Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-09-02


gone, down what declivities and in
what roads and in what directions and
1 will know more about you than
want to know None of us could en-
dure the scrutiny. Our feet not always
in paths of God. Sometimes in paths
of worldliness. Our feet, a divine and
glorious machinery for usefulness and
work, so often making missteps, so
often going in the wrong direc-
ton. God knowing every step, the
patriarch saying: "Thou settest print
on the heels of my feet Crimes of
the hand, crimes of the tongue, crimes
of the eye, crimes of the ear not worse
than the crimes of the foot Oh, we
want the wings of humility TO cover
the feet. Ought we not to go into self
abnegation before the all-searching,
all-scrutinizing, all-trying eye of God?
The seraphs do. How much more we.
'With twain he covered the feet"
All this talk about the dignity of
human nature is braggadocio and a
SIN. Our nature started at the hand Of
God regal, but il has been pauperized
There is IL well in Belgium which once
had very pure water, and il was stoutly
masoned with stone and brick; but that
well afterward became the center of
the battle of Waterloo. At the open.
ing of the battle the soldiers with their
sabres compelled the gardener, Will
lam Won Kylsom, 10 draw water
out of the well for them, and
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the battle ragged, and 300 dead and half
dead we're flung into the well for quick
and easy burial; 50 that the well of re-
freshment became the well of death,
and long after people looked down into
the well and they saw the bleachcl
skulls but no water So the human
soul waS a well of good, but the armies
of sin have fought around it, and
fought across it and been slain, and il
has become we'll of skeletons. Dead
hopes, dead resolutions, dead oppor.
tunities, dead ambitions An aban-
doned well unless Christ shall reopen
and purify and fill it rs the well OF
Belgium never was. Unclcan, r..1,can!
Another seraphic posture in the text:
That means reverence Godward Never
so much irreverence abroad in the
world as to-day. You see it in the de-
faced statuary, in the cutting out OF
figures from fine paintings,in the chip
ping of monuments for a memento, in
the fact that military guard must stand
at the grave of Grant and Garfield, and
| that old chnIa h. MT
for frewood, though fifty George
=. Morriscs beg the woodmen to
! spare the tree, and that calls
a corpse, a cadaver, and that speaks OF
death as going over TO the majority,
and substitutes for the reverent terms,
father and mother, 1.-THE old man." and
''the old woman" and finds nothing
impressive in the ruins of Baalbcc OF
the Columns of Karnac, and see no diff
ference in the Sabbath from other
, days except it allows more dissipation
and read the bible in what is called
higher criticism, making it not the
, word of God but good book will
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 AL
, mighty.
, Not willing TO have God in the world,
( they roll up an idea of sentimentality
and humanitarianism ant impudencC
and imbecility, and call it God. NJ
wings of reverence over the face, No
taking off of shoes on holy ground
You can tell from the way they tall
, they could have made a better world
} than this. and that the God of the
bible shocks every sense of propriety
They talk of the love of God in a way
J that shows you they believe it doe'
not make any difference how bad g
man is here, he will come in at tho
shining gate. They talk of the love
Of God in such a way which shows you
they think it is general Jail delivery
, for all the abandoned and the scoun
drelism of the universe. No punish
ment hereafter for any wrong done
here.
The bible gives us two description.
O1 God, and they are just opposite, anc
they are both true. In one place the
bible says God is love. In another
place the bible says God is n consum
ing fire. The explanation is plain ms
plain can be. God through Christ is
love. God out of Christ is tiNS. To win
the one and to escape the other we
have only to throw ourselves body,
mind and soul into Christ's keeping
NO" says 1rreverence, II want nc
!, atonement, 1 want no pardon,
want no intervention; l will &c
, up and face God, and l will challenge
him, and / will defy him, and / will
ask him what he wants to do with me. "
So the finite confronts the infinite, so a
tack hammer tries to break thunder.
bolt, so the breath of human nostrils
, defies the everlasting God, while the
, hierarchs of heaven bow the head and
bend the knee as the Kings chariot
J goes by, and the archangel turns away
because he cannot endure the splendor,
and the chorus of all the empires OF
heaven comes in with full diapason,
''holy, holy, holy!'
Live so near to Christ that when Won