The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-31
DIVINE ATTRIBUTES.
Hev. Talmage Explains the Bibh-
cal Descriptions Of God
There Are Two, and Thcy Arc Opposite and
Both True-God II Love in Ono Place
and In the Other He ID
Consuming Fire.

whore he was received with great en-
thusiasm. The sermon for this week Is
on Isaiah vi, Q. with twain he COW
cred his face; with twain he covered his
feet and with twain he did fly"
In hospital Of leprosy good King
Uzziah had died, and the whole land
was shadowed with solemnity, and the
illogical and prophetic Isaiah was think
ing about religious things, as one is apt
to do in time of great national bereave-
ment, and forgetting the presence OF
his wife and two sons, who made up
his family, he has dream, not like the
dreams Of ordinary character which
generally come from indigestion, but a
vision most instructive, and under the
touch Of the hand Of the Almighty.
The place, the ancient temple; build
ing, grand, awful, majestic. Within
that temple a throne higher and
grander than that occupied by any czar
or sultan or emperor. On that throne,
the eternal Christ In lines surround
ing that throne the brightest celestials,
not the cherubim, but higher than
they, most exquisite and radiant of the
heavenly inhabitants; the seraphim.
They are called burners because they
look like fire. Lips of fire, eyes Of fire,
feet of fire. In addition to the features
and the limbs which suggest a human
being, there are pinions which suggest
the lithest, the swiftest, the most buoy
ant and most inspiring of all intelligent
creation-a bird. Such seraph had six
wings, each two of the wings for diff
ferent purpose. Isaiah's dream quivers
and flashes with these pinions Now
folded, now spread, now beaten in loco
motion. "With twain he covered his
feet, with twain he covered his face,
and with twain he did fly"
The probability is that these wings
were not all used at once. The seraph
standing there near the throne over
whelmed at the insignifcance of the
paths his feet had trodden as compared
with the paths trodden by the feet of
God, and with the lameness of his loco
motion amounting almost to decrepi-
tude as compared with the divine veloc-
ity, with feathery veil Of angelic mod
esty hides the feet. "With twain He did
cover his feet"
Standing there overpowered by the
overmatching splendors Of Gods glory,
and unable longer with the eyes to look
upon them, and wishing those eyes
shaded from the insufferable glory, the
pinions gather over the countcnance.
"With twain He did cover the face"
Then as God tells this seraph to 90 to
the furthcst outpost of immensity on
message Of light and love and Joy, and
fet back before the first anthem, 1t
does not take the seraph great while
TO spread himself upon the air with un-
imagined CELEBRITY, one stroke OF the
wing equal to ten thousand leagues of
air. "With twain He did fly"
The most practical and useful lesson
for you and me-when we see the ser
aph spreading his wings over the feet
is lesson Of humility at imperfection
The brightest angels Of God are so far
beneath God that He charges them with
folly. The seraphs so far beneath God,
and we so far beneath the soraph In
service we ought to be plunged In hui
mility, utter and complete. Our feet,
how laggard they have been In the d.
vine servicel Our feet, how many mis-.
steps they have taken. Our feet, In how
many paths Of worldliness and folly
they have walledl .
Neither God nor seraph intended t
put any dishonor upon that which Is
one of the masterpieces OF Almighty
God-the human foot Psychologist
and anatomists are overwhelmed at the
wonder ofits organization. The Bridge
water Treatise, written by Sir Charles
Bell, on the wisdom and goodness o.
God illustrated In the human hand, was
a result OF the $40. 900 bequeathed In the
last will and testament Of the Earl o.
Bridgewater for the encouragement o.
Christian literature. The world coulC
afford to forgive his eccentricities
though he had two dogs seated Mt hi
table, and though he put six dogs In al
eoruipage drawn by four horses and at
tended by two footmen. With hi
large bequest inducing Sir Charlie
Bell TO write so valuable
book on the wisdom Of God in tn
structure OF the human hand, tn
world could afford to forgive his oddi
ties And the world could now aior'
TO have another Earl Of Bridgewater
however, idiosyncratic, II he would In
duce some other Sir Charles Bell b
write a book on the wisdom and good
ness Of God In the construction OF tn
human foot. The articulation Of II
bones, the fabrication Of It's Joints, tn
gracefulness Of It's lines, the ingenuit.
of It's cartilages, the delicacy Of II
veins, the rapidity of It's muscular cor
Traction, the sensitiYeness Of It's nerve,
/ sound the praises of the human foot
With that we halt or climb or march
Il Is the foundation Of the physical fat
ric. IL is the base Of God-poised Co
umn. With IL the warrior braces him
self for battle. With II the orato
plants himself for eulogium. With
the toiler reaches his work With
the outraged stamps his indignation
It's loss an irreparable disaster. II
health an invaluable equipment
you want 10 know It's value ask th
man whose foot paralysis hath shrivele
or machinery hath crushed, or surgeon
knife hath amputated The Bible hoi
ors IL Especial care: Lest thou das
thy foot against stone," "he will nt
suffer that foot to be movedi' "thy fe'
shall not stumble" Especial charg'
'.Keep thy foot when thou goest int