Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-09-15

the sky around his hand. q

the heavens with a span"
You know that balances are made OF J
beam suspended in the middle with two
basins at the extremity Of equal beft IN
that way what vast heft has been weighed
But what are all the balances Of earthly
manipulation compared with the bal
ances that Isaiah saw suspended when
he saw God putting into the scales the
Alps, and the Apennines. and Mount
Washington. and the Sierra Neyadasf
You see the earth had to be ballasted. II
would nos do to have too much weight ~
Europe. or 700 much weight in Asia, or toe
much weight in Africa or in America; SO
when God made the mountains he weighed
them. The Bible distinctly says 50.
God knows the weight Of the great ranges
that cross the cOntinents-the tons, the
pounds avoirdupois the ounces, the grains,
the miiligranls-just how much they
weighed then and just how much they
weigh now ale weighed the mountains
in scales and the hills in a balance On,
what a God to run against: Oh, what
God to dis0bey; oh, what God TO dis.
honor: oh, what "A God to defyl The bright
est, the mightest angel takes nofamiliarity
with God The wings of reverence are
lifted with twain he covered the face.
THE Use or WINGS.
Another seraphic posture in the text.
The seraph must not always stand stili.
He aust move, and il must be without
clnmsiaess. There must be celebrity and
beauty in the movement with twain
he did fly Correction, eNhila"aiion.
Correction at our slow gait, for we only
crawl "a tie service when we onght 70
hy at the divine bidding. Exhilaraiion
in the fact that the soul has wings as the
seri,phs have wings What is wingy
An Instrument Of locomotion They may
not be like seraph's wing, they may not
be like birds wing, bat the soul has
wings. God says So "He shall mount
no on wing, As ea..les.r We are made in
the divine image, and God has wings. The
Bible says so. Healing IN his wings.
"Uuder the shadow Of his wings. I'm
der whose wings thou hast come TO trust.
We have folded wing now, wounded wing,
broken wing, bleeding wing, Gagged wing.
Aye, / have it now. Gagged within bars
of bone and under curtains Of flesh, but
one day to be free. hear the rustic Of
pinions in Seagrave's poem which We
often sing
Elsc, ny SOU. and stretch thy wings.
hear the rustic of pinions in Alexander
Pope's stanza, which says:
Imount. | ay.
ODcglh. where IS thy victory?
a dying Christian not long ago cried out,
"Wings. wings, wingsw The air is full Of
them, coming and going, coming and 90
ing. You have seen how the dull, slug
gish chrysalid becomes the bright butter.
Is. the duh and the stupid and the leth-
argic turn into the alert and the beautiful
Well. ms friends. in this world we are in
a chrysalid state Death will unfurl tie
wings. Oh, if we could only realize what
a grand thing il will be to get rid Of this
old clod Of the body and mount the
heavens neither sragull nor lark nor alba
tross nor falcon nor condor pitching from
highest range Of Andes so buoyant or 30
majestic Of stroke.
sTRu0aLE TOWARD oOD.
See that eagle IN the mountain nest. II
looks SO sick, so ragged feathered, so worn
out and 80 half asleep. sthat eagle dying
No The oraithologist will tell you 1t Is
Noting season with that bird Not dy-
ing. but noting You see that Christian
sick and weary and worn out and seeming
about to'expire ON what is called his death
bed The world says he is dying say
it is the molting season for his soul-the
bOtly dropping away, the celestial pinions
coming on. Not dying, but melting. Molt-
Ing out Of darkness and sin aud struggle
into glory aud into God. Why do you not
shoutg Why do you sit shivering at the
thought of death and trying to hold back
and wishing you could stay here forever,
and speak OF departure as though the sub
iect were filled with skeletons and the
varnsh Of collins, and as though you pre-.
ferred lame foot TO swift wings
o people Of Cod. let MS stop playing the
fool and prepare for rapturous light.
When your soul stands on the verge OF
this life, and there are vast precipices be-
meath, and sapphired domes above. which
way will you nys VIII you swoop or will
YOU SCARF Will You fly downward or win
you fly upwardf Everything on the wing
this morning bidding us aspire Holy
Spirit on the wing Angel OF the new
covenant on the wing. Time ON the wing.
flying away from u.s. Eternity on the
wing. flying toward us. Wings, wings.
wingsl
Live so near to Christ that when you are
dead people standing by your liteless body
will not soliloquize, saying, What dis
appointment iAe WstS 70 nun, INV aNclSc
he was todepartuire; what a pity it was be
had TO die; what an awful calamity"
Rather standing there may they see sign
more vivid ON your still face than the YES
tiges of pain, something that will indicate
that it was a happy exit-the clearance
from oppressive quarantine, the castoff
chrysalid, the molting of the faded and
useless and the ascent from m.larial
valleys to bright, shining mountain tops.
and be led to say, as they stand there con
templating your humility and your rever-
ence in lie and your happiness in death.
with twain he covered the feet. with
twain be covered the face, with twain he
did fly Wings Wingsl Wingsi