The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-09-08
THE SERAPH'S WINGS.
Or. TALMAGE IN THE MANUFACTURE
ING TOWNS OF MIDDLE ENGLAND.

Seems to Be All Age of Irreverenco---
Fools Mako a Mock of Sin.
LONDON, Aug. 28.-Durlug the past
week DR.. Talmage has been preaching
10 enormous audiences in the great
n manufacturing towns of the English
midland counties. The sermon selected
Ter publication this week is on Isaiah
VI, 2, with twain he covered his face,
with twain he covered his feet, aud with
twain he did n.y."
In a hopital OF lcprosy good kinS W.
zlah had died and the whole land was
shadowed with solcmnlty, and theologi-
cal and prophetic Isaiah was thinking
about religious things, as one IS apt to
do in time of great national bereave-
ment, and forgetting the presence OF his
vile and two aOns, who made up his
family, he has a dream, not like the
creams of ordinary character which
generally come from indigestion, but a
vison most instructive and under the
touch of the hand Of the Almighty.
The place, the ancient temble; build
ing. grand, awful, majestic. Within
that temple throne higher and grand
II than that cccupie d by any car or sui
tan or emperor. On that throne, the
eternal Christ. In lines surrounding
that throne the brightest celes,ials, not
the cherubim, but higher than they; the
most eouisite and radiant of the heaven
ly inhabitants, the scIaphim. They are
called burners, they look like fire. LIPS
of lile, eyes of fire, feet of fire. In addi-
ton to the features and the limbs which
suggest n human being there are pinions
which suggest the lithest, the swiftcst,
the most buoYant and most inspiring Of
all intelligent creation-a bird. Each
seraph had siz wings, each two OF the
wings Tor different purpose. lsaiah's
cream ouivers and flashes with these
pinions. Now folded, now spread, now
beaten IN locomoton. "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 scraph
standing there near the throne, over
whelmed at the inslgnificance Of the
paths his feel had trodden as compared
with the paths troddeu by the teet Of
God, and with the lameness of his loco
motion, amounting almost TO decrepi-
tude as compared with the divine velocl-
ty, with teathery veil of angelic modesty
hides the feet. "With twain he did
cover the feet"
Standing there overpowercd by the
overwhelming splendors of Gods glory,
and unable longer with the eyes to look
upon them, and wishing those eyes
shaded from the insutterable glory, the
plDions gather over the countcnanCe.
with twain he did cover the face. Then
as God tells this seraph to go 10 the
iarthest outpost of I'M nensity on mes
sage Of light and love and JOY, ard get
back before the first anthem, 1t does not
take the seraph a, great while to spread
himself upon the air with unimagincd
celerlty, one stroke of the wing eq'ial to
ten thousand leagues of air. "With
twain he did fly"
Neither God nor scraph int,n'lcd TO
put any dshonor upon that whiChis one
oi the masterpieces Of Almighty God
the human foot. Psychologist and anato-
mist are overwhelmed at the wonders Of
its organization. The Bridgewater
Treatise" written by Sir Charles Bell,
on the wisdom and goodness of God rs
illustrated in the human hand, was re-
suit OF the $4,000 bequeathcd in the
last will and testament of the Earl of
Brldgewater for the encouragement Of
Christian literature. The world could
afford to forgive his eccentrjcities,
though he had two dogs seated at his
table, and though he put six dogs alone
in an equipage drawn by four horses and
attended by two iootmen. With his
large bcquest inducing Sir Charles Bed
TO write so valuable book on tho wis.
dom of God in the structure Of the hu-
man hand, the worldcould afford TO for
give his oddities.
- And He world could now afford to
have another Earl of Bridgewatcr, how
ever ldiosyncratic, if he would induce
some other Sir Charles Bell to write a
book on the wisdom and goodness OF
God in the construction OF the human
foot. The articulation Of it's bones, the
fabrication OF its joints, the gracctulncss
of lis lines, the ingenuity Of its cartll-
ages, the deliCacy OF its veins, the rapid
ity Of it's muscular contraction, the sem
sltiveness OF Its nerves. I sound the
praises of the human foot. With that
we halt or climb or march. 1t is the
foundation of the physical fabric. 1t is
the base of God poised column.
Give me the istOry of your foot, and
will give you the history of Your life
time. Tell me up what steps ii hath
gone, down what declivitles and IN what
roads and in what directionc, and l will
know more about you than l want to
know. None of us could endure the
scrutiny. Our feet not always in paths
of Goa. Sometimes in paths of worldli-
ness. Our feet, divine and glorious
machinery for usefulness and work, so
often making missteps, so often going in
The wrong direction God knowing
every step, the patriarch saying, "Thou
settest print On the heels OF my feet"
Crimes Of the hand, crimes of tile
tongue, crimes Of the eye, crimes Of The
tar not worse than the crimes OF the
loot. Oh, we want the wings of humili-
ty to cover the iee,! Ought we not to
20 into eelf abnegation before the all
scrutinizng, all trying eye Of God? The
seraphs do. How much more we.
with twain he covered the feet"
Another seraphic posture In the text,
with twain he covered the face"
That means reverence Godward. Never
so much irreverence abroad in the world
as today. You see it in the defaced |