The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-07

You study IL In the architecture OF tho
Aholiabs and. Christopher Wrens DO
MT Ice dippant about God. DO not Joke
about death. Do not make fun of the
Bible DO not dcride the Eternal, The
brightest and mighticst seraph can not
look unabashcd upon Him. lnvolun-
tarily the wings come up. "With twain
he covered his face"
Who Is this God before whom the ar
rogant and intractnblc refuse reverence?
There was an engineer 10y the namc of
Strasicratcs who was In the employ of
Alexander the Great, and he offered To
hcw u mountain in the shape OF his
master, the emperor, the enormous fig
urc 20 hold in the left hand n city of
ten thousand inhabitants. while with
the right hand 10 was To hold basin
large enough 10 collect all the noun
tain torrents. Alexander applaudcd
him for his ingenuity, but forbade the
enterprise bccausc of its costlincss.
Yet have Ia tell you that our King
holds in one hand all the cities of the
earth and all the oceans, while lie has
the stars of Heaven for His tiara
Earthly powers go from hand to
TO hand. from Henry ]. to Henry i. and
Henry ILL.,, from Charles l. To Charles
H., from Louis /. TO Louis III. and Ill,
but from everlasting 20 everlasting is
God God the first, God the last, God
the only. lie has one telescope with
which lie sees every thing: His omnis-
cicncc. He has one bridge with which
lie crosses every thing: Ills omnipres-
cncc. lie has one hammer with which
lie builds every thing: His omnipotencc.
Put two tablcspoonfuls OF water in the
palm of your hand and II will overflow;
but Isaiah indicates that God puts the
| Atlantic and Pacific and the Arctic and
| the Antarctic and the Mediterranean
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. "lIc
holdcth 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. lie measures the dust of the
| earth, the original there indicating that
! God takes all the dust OF all the CONT
ncnts between His two fingers You
wrap around Your hand blue ribbon
five times, ten times. lou say it is five
breadths, or it is ten hand-brcadths
So, indicates the prophet, God winds
the blue ribbon Of the Sky around his
| hand "llc mctcth out the heavens
with span You know that balances
are made of IA beam suspended in the
middle with two basins ut the extremity
OF equal hcft In that way what vast
hcft has been weighed. But what are
all the balances of earthly manipula-
ton compared with the balances that
Isaiah SAW suspended when he saw God
putting into the scales the Alps and the
Appenpncs and Mount Washington and
the Sierra NcvadaS.
You see tho earth had to be hallastcd.
II would not do To have too much weight
i'm Europe, or too much weight in Asia,
or too much weight in Africa, or in
America: SO when God made the mount
aims lie weighed them. Tho Bible dis
tinctly says so. God knows the weight
of the great ranges that cross the con-
tincnt. the tons, the pounds avoirdu-
pois the ounces, the grains the mile
grammcs--iust how much they weighed
then, and how much they weigh now.
"Uo weighed the Imountains in scales
and the hills in balance" oh, what
God to run against; oh, what God 10
dsobcy; oh what God to dishonor; oh,
what God to defy, The brightest, the
mighticst angel takes no familiarity
with God. The wings Of reverence are
lifted, 'AVith twain he covered the
face"
Another scraphic posture in the text
The scraph must not always stand still.
He must move, and IL must Toe without
cumsincss. There must he celebrity and
beauty in the movement with twain
he did fly." Correction. cXhilaration.
; Correction at our slow gait, for we only
crawl in the service when we ought o.
ny ut the divine bidding. ENhilara-
ton In the fact that the soul has wings
rs the seraphs have wings, What is Il
: wing? An instrument Of locomotion.
They may not be like scrnphs wing,
they may not bc like birds wing, bit
the soul has wings. God says So. "lle
! shall mount up on wings rs eagles.
We are made in the divine image, and
r God has wings The Bible says 80.
Healing in Ills wings "Undcr whose
wings thou hast come Ia trust We
have folded wing now, wounded wing,
! broken wing, bleeding wing Gagged
wing. Aye! have IL now Gagged
l within bars of bone and under curtains
of flesh, but one day to bc free, hear
the rustic Of pinions In Scagrave's POI
: EN-, which we often sing
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