The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-09-15

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in the Sabbath from any other days except
il allows more dissipation, and reads the
Rible in what is called higher criticism,
making il not the Word OF GOD. but gooi
book with some fine things in it. lrrever
encs never SO much abroad. How many
take the name Of God In VAIN, no" many
trivisi things said about the AlmignIy.
Not willing to have God In the "oTi1,
81, raIl m an idea OF sentimentallty
AMI humanitarianlsm ana linpudenGo
and imbsclit and call 1t Gol. No
wings of reverence over the race, no taAin
off OF shoes on holy ground. You eau zen
from the way they talk they could nave
made a better world than this, and that the
God of the Bible shocks every sense OF pro-
rriafv They talk OF the love OF TOD IN
- That shows YOU they believe it does not
r,al,a any differences now bad q man IS here,
he will come in at e shining gate. Iney
taIk OF the love OF God IN such way WHICH
shows you they think it Is a general Jal ue-
livery for all the abandoned and tne scolh-
J,sIiS7n ar the universe. No punishment
hereafter for any wrong done here.
me Bible gives two description OF doi,
and they ara lust opposite, and they are
both true. In one place tue Bib lie says 200
is love. In another place the BID le says uou
is a consuming fire. The exp lanation IS
plain as plain can be. uod uhrou5 u ~ Chl 'o'
IL love. God out OF CHRIST is fire. To win
the one and to escape the other we have only
Ia throw ourselves, body, mind AMI soul ln-
to Christs Keeping. NO." says lrrever-
anca 81 want no atouement, l want no par.
ION want no intervention; will go up anl
fac. God. and [ will challenge HIM, ana
viii DEFY Him, an1 [ will ask Him what he
wants to do with me-" 30 tue HniCe gu
fronts the infinite, so tack hammer tries 70
break a thunderbolt, so the breath OF human
no.triIs deies the everlasting Tod, whlIe tne
n,erarchs of heaven DOW the head and bend
the knee as the ktng's chariot goes op, anu
IN . arcnan eel turns away because ne canhoT
cnil1re the sDlenior, and tne cho rus OF an
the empires OF heaven comes IN WIN iun
dlaoason, "Hoiy, no y, holy"
Reverence or snaul. reverence lot uhe oiu
merely because it is old, reverence for stu
o, iity however learned, reverence Tor H.
capacjty. however finely inaugurated, nave
none 6ut we want more reverence Tor
God. mora reverence for the sacra nents,
more reverence tor the Bible, more reyer-
ence for the pure, more reverence Tor the
coof, Reverence characteristic OF all
great natures. You he IT it in the roll OF
Rlpnaels and Tltans an GhirlandU0s. You
stu w it in the architecture of the Aholaos
and Christopher Wrens. Do n OF be fiippan0
about God. Do not joke about death DO
not MAKE fun of the Bible. Do not deride
the Eternal. The brightest and might!est
seraph cannot look unabashei upon Hin.
Invountarilv the wings come up. with
tw ain he covered his face"
Another seraphic posture in tn text. The
seraph must not always stand still. He
must move an it must be witho ut clumsi-
ness. There must he celebrity and beauty IN
the movement. with tw ain he did fly"
Correction. exhilaration. Correction at our
SLOW gait, for we only crawl IN the service
when we on INT 20 dg at tbs divine blddi ng.
81. f..,+ = hat fna
wings as the seraOhs have wings. w mat is a
wing? An instrument of loconotion. They
NAV not be ii ie seraphs wing, they may not
be ike birds VIM but the soul has wings
God saws so. ''de snail mount up on wings
as eagles" We are IN lde in tae divine I'M
age, an Col has wings: The Bible says SO.
''Healing in His WINS" "Un ier the shadow
of His wings" "Unier whose wings thou
hast come to trust We have folde wing
now, wounded wing, broken wing. bleeding
wing. caged wing. Aye.l | have II now.
Gagged within bars of bone and under cur
talns of flesh, but one day to be free. hear
the rustic of pnions in Seagraves poem,
which we often sing:
Rise, my soul and stretch thy wings.
Ihear the rustic of pinions in Alexander
Pope's stauzl, which says.
mourt. hg;
y Death, where is thy victory!
A diving Christian not long ago cried out,
''Wings, wings, wingsP The air Is full OF
them, coming and going, coming and gong.
Y on have seen how the dull, sluggish chrysa-
lid becomes the bright butterfly; the dull,
and the stupid, and the lethargic turned into
the alert and the beautiful. Well, my friends.
in this world we are in the chrysalit state.
Death wi unfurl the wings. Oh, II we could
only realize what grant thing it will be to
get rid OF the old clod of body and mount
the heavens. neither seagull nor lark nor
albatross nor falcon nor con1or pitching
from highestr range or Andes, so buoYant or
SO majestic of stroke.
See that eagle in the mountain nest. 1t
looks so sick, 50 ragged feathered, so worn
out and so half asleep. Is that eagle dying!
No, The ornithologist will tell You it is
Noting season with that bird. Not dying.
but mo ting. You see that Christian SICK
ami weary and worn out and seeming about
to expire on what is called his deathoed.
The world SAYS ne is dying. say it IS the
noting season Tor his sou.-the body
dropping away the celestial pinions com
ing on. Not Tying, but Noting. Noting
out OF darkness and SIN and struggle into
glory and into God. Why do YOU not shout?
Why do you sit shivering at the thought OF
death ami trying to hold back and wishing
YOU could stay here forever, and speak of
departure rs though the subject were filled
with skeletons and the varnish of collins,
and as though you preferred lame foot to
swift wing?
. people of God, let us stop playing the
fool ana pre- are tor rapturous flight. When
your soul stands on the verge of this Ii 9 ani
there are vast pr-cipices beneath and sap
pnirei dOmes ABOVE, wnich way will you fly.
WIN you swoop or will you soarl Will you
fly downward or will you fly upwardi
Everything on the wing this morning bid
ding US ASPIRE. Holy Spirit on the wing.
Angel of the new covenant on the wing.
Time on the wing, flying away from US.
Eternity on the wing, flying toward us.
Wings wings, wings!
Live so near to Christ that when you are
dead people standing by your lifeless body
Will not soliloqulze, saying: NV hat dis
appointment life was to him; how ayerse he
was to departure; what pity it was he had
to die; what an awful calamity" Rather
standing there may they see a sign more
vivid on your still face than the vesti ses OF
pain, some ming that will indicate that it
was a happy exit-the clearance fro OPP
pressive quarantine, the cast off chrysalid,
the Noting OF tine faded and Useless and the
ascent from malariai valleys to bright,
shining mountain tops, and ne led to say as
they stand there contemplating your humll-
ity ami your reverence IN life and your nap
piness in death, with twain he covered
the feet, with twain he covered the face,
with twain ne did hy." Wingsl Wings
Wingsl