The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-01
THE WINGS OF THE SERAPHlM.
TALMAGE TELLS OF THE LESSONS
THEY TEACH.

THEY TEACH.
usniah Pictures the Most Radiant of
the Heavenly Inhabitants as Pro-
vfded with Three Sets of Wings.
Humility at ImDerfectiOn One of
the Lessons of the Text-Revcr-
ence GOdward as Il Rebuke to the
Irreverencc Abroad In the world
TO-day-CcIcrity in Christs Ser
Vice,
Washington, Feb 2S.-In this discourse
DIR. Talmage takes a most exalted theme,
and makes it practical and useful to the
last degree. The subject is Wings of
Seraphim." and the text is Isaiah 6: 2:
With twain he covered his face, with
twain he covered his feet, and with twain
he did fly.
In hospital of leprosy good King Uz
ziah 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 for
getting the presence of his wife and two
sons. who made up his family, he has a
character, which generally come from in
digestion. but a vision most instructive,
and under the touch of the hand Of the
Almighty.
The place, the ancient Temple: building
grand, awful, majestic Within that
Temple a throne higher and grander than
that occupied by any czar of sultan or
emperor. On that throne the eternal
Christ. In lines surrounding that throne,
the brightest celestials not the chorubim,
but higher than they the most exquisite
and radiant of the heavenly 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
buoyant and the most aspiring of all I'M
intelligent creation-a bird. Each seraph
had six wings, each two of the wings for
different purpose. Isaiah's dream quiv-
ers and flashes with these pinions. Now
folded, 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 probability is that these wings were
ing there near the throne overwhelmed at
the insignificance of the paths his feet
mad trodden as compared with the paths
trodden by the feet of God, and with
the lameness of his locomotion amount
ing almost to decrepitude as compared
with the divine velocity with feathery
veil of angelic modesty hides the feet.
with twain he did cover the feet"
Standing there overpowered by the
overwhelming splendors of Gods glory.
and unable longer with the eyes to look
upon them, and wishing those eyes shad-
ed from the insufferable glory, the pinions
gather over the countenance. with twain
he did cover the face" Then as God rells
this seraph to go to the farthest OUTPOST
OF immensely on message of light and love
and joy, and get back before the first an
them, ii does not take the seraph a great
while to spread himself upon the air with
unimagined CELEBRITY, one stroke of the
wing equal to 10000 leagues of air. with
twain he did fly"
The most practical and useful lesson for
you and me-when we see the seraph
spreading his wings over the feet, is the
lesson of humility at imperfection The
brightest angels of God are so far be-
meath God that he charges them with
ioily. The seraph so far beneath God
and we so far beneath the seraph in SER
vice we ought to be plunged in humility.
utter and complete. Our feet, how lag
vice. Our feet. how many missteps they
have taken. Our feet, in how many paths
OF wordliness and folly they have walked
Neither God nor seraph intended to put
any dishonor upon that which is one of
the masterpieces of Almighty God-the
human foot. Psychologist and anatomist
are overwhelmed at the wonders of its
organization The Bridgewater Treatise.
written by Sir Charles Bell, on the wis
dom and goodness of God as illustrated
in the human hand. was a result of the
$4,000 bequeathed in the last will and tes-
lament of the Earl of Bridgewater for
the encouragement of Christian litera-
ture The world could afford TO forgive
his eccentricities, though he had two dogs
seated at his table, and though he put six
dogs alone in an equpage drawn by four
horses and attended by two footmen With
his large bequest inducing Sir Charles
Bell to write so valuable book on the
wisdom Of God in the structure of the
human hand, the world could afford to
forgive his oddities. And the world could
now afford to have another Earl of
Bridgewater, however idosyncratic If he
would induce some other Sir Charles Bell
TO write book on the wisdom and good
ness of God I'm the construction of the
human foot. The articulation of it's
bones, the fabrication of its joints the
gracefullness of its lines, the ingenuity OF
its cartiages, the delicacy of its veins,
Ale fdpiultN OF It's muscular contraction. |
the sensitiveness of its nerves.
| sound the praises of the human foot
With that we halt or climb or march, 1t
IS the foundation of the physical fabric |
~ is the base of God poised column. |
With IL the warrior braces himself for
battle. With II the orator plants himself
for eulogium. With il the toier reaches
his work. With it the outraged stamps
his indignation. Its loss an irreparable
disaster. Its health an invaluable equip
ment. II YOU want to know it's value, ask
abe man whose foot paralysis hath shrivol-
led or machinery hath crushed. or sur
eeon's knife hath amputated. The Bible
honors il. Especial care Lest thou
dash thy foot against a stone;" "he will !
not suffer thy foot to be moved" thy |
feet shall not stumble" Especial CHARGE
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the !
House of God" Especial peril "Their |
feet shall slide in due time" Connected
with the worlds dissolution: "He shall
set one foot on the sea and the other ON
the earth"
Give me the history of your foot and /
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