Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-09-02

nlppant ABOUT 6Od. DO not joke about
death. DO not make fun of the Bible.
Do not deride the Eternal. The brightest
and mightiest seraph cannot look I'M
abashed upon him. Involuntarily the
wings come up. "With twain he COW
cred his face"
Who is this God before whom the ar
rogant and intractable refuse reverence?
There was an engineer of the name of
Subsidiaries, who was in the employ of
Alexander the Great, and he offered to
hew a mountain in the shape of his
master, the emperor, the enormous fig
ure to hold in the left hand a city of
10000 inhabitants, while with the
right hand it was to hold a basin large
enough to collect all the mountain tor
rents. Alexander applauded him for
his ingenuity, but forbade the enter
prise because of it's costliness. Yet l
have to tell you that our King holds in
one hand all the cities of the earth and
all the oceans, while he has the stars of
heaven for his tiara.
Earthly power goes from hand to
hand-from Henry I to Henry II and
Henry III, from Charles I to Charles II,
from Louis I to Louis II and Louis III
but from everlasting to everlasting is
God. God the first, God the last, God
the only. He has one telescope with
which he sees everything-his omnis-
cience. He has one bridge with which
he crosses everything-his omnipres-
ence. He has one hammer with which
he builds everything-his omnipotence.
Put two tablespoonful of water in the
palm of your hand and it will overflow;
but Isaiah indicates that God puts the At
lantic, and the Pacific, and the Arctic and
the Antarctic, and 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"
REVERENCE THE INFINITE.
AS you take a pinch of salt or powder
between 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 it is five hand
breadths OF it is ten handbreadths. So,
indicates the prophet, God winds the
blue ribbon Of the sky around his hand.
'He meteth out the heavens with a span."
You know that balances are made of a
beam suspended in the middle, with two
basins at the extremity of equal heft.
In that way what vast heft 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 Apennines ,sand Mount
Washington, and the Sierra Nevadas?
You see the earth had to be ballasted.
1t would not do to have too much
weight in Europe, or too much weight
in Asia, or too much weight in Africa,
or in America; so when God made the
mountains he weighed them. The Bible
distinctly says so. God knows the
weight of the great ranges that cross
the CONFERENCE.-THE tons, the pounds
avoirdupois, the ounces, the grains,
the milligrams--just how much they
weighed then, and just how much they
weigh now. HE weighed the noun
tains in scales and the hills in q bal
ance." Oh, what a God to run against;
oh, what a God to disobey; oh, what a
God to %dishonor; oh, what a God to
defyl The brightest, the mightiest an
gel takes no familiarity with God. The
wings of reverence are lifted. "With
twain he covered the face"
Another seraphic posture in the text,
The seraph must not always stand still.
He must move and it must be without
clumsiness. There must be celebrity and
beauty in the movement. "With twain
he did fly" Correction, exhilaration.
Correction at our slow gate, for we only
crawl In the service when we ought to
fly at the divine bidding. Exhilaration
in the fact that the soul has wings as the
seraphs have wings. What is a wing?
An instrument of locomotion. They may
not be like seraph's wing, they may not
be like birds wing, but the soul has
wings. God says 30. HE shall mount
up on wings as eagles" We are made
in the divine image, and God has wings.
The Bible says so. "Healing in his
wings" under the shadow Of his
wings" "Under whose wings thou hast
come to trust" We have folded wing
now, wounded wing, broken wing,
bleeding wing, Gagged wing. Aye! I
have it now. Gagged within bars of bone
and under curtains of flesh, but one day
to be free. hear the rustic of pinions
in seagrave's poem, which we often
sing:
Rise, my soul. and stretch thy wings.
I hear the rustic of pinions in Alexan-
der Pope's stanza, which says:
Imount, I fly;
death, where is thy victory?
A dying Christian not long ago cried
out, "Wings, wings, wings!" The air is
full of them, coming and going, coming
and going. You have seen how the dull,
sluggish chrysalid becomes the bright
butterfly; the dull, and the stupid, and
the lethargic turned into the alert and
the beautiful. Well, my friends, in this
world we are in the chrysalid state.
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