Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-08-29

whose foot paralysis hath fhiivel'.i.
or machinery hath crusllei, or sur
geon's knife hath a,npulatcd the
Bible honors it. Especial care, Lest
thou dash thy foot against etone;' "he
will not suffer thy foot TO bc moyed;'
"thy feet shall not stumble" Especial
charge, keep thy foot when thou
goest TO the house Of God" Especial
peril, s.Their feet shall slide IN due
time Connected with the worlds dis
solution, "He shall set one foot on the
sea and the other on the earth"
Give me the history of your foot and
] will give you the history Of your life
time. Tell me up what steps IT hath
gone, down what dccliviiies, and in
what roads and in what directions, and
l will know more about you than ]
want TO know. None of us could endure
the scrutiny. Our feet not always in
paths Of God. Sometimes in paths of
worldliness. Our feet, divine and
glorious machinery for usefulness and
work, so often making missieps. 80 often
going in the wrong direction. God
knowing every step, the patriarch say
ing, "Thou settest print OF tie heels OF
my feet" Crimes Of the hand. crimes
of the tongue, crimes of the eye, crimes
of the ear not worse tllan fnc crimes of
the foot. Oh, we want the wings Of
humility to cover the feet. Ought we
not to go into self abegnation before the
all searching, all scrutiniz;ng, all try
ing eye of God? The seraphs do. How
much more we. "With twain he COW
cred the feet"
THE BONDAGE OF Elm.
All this talk about the dignity of hu-
man nature is braggadocio aud sin.
Our nature started at the h3nI OF God
regal. but it has been paupo iized There
is well in Belgium which once had
very pure water, and it wgs stoutly
masoned with stone and brick; but that
well aftorward became the center of The
battle of Waterloo. At the opening of
the battle the soldiers with their sabers
Compelled the gardener, William Won
Kylsom, to draw water out Of the well
for them, and it was very pure water
But the battle ragged, and three hun
dred dead and half dead were flung into
the we'll for quick and easy burial, SO
that the well Of refreshment became the
well of death, and long aftor people
looked down into the well, aud they eaw
the bleached skulls, but no water. SO
the human soul was well of good, but
the armies Of sin have fought around it,
and fought across 1t and becn slain, and
it has become well Of skeletons. Dead
hopes, dead resolutions, dead opportuni-
ties, dead ambitions. An abandoned
we'll unless Christ shall reopen and pu-
rify and fill it as the well Of Belgium
never was. Unclean, unclean!
Another seraphic posture in the text,
"With twain he covered the face That
means reverence Godward. Never so
much irreverence abroad in the world
as today. You see it in the defaced
statuary, in the cutting out of figures
from fine paintings, in tho chipping OF
monuments for meinento, in the fact
that military guard must stand at the
graves of Grant and Garfield, and that
old shade trees must be cut down for
frewood, though fifty George p. Morrises
beg the woodmen to spare the tree, and
that calls corpse cadaver, and that
speaks of death as going over to the ma
jority, and substitutes for the reverent
terms, father and mother, "the old
man" and "the old woman," and finds
nothing impressive In the ruins of Baal-
bee or the columns of karrac, and sees
no difference in the Sabbath from any
other days except it allows more dis
sipation, 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. Irreverence
never SO much abroad. How many take
the name Of God in vain, how many
trivial things said about the Almighty.
Not willing to have God in the world,
they roll up an idea of sentirnentality
and humanitarianism and impudence
and imbecility and call it 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 better world than
this, and that the God OF the Bible
shocks every sense of propriety. They
talk of tho love OF God in way that
shows you they believe it 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 sor all the aban-
doned and the scoundrelism of the uni
verse. punishment hereafter for any
wrong done here.
THE LOVE or GOD.
The Bible gives us two descriptions Of
God, and they are just opposite, and
they are both true. In one place the
Bible says Cod is love. In another
place the Bible says God is u consuming
fire. The explanation is plain as plain
can be. God through Christ is love.
God out Of Christ il fire. To win the
one and TO escape the other we have
only TO throw ourselves body, mind aud
soul into Christ's keeping. "No," says
irreverence, 81 want no atonement, |
want no pardon. want no intervention;
will go up and face God, and will
challenge him, and will defy him, and
| will ask him what he wants 10 do with
me-" So the finite confronts the inf
nito, 80 tack hammer tries 10 break
thunderbolt, 80 the breath of human
nostrils detes the everlasting God, while
the hierarchs Of heaven bow The head
and bend the knee as the Kings chariot
goes by, and the archangel turns away
because he cannot endure tho splendor,
and the chorus of all the empires of
heaven comes in with full diapason,
"Holy, holy, holyr