Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-09-15
THE SERAPH'S WING
DR.. TACnAGE IN THE MANUFACTURE
ING TOWNS OF MIDDLE ENGLAND.

The Seraph Covered His Face When III
Approached the. Throne of God-Thi
Seems to BE an Age of Irreverence
Fools Make Mock Of Sin.
LONDON, Aug. 28-During the past week
DR.. Talmage has been preaching to enor
nous audiences in the great manufactur
ing towns OF the English midland coun
ties. In Birmingham, in spite of tile great
size of the churches placed at his disposal
it was necessary TO engage the town hall
the spacious building in which John Bright
delivered his famous speeches to the elect
ors. and even this edifice would not con
tain half the people who tried to get en-
trance. At Leicester, Cardiff and Swan
sea there was the same eagerness to heaI
him and he was received with unbOundeo
enthusiasm. The sermon selected for pub
lication this week is on Isaiah vi 2, "With
twain he covered his face, with twain be
covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
In ahospital of leprosy good King U
ziah had died and the whole land was
Swallowed with solemnity, and theological
and prophetic Isaiah was thinking about
religious things, as one is apt TO do in time
/ Of great national bereavement, and forget
| ting the presence of his wife and two sons
who made up his family, he has dream
! not like 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 building
1 grand, awful. majestic. Within that TEN
/ pie throne higher and grander than that
occupied by any car or sultan or emperor.
/ On that throne, the eternal. Christ. In
lines surrounding that throne the bright
est celeSlialS. not the cherubim, but higher
than they; the most exquisite and radiant
Of the heavenly 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 "A human being there
are pinous which suggest the lithest, the
swifte,t, the most buoyant and most IN
spring of all intelligent creation-a bird.
Each seraph had six wings, each TWO of
the wings for different purpose. isaiah's
dream quiycrs and flashes with these pin
ions Now folded, now spread, now beaten
in locomolion. with twain he covered
his feet, with twain he covered his face,
and with twain he did fly"
GODS SWIFT MESSENGERS.
The probability is that these wings were
not all used at once. The seraph standing
there near the throne, overwhelmed at the
insignifcauce Of the paths his feet had
trodden as compared with the paths trodden
by the feet Of God, and with the lameness
Of his locomotion, amounting almost tuI
decrepitude rs compared with the divine
velocity with feathery veil of angelic mod
esty hides the feet. with twain he did
cover the feet"
Standing there oyerpowered by the over
matching srleadors Of Gods glory and
unable longer with the eyes to look upon
them, and wishing those eyes shaded from
the insufierable glory, the pinions gather
over the countenanee. With twain he
did cover the face. Then as God tells this
seraph to 20 to the farthest outpost Of inn
mensity on message Of light and love and
Joy. and get back before the first anthem,
it does not take the seraph a 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 hy"
The most practical and useful lesson for
YOU and me, when we see the seraph
spreading his wings over the feet, is les
son Of humility at imperfection The
brightest angels Of God are SO far beneath
God that he charges them with folly The
seraph 50 far beneath God, and we so far
beneath the seraph in service, we ought toI
be plunged in humility, utter and complete.
Our feet, how laggard they have been in
tile divine servicel Our feet. how many
missteps they have takenl Our feet in
how many paths Of worldliness 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 anatomist are over
whelmed at the wonders of its orgaui-
cation The "Bridgewater Treatise, writ
ten by Sir Charles Bell, on the wisdom and
goodness Of God as illustrated in the
human hand. was result of the S40,001
hequeathed in the last will and testament
OF the Earl Of Bridgcwater for the en-
couragement Of Christian literature. The
world could afford TO forgive his eccen-
tricties, though he had two dogs seated AT
his table, and though lac put six dogs alone
in an equipage drawn by four horses AMI
attended by two footmen. With his large
beuuest inducing Sir Charles Bell TO write
so valuable a book on the wisdom of God
in the structure of the human hand, the
world could afford to forgive his oddities.
THE nRIDGEwATER TREATIsFs.
And the world could now afford to have
another Earl Of Bridgewater, however
idiosyncratic, If he would induce some
other Sir Charles Bell to write a book on
the wisdom and goodness of God ia the
construction Of the human foot. The ar
ticulation of its bones, the fabrication OF
its joints. the gracefulness of its lines. the
ingenuity OF its cartridges, the delicacy of
its veins. the rapidity of its muscular con
traction, the sensitiveness of its nerves
sound the praises Of the human foot.
With that we halt or climb or march, Ii
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 il the toiler reaches
his work With it the outraged stamps
his Indignation. Its loss an irreparabe
disaster. It's health an Invaluable equip
ment If you want to know its value ask
,.,at, Va hose foot roralveiG hath cb,.i.--