Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-29
The MIGHT OF GOD.
"a Images SERMON ACROSS THE SBA
YESTERDAY.
''2 vain he Covered His Face; With Twain He
N'.red HiS Feet and With Twain lie did
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Hear The Great American Divine

Hear The 6raat American Divine
L0NDON, August 2S.-During the past
wees, Or. Talmage has been preaching
enormous audiences in the great
SS4lulocturing towns OF the English
Aad,and counties. In Birmingham In
spite OF the great size Of the churches
paced az his disposal 20 was necessary
y aUiarge the Town Hall, the spacious
pudding In which John Bright delivered
Ms famous speeches 20 the electors, and
even this ediice would not contain hat
Ia people who tried % get entrance.
Il; Leicester, Cardiff and Swansea there
was the same e3gerncsS 10 hear him and
De was received with unbOunded elthu-
SaSm. The sermon selected Tor puoi-
cation this week is on Isaiah GO. with
twain be covered his face; with twain
he covered his feet; and with twain he
cid ny."
10 hospital Of leprOsy good King
UzLlah had died, and the whole iand
was Swallowed with SOiemnity, and
theological and prophetic Isaiah was
thinking about religious things, as one
is apt 10 DO in time Of great national
bereavement, and forgetting the pres
ence OF his wife aud TWO sons, who
made up his family, he has dream,
not Ike the dreams or ordinary charac-
ter which generally come from indigeS-
Iiop, but vision most instructive, and
under the touch OF the hand Of the
Almighty.
THE PLACE, THE ANCIENT TEMPLE;
building, grand, awful majestic. With
in that temple o 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
cele,tia.s, not the cherubm, but higher
than they; the most exquisite and radl-
ant of the heavenly inhabitants; the
serapbim They are called burners be-
cause they look like fire. Lips OF IRE,
eyes of fire, feet OF fire. In addition 10
The features and the limbs which sUg-
EeSt a human being, there are plnlonS
which suggest q human being, they
are pinlOns which suggest the iltheSt,
the swiitcSt, the most buOyauJ and
most inspiring of all intelligent crea-
tion-a bird. Each seraph had six
wings, each two OF the wings for diff
ferent purpose IsaiGh'S dream quivers
and flashes with these piulons. Now
folded, now spread, now beaten In To-
comotiou. "With twain Le covered his
feet, with twain he covered his face,
and with twain be did fly
The probability is that these wings
were not all used az once. The Serayh
standing there near the throne over
whelmed az the insigniiCance OF the
paths his feet had tr0dden as compared
with the paths trodden by the feet OF
God, and with the IamenesS Of his loco
motion amounting almost to decrepitude
as compared With the divine velocity,
with feathery veil o.; angelic mOdeSty
hides the feet. "With twain he did
cover the feet"
ALL TALK ABOUT DIGNITY
OF human nature is braggadociO and a
SIM eur nature started at the hand
OF God regal, but it has been pau
perized There is well in Belgium
which once had very pure water, and II
was stoutly maSOned with stone and
brick: but thar well aiterward became
the centre Of the battle Of Waterloo.
A. the opening OF the battle the soldiers
with their sabreS compelled the garden
f-, William Won kyISOm, TO draw water
Eut OF the well for them, aud 10 was
VERY pure water. But the battle ragged,
and three hundred dead and half dead
were flung into the we'll for quick and
easy burial; so that the we'll or refresh
meut became the well OF death, and long
long after, people looked down into the
well, ana they saw tke bIeached skulls
hut no water. SO the human soul was
we'll of good, but the armies Of sin have
fought around 10, aud fought across 1t
and been slain, and il has become
we'll of skeletons. Dead hopes, dead
resolutions, dead opportunities, dead
ambitions. An abandoned we'll unless
Christ shall reopen and purity and oil
it as the well of Belgium never was.
UnClean, uuclean.
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
Mace the Bible says God is consuming
fire. The explanation is plain as plain
can be. God through Christ is love.
God ont of Christ is fire. To win the
one and escape the other we have only
10 throw ourselves body, mind and soul
into Christ's keeping. NO says r.
reverence. II want no attonement,
want no pardon, I want no interyen-
tion; will 90 up and face God, and l
will challenge him, and l will defy him,
and will ask him what be wants TO do
with me-" So the finite cOnironts the
infinite. so a tack hammer tries TO
break q thunder-bolt, so the breath oil
human nostrilS defes the everlasting
God while the hierarchS of heaven DOW
the head and bend the knee as the
Kings chariot goes by, and the arch
angel turns away because ne cannot
endure the splendor, and the chorus OF
all the empires Of heaven comes IN with
full diapson. "holy, holy, holy "
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
ain the dust Of all the continents between
the thumb and TWO fingers. You wrap
around your hand blue ribbon hve
times. ten times. You say IL is i've
band-breadthS, or it is ten band-brcad-
breadths. So, indicates the prophet,
Cod winds the blue ribbon of the sky
erobnd his hand. He meteth out the
heavens with span" You know that
balances are made of beam suspended
a. +ba middle with two basins az the