The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-07

cial peril. Their feet shall slide In
due time" Connected with the worlds
dissolution: "llc 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 II hath
gone, down what dcclivities and in
what roads and In what directions, and
| will know more about you than |
want To know. None OF MS could en-
durc the scrutiny. Our feet not n
WAYS I'm paths of God. Sometimes in
paths Of worldlincss Our feet, n di-
vine and glorious machinery for useful
ness and work, so often making mis-
steps, so often going in the wrong direc-
ton. God knowing every step, the pa
triarch saying: Thou settest II print
on the heads Of my feet" Crimes OF the
hand, crimes OF the tongue, crimes Of
the eye, crimes of the ear not worse
than the crimes of the foot. OH we
want the wings of humility To cover the
! feet. Ought we not To go into sclf-ab-
ncgation before the all-scarching, all
scrutinizing, all-trying eye of God?
! The seraphs do. How much more we
|
| All this talk about the dignity of
human nature Is brnggadicio and Il sin.
Our nature started at the hand of God
regal. but II has been pauperized There
Is IA we'll in Belgium which once had
very pure water, and IL was stoutly
! masoncd with stone and brick; but that
well aftcrward became the center OF
| the battle of Waterloo. At the opening
| OF the battle the soldiers with their
sabcrs compelled the gardener, William
| Won kylsom, To draw water out of the
we'll for them, and il was very pure
water. But the battle ragged and three
hundred dead and half dead were flung
into the well for quick and easy burial;
So that the well of rcfreshment became
the well of death, and long after, people
looked down into the well, and they
saw the blcachcd skulls but no water.
SO the human soul was well of good,
but the armies OF sin have tonight
around it, and fought across 1t and been
slain, and it has become n well of
skeletons. Dead hopes, dead rcsolu-
tions, dead opportunities, dead
ambitions. An abandoned we'll unless
Christ shall reopen and purify and fill
it as the we'll of Belgium never was
Unclcan, unclcan!
Another scrnphic posture in the text:
with twain he covered the face" That
means reverence Godward Never so
much reverence abroad in the world as
to-day. You see IL in the defacod stat
uary. in the cutting out of figures from
the fine paintings, in the chipping of
monuments for n mcmento, in the fact
that military guard must stand ut the
graves of Grant and Garfield, and that
old shade trees must bc cut down for fire.
wood. though fifty George i. Morriscs
beg the woodmcn to spare the tree, and
that calls n corpse n cadavcr, and thar
speaks OF death as going over TO the
ma jority, and substitutes for the rev
crcnd terms, father and mother, "thc
old man" and 1.-The old woman,' and
finds nothing impressive in the ruins OF
Baalbcc or the columns of l<arnnc and
see no difference in the sabbath from
other DAYS except il allows more dissi
patton, and reads the Bible in what Is
called higher criticism, making II not
the word Of God, but good book viii
some fine things in il. lrrcvcrcnc'
never so much abroad. How many take
the name of God in vain. How many
trivial things said about the Almighty
Not willing To have God in the world
they roll up an idea Of scntimcntality
and humanitarinnism and impudcnco
, and imbccility and call IL God.
: No wings of reverence over the face,
, no taking of shoes on holy ground. ior
| can tell from the way they talk they
. could have made better world thar
this, and that the God of the Bibl,
Z shocks every sense of propricty. They
A talk OF the love of God in such a way
e that shows you they believe il does no
make any difference how bad man /
4 here he will come In at the shining
T. gate. They talk of the love of God n
= such way which shows YOU they thinl
Il it is general Jail delivery for all The
h abandoned and the scoundrclism of tn
Il universe, No punishment hereafter 70
n any wrong done here
/. The Bible gives two descriptions q
q God, and they are just opposite, an'
q they are both true. In one place tn
n Bible says God is love, In anothe
n place the Bible says God is a consuming
q fire. The explanation Is as plain II
" plain can be- God through Christ 1
= love. God out OF Christ Is fire. To vii
g the one and escape the other we hay
- only 10 throw ourselves body, min,
a and soul-into Christ's keeping, mo,
II says irrcvercncc, IL want no atoncmcnt
II | want no pardon, | want no interycn
: ton, ] will 90 up and face God, and