The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-31

pIAbC DCouuuO Va ASn SOeSAAASSsS' -
Ihave to tell you that our King holds
In one hand all the cities OF the earth,
and all the oceans, while He has the
stars Of heaven for his tiara
Earthly power goes from hand TO
hand, from Henry I. to Henry II. and
Henry I'LL, from Charles /. to
Charles IL, from Louis l. to Louis
II. and Louis I'LL, but from
everlasting to everlasting is God.
God the first, God the last, God the
only. He has one telescope with which
he sees everything omniscience.
He has one bridge with which he
crosses everything-his omnipresence.
He has one hammer with which he
builds everything-his omnipotence.
Put two tablespoonfuls of water in the
palm of your hand and it will overflow;
but Isaiah indicates that God puts the
Atlantic and the Pacific and the Arctic
and the Antarctic and the Mediter-
ranean and the Black Sea and all the
waters of the earth in the hollow OF his
hand. The fingers the beach on one
side, the wrist the beach on the other.
HE holdeth the water In the hollow OF
His hand"
As you take pinch of salt or powder
between your thumb and two. fingers,
so Isaiah indicates God takes up the
earth. He measures the dust of the
earth, the original there indicating that
God takes all the dust of all the conti-
nents between the thumb and two fin
gers. You wrap around your hand
blue ribbon five times, ten times. You
say it is five hand-breadths, or it is ten
hand-breadths. So, indicates Ghe
prophet, God winds the blue ribbon OF
the sky around his hand. "He meteth
out the heavens with SPAN" You know
that balances are made Of beam sus-
pended in the middle with two basins
at the extremity Of equal heft 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 Apprentices and Mount Wash
ington and the Sierra Nevadas. You
see the earth had TO be ballasted. 1t
would not do TO have too much weight
| in Europe, or too much weight in
Asia, or too much weight in Africa, OF
in America, so when God made the
! mountains he weighed them. The Bible
distinctly says So God knows the
weight of the great ranges that cross
the continents, the tons, the pounds
avoirdupois, the ounces, the grains, the
millegrammes-just how much they
weighed then, just how much they
weigh now. "He weighed the noun
tains in scales and the hills in bal
ance." o, what God to run against;
oh, what God to disobey; oh, what a
God to dishonor; oh, what God to
defyl The brightest, the mightiest angel
takes no familiarity with God. The
wings Of reverence are lifted with
twain he covered the face"
Another seraphic posture in the text.
The seraph must not always stand
still. He must move, and 1t must be
without clumsiness There must be
celebrity and beauty in the movement
"With twain did he fy." Correction,
exhilaration. Correction at our slow
gait, for we only crawl in the service
when we ought TO fly at the divine bid
ding Exhilaration in the fact that the
soul has wings as the seraphs have
wings. What Is wing? An instru
ment of locomotion. They may not b
like seraph's wing, they may not b
like the birds wing, but the soul hai
wings God says so. "He shal
mount up on wings as eagles.
We are made in the divine i'm
age, and God has wings The Bi
BILE says so. Healing In His wings.
"Under whose wings thou hast come Il
trust" We have folded wing now
wounded wing broken wing, bleeding
wing, Gagged wing. Aye! l have 4
now. Gagged within bars Of bone ant
under curtains OF flesh, but one day Il
be free. hear the rustic Of pinions Ii
Seagrave's poem, which we often sing
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy winga
near the rustic Of pinions In Alexan
der Pope's stanza, which says;
mount, ny,
odeath. where ia thy victoryi
A dying Christian not long ago crie'
out, "Wings, wings, wingsP' The al
IA full OF them, coming and going, com
ing and going You have seen how tn
dull, sluggish chrysalid becomes tn
bright butterfly; the dull and the stupi'
and the lethargic turned into the aler
and the beautiful. Well, my friends
In this world we are in the chrysali
state. Death will unfurl the wings
Oh, II we could only realize what
, grand thing It will be to get rid Of thi
old clod OF the body and mount tn
, heavens, neither seagull nor lark no
, albatross, nor falcon, nor condor pitch
, ing from highest ranges Of Andes 8
buoyant or 80 majestic Of stroke.
See that eagle in the mountain nest
/ II looks so sick, so ragged-feathered, S
wornout and so half asleep. Is tina
eagle dying? No. The ornithologis
will tell you II is moulting season wit
, that bird. Not dying, but moultine
see that Christian sick and weary an,
wornout and seeming about to expir
/ on what is called his deathbet
, The world says he is dying.
; say II Is the moulting season fc
his soul-the body dropping away
a the celestial pinions coming on. Nc
dying, but moulting. Moulting out {
/. darkness and sin and struggle int
1 glory and into God. Why do you nc
' shout? Why do you sit shivering at Ii