Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-09-09

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terms, father and mother, "the old mqun
and ''the old woman" AMI finds nothing
impressive in the runs Of Baalbec or the
columns OF harn C. au SEES NJ diff rencs
IN the Sabbath fro II any o-uer days exceut
1t allows more dissipation. aud reads the
B'ole IN what is clllel higher criticism,
making 1t MT the Word ot TO l. Jut a good
book with som. fine things in it, Irrever-
ence never so mucl abroli. How MANY
take the nsms o GDI In vain, how many
trivial Things sal abInt thu Almighty
Not willing 10 navb col IN the uorlt
they roll uD An / lea OF sent mentality
and humanitarilnIsm AMI impu !ence
and imbac llty ami cal 1t Col No
wings OF reverence over tue lace no taking
nrna. But we want more reverence for
God. norA reverence for the sacramento,
more reverence Tor the Bible, more rever.
ence Tor the pure, more reverence for the
goo. Reverence a characteristic of all
great natures. You hear it in the roll Of
the master oratnrioS You see 1t in the
Rqphaels and Titians and Ghrandijos. You
stu iy It in the architecture of the Aholiabs
and Christopher Wrens. Do not be Hippant
about God. Do not joke about death Do
not make fun OF the Bible Do not deride
the Eternal. The brightest and mightisst
seraph cannot look unabashsd upon Him.
Involuntarily the wings come up. "With
tw ain he covered his face"
Another seraphic posture in the text. The
seraph must not always stand still. He
must move AMI 1t must be without clumsi-
ness. There must he celebrity and beauty in
the movement. WITH twain he did iy."
Correction. eIhiaration. Correction at our
SOW gait for we only crawl III the service
urensm or the universe. NO punishment
hereafter for any wrong done here.
The BibIe gives two descriptions OF Col
and they are just opposite, and they are
both true. In one place the Bible says God
islove. In another place the Bible says God
Is consuming fire. The explanation Is
plain as plain can be. God through Christ
Is love. God out OF Christ is fire. To win
the one an to escape the other we have only
TO thro ourselves, boty, mind ana soul In-
to Christs keeping. No" says lrrever-
ance, Il want no atonement, l want no par
don, | want no intervention; | will go up and
face God, and | will challenge Him, and
will defy Him, and will ask Him what he
wants TO do with me" So the finite con.
fronts the infinite, 30 a tack hammer tries 70
break thunderbolt, 50 the breath OF human
nostrils deties the everlasting God, while the
hierarchs OF heaven bow the head and bend
the knee as the Kings chariot goes by, and
tn, archangel turns away because he cannot
endure the splendor, and the chorus OF all
the empires Of heaven comes In with fuIl
diapason, "Holy hoy, holy!'
Reverence for sham, reverence for the old
merely because it is old, reverence for stu
pidity however learnsd, reverence for ln-
capacity. however finely inaugurated. have
Off of shoes on holy ground. You can tell
from the way they talk they could have
made better world than this, anl that the
God OF the Bible shocks every s'nse OF pro-
priety. They talk OF the love Of God in a
way that shows you they believe 1t does not
make any difference how bad man is here,
he will come in at 9 shining gate They
talk OF the love OF Col in such a way which
shows you they think it Is general Jail de-
livery for all the abandoned and the scoun-
when we ought to fly at the divine oiddlng.
Exhiaration in the fact that the soul has
wings as the seraphs hsve wings What is q
wlugi An instrument Of locomotion. They
may not be Ike seraph's wing, they may not
-, like birds wing, but the soul has wings
God says so. "He shall mount up on wings
as eagles We are made in the divine inn
age, an God has wings. The Bible says so.
Healing in His wings" "Under the shadow
Of His winga" Under whose wings thou
hast come to trust We have folded wing
now. wounded wing, broken wing. bleeding
wing, Gagged wing. Ayei l have 1t now.
Gagged within bars of bone and under cur
tsins OF hesh but one day 10 be free. hear
the rustic OF pnions in Seagraves poem,
which we often sing.
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings.
hear the rustic OF pinions in Alexander
Pops'S stsnzl which says.
Irnouut. hy;
Death, where Is thy vietoryf
A dying Christian not long ago cried out
"Winss, wings, wiugsF The air is full OF
them, coming and going, coming and going.
You have seen how the duh, sluggish chrysa-
lid becomes the bright butterfly; the dull,
"A la, et,, nd ha iafh har rrtC n rna1 lntn
the alert and the beautiful, Well, my friends
in this world we are In the chrysalid state.
Death will unfurl the wings. Oh, II we could
only realize what grand thing 1t will be to
get rid of the old clod Of a body and mount
the heavens, neither seagull nor lark nor
aibatross nor falcon nor condor pitching
from highest range Of Andes, so buoYant or
30 ma ajestic of stroke.
See that eagle in the mountain nest. 1t
looks so sick, so ragged feathered, 30 worn
out and so half asleep. Is that eagle dylngf
No, The ornithologist will tell You 1t 10
noting season with that bird. Not dying,
but noting You see that Christian SICK
and weary and worn out and seeming about
to expire on what Is called his deathbed.
The world says he Is dying. say 1t is the
molting season for his soul-the body
dropping away, the celestial pinions COM
ing on. Not dying, but molting. Melting
out Of darkness and sin and struggle into
| glory and into God. Why do you not shouts
| Why do YOU sit shlvering at the thought OF
death and trying to hold back and wishing
YOU could stay here forever, and speak OF
| departure as though the subject were hiled
with skeletons and the varnish OF cofnns,
and as though you preferred lame foot to
swift wing!
o people of God, let us stop playing tho
fool and prepare for rapturous flight. When
your soul stands on the verge OF this III and
| there are vast precipioss beneath aud sap
phired domes above, which way will you hyf
| WIN YOU swoop or will you soar. viii you
ay downward or will you fly upwards
Everything on the wing this morning bid
ding us aspire. Holy Spirit on the wing.
Angel OF the new covenant on the wing.
Time on the wing. flying away from US.
Eternity on the wing, flying toward u.s.
| Wings wings wlngsl
Live 30 near to Christ that when you are
dead people standing by your lifeless body
will not soliloquize, ssyingI what dis
snpointment life was to him; how averse he
was tu departure; what pity 1t was he hal
10 die. what an awful calamity" Rather
| standing there may they see sign more
vivid on your still face than the vestiges OF
,a.n. something that Will In1icats tnnL II
was a happy exit-the clearance from op
pressive quarantine, the cast OF chrysalid
the molting of the faded and useless and thu
ascent from malarial valleys to bright
shining mountain tops, and be led to say a
they stand there contemplating your humil
ity an your reverence In life and your hap
piness in death, with twain he covere
the feet, with twain he covered the face
with twain ne did hy." Wngsi Wings
Wingsl