the electors, and even this
edifice would not contain half the peo-
pie who tried to get entrance. At Lei
cester, Cardiff and Swansea there was
the same eagerness to hear him and he
was received with unbounded enthusi-
asm. The sermon selected for publica-
tion this week is on Isaiah vi, 2. with
twain he covered his face, with twain he
covered his feet, and with twain he did
fly
In hospital OF leprosy good King u
ziah had died and the whole land was
Swallowed with solemnity, and theo-
logical and prophetic Isaiah was think
ing a bout religious things, as one is apt
to do in time of great national bereave-
ment, and forgetting the presence OF his
wife and two sons, who made up his fam
lily, he has a dream, not like the dreams
Of ordinary character which generally
come from indigestion, but vision
most instructive and under the touch OF
the hand of the Almighty.
The place, the ancient temple; build
ing, grand, awful, majestic. Within
that temple a 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 celestals. not the cheru-
bin, but higher than they; the most ex-
quisite and radient of the heavenly in
habitants. the seraphim. 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
lithest, the swiftest, the most huoYant
and most inspiring of all intelligent
creation-a bird. Each seraph had six
wings. each two OF the wings tor a
different purpose. Isaiah's dream quiv-
ers ana flashes with these pinions. Now
folded now spread, now beaten in loco
motion. with twain he covered his
feet, with twain he covered 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
whelmed at the insigni6cance Of the
paths his feet had trodden as COM
pared with the paths trodden by the
feet Of God, and with the lameness Of
his lOcomotion, amounting almost TO de-
crepitude as compared with the divine
velocity, with feathery veil Of angelic
mOdeSty hides the feet. with twain
He did cover the feet"
Standing there overpowered by the
overwhelming splendors OF Gods glory,
and unable LONGER with the eyes to look
upon them, and wishing those eyes
shaded from the inSutferable glory, the
pinions gather over the countenance.
with twain He did cover the face"
Then as God tells this seraph to go to
the farthest outpost Of immensely on
message of light and love and joy, and
get back before the first anthem, il does
not take the seraph a great while 70
spread himself upon the air with unim
agined celebrity, one stroke of the wing
equal to 10000 leagues Of air. with
twain he did fly."
The most practical and useful lesson
for you and me. when we see the seraph
spreading his wings over the feet, is a
lesson of humility at imperfection. The
brightest angels of God are so far be-
meath 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 hui
mility, utter and complete. Our feet,
how laggard they have been in the di-
vine service, Our feet how many mis-
steps they have taken! Our Feet in how
many paths of worldliness 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 an
atomSt are overwhelmed at the won
ders of its organization. The Bridge
water Treatise" written by Sir Charles
Bell, on the wisdom and goodness of
God as illustrated in The human hand.
was result of the $40. 600 beQueathed
in the last will and testament of the
Earl of Bridgewater for the encourage
ment of Christian literature. The world
could afford to forgive his eccentricities,
though he had two dogs seated at his
table, and though he put six dogs alone
in an equipage drawn bv four horses and
attended by two footmen. With his
large b"quest inducing Sir Charles Bell
to write so valuable book on the wis
dom OF God in the structure OF the hui
man hand. the world could afford to for
give his oddities.
And the world could now afford to
have another Earl of Brdgewater. how
ever idioSyncratic, if 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
fabrication of its joints, tie gracefulness
of its lines. the ingenuity of its cartil-
ages, the delicacy of its veins, the rapid
ity of its muscular contraction. the sem
sitiveness of its nerves. 1 sound the
praise of the human foot With that We
halt or climb or march. 1t is the foun-
dalton Of the physical fabric. 1t is the
base OF q God poised column. With it
the warrior 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
indignation It's loss an irreparable dis
aster. Its health an invaluable equip