The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-09-14


stars of heaven for his tiara.
Earthly power goes from hand to
hand, from Henry |. to Henry H. and
Henry ILL.,, from Charles |. to
Charles H., from Louis |. to Louis
II. and Louis H., but from
everlasting to everlasting is God.
God the first, God the last, God the
only. He has one telescope with which
he sees everything-his omniscience.
He has one bridge with which he
crosses evcrything-his omnipresence.
He has one hammer with which he
builds everything-his omnipotence.
Put two tablespoonfuls of water in the
palm of your hand and it will overflow;
but Isaiah indicates that God puts the
Atlantic and the Pacific and the Arctic
and the Antarctic and the Mediter-
ranean 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 holdeth the water in the hollow of
His hand"
AS you take pinch of salt or powder
between your thumb and two fingers,
so Isaiah indicates God takes up the
earth. He measures the dust of the
earth, the original there indicating that
God takes all the dust of all the CONT
nents between the thumb and two fin
gers. You wrap around your hand a
blue ribbon five times, ten times. You
say it is five hand-breadths, or it is ten
hand breadths So, indicates The
prophet, God winds the blue ribbon of
the sky around his hand. Gle meteth
out the heavens with SPAN" You know
that balances are made of a beam sus-
pended in the middle with two basins
at 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 bal
ances that Isaiah saw suspended when
he saw God putting into the scales the
Alps and Apprentices and Mount Wash
| inGton and the Sierra Nevadas. You
see the earth had to be ballasted. 1t
would not do to have too much weight
|
Asia, or too much weight in Africa, Or
in America. so when God made the
mountains he weighed them. The Bible
distinctly says so. God knows the
weight of the great ranges that cross
the continents, the TONS the pounds
avoirdupois, the ounces, the grains, the
illegranmes-just how much they
weighed then, just how much they
weigh now. "Ilc weighed the noun
tains in scales and the hills in bal
ance." O, what God to run against
oh, what God to disobey: oh, what Q
God to dishonor; oh, what God tc
defy! The 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 stano
still. He must move, and it must bG
without clumsiness. There must bC
CELEBRITY and beauty in the movement
Y with twain did he fy." Correction
exhilaration. Correction at our slow
gait, for we only crawl in the service
when we ought to fly at the divine bid
ding. Exhilaration in the fact that thl
soul has wings as the seraphs have
wings. What is wing? An instru
ment of locomotion. They may not bC
like scraph's wing, they may not b.
like the birds wing, but the soul ha
wings God says so. "Hc shall
mount up on wings as eagles,
We are made in the divine i'm
age, and God has wings. The Ri
BILE says so. Healing in His wings.
"Under whose wings thou hast come t.
trust" We have folded wing now
. wounded wing broken wing, bleeding
wing, Gagged wing. Aye! I have i
now. Gagged within bars of bone AM
: under curtains of flesh, but one day t.
be free. | hear the rustic of pinions il
Seagrave's poem, which we often sing
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings.
hear the rustic of pinions in AleXan
, der Pope's stanza, which says:
: l mount fly,
Odeath, where is thy victory?
A dying Christian not long ago erie,
out, "Wings, wings, wings" The al
is full of them, coming and going, com
| ing and going. You have seen how tn
dull, sluggish chrysalid becomes tn
, bright butterfly; the dull and the stupi
and the lethargic turned into the aler
| and the beautiful. Well, my friends
, in this world we are in the chrysali
! state. Death will unfurl the wings
Oh, if we could only realize what
, grand thing it will be to get rid of thi
{ old clod of the BODY and mount tn
r heavens, neither seaglll nor lark no
/, albatross, nor falcon, nor condor pitch
, ing from highest ranges of Andes S
buoyant or SO majestic of stroke.
t See that eagle in the mountain nest
{ It looks so sick, so raggedfeathered, S
, wornout and so half asleep. Is tina
eagle dying? No. The ornithologis
, will tell you it is mounting season wit
> that bird Not dying, but moulting
: see that Christian sick and weary an
wornout and seeming about to expir
Z on what is called his deathbe(
, The world says he is dying.
r say it is the moulting season fc
his soul-the body dropping away
e the celestial pinions coming on. Nc
. dying, but moulting Moulting out {
: darkness and sin and struggle int
4 glory and into God Why do you NJ
Y shout? Why DO you sit shivering at til
: thourht of death and trying to hol
: back and wishing You could stay her
t forever, and speak of departure +;
tbo,rb tbe suhicct were filled wit