Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-09-17

fiBS XIX osb p+iAR 49,
impressive in the ruins of 6aaloec or ire
columns OF karn.c, an sees NJ DIN -renco
III the SABBATH tr3ai any other LAYS except
IT allows mare dissipation. and reads the
Bible in what Is called higher criuc1sm.
making IL not the Wori Of God. but a good
book with some fine things IN IT,. irrever-
enc4 never 50 mucn abroad. How many
take the name Of Col in vain, how many
trivial thing sail about tbs Almighty.
Not willing to have Col IN the world,
they roll 10 an iiea o, seotimentaity
and humanItaranlsrn ana lmpudence
and imbec lity and call 1t God. NO
wings OF reverence over the face. no taking
off O; shoes on holy ground. You can tell
from the way they talk they could have
made a better world than this, and that the
God OF the Bible shocks every sense OF pro-
nr.ety. They talk o. the love OF God IN q
way that shows Eou they believe it does not
make any Il ference Low bal q nan s here,
he vii! come IN az g SHINING gate. iney
talk Of the love Of Col III SUN a way which
shows you they think IL Is a general JAN de-
nr els or tns universe. 40 punrsamen5
hereafter for any wrong done here.
The Bible gives two descriptions OF God,
and they ara Just opposit-, and they ara
10th true. In on. place tIe Bible says GOD
,s love. In another piac- the Bible says Lod
is a consuming fire. Tho explanation Is
plan a. plain can lie. God through CHRIS.
IS love- bO1 Our Oh CUTisL IL Hc. L " WIN
the che an To escape the other we have only
10 tnrU" ourselves, Dolly, mind and soui 10
10 Christ's keeping. NO." says lrrever
aucr. ii want no atonement, l want no par
Gon, i want no interventiou; / Will go up and
face God, and | Will challenge Him, and l
VIII defy Hln, ana | will ask Him what Hs
wants TO do with me" so the finite con.
fronts the intnlt-, 50 u tack hammer tries 70
break "A thunderb0lt, 50 the breath OF human
nostrils deles the everlasting poi, While the
h.erarchs OF heaven DO the head and BEND
the knee as the Kings chariot goes Dy, and
TIA, arcnang gel turns away because he C anuot
endure the s%pientor. and the chorus OF all
the empires OF heaven cones In with FULL
llapason, HOY, holy. holy"
Reverence tor 7nam. reverence for the old
mercy because 1t Is oil, reverence Tor stu
putty however learnei, reverence 10: ln-
capacity. however finely lnaueurated, | have
none. Hut we want more reverence for
God, more reverence for the a~cranents.
more reverence for the Bible, more rever-
ence for the pure. more reverence for the
goo. Reverence a characteristic OF all
great natures. You hear it in the roll Of
the master oratorios. You SEQ it in the
Rapnaeis and Titan an Ghiriandijos. You
study it in the architecture OF the AhollaDs
and christopher Wrens. Do not be fippant
about God. Do not joke about death Do
not make fun OF the Bible. Do not deride
the Eternal. The brightest aud mightiest
seraph cannot look unabashed upon Him.
lnvOiuntarIly the wings cone up. IVY lth
twain he covered his FACE
Another s-raonic posture in the text. The
seraph must not always stand still. He
must move ami 1t must be witho ut clumsi-
ness. There must be CELEBRITY aud beauty IN
the movement. with twain he did hy :"
Correction. exhilaration. Correction at our
SOW gait, 10. we only crawl III the service
when we ought TO ay at the divine b;1di ng.
Exhilaration in the fact that toe soul has
wings as the seraphs have Wings. What is a
wing? An instrument of loconotion. They
may not be like seraph's wing. they NAV not
be like birds wing, but the soul has win IS.
God avs so. he shall mount up on wings
as eagles" We are made in tne divine inn
age, an God has wings. The Bible says SO.
.'Healinc IN His win Is" "Un Ter the shadow
of His wing "Unler whose wings thou
hast come To trust We have foidet win ,
now, wounded VIM, broken VIM. blee ling
wing, Gagged wing. Ave, | have it now.
Gagged within bars OF bone and under cur
tains OF flesh, but one day to be free. l hear
the rustic OF Unions III Seagrave's poem,
which we often sing:
Rise, ny .oai. and stretch th7 wings.
hear the rustic of pinions in Alexander
Pope's stauZs. which saws.
Imount. | fly:
Death, where is thy vic.ory.
Adying Christian not long ago cried out,
"Wings, wings, Wings The cir is full OF
them, coming and going, coming and going.
You have seen how the dull, sluggish chrysa-
lid becomes the bright butterfly; the dull,
and the stupid, and the lethargic turned into
the alert and the beautiful. Well. my friends.
III this world we are in the cnrysalid state.
oath wi unfurl the wings. Oh, If we could
only realize what a gran thing It will be to
get rid OF the old clod Of a body and mount
the heavens. neither seagull nor LARK nor
albatross nor falcon nor conior pitching
from highest range o. Andes, so buoyant or
: so ma sstic OF stroke.
See that eagle in the mountain nest. 1t
looks SO sick. SO ragged feathered. SO worn
No, The ornithologist will tell You It Is
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 it is the
molting season tor his soui-the body
dropping away. the celestial piuions com
ing on. Not dying, but melting. Noting
out or darkness aud SIN and struggle into
glory and into God Why do you not Shout
Why do you sit sh!vering at the thought OF
death an irving to hold back and wishing
YOU could STAY acre forever, and speak of
departure as though the subject were filled
with skeletons ami the varnish of cOfdus,
and as though you preferred lame foot to
swift wing.
q peopl. OF God, let us stop playing the
focl ana pre-; are Tor rapturous fight. When
YOUR soul stands on the verge OF this life and
there are vast precipiceS beneath and sap
phired dones above, winch way will you fly:
Will sou swoop or viii You soar Will you
ny downward or Will you fly upward!
kvery thing on the w.nS this morning bid
ding US aspire. HOLY Spirit on the wing.
Angel OF the new clveIant on the wing.
Time on the wing, dying away from us.
Eternity on the wig, flying toward US.
Wings, wings, wings!
Live So near TO Christ that when you are
dead people standing by your lifeless body
viii not ~solloqulZe. saying: What a dis
appointment life was 10 him: how averse be
was to Departure; what a pity it was he hat
10 die: what an awful calamity Rather
standing there may tney ses a sign more
vour still face thaa the ~vesti-es OF
pain. something that Will IniIcate that IL
was a happy exlt-.he clearance from op
prts>lve utrantlus, the cast off chrysalid
the tlo!tius OF the Ia iei AMI useless and the
q cent from malaria valleys TO bright
SHINING mountain tops. and te led to say a:
they land there contemplating your nunil-
ltv an i your reverence IN life AM your hap
p,ness in death. With twain he coverec
the feet, with twain he covered the face
with twain he did hy.n Wing, Wings
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