The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1892-09-08

~ ~ 0e - ~ 10y 8fV0nu. xou can Tell
mads better World thaa thiS aSd Siist Itt tsss
God Of the Bible shocks every sense OF MO:
priety. They talk OF the love OF God "a =
wsl that shows % you they believe IL doe NOT
40 win cdnie In % th5 shining gate. Tbsy
talk Of the love Of God In such Z Way Nf4A
shows you they think Il u . general jaii de-
Hs6sa 81 u sns So uSS7ssss uiSS7sSsSs;s"sa Ns ts
The Bible gives two descriptions OF God,
sa 1S are In ss pss Sssess ss s. sSS ssy & s
islove. In another place the Bible says God
Is q consuming fire: The explanation 10
plain as plain can be: God through Christ
is love. God out OF Christ Is hre. To win
70 t6row y ourselves, 6ody, MIND ana soul 10 :
to Cbrist's keeping. s.No,n says Irrever
ance, VI want no atonsmsnt, ] want no par.
face God, and will challenge Him; and I
will defy Him, and will ask Him what He
wants TO do with me-" So the anite con.
fronts the infinite, 50 a tack hammer tries to
break a thunderbolt, so the breath OF human
hierarchs OF heaven bow the head and bend
the knee as the Kings chariot goes by, and
tn archangel turns away because he annop
endure the splendor. and che chorus Of all
diapason; "Holy; holy, holyp
Reverence for snnm: reverancs for tho old
merely because it is old. reverence for stat:
pidity however learned, reverence for in
SsBPs sSPssitY wtns finely
God; mdre reverence for the sacraments,
moro reverence for the Bible; more reve-.
ence for the pure, more reverence for the
gooJ. Reverence q characteristic Of all
great natures. You herr It in the roll df
Raphaels and Titlans an Ghirianditos. Yoa
study it in the architecture Of the Aholiabs
and Christopher Wrens. Do not be fippant
about God. Do not joke about death Do
aSs sSs q the s1Ss R rot
seraph cahnot look unabashsd Upon Him.
1nvoluntarily the wings come up. "With
twain he covered his face"
Another ssraphic postur, in tn Q tsxt. The
seraph must not always stani still. He
must move aud it must ba witho ut clumsi-
ness. There must be celebrity aud beauty in
the movement. "Witu twain he did fly :"
SOW gait, for weonly crawl In the servics
when we ought to hy at the diyius biddi ng.
wings as the seraphs have wiags. What is q
wing' An instrument Of loconotiou. They
may not be like seraph's wing. they may mob
be like birds wing, but the soul has wings.
as eagles. We are made in the = divine ss iSs
Esans % n Hs ss a "uner ns the sSssao% sU
of His wings" Under whose wings thou
hast come to trust We have foldei wing
wing, Gagged wing. Aye! have it now.
Gagged within bars Of bone and under cur
tains Of flesh, but one day to be free. hear
the rustic OF p'nions In Seagraves poem,
which we often sing: -
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings,
Ihear tho rustic Of pInions in Alexander
Pope's stauzt, which says.
Imouat. Inc:
A dying Christian not long ago cried out,
"Wings, wings, wingsp The air Ia 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 urned into
the alert and the beautiful. Well, my friends.
in this world we are I'm the chrysalid state
Oath wi unfurl the wings. Oh, II we could
only realizs what gran thing 1t will be to
the heavens, neither seagui nor lark nor
albatross nor falcon nor con ior pitching
from highest range OF Andes, SO buoyant or
so jestic of stroke
See that eagle in the mountain nest It
ost snS SO Ss
No, Tho ornithologist will tell You 1t Is
moiting season with that bird. Not dying,
but noting You see that Christian sick
and weary and worn out and seeming about
" CApto oH "udO ~ Cotleu us ue6CnpeO.
The world says he is dying. I say it is the
Noting season for his soul-the body
ing 5n Not ayiug % but bGfs'fssft moftnsin ein'0HR HoR%s
out of darkness and sin and struggle into
glory and into God Why do you not shout,
Why do you sit shivering at the thought Of
death and trying to hold back and wishing
you could stay hare forever, and speak OF
departure as though the subject were filled
with skeletons and the varnsh Of collins,
and as though you preferred lame foot to
swift wing?
fool and prepare for rapturous aight. When
your soui stands on the verge Of this life and
there are vast precipicss beneath and sap
phired domes above, which way will you ayr
Will you swoop or will you soar VIII you
fly downward or will you fly upwards
Every ything on the wing this morning bid
ding us aspire. Holy Spirit on the wing.
Time on the wing. flying away from us
Eternity on the wiag, flying toward us.
Wings, wings, wingsi
Live SO near to Christ that when YOU are
dead people standing by your Mfeless body
will not soliloquize, saying: "What dis.
was to departure; what pity 1t was he had
to die; what an awful calamity" Rather
standing there may they see q sign more
vivid on YOUR still face than the vesti9es Of
pain, something that will indicate that It
was q happy exit-the clearance from op.
pressive quarantine, the cast of chrysalfd,
the molting of the faded aud useless and the
ascent from malarial valleys to bright,
shining mountain tops and be led to say as
they stand there contemplating your humil-
ity and your reverence in life and your hap
piness In death, with twain he covered
the feet, with twain he covered the face
with twain he did hy." Wingst WinRsi