The Banner-Democrat., 1897-04-24

Who was IN the employ OF Alexander the |
Great. and-he offered 10 hew mountain IN |
the shape OF his master, the emperor, tne
enormous figure TO hold In the lett hand |
city Of lO. .OO) inhabitants. while in the rignt
hand 1t was to hold basin large enouSh 10
collect all the mountain torrents. Aiexan-
der appauded him for his ingenuity, put ior-
babe The enterprise because o its costnnesS.
Yet have TO tell you that our King holds IN
one hand a,tth cities OF the earth, and all
the oceans. while be has the stars OF heaven
for his tiara.
Earthly power goes from hand TO mana
from Henry to Henry III aud Henry III,
from Charles TO Charles Ii, from Louis l
to Louis II AMI Louis III, but from eyeriast,
ing to everlasting is God. God the hrst, Go1
the last. God the only. He has one telescope,
with which he sees everything-his omnis-
cienee he has one bridge, with which ne
crosses everylhing--bis omnipresenc,. He
has one hammer. with which he builds
eyerything-his omnipotence. Put two
iablespoonfuls of water in the palm OF
YOUR hand, and i: will overflow. but lsa'an
Indicates that God puts the Atlantic, ana
the Pacific and the Arctic, and the Antarc-
tic, and the Mediterranean. and the Black
Sea. and all the waters of thu eartl 10 the
hollow OF His hand. The fingers the beach
on one side. .the wrist the beach on the ether.
.sHe holdeth the water in the hollow OF HIS
hand"
AS YOU take pineh Of salt or powder be-
tween your thumb ana two fingers. so Isaiah
indicates Ged takes up the earth. he meas
ures the dust OF the earth, tue original there
in niica.ing that God takes all the dust OF all
the continan between the thumo aud two
fingers. You wrap around your hand blue
ribbon five times, ten times. fcu say IL Is
Ave han.i breadths or it is ten hand breadths.
SO indicates the prophet God winds tne
blue ribbon of the sky around His han1.
"He metoih out the heavens with
span." You know that balances are
made Of u beam suspended in the middle,
with two basins at tho extremity OF equal
heft In that way what vast heIt has been
Weighed But what are all the balances OF
earthly manipulation compared with the
balances that Isaiah saw suspended when ne
saw God putting into the scales the Alps and
| the Apennines and Mount Washington anu
! the Sierra Nevadas? You see the earth had
| 10 be ballasted. 1t would not do to have 100
much weight in Europe, or too much weight
! in Asia, or too much weight in Africa or in
| AmericM, 50 when God made the mountains
he weighed them. The Bible distinctly
sayss so. Col knows the weight OF the great
ranges that cross the continents, the tons,
| the pounds avoirdupois, the ounces, the
| grains, the miliegr ims-just how much they
weighed then and just how mu b they weigh
now. "He weighed the mountains in scales
and the hills in a balance" On, what God
to run against! Oh, what God to disobey!
Oh, what God to dishonori Oh. what a
| God TO 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 posturein the text. The
seraph must not always stand still. He must
move, and it must be without clumsiness.
There must be celebrity and beauty in the
movement 'sWith twain he did fy.e Cor
rection, exhiaratiOn. Correction at our
slow gait. for we only crawl in the service
when we ought to fly at the divine bidding
Exhilaration In the fact that the soul has
wings as the seraphs have wings. What J:
wing? An instrument of locomotion
They may not be like ser iphs' wing, they
may not be like birds wing, bat the soul hal
wings. Gcd says so. He shall mount uT
divine image. and God has wings. The Bib!'
says SO. "Healng in His wings" "Unde
the shadow OF His wings" Under Whose
wings hast thou come to trust" The
soul with folded wing now, Wounds
! wing, broken wing, bleeding wing. cages
wing. Aye, have it now! Gagged withil
J bars of bone and under curtains of flesh, bu
one day to be free. l hear the rustic o
pinions in Seagrave's poem which We some
times sing:
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings.
Ihear the rustic of pinions in Alexande
Pope's stauza, where he says:
/ mount, fly.
0 death, where is thy victory?
Oh, people of God, let us stop playing tn
fool and prepare for rapturous flight. Whel
your soul stands on the verge of this life
and there are vast precipic& beneath an
| snpphired domes above, which way will yol
iys Will You swoop, or will you soar? vii
YOU dy downward, or will y)u fly upward
Everything on the wing this day bidding u
. aspire. Holy Spirit on the wing. Angel O
/ the New Covenant on the wing. Time o.
the wing, flying away from US. Eternity ol
the wing, flying toward US. Wings, wings
| wings!
Il Live so near to Christ that when YOU ar
5 dead people standing by your lifeless bod
/ will not soliloquize, saying; "What dis
appointment life was to him! How ayerse b
, was to departure! What pity it was he ha
I to die! What au AWFUL calamity" Rattle
: standing there my they see a sign NOR
, vivid on your still face than the vestiges c
pain, something that will indicate tha
. it was happy exit, the clearance fror
oppressive quarantine, the cast-oh chryss
liz, the molting OF the faded and the useless
i and the ascent from malarial valleys I
, bright, shining mountain tops, and be led
saw as they stand there contemplating you
humility and your reverence in life and you
| happiness in death, "With twain he covere
the feet, with twain he covered his fact
. with twain he did ly." Wings, wings, wing