The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-09-23

HAnean, and the Black SeA ard al tne
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, sc
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 continents between
the thumb and two fingers. 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 the prophet, God winds the blue
ribbon of the sky around his hand. He
meteth out the heavens with a SPAN"
You know that balances are made Of
a beam suspended 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
balances that Isaiah saw suspended
when he saw God putting into the scales
the Alps, and the ApennineS, and Mount
Washington, and the Sierra Nevadas?
You see the earth had to be baIlasted.
1t would not do TO have TOO much weight
in Europe, or too much weight in Asia,
or too much weight in Africa or in
America: SO when God made the mount
aims He weighed them. The Bible dis
tinctly says SO.
God knows the weight Of the great
ranges that cross the continents-the
tons, the pounds avoirdupoiS, the ounces,
hn bn
much they weighed then and just how
the mountains in scales and the hills in
a balance Oh, what a God to run
against: oh, what God to disobey: oh,
what God to dishonor: oh, what a God
to defy! 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 it must be without
clumsiness. There must be celebrity and
beauty in the movement. :With twain
he did flv." Correction. exhilaration.
Correction at our slow gait. for we only
crawl IN the service when we ought to
fly at the divine bidding. Exhilaration
in the fact that the soul has wings as the
seraphs have wings. What is wing?
An instrument of locomotion. They may
not be like seraph's wing, they may not
be 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 image. and God has wings.
The Bible says so. Healing in His
wings" Under the shadow of His
wings" Under whose wings thou hast
come to trust" We have folded wing
now, wounded wing broken wing. bleed
ing wing. Gagged wing. Aye. l 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:
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings.
hear the rustic of pinions in Alexan-
der Pope's stanZa, which says:
1 mount, fly.
o Death, where is thy victory?
A dying Christian long ago cried out,
''Wings. wings, Wings The air is full
of them, coming and going. coming and
going. You have seen how the dull,
sluggish chrysaid becomes the bright
butterfly; the dull and the stupid and the
lethargic turn into the alert and the
beautiful. Well. my friends, in this
world We are in a chrysalid state. Death
will unfuri the wings. Oh, if we could
only realize what grand thing it will
be TO get rid of this old cIod Of the body
and mount the heavens, neither seaguil
nor lark nor albatroSS nor falcon nor con-
dor pitching from highest range of An
des so bnoyant or so majestic Of stroke.
See that eagle in the mountain nest
1t looks so sick, so ragged feathered so
worn out and so half asleep. Is that
eagle diving? No. The ornithologist
will tell you it is Noting season with
that bird. Not dying, but melting. You
see that Christian sick and weary
and worn out and seeming about to ex-
pire on what is called his deathbed. The
world says he is dying. l say it is the
rnolling season tor his soul-the body
dropping away, the celestial pinions
coming on. Not dying, but moltlng.
Noting out of darkness and sin and
struggle into glory and into God. Why
90 you not shout? Why do you sit shiv.
ering 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 filled with skel-
etonS and the varnish of collins, and as
though you preferred lame foot to swift
wing?
people Of God. let us stop playing
the fool and prepare forrapturous flight
When your soul stands on the verge of
this life, and there are vast precipices
beneath, and sapphired domes above
which way will you fly? Will you swoop
or will you soar? Will you fly down
ward or will you fly upward? Every
thing 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 US.
Eternity on the wing, flying toward Us.
Wings. wings. wings.
Live so near TO Christ that when you
are dead people standing bv Your life
less tody will not soliloquize. saying.
What disappointment life was to hm:
how averSe he was TO departure: what .
pity it was he had to die: what an awful
calamity" Rather standing there NAV
they see sign more vivid on YOUR still
face than the veStiges of pain. something
that will indicate that it was happy
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