Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-09-15

! worse than the crff-lss of t2s t9Ot. III,
we want the wings Of humility tocover the
feet! Ought we not to 70 Into self abnes'l-
tion before the all searching, all scrntin:z
ing, all trying eye Of Gods The seraphs
do How much wore we. with twain
ne covered the feet"
HOW HUMAN NATURE is CORRUPTED.
All this talk about the dignity of human
! nature IS braggalocio and a sin Car
nature started at the hand of God regal,
I but it has been pauperized There Is
well in Belgium which once had very pure
water and it was stoutly masoned with
] some and brick, but that well afterward
! became The centre of the battle Of Water
| loo. At the opening of the battle the sol
/ diers with their sabers compelled the
gardener, William Won kylson, to draw
water out Of the well for them. and it was
very pure water But the battle ragged,
ard three hundred dead and half dead
we're flung into the well for quick and easy
| burial, SO that the web of refreshment be-
came the well of death, and long after peo-
pie looked down into the well and they
saw the bleached skulls, but no water. So
the human sonl was well of good, but the
armies of sin have fought around it and
fought across it and been slain and it has
become well of skeletons. Dead hopes,
dead resolutions. dead opportunities, dead
ambitions An abandoned well unless
Christ shall reopen and purify and clean it
a. the wei Of Belgium never was. Tn
clean. uncleani
Another seraphic posture in the text,
with twain he covered the fnce.n AZ
means reverence Godwgrd. Never somueh
irreverence abroad in the world rs today.
You see il in the defaced statuary in the
cutting out Of figures from Ilne paintings,
IN the chipping Of monuments for me
mentn. in the fact that military guard
must stand at the graves OF Grant and Gar
feld, and that old shade trees must he cut
down for iirewood, though fifty George p.
Morrses beg the woodmen TO spare the
tree, and that calls "A corpse a cadayer, and
that speaks of death as going over 10 the
majority. and substitutes for the reverent
terms father and mother, 'the old man"
and ''the old woman" and finds nothing
impressive in the ruins Of Bnalbee or the
columns Of karnac, and secs no difference
in the Sabbath from other days except it
allows more dissipation, and reads the
Bible in what is called higher criticism,
making il not the Word OF God but
good book with some fine things in IL
Irreverence never so much abroad. How
many take the name OF God in vain, how
many trivial things said about the Al
mighty Not willing TO have God in the
world, they roll up an idea OF sentimental
ity and humanitarianism and impudence
and imbccility. and call it God. No wings
OF reverence over the face, no taking of OF
shoes on holy ground. You can tell from
the way they talk they could have made
better world than this, and that the God
OF the Bible shocks every sense Of propri
ety. They talk of the love OF God in "A way
that shows you they believe IL does not
make any difference how bad man Is
here he will come In at the shining gate.
They talk Of the love Of God in such a way
which shows You ,hf aiak it isa general
jail delivery for all the abandoned and the
scOundrelism OF the universe No punish
mcnt hereafter for any wrong done here
THE LOVE AND THE JUSTICE OF GOD.
The Bible gives Us two deScrip. ions Of
God. and they are just opposite, and they
are both true. In one place the Bible says
God is love In another place the Bible
says God is a consuming fire The explana-
ton is plain ns plain can be- God through
Christ is love. God ont Of Christ is fire
To win the one and to escape the other We
have only to throw ourselvcs-body, mind
and soul--into Christ keeping. No says
Irreverence, II want no atonemenf, | WANT
no pardon. | want no Intervention; | VIII
20 up and face God, and | will challenge
him, and | will defy him. and | will as.
him what he wants to do with me-" So
the finite cunfrOnts the infinite, so n tack
hammer tries to break a thunderbolt, SO
the breath Of human nostrils defes the
everlasting God, while the hierarchs Of
heaven bow the head and bend the knee rs
the Kings chariot goes by, and the arch
angel turns away because he cannot endure
the splendor, and the chorus OF all the EN-
pires Of heaven comes IN with full diapa-
son, Holy, holy, holy"
Reverence for sham, reverence for the
old merely because it Is old, reverence for
stupidity however learned, reverence FOR
incapacity however finely inaugurated, ]
have none. But we want more reverence
for God, more reverence for the sacra-
ments, more reverence for the Bible. more
reverence for the pure, more reverence for
the good. Reverence a Characteristic of
all great natures. lou hear it in the roll
Of the master oratorios. You see it in the
Raphaels' and Titians and Ghirlandijos.
You study it in the architecture Of the
Aholiabs and Christopher Wrens. Do not
be flippant about God. Do not joke about
death DO not make fun of the Bible. Do
not deride the eternal. The brightest and
mightiest seraph cannot look unabashed
upon him. Involuntarily the wings come
up with twain he covered his face"
Who is this God before whom the AFRO
giant and intractable refuse reverence;
There was an engineer of the name OF
Strasicrates who was in the employ of
Alexander the Great, and he offered To hew
mountain in the shape of his master, the
emperor, the enormous figure to hold in
the left hand a city OF ten thousand inhab
itants, while with the right hand it was to
hold basin large enough to collect all the
mountain torrents. Alexander applauded
him for his ingenuity, but forbade the en-
terprise because of its costliness. Yet
have to tell you that our King holds in one
hand all the cities of the earth and all the
oceans while he has the stars Of heaven for
his tiara
THE oMNIPoTENT ONE.