The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-30

whose foot paralysis hath snrIVeteo'
or machinery hath crushed, or sur
geou's knife hath amputated. The
Bible honors it. Especial care, LEST
thou dash thy foot against stone; me
viii not suffer thy foot 10 be moved;
''thy feet shall not stumble Especial
charge, Keep thy foot when thou
eoest 70 the house Of God" Especial
peril, Their feet shall Side IN due
time" Connected with the worlds dis
solution, "He shall set one foot on the
sea and the other on the earth
Give me the history Of your foot and
will give you the history of your life
time. Tell me up what steps It hath
gone, down what declivIt1es, and IN
what roads and In what directions, and
l Will know more about you than
want to know. None of US could endure
the scrutiny. Our feet not always In
paths of God. Sometimes in paths OF
wurldliness. Our feet, divine and
gIoriops machinery for usefulness and
work, 30 often making mrsstepS, so often
going IN the wrong direction. God
knowing every step, the petriarch say
ing, Thou settest a print on the heels OF
nv 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. Oh, we want the wings OF
humility to cover the feet Ought we
not 20 go into self abeSnanon before the
all searching, all scrutinizing, all try
ing eye of God? The seraphs do. How
much more we. With twain he COW
cred the feet"
TIE BONDAGE OF sH.
All this talk about the dignity Of hu-
man nature is braggsdocio and sin.
Oar nature started at the hand Of God
regal, bat it has been pauperized. There
is q we'll In Belgium which once had
very pure water, and II was stoutly
masoned with stone and brick; but that
we'll aftorwsrd became the center of the
battle of Waterloo. At the opening of
the battle the soldiers with their sabers
compelled the gardener, William Won
KylSom, to draw water out of the we'll
for them, and it was very pure water.
But the battle ragged. and three hun
dred dead and half dead were hung into
the veil for quick and easy burial, SO
that the well of refresbment became the
well of death, and hong after psople
looked down into the we'll. and they saw
the bleached skulls, but no water. So
the human soul was veil of good, but
the armies of sin have fought around 1t,
and fought across il and been slain. and
It has become we'll Of skeletons. Dead
hopes, dead resolutions. dead 'oppGOTtunl-
ties, dead ambitions An abandoned
well unless Christ shall reopen and pu-
rify and fill it as the well OF Belgium
never was. Unclean. uDcle0ni AH-
Another seraphic posture in the text,
with twain he covered the face That
means reverence Godward. Never SC
much trFeVeFenoe sbpoed III the world
as today. You see IL in the defsced
statnary, IN the cutting out of figures
from fine paintings, in the chipping OF
monuments for q memeDto, IN the fact
that a military guard must stand at the
graves of Grant and Garfield, and that
old shade trees must be cut down fol
frewood, though fifty GeOrge-P. Aorrlses
beg the woodmen to spare the tree. and
that calls corpse CadaSeT, and thai
speaks of death as going over to the ma,
1oFity, and substitutes for the reverend
terms, father and mother, ''taSe OLD
man and 1.-THE old wCunan, and find:
nothing impressive III the ruins f Baal
bee or the columns Of kGTIac, and see:
no difference in the Sabbath from any
other days except 1T allows more dis
siDatiOn. and reads the B[b4e ID VIA
is called higher criticism, making i
not the Word Of God, but a good bool
with some fine things II n IrFeverenct
2 never so much abroad. Row many taxi
IL ~, mn
| trivial things said about the Almighty
! Not willing to have GOd III the world
they roll up an idea OK sendmencahtI
| ana bumanitarlanisIl and impudeDc'
and i1pbecilAy and call II God. NJ
! wings Of reverence over the face. N
! taking off of shoes on holy ground. YOJ
| can tell from the way they talk the
| could have made better world thai
| this, and that the God OF the Bibl
| shocks every sonse of IrlOiHiety. The.
| talk of the love q God IL q way tina
! shows you they believe it does not max
any difference how bad a InAn Is here
he will come In at the shining gate
| They talk of the love Of God IN snch
way which shows yo1 they think it is
general jail delivery Cor all the aban
|
verse. No punishment hereafter for an,
wrong done here.
THE LOVE OF con. ... .
The Bible gives US two descriptions o
GOD, and they are Just opposite, alt
they ore both true. In one place tn
Bible says God is love. In sDothe
place the Bible says GSd Is a CONSUMING
fire. The explanation is plain as plai
can be. God through Christ is love
God out of Christ is FIRE. To win IN
one and to escape the other we hav
only 60 throw ourselves body, mind sn
soulinto Christ's keeping. NO say
IrreVerence, 81 want no aoOne1Dent,
want no pardon, 1 want no intervention
will go up and face God and l vii
challenge him. and l will defy him, an
I viii ask him what he wants TO do W.T.
me- So the finite cuufronts the inf
mite, 30 tack hammer tries TO break
thnnderbolt, 30 the breath Of hnma