The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-30

death. Do not make fun Of the Bible
Do not deride the Eternal. The brightest;
and mightieSt seraph cannot look IN
abashed upon him Involuntarily the
wings come up. with twain be COW
cred his face"
Who is this God before whom the ar
rogant and intractsble refuse reverence?
There was al engineer Of the name of
Subsidiaries, who was in the employ of
Alexander the Great, and he offered TO
hew mountain in the shape of his
master, the emperor, the enormous fig
ure to hold in the left hand city of
10000 inhabitants while with the
right hand it was TO hold g basin large
enough to collect all the mountain tor
rents. Alexander app4Nuded him for
his ingenuity, but forbade the enter
prise because of its costliness. Yet /
have 20 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 20
hand-from Henry to Henry II and
Henry III. from Charles TO Charles II,
from LO1is l 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-
cienee. He has one bridge with winch
he crosses everything-hfs o1nnipree
enoe. He has one hammer with which
| he builds everything oznuipOtence.
Put two tablespoonfuls of water In the
palm of your hand and It will overflow;
but Isaiah indicates that God puts the At
lantic, and the Pacific, andth Arctbc, and
the Antarctic, and the Mediterapean,
and the Black sea, and al the waters of
the earth IN the hollow Of his hand
The fingers the beach ON one 9de, the
wrist the beach ON the other. HE
holdeth the water In the hollow Of his
hand" ID t. -.f'H.
REVERENCE THE INFINITE.
AS you take pinch Of san or powder
| between your thumb end two fingers, 30
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 Q htne ribbon FIVE
times, ten times. You say IL Is five hand
| bresdths or it is ten bandbreadths. So,
indicstes the prophet, God winds the
! blue ribbon of the sky sround his hand.
HE 1neteth 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 beft.
| In that way what vast heft has been
weighed! But whatare 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 ApenniSes, and Mount
Washington, and the Sierra NevadSs!
You see the earth had TO be bsllasted.
! 1t VpoJfsdF not do to have too much
! weight in Europe. or too much weight
in Asia, or too much weight in Africa,
or in America; 50 when God made the
mountains he weighed them The Bible
distinctly says 80. God knows the
| weight Of the great ranges that cross
the continents-the tons, the pounds
apoirdupois, the ounces, the grains.
| the InilliSranls-ju how much they
weighed then, and rust bow much they
weigh DOW. He weighed the noun
tains in scales and the hills in bal
ance.r oh, what a God 70 run against
oh, what God 10 disobey; oh, what q
God TO dishonur; oh, what q God Dc
defy. The brightest, the miShtiest 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 sersph must not always stand still
He must move and II must be without
clumsiness There must be CELEBRITY sDd
fba
he did fy.7 Correction ezhilaratiou
! Correction at our slow gate, for we only
crawl III the service when We ought K
fly at the divine bidding. ExhlaIatior
in the fact that the soul has wings as the
seraphs have wings What Is a wing
An instrument of locomotim. They may
not be like seraph's wing, they may DO
be like birds wing, but the soul Ia.
wings God says so. He shall noun
up ON wings as eagles" We are mad,
in the divine image, and God has wings
The Bible says so. Healing N hi
wings" Under the shadow of hi
Wings Under whose wings thou has
come to trust" We have folded VIM
now, wounded wing broken wing
bleeding wing, Gagged wing. Aye!
have IT now. Gagged within bars of bon
and under curtains Of flesh, bat one ia!
to be free. l hear the rustic of pinion
in Seagrave,s poem which We oftel
sing: -"...f Is
Rise my soul. and stretch thy wings.
beer the rustic OF piurons q Alexau
der PopeAs stBnza, wtnchsAYs:
MONT, fly;
ODeeth. where IS ch5 vhrnory7
a dying Christian not long ago cT1e'
out, Wings, wings, wings'7 The air
full of them, coming and going, oomin:
and going. You haveseen how the dull
sluggish chrysalid becomes the buigh
/, butterfly; the dull, and the stupid, AM
the lethargic turned limo the alert en'
the beautiful. Well, my friends, in thi
world we are in the chrystAhd state
Death viii unfurl the wings. On, II "
could only realise what grand thin
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