Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-09-02
THE USE OF WINGS.
TALMSOE STILL PREACHING TO
THE ENGLISH.
Large and Enthusiastic Audiences Greet
Him EFerywhere-seraphi Pastures
from tho Word of Divine Inspira-
tIon.

week Dr. Talmage has been preaching TO
enormous audiences in the great manufacture
Ing towns OF the English Midland counties.
In Birmingham in spite of the great size of the
churches placed ut his disposal II was neces-
sary 10 engage the Town hall, the spacious
building 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
hear him and he was received with unbounded
enthusiasm. The sermon selected for publica-
tion this week is on Isaiah 9: 2 with twain
he covered his face; with twain he covered his
feet; and with twain he did fy.'
In hospital of leprosy good King
Uzziah 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 forgetting the pres
ence of his wife and two sons, who
made up his family, he has dream,
not like the dreams of ordinary char
acter which generally come from
indigestion, but a vision most in.
structive, and under tie touch of the
hand of the Almighty.
ing, grand, awful, majestic Within
that temple a throne higher and
grander than that occupied by any
Car or Sultan or Emperor. On that
throne, the eternal Christ. In lipeA
surrounding that throne the brightest
celestials, 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. I'm addition TO
the features and the limbs which sug-
| gest a human being, 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 n different purpose.
Isaiah's dream quivers and flashes with
these piI 'ons. Now folded, now spread,
now beaNin in locomotion. "With twain
he covered his feet, with twain he cover
ed his face, and with twain he did fly"
The probability is that these wings
were not all uced at once. The seraph
standing there near the throne, over
whelmed at the insignificance 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 decrepi-
tude 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 God 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
countenaucc. ''With twain he did
cover the face. Then as God tells this
seraph to go to the furthest outpost OF
immensely on messages 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 unimagined celebrity
one stroke of the wing equal to ter
thousand leagues of air. with twain
he did fly"
The most practical and useful lesson
for you and me-when we see the
seraph spreading his wings over the
feet, is lesson of humility at imper
lection. The brightest angels of God
are so far beneath God that he charges
them with folly.
Neither God nor seraph intended tc
put any dishonor upon that which is
one of the masterpieces of almighty
God-the human foot. Psychologist
and anatomist are overwhelmed at the
wonders of its organization. The
Bridgewater Treatise, written by Sin
Charles Bell, on the wisdom and good.
ness of God as illustrated in the hu.
man hand, was a result of the $40, DOC
bequeathed in the the last will and
testament of the Earl of Bridgwater for
the encouragement of Christian liter.
ature. The world could afford to for
give 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 and at.
tended by two footmen. With his
large bequest inducing Sir Charles
Dell 10 WrlUe 80 VdludD lc II DOCK on the
wisdome of God in the structure of the
human hand, the world could afford to
forgive his oddities. And the world
could now afford to have another Earl
of Bridgewater, however idiosyncratic,
II he would induce some other Sir
Charles Bell to write a book on the
wisdom and goodness of God in the
construction of the human foot. The
articulation of its bones, the lubrica-
ton of its joints, the gracefulness of its
lines, the ingenuity of its cartilages,
the delicacy of its veins, the rapidity OF
its muscular contraction, the sensitive
ness of its nerves. i sound the praises
of the human foot. With that we halt
or climb or march. 1t is the foundation
of the physical fabric. II is the base OF
a God-poised column. With IL the war
rior braces himself for battle. With IL
the orator plants himself for eulogium.
With IL the toiler reaches his
work. With it the outraged stamps
his idignation. It's loss an irreparable
disaster. It's health an invaluable
equipment. IL you want to know its