Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-29
THE sERAPH's WINGS.
DR.. TALMAeE IN THE MANUFACTURE
ING TOWNS OF MIDDLE ENGLAND.

The seraph Covered His Face When He
Approached the Throne of ood--This
Seems to BE an Age Of Irreverence.
Fools Make Mock OF Sin.
LONDON, Aug 2S.-During the past week
DR.. Talmage has been preaching to enor-
NOUS audiences in the great manufacture
ing towns of the English midland coun-
ties. In Birmingham, In spite Of the great
size of the churches placed at his disposal,
It was necessary to engage the town hall,
the spacious building in which John Bright
delivered his famous speeches to the elect
ors, and even this edince would not con-
tain half the people who tried to get en-
trance. At Leicester, Cardiff and Swan
sea there was the same eagerness to hear
him and he was received with unbounded
enthusiasm. The sermon selected for pub
location this week is on Isaiah vi, 2, with
twain he covered his face, with twain he
covered his feet, and with twain he did fly"
/. In a hospital of leprosy good King Uz-
xiah had died and the whole land was
shadowed with solemnity, and theological
and prophetic Isaiah was thinking about
religious things, as one is apt to do in time
HItHb nhtlOuht DtfCStNcuChub ahh ioA 6SV
ting 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 vision most instructive and under
the touch Of the hand Of the Almighty.
The place, the ancient temple; building,
grand, awful, majestic. Within that tenn
pie 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 bright
est celestiAls, not the cherubim, but higher
thar they; the 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 buoyant and most in
spring Of all intelligent creation--a bird.
Each seraph had six wings, each two of
the wings for different purpose. Isaiah's
dream quivers and flashes with these pin
IONS Now folded, now spread, now beaten
in locomotion. with twain he covered
his feet, with twain he covered his face,
and with twain he did fly"
GODS SWIFT MESSENGERS.
The probability is that these wings were
not all used at once. The seraph standing
there near the throne, overwhelmed at the
insignihcance of the paths his feet had
trodden as compared with the paths trodden
by the feet of God, and with the lameness
OF his locomotion, amounting almost to
decrepitude as compared with the divine
velocity, with feathery veil of angelic mod
egty hides the feet. with twain he did
cover the feet"
Standing there overpowered by the over
matching 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 countenance. with twain he
did cover the face. Then as God tells this
eeraph to go to the farthest outpost of i'm
mensity on message of light and love and
ioy, and get back before the first anthem,
IL does not take the seraph great while
70 spread himself upon the air with unim-
agined 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 seraph
spreading his wings over the feet, Is les
son of humility at imperfection. The
brightest angels Of God are so far beneath
God that he charges them with folly. The
seraph 10 far beneath God. and we 30 far
beneath the seraph in service, we ought to
beplunged in humility, utter and complete
Our feet, how laggard they have been In
the divine service Our feet, how many
missteps they have takenl Our feet, In
how many paths of worldliness and folly
they have Walked
Neither God nor seraph intended to put
any dishonor upon that which is one of the
masterpieces Of Almighty God-the human
foot Psychologist and anatomist are over
whslnled ut the wonders Of its organi
Kation.A The "Bridgewater Treatise, " writ
ten by Sir Charles Bell, on the wisdom AND
goodness of God as illustrated In the
human hand, was a result of the $40,0Ol
beuueathed In the last will and testament
Of the Earl of Bridgewater for the en-
couragement of Christian literature The
world could afford to forgive his eccen
tricities, though he had two dogs seated al
his table, and though he put ak dogs alone
In an equipage drawn by four horses anc
attended by two footmen. With his larg'
beouest inducing Sir Charles Bell to WRIT
20 valuable book on the wisdom of Goo
In the structure of the human hand, tn,
world could afford to forgive his oddities
THE BRlDGEwATER TREATIsEs.
And the world could now afford to hav,
another Earl of Bridgewater, howeve
idioayncratic, If he would induce SOM
other Sir Charles Bell to write book OF
the wisdom and goodness OF God IN tn
construction of the human foot The ar
ticulation OF It's bones, the fabrication o
fts Joints, the gracefulness of its lines, tn
Ingenuity of its cartilages, the dellcacy o
its veins, the rapidity of Ats muscular con
traction, the senstivencss OF its nerves
I sound the praises of the human foot
With that we halt or climb or march. j
IN the foundation of the physical fabric
It In the base of n God poised column
With It the warrior braces himself TO
battle. With 1t the orator plants himsel
for eulo1ium. With il the toiler reache
his work. With it the outraged stamp
his indignation. Its loss an irreparabl
disaster. Its health AN invaluable equiv
ment. II you want to know its value as
the man whose foot paralysis hath shriN
eled. or machinery hath crushed, or SUI
reon's knife hath amputated. The Bib
honors It. Especial care, Lest thou das
thy foot against stones" he Will DC
suffer thy foot to be moved;' thy fec
shall not stumble" Especial charg
.sKeep thy foot when thou goest to th
house Of God.n Especial peril, THE
feat shall slide IN due time" Connecte
with the worlds dissolution, HE shall 81
ons foot on the sea and the other on I'll
earth"
Give me the history on your foot. ana
will give you the history of your ifetim
Tall me up what steps it hath gone, dow
a.otlx,,t{aS and In what roads and