Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-01
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
MANUFACTURING IN TOWNS
OF MIDDLE ENGLAND.
The Seraph Covered His Face Nheh 'Ae
Approachcd the Throne OF Gou-i ms
seems to BE an Age OF Irre'efehce-
Fools Make IL Mock OF Sin.
The Scraph Wings.

OF the English midland coutt'es. !"
Birmingham, in spite or the great siHo
OF the churches placed at his disposal
it was necessary to engage inc .o"n
hall, the spacious building IN "hich
John Bright delivered his famous
speeches to the electors, and even this
edfice would not contain half the peo-
plc who tried to get entrance. At Lei
cester. Cardiff and Swansea there was
tho same eagerness to hear him ana he
was received with unbounded cnthusl-
assn. The sermon selected for publlca"
ton this week is on Isaiah vi, 2. with
twain he covered his face, with twain he
covered his feet, and with twain he ana
tly."
In hospital OF lcprosy good King W.
Ziah had died and the whole land was
Swallowed with solemnity, and theo-
logical and prophetic Isaiah was think
ing about religious things, as one IS apt
to do In time of great national bereave-
mont and forgetting the presence or ms
wife and two sons, who made up his fam
ily, he has Il dream, not like tho dreams
of ordinary character which generally
come from indigestion, but II vision
most instructive and under tho touch or
the hand Of the Almighty.
The place. the ancient temple; build
ing, grand, awful, majestic. Within
that temple q throne higher and grander
than that occupied by any car or sultan
or emperor. On that throne the eternal
Christ In lines surrounding that throne
the brightest ccleStials, not the cheru-
BIN, but higher than they; the most eX-
quisite and radient Of the heavenly in
habitants, the seraphim. They are
called burners, because they look like
A. ,F Ern a
fire. In addition to the features and the
| limbs which suggest u human being
there are pinions which suggest the
| lithest, tho swiftest, the most buoyant
and most inspiring Of all intelligent
creation-a bird. Each seraph had six
| wings, each two OF the wings tor d
different purpose. Isaiah's dream quiv
ers ana 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, ana
with twain he did fly"
The probability is that these wings
were not all used at once. The seraph
standing there near tho throne, over
whelmed at tho insignticance OF the
paths his feet had trodden as com
pared with the paths trodden by the
feet Of God, and with the lamcness or
his locomotion, amounting almost to de-
crepitude rs compared with the divine
velocity, with fcathery veil OF angelic
modesty hides tho feet. ''With twain
He did cover tho 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 insutferablo glory, tho
pinions gather over the countenancc.
| with twain He did cover the face"
Then as God tells this seraph to go to
tho farthost outpost Of immensely on
message Of light and love and JOY, and
got back before the first anthem, it does
not take the seraph n great while 10
spread himself upon tho air with unim-
agined celebrity, one stroke of the wing
equal to 10000 leagues OF air. with
twain he did fly"
The most practical and useful lesson
| for you and me, when we see the seraph
| spreading his wings over tho feet, is a
| lesson OF humility at imperfection. The
| brightest angels Of God are so far be-
| meath God that He charges them with
| folly. The seraph SO far beneath God,
| and we so far beneath tho seraph in
| service, we ought to DO plunged in hui
mility, utter and complete. Our feet,
| vine service! Our feet, how many mis-
! steps they have taken! Our feet, in how
! many paths of worldliness and folly they
| have walked!
| Neither God nor scraph intended to
| put any dishonor upon that which is one
OF the masterpieces Of Almighty God
the human foot. Psychologist and an
| atomst are overwhelmed at the Won
| ders of it's organization. The Bridge
water Treatise" written by Sir Charles
Bell, on the wisdom and goodness of
| God as illustrated in tho human hand,
was n result Of tho $40, 900 beQueathed
in tho last will and testament of the
| Earl of Bridgewater for the encourage
| mcnt of Christian literature. The world
> could afford to forgive his eccentrictics,
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 footmen. With his
large bequest inducing Sir Charles Bell
| to write so valuable book on tho wis
dom OF God in the structure of the hu-
man hand, the world could afford to for
give his oddities.
And the world could now afford to
have another Earl of Bridgewatcr. how
ever idoSyncratic, if he would induce
some other Sir Charles Bell to write n
book on the wisdom and goodness Of
God in the construction of the human
foot. The articulation of its bones the
fabrication Of it's joints, tic gracefulness
of its lines, the ingenuity of it's cartil-
ages, the delicacy of its veins, the rapid
ity of its muscular contraction, the sem
| sitiveness of its nerves. / sound the
praise of the human foot With that We
halt or climb or march. 1t is the foun-
dation of the physical fabric. 1t is the
base of a God poised column. With it
the warrior braces himself for battle.
With it the orator plants himself for
eulogium. With it the toiler reaches his
work. With it the outraged stamps his
Indignation. It's loss an irreparable dis