The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-09-14
DIVINE ATTRIBUTES.
Rev. Talmage Explains the Bibli-
cal Descriptions of God.
There Are Two, and They Are Opposite and
Both True-God Is Love in One Place
and in the Other He Is
Consuming Fire.

feet, and with twain he did fly"
In hospital of leprosy good King
Uzziah had died, and the whole land
was Swallowed 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 car
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 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 serapl
standing there near the throne over
whelmed at the insignificance of the
paths his feet had trodden as compared
with the paths trodden by the feet o.
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 die
cover his feet"
Standing there overpowered by the
overwhelming splendors of Gods glory
and unable longer with the eyes to looh
upon them, and wishing those eyes
shaded from the insufferable glory, the
pinions gather over the countenance
with twain He did cover the face. ,
Then as God tells this seraph to go tc
the furthest outpost of immensely or
message of light and love and joy, and
get back before the first anthem i
does not take the seraph great whilC
to spread himself upon the air with un
imagined celebrity, one stroke of the
wing equal to ten thousand leagues o
air. with twain He did fly"
The most practical and useful lessor
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 ia
beneath God that He charges them witt
folly. The seraphs so far beneath God
and we so far beneath the seraph il
service we ought to be plunged in hu
mility, utter and complete. Our feet
how laggard they have been in the di
vine service! Our feet, how many mis-
steps they have taken. Our feet, in hoy
many paths of worldliness and foil,
they have walked!
| Neither God nor seraph intended t
put any dishonor upon that which i
one of the masterpieces of Almight
God-the human foot. Psychologist
and anatomists are overwhelmed at tn
wonder of its organization. The Bridge
water Treatise, written by Sir Charlie
Bell, on the wisdom and goodness O
God illustrated in the human hand, wa
a result of the $40, 900 bequeathed in tn
last will and testament of the Earl O
Bridgewater for the encouragement O
Christian literature The world coul
afford to forgive his eccentricities
though he had two dogs seated at hi
table, and though he put six dogs in a
equipage 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 odd
ties. And the world could now afor
to have another Earl of Bridgewatel
however, idiosyncratic, if he would il
duce some other Sir Charles Bell t
write book on the wisdom and good
ness of God in the construction of TIL
human foot The articulation of il
bones, the fabrication of its joints, tn
yracefulness of its lines, the ingenuit
of it's cartridges, the delicacy of il
veins, the rapidity of its muscular cor
traction, the sensitiveness of its nerve.
/ sound the praises of the human foo
With that we halt or climb or march
1t is the foundation of the physical fal
ric. 1t is the base of God-poised CO
umn. With it the warrior braces hin
self for battle. With it the oratc
plants himself for eulogium. With
the toiler reaches his work. With
the outraged stamps his indignation
Its loss an irreparable disaster. II
health an invaluable equipment ]
you want to know its value ask til
man whose foot paralysis hath shrivele
or machinery hath crushed, or surgeon
knife hath amputated. The Bible hol
ors it. Especial care: Lest thou das
thy foot against stone;" ''he will NJ
suffer that foot to be moved" "thy fe,
shall not stumble" Especial chargt
keep thy foot when thou goest int
the house of God" Especial peri
Thy feet shall slide in due time" Coz
uected with the worlds dissolution
He shall set one foot on the sea an