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glorious machinery for usefulness and
often going In the wrong direction,
God knowing every step; the patriarch
saying. ''Thou settest n print on the
heels of my feet" Crimes of the hand,
crimes of the tongue, crimes of the eye,
crimes of the ear not worse than the
crimes of the foot. o, we want the
wings Of humility to cover the feet.
Ought we not to go into self abneQation
before the all searching, all scrutiniz-
ing, all trying eye of God? The scraphs
do. How much more we. "With twain
he covered the feet"
All this talk about the dignity Of hu.
man nature is braggadocio and a sin.
Our nature started at the hand of God
regal, but IL has been pauperized.
There Is q well in Belgium which once
had very pure water, and 1t was s%toutly
masoned with stone and brick; but
that well afterward became the center
of the battle Of Waterloo. AZ the open
ing of the battle the soldiers with their
sabrcs compelled the gardener, William
Won Kylsom, TO draw water out of the
well for them, and it was very pure
water. But the battle ragged, and three
hundred dead and half dead were flung
into the well for quick and easy burial;
so that the we'll of refreshment became
the wen of death, and long after, peo-
pie looked down into the well, and they
saw the bleached skulls but no water.
So the human soul was a well of good,
but the armies of sin have fought
| avx.,1 "a nrI f..IA ,,.n.. - upI lA,a
slain, and it has become q well of skele-
tons. Dead hopes, dead resolutions,
dead opportunities, dead ambitions
An abandoned well unless Christ shall
reopen and purify and fill 1t us the well
OF Belgium II v was. Unclcan, I'M
clean!
Another scraphic posture in the text:
"With twain he covered the face"
That means reverence Godward. Never
SO much irrcvercnce abroad in the
world as to-day. You see 1t in the de-
faced %statuary, in the cutting out Of
figures from fine paintings, in the chip
ping OF monuments for "a memento, In
the fact that military guard must stand
at the grave of Grant and Garfield and
that old shade trees must be cut down
for firewood, though fifty George 7.
Morrises beg the woodmen to spare the
tree, and that calls a corpse n cadaver,
and that speaks of death as going over
to the majority, and substitutes for the
r%everent terms, father and mother,
''the old man. and ''the old woman"
and finds nothing impressive in the
ruins of Baalbee or the columns OF
Karnac, and see no difference IN the
Sabbath from other days except 1t
allows more dissipation and reads the
Bible in what Is called higher
criticism, making 1t not the Word
OF God, but a good book with some fine
things in it. Irreverence never
SO much abroad. How many take the
name Of God in vain, how many trivial
things said about the Almighty. Not
willing to have God in the world, they
roll up an idea of s~entimentality, and
Reconsideration, and impudcnce, and
imbecility. and call it God. No wings
, Of reverence over the face, no taking OIL
Of shoes on holy ground. You n tell
from the way they talk they could have
, made q better world than this. and tina,
/ the God Of the Bible shocks every sense
of propriety. They talk Of the love OF
God in "a way hat shows You they be-
: lieve 1t does not make any difference
how bad a man is here, he will come IN
l at the shining gate. They talk OF the
love of God in such n way which shows
you they think it is a general Jail deliv
cry for all the abandoned and tbs
sc~oundrclism Of the universe. No pun
ishment hereafter for any wrong don'
here.
D The Bible gives us two descriptions o
S God, and they are just opposite, ant
v they are both true. In one place thu
1 Bible says God is love. In anOthe
place the Rible says God is a consuming
fire. The explanation is Us plain u
s plain can be. God through Christ i
Z love. God out of Christ Is fire. To viii
the one and to escape the other we hav'
4 only to throw ourselves, body, nin'
e and soul into Christ's keeping. "No,
saws hreverence, II want 10 stonement
4 l want no pardon, I want no interven
ton; I will go up and face God, and
$ will challenge Him, and ! will def.
c Him, and I will ask Him what He want
$ TO do with me-" SO the finite confront
the infinite, so n tack hammer tries I
r Drelk IL InuIiutTDoib, So tN &S"'h "
a human nostrils defes the everlasting
G God, while the hierarchs of Heaven boy
. the head and bend the knees rs tn
: Kings chariot goes by, and h arch
g angel turns away because he cannot CT
r. dure the splendor, and the chorus Of M
.e the empires OF Heaven comes in wit
k full diapason, ''holy, holy, holy!'
N Reverence for the sham, reverence &c
I. the old merely because ID Is old, revei
encc for stupidity however Learned
IF reverence for ~incapacity however tincl
inauguratcd, ] have none- But "
want more reverence Tor God, more re-
E. erence for the s~acrnmerts, more revel
IS ence for the Bible, more reverence Il
IL the pure, more reverence fcw The 600
Who Is this God before whom the II
ne rogant and intrnctabae refuse reve
IL cnce? There was ua ineer by -
g. name Of StrasicrateS who was in Il
Or employ of Alexander the Great, and !
cs offered 10 hew a mocntaiz an the shat