Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-09-03

iTALMAGE in EUROPE.
CONGREGATIONS IN Bla-
...MINeHAM, AND OTHER PLACES.

Immense. CONGREGATIONS IN Biz
MlNeHAM, AND OTHER PLACES.
Tile wonderful Powers and Beauties Of
the seraphim-Yet They werc So Tar
Beneath God That lie Charged Them
with Folly.
+. LONDON, Aug. 2s.-During the past
week DR.. Talmage has been preaching
to enormous audiences in the great man
l:ufacturing towns Of the English mid
land countless. In Birmingham, in spite
of the great size of the churches placed
at his disposal, it was necessary to en-
gage the town hall Z the spacious build
ling in which J ohm Bright delivered his
famous speeches to the ELECTORS, and
l:eyen this edi6ce would not contain half
1.-THE people who tried to get entrance. AT
Leicester; Cardiff and Swansea there
was the same eagerness to hear him, and
The was received with unbounded en-
Ethusiasm. The sermon selected for pub
Elication this week is on Isaiah. vi, 2
twain he covered his face, with
Istwain he covered his feet, and with
Twain he did fly"
In hospital of leprosy good King
ssiCJzziah had died, and the whole land
lswas Swallowed with solemnity, and theo-
illogical and prophetic Isaiah was think
Fling about religious things, as one is apt
to do in time of great national bereave-
ment, and forgetting the presence of his
swife and two sons, who made up his
family, he had q. dream, not like the
lsdreams of ordinary character. which
come from indigestion, but a
Vision most instructive, and under the
l:touch Of the hand of the Almighty.
rs The place-the ancient temple; build
Eing-grand, awful, majestic. Within
E.that temple a throne higher and grand
Ter than that occupied by any car or
;sultan or emperor. On that throne the
l.eternal Christ. In lines surrounding
ssthat throne the brightest celestials, not
1.-THE cherubim, but higher than they; the
asmost exquisite and radiant of the heav-
.enly inhabitants, the seraphim. They
Faro called burners because they look
Hike fire. Lips of fire, eyes of fire, feet
Of fire. In addition to the features and
1.-THE limbs, which suggest human be-
I. Ling, there are pinions, which suggest the
1lithest, the swiftcst, the most buoyant
i aud most inspiring of all intelligent
Screation-a bird. Each seraph had six
wings, each two of the wings for diff
.sferent purpose. Isaiah's dream quivers
and flashes with these pinions. Now
!, folded, now spread, now beaten in loco
Emotion. with twain he covered his
fleet, with twain lie covered his face, and
sWith 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
lspaths; his feet had trodden as compared
with the. paths troddeD by the feet of
Hood, anidwith the. lameness of his loco
4siotiohi amounting almost to decrepitude
as compared with the divine velocity,
with feathefy 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 insrfferable 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, it does
not take the seraph q great while to
spread himself upon the air with unim-
agined celebrity; one stroke of the wing
equal to ten thousand leagues of air.
"With twain he did fly"
HUMILITY THE PROPER STATE OF MAN.
The most practical and useful lesson
for you and me, when we see the seraph
spreading his wings over the feet is
lesson Of humility at imperfection. The
4 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 serv-
ice VIC ought to be plunged in humility.
utter and complete. Our feet, how lag
{. gard they have been in, the divine service!
1 Our feet, how many missteps they have
takenl Our feet, in how many paths Of
worldliness and folly they have waikedl
Neither God nor seraph intended to
put any dishonor upon that which is one
of the masterpieces of Almighty Cod
the human foot. Psychologist and anat-
! omist are overwhelmed at the wonders
of its organization. 1.-The Bridgewater
Treatise" written by Sir Charles Bell,
! on the wisdom and goodness of God, as
Illustrated in the human Land, was q
result of the $40, 900 bequeathed i'll the
last will and testament of the Earl OF
Bridgewater for the encouragement 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 by four horses
and attended by two footmen.
With his large bequest inducing Sir
Charles Bell to write so valuable book
on the wisdom of God in the structure
3 of the human hand, the world could af.
ford to forgive his oddities. And The
Z world could now afford to have another
Earl of Bridgewater, however idiosyn'
cratic, if he would induce some other
Sir Charles Bell to write a book on the
! wisdom and goodness of God in the con.
.truction Of the human foot-the ar.
5 ticulation of its bones, the fabrication OF
its joints, The gracefulness of its lines,
the ingenuity Of its cartridges, the deli
cacy of its veins, the rapidity of its mus
cular contraction, the sensitiveness OF
its nerves.
4 Is 7 co,,nd tho 1,raises of the human foot.