Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-09-03
SERAPHIC WINGS.
DR.. TalmaCe Continues Ills Sermons
to Thousands in England.
An Intercstlng Discourse BASED Upon m
Unusual Text-Coverlng the Foot
steps With tho Wings of Time
-irrcverence RebulEed.


crowded houses in England. The SER
mon chosen for publication the current
week was from Isaiah V. q with
twain he covered his face, with twain
he covered his feet, and with twain he
did fly" The preacher said:
In u hospital of leprosy good King
Uzziah had died and the whole land was
Swallowed with solemnity, and theologi-
cal and prophetic Isaiah was thinking
about religious things, ms one is apt to
do in time of great national bereave-
mont, and, forgetting 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 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 throne higher and grander
than that occupied by any car or sui
tan 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
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 n human
being, there are pinions which suggest
the lithiest, the swiftest, the most buoy
ant and most inspiring of all intelligent
creation-a bird. Each seraph had six
wings, each two of the wings for diff
ferent purpose. Isaiah's dream quivcrs
and flashes with these pionions. Now
folded, now spread, now beaten in loco
motion. with twain he covered his
feet. with twain he covered his face,
A. and with twain he did fly."
The probability is that these wings
were not all used Mt once. The seraph
standing there near the throne. over
whelmcd 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 veloc-
ity, with feathery veil of angelic mod
esty hides his feet. with twain he
did cover the feet"
standing there overpowered by the
overwhelming splendors of Gods glory,
and unable with the eyes to look upon
them, and wishing those eyes shaded
from the insufferable glory, the pinions
gathered over the countenance, with
twain he did cover the face" Then, as
God tells his seraphs to go to the furthest
outpost of immensely on message OF
light and love and JOY, and get back be-
fore the first anthem, it does not take
the seraph great while to spread him
self upon the air with unimagined ce-
lerity, one stroke of the wing equal to
10000 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 imperfectiou. The
brightest angels of God are so far be-
meath God, and we so far beneath the
seraph in service we ought to be plunged
in humility, utter and complete. Our
feet, how laggard they have been in the
divine service! Our feet, how many
missteps they have taken. Our feet.
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 overwhelmed at the Won
ders of its organization. The Bridge
water Treatise written by Sir Charles
Bell, on the wisdom and goodness of
God as illustrated in the human hand,
was result of the $1,000 bequeathed
in the last will and testament of the
earl of Bridgewater for the encourage
ment 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
and attended by two footmen.
With his large bequest inducing Sir
Charles Bell to write so valuable
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structure of the human hand, the world
could now afford to forgive his oddities.
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 book
ON the wisdom and goodness of God in
the construction of the human foot
The articulation OF its bones, the lubri-
cation 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. / sound the praises
of the human foot With that we halt
or climb or march. It is the founda-
ton of the physical fabric. 1t is the
base Of God-poised column. With it
the warrior braces himself for battle.
TUf&h - 4ho orator plaufa himself for