Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-08
THE USE OF WINGS.
The Seraph Referred to by Isaiah En-
ployed His Wings to Cover His
Feet and to Fly With.
The Importance Of the Foot--A Les
son Of Humility and Of Rev.
erence.

son OF Humility and OF ReV-
erence.
LONDON, Especial cable During
the past week DR.. Talmage has been
preaching to enormous audiences in
the great manufacturing towns OF the
English Midland countries. The SER
mon selected for publication this week
is on Isaiah 60 with twain he COW
cred his face; with twain he covered
his feet; and with twain he did fly"
In a hospital of leprosy good King
Uzziah had died and the whole land
was Swallowed with solemnity and
theological and prophetic Isaiah was
thinking about religious things, as one
is apt to do in time OF great national
bereavement, and forgetting the pres
ence OF 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 q vision most instructive and
under the touch OF the hand OF the
Almighty.
The place, the ancient temple; build
ing, grand, awful, majestic. Within the
temple a throne higher and grander
than that occupied by any car or
sultan or emperor. On that throne,
the eternal Christ. In lines surround
ing that throne, the brightest celestials
not the cherubin, but higher than tibet;
the most exquisite and radiant OF the
heav emily 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
inspiring of all intelligent creation-a
bird. Each seraph had six wings, each
two OF the wings for a different pur-
pose. Isaiah's dream quivers and
flashes withsthese pinions. Now fold
ed, now spread, now beaten in loco
motion. with twain he covered His
feet, with twain he covered his face,
and with twain he did fly
! The most practical and useful lesson
for you and me-when we see the SER
aph spreading his wings over the feet,
| is
ALEssON OF HUMANITY
at imperiection. The brightest angels
OF God are so far beneath God that he
charges them with folly. The seraph
so far beneath God, and we SO TAR
beneath the serapi in service we ought
to be plunged in humility, utter and
complete. Our feet how lacgard they
have been in the divine service. Our
feet, how many missteps they have
taken. 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 o. the masterpieces OF Almighty
God-the human loot. Physiologlst
and anatomist are overwhelmed AT the
wonders of its organization. Give NE
the history OF your foot, and will give
you the history OF your lifetime. Tel
neup what stepsit hath gone, down
what declivities and in what roads
and in what directions, and l vii
know more about you than I want
to know None OF us could endure
the scrutiny.
All this talk about the dignity O
human nature is bracgadocio and {
sin. Our nature started at the nan(
OF God regal, but it has been pauper
lied.
Another seraphic posture in tn,
text: with twain he covered heiace.
That means reverence Godward. Ney'
er so much !rreverence abroad in tn
world as today. You See it in the de
faced statuary in the cutting OFT 0
; figures from fine paintings. in the chip
ping OF monuments Tor a momento, il
the fact that military guard mus
stand at the grave OF Grant ana Gar
} field, and that old shade trees mus
be cut down for tirewood, though 81
George P. Morrises beg the woodsne,
, to spare the tree, and that calls
corpse a cadaver, and that speaks G
death as going over to the majority
, and substitutes for the reverenc terri
father and mother, 'the Old man.
, and the 'old woman" and finds moth
, ing impressive in the ruins OF Baa
bee or the columns OF Karnac, and Sc
; no difference in the Sabbath fro,
! other days except it
3 ALLOWS MORE DISSIPATION,
: and reads the Bible in what is Gale
i higher criticism, making it not tn
e Word OF God but good book wit
+ some fine things in it. Irreverene
= never SO much abroad. How man
= take the name OF God in vain, no
e many trivial things said about tt
) Almighty. Not willing to have Go
in the world, they roll up an idea ,
sentimentality and humanitarianisl
and impudepce and imbecility, an
call it God. No wings Of reverend
over the face, no taking of OF shos
on holy ground. You can tell frol
the way they talk they could hay
made better world tan this, ar
that the God of the Bible shocks eve,