News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-09-01
TALMAGE IN EUROPE.
IMMENSE CONGREGATIONS IN BlR-
MINGHAM, AND OTHER PLACES.

with Folly.
LONDON, Aug. 2S.-During the past
week DIR. Talmage has been preaching
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, it was necessary to en-
gage the town hall, the spacious build
inc in which John Bright delivered hiG
famous speeches to the electors, and
even this edifice would not contain halt
the people who tried to get entrance. AT
Leicester. Cardiff and Swansea there
was the same eageTness to hear him, and
he was received with unbounded en-
thusiasm. The sermon selected for pub
LEGATION this week is ON Isaiah vi, 2,
with twain he covered his face, with
twain he cove"-I his feet, and with
twain he did f &"
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 bereave-
ment, and forgetting the presence of his
wife and two sons, who made up his
family, he had dream, not like the
dreams of ordinary character, which
generally come from indigestion, but q
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 a throne higher and grand
er than that occupied by any car OF
sultan or emperor. On that throne the
eternal Christ. In lines surrounding
that throne the brightest celestials, not
the cherubim, but higher than they; the
most exquisite and radiant of the heav-
enly 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 suggest the
lithest, the swiftest, the most buoyant
and most inspiring of all intelligent
creation-a bird. Each seraph had six
wings, each two of the wings for a diff
ferent purpose. Isaiah's dream quivers
and flashes with these pinions. 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 proba bility is that these wings
were not all used at once. The seraph
standing there near the throne over
whelmed at the insignifcance of the
paths his feet had trodden as compared
with the paths trodden by the feet Of
God, and with the lameness of his loco
motion amounting almost to decrepitude-
as compared with the divine velocity,
with feathery 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 insufferable glory, the
pinions gather over the countenanoe.
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 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 a
lesson Of humility at imperfection. The
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 we ought to be plunged in humility.
utter and complete. Our feet, how lag
gard they have been in the divine servicel
Our feet, how many missteps they have
takenl Our feet, in how many paths of
worldhnes5 and folly they have walked
Neither God nor seraph intended to
put any dishonor upon that which is one
of the masterpieces of Almighty God
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 III the human hand, was a
result of the SAC, 900 bequeathed in 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
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With his large bequest inducing Sir
Charles Bell to write so valuable book
ON the wisdom of God in the structure
of the human hand, the world could af-
ford to forgive his oddities. And The
world could now afford to have another
Earl of Bridgewater, however idiosyn-
cratic, if he would induce some other
Sir Charles BeH to write book on the
wisdom and goodness of God in the con-
struction of the human foot-the ar
ticulation of It's bones, the fabrication of
its joints, the gracefulness of its lines,
the ingenuity of its cartilages, the deli
cacy of its veins, the. rapidity of its mus
cular contraction, the sensitiyeness of
its nerves.
sound the praises of the human foot.
With that we halt or climb or march.
1T is the foundation of the physical
fabric. 1t is the base of a God poised
column. With it the warrior braces
himself for battle. With it the orator
plants himself for eulogium. With it
the toiler reaches his work With it
the outraged stamps his Indignation.
Its loss an irreparable disaster. Its
n, III
want to know its value. ask the man
whose foot paralysis hath shriveled,
DR. machinery hath crushed, or sur
geon's knife hath amputated. The
Bible honors it. Especial care, ''Lest
thou dash thy foot against a stone;" "he
will not suffer thy foot to be moved"
''thy feet shall not stumble" Especial
charge, Keep thy foot when thou
goest to the house of God" Especial
time" Connected with the worlds dis
solution, HE shall set one foot ON the
sea and the other ON the earth"
Give me the history of your foot and
will give you the history of your life
time. Tell me up what steps it hath
gone, down what declivities, and in
what roads and in what directions, and
/ will know more about you than
want to know. None of us could endure
the scrutiny. Our feet not always in
paths of God. Sometimes in paths of
worldliness. Our feet, divine and
glorious machinery for usefulness and
work, SO often making missteps, SO often
going in the wrong direction. God
knowing every step, the patriarch say
ing, "Thou settest print on the heels of
my feet" Grimes Of the hand, crimes