The Red Cloud chief., 1892-09-09

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God puts the Atlantic and the Pacific
and the Arctic and the Antarctic and
the Mcditerraueaa and the Black sea
and all the waters Of the earth In the
hollow Of his hand: the fingers the
beach on one side, the wrist the beach
on the other. 'He ho16efh the water
in the hollow of his hand"
As you take a pinch of salt OF powder
between your thumb and two fingers,
so Isaiah indicates God takes up tho
earth. He measures the dust OF the
earth, the original there indicating that
God takes oil the dust of all the con-
tiuents between the thumb and two fin
gers. You wrap around your hand q
blue ribbon five times, ten times. You
say IL is five hand breadths, or 1t Is ten
hand breadths. So, indicates the
prophet. God winds the blue ribbon OF
the sky around His hand. "Hc meteth
out the Heavens with a span" You
know that balances are made of q beam
suspended in the middle with two
basins mt the extremity of equal heft.
In that way what vast heft has been
weighed. But what are all the
balances Of earthly manipulation
compared with the balances that
Isaiah saw suspended when he
saw God putting into two scales
the Alps, aud the Apprentices, and Mount
Washington and the Sierra Nevadaa
You see the earth had to be bal,asted.
II would not do to have too much weight
In Europe, or too much weight in Asia,
or too much weight in Africa, or in
America; SO when Go made the mount
aims he weighed them. The Bible dis
tinctly says SO. God knows the weight
Of the great ranges that cross the
continents, the tons, the pounds avoir.
dupois. the ounces the grains, the mille~
| grammos-just how much they weighed
then and just how much they weigh
now. .He weighed the mountains in
scales and the hills in a balance" o,
what a God To run against; o, what u
God to disobcy; o, what n God to dis
honor; o, what n God to defy. b
brightest. the mightiest angel takes no
familiarity with God. The wings Of
reverence are lifted. with twain he
covered the face"
Another seraphic posture in the text.
The seraph must not always stand stu.
He must move. ana IL must BE- without
| clumsincss. There must be celebrity and
beauty in the movement. with twain
he did Nv" Correction, cxhilaration.
Correction ut our slow gait, for we only
crawl in the service when we ought to
fiy mt the divine bidding. EXhilaration
in the fact that the soul has wings as
the ser,phs have wings. What is u
wing? An instrument of locomotion.
They may not be like seraph's wings,
they may not be like birds wing, but
the soul has wings. God says so. "Hc
shall mount mp on wings as eagles"
We are made in the divine image. and
God has wings. The Bible says so.
"Healing in His wings" ''Under the
shadow of His wings" "Under whose
wings thou hast come to trust" We
have folded wing now, wounded wing,
broken wing, bleeding wing, Gagged
wing. Aye! / have it now. Gagged
within bars Of zone and under curtains
of flesh, but one day to be free. l hear
the rustic Of pinions in Seagrave's
poem which we often sing:
Rise. my soul, and stretch thy wings.
I hear the rustic of pinions in AleA-
ander Popc's stanza, which says:
mount, I iiy,
death. where Is thy ~victory'
a dying Christian not long ago cried
out, "Wings, wings, wings!' The air
is full of them, coming and going, COM
ing and going. You have seen how the
dali, sluggish chrysalid becomes the
bright butterfly; the dull and the stu
pid and the lethargic turned into the
alert and the beautiful. Well, my
friends. in this world we are In the
chrysalid state. Death will unfurl the
wings. O, if we could only realize
what "A grand thing it will be to get rid
of this old clod of the body and mount
the heavens, neither seagull nor lark
nor albatross. nor falcon, nor condor
pitching from highest range of Andes
so hnoyant or so ma jestic of stroke.
See that eagle in the mountain nest.
1t looks so sick, so ragged feathered, so
worn out and so half asleep. Is that
eagle dying? No. The or~nithologist
will tell you it IS molting season with
that bird. Not dying, but melting.
You see that Christian sick and weary
: and worn out ami seemingly about to
; expire on what is called his death bed.
|, The world SAWS lse is dying. l say it is
! the noting senson for his soul-the
; body dropping away, the celestial pin.
' ions coming on. Not dying, but moult-
Z ing. Melting out OF darkness and sin
and struggle into glory and into God.
, Whydo, you noa shout? Why do you
sit shivering at the thought of death
= and trying to hold back and wishing
you, could stay here forever, and
: speak OF departure ~ though thu
subject were hllesl with skeletons and
. the vaGnish of collins ms though you
prefcrrad lassu, foot To swift wing? q
: people, Of Cod, let MS stop playing the
fool and vreYoere for %rapturous flight,
When your ssu! stands on the verge OF
this life au5 there are vast precipices be-
Meath and sauphird domes above
which way will you fly? Will YOU
swoep' or Will you soar? VIII You fly
: down ward or will you fly upward'
g Everything an the wing this morning
: hiding us aspire. Holy Spirit on IN,
y wing. Angel OF the now covenant OF