The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-30
EALMAGE IN EUROPE.
IMMENSE CONVERSATIONS IN Bur-
MINGHAM, AND OTHER PLACES.

beneath God That He Charged Them
with Folly.
LONDON, Aug. e3.-Dpr1n2 the past
week DR.. Talnage has been preceding
to enormous audiences in the great man
ufacturing towns of the English mid
land counties In Birmingham, in spite
of the great size of the churches placed
at his disposal, 1t was necessary to en-
gage the town hall, the spacious build
ing in which John Bright delivered his
famous speeches TO the electors, and
even this edifice would not contain half
the people who tried to get entrance. At
Leicester, Cardiff and Swansea there
was the same eagerness TO bear him, and
he was received with unbounded en-
thusiasm. The sermon selected for pub
location this week is on Isaiah vi, 2,
With twain he covered his face, with
twain he covered his feet, and with
twain he did fly"
In a hospital Of leprosy good King
Uzziah had died, and the whole land
was Swallowed with solemnity, and theo-
logical and prophetic Isaiah was think
ing about religious things, as one Is apt
TO do in time of great national beresve-
1nent, and forgetting the presence Of his
wife and two sons, who made up his
family, he had a dream, not hike the
dreams of ordinary character, which
generally come from indigestion, but
vision most Instructive, and under the
touch of the hand Of the Almighty.
The place-the ancient temple; build
ing-grand, awful, majestic. Within
that temple throne higher and grand
er than that occupied by any car or
sultan or emperor. On that throne the
eternal Christ. In lines surrounding
that throne the brightest oelestials, not
the cherubim, but higher than they the
most exquisite and radiant OF the heaV-
emily inhabitants. the seraphim. They
are called burners because they look
like fire. Lips of fire, eyes of fire, feet
of fire. In addition to the features and
the limbs, which suggest human be
ing, there are pinions, which suSgeSt the
lithest, the swiftest, the most buoyant
and most inspiring of all Intelligent
Creations bird. Each serSph had six
wings. each two of the wings for diff
ferent purpose. Isaiah's dream quiVers
and flashes with these Innlons. Now
folded, now spread, now beaten in loco
motion. with twain he covered his
feet, with twain he covered his face, and
with twain he did fly.-
The probability is that these wings
were not all used at once. The eersph
standing there near the throne over
whelmed at the insiSni6o9noe of the
paths his feet had troddeD US compared
II II 4 Iy-kh H. an& -
God, and with the laLDeness Of his loco
motion amounting almost 20 decTepitude
as compared with the divine velocity.
with feathery veil Of angelic modesty
hides the feet. With twain he did
cover the feet.
Standing there oZeTpoEReTed by the
overwhelming sp4endOrs of Gods glory,
and unable longer with the eyes TO look
upon them, and wishing those eyes
shaded from the insufePable glory, the
pinions gather over the cOuntenance.
with twain he did cover the face y
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, 1t does
not take the seraph q great while to
spread himself upon the air with unim-
agined CELEBRITY; one stroke Of the wing
equal 10 ten thousand leagues of air.
with twain he did fly" ..... lag.
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 feat, Is a
lesson of humility at i1nperfection. The
brightest angels of God are 50 far be
Meath God that he charges them with
folly. The seraph so far beneath God,
andSwe so far beneath the seraph in serv-
ice We ouHht to be plunged in humility.
utter and complete. Our feet, how lag
gard they have been in the divine service!
Our feet, how many miSsteps they have
takenl Our feet. in how many paths Of
worldliness and folly they have walked!
Neither God nor sereph intended to
put any dishonOr upon that which Is one
of the masterpieces of Almighty God
the human foot. Physiol0gist and Rnat-
omist are overwhelmed at the wonders
of its organization. 1.-THE Bridgeweter
Treatise" written by Sir Charles Bell.
on the wisdom and goodness Of God, as
illustrated i'll the human hand, was 8
result of the &4O, 900 beQne4thed in the
last will and testament Of the Earl Of
Bridgewater for the encouragement oa
Christian literature. The world could
afford TO forgive his ecceDtricties
though he had two dogs eeated at hi:
table, and though he put six dogs alGns
in an equipage drawn by four horses
and attended by two footmen. ..
With his large beQuest inducing Sil
Charles Bell to write so valuable boob
on the wisdom of God in the structure
of the human hand, the world could sf
ford TO forgive his oddities. And tht
world could now afford 10 have another
Earl of Rridgewster, however idiosyn
cratic, if he would induce some ethe1
Sir Charles Bell to write book ON thu
wisdom and goodness Of God in the CON
struction of the human foOs-the az
ticulation of its bones the luhT1cation q
its joints. the grscefulnees OF its lines
the ingenuity of its cartilages, the deli
cacy of its veins, the rapidity of ITS mus