Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-03-10

As you take pinch OF salt or
powder between your thumb and two
fingers, so Isaiah indicates God takes
mp the earth. He measures the dust of
the earth. the original there indicating
that God takes all the dust of all the
continents between the thumb and
two fingers You wrap around your
hand blue ribbon five times. ton
times You say tits i've hand breadth,.
! or it is ten hand breadths So indi-
Gates the prophet God winds the blue
ribbon of the sky around his
hand. ''He meteth out the heavens
with span You known that bal
anccs are made of beam suspended in
the middle with two basins at the ex-
tremity of equal heft in that way
what vast hcft has been weighed But
what are the balances of earthly ma
nipulation compared with the balances
that Isaiah saw suspended when hc
saw God putting into the scales the
! Alps and the Apprentices and Mt. Wash
lngton and the Sierra Nevadas. You
see the earth had TO be ballasted. "
would not do 20 have too much weight
IN Europe, or too much weight in Asia.
or too much weight in Africa, on in
/ America; so when God made
the mountains He weighed them The
Bible distinctly says that God knows
the weight of the great ranges that
cross the continents. the tons; the
pounds avoirdupois, the ounces. the
grains, the millegrammes- lust how
much they weighed then. lust how
much they weigh now. He weighed
the mountains in scales and the hills
IN balance. On what n God t. run
against, Oh! what a God to dishonor.
oh. what God TO defy! The fright
est, the mighticst angel takes no tamil
iarity with God. The wings of revcr-
ence are lifted with twain h. COW.
cred the face"
Another scraphic posture in the text
The seraph must not always sit and be
still. He must move, and 1t must be
without clumsiness. There must DO
celebrity and beauty in the movement.
with twain he did fly." Correction.
cNhileration. Correction at our slow
gait, for we only crawl in the service
when we ought to fly at the divine bid
ing. ENhilaration in the fact THAT tho
soul has wings as the scraphs lave
wings. What is a wing? An insfru.
ment OF lOcomotion. They NAV no, be
like seraphs wing. they NAV not be
like birds wing, but the soul has WINS.
God says so. "IIe shall mount IN
on wings as eagles" We are made m
the divine image, and God has WINS.
The Bible says so. Healing in His
wings Under whose wings hast
thou come TO trust" The soul with
tolIed wing now, wounded wing. bro
ken, bleeding wing, Gagged wing. Ave,
| have it now. Gagged within bars OF
bone and under curtains OF flesh. but
one day TO bc free. hear the rustic
OF pinions in Saagrave's poem, which
we sometimes sing:
Rise my soul, and stretch thy W ncs
hear the rustic of pinions in Alex.
andcr Pope's stanza, where he saws;
mount. fly
on. Death, where is thy victory.
a dying Christian not long ago cried
out Wings, wings, wingsr' The air
is full of them, coming and going.
coming and going. You have seen how
the dull, sluggish chrysalis becomes the
bright butterfly; the dull and the stu.
pld and the lethargic turned in tn the
alert and beautiful. Well, my friends.
In this world we are in the chrvsalid
state. Death will unfurl the WINS.
On, II we could only realize what n
grand thing it will be to get rid of this
old clod of the body and mount the
heavens, neither seagull nor lark nor
aioatross nor falcon, nor condor pitch
ing from highest range of Andes 90
buoyant or so majestic of stroke.
See that eagle in the mount. |
ain nest. 1t looks so sick. So
ragged-feathered, so worn out and
so half asleep. Is that eagle DIV.
ing? No The ornithologist will tell
You 1t is the moulting season with that
ord Not dying, but mounting. You
see that Christian sick and weary and
WORKOUT and seeming about to EXPIRE
on what is called his death bed. The
world says he is dying | say il is thu
moulting season for his soul-the BODY
dropping away. the celestial pinious
coming on. Not dying, but moultjno.
Moulting out of darkness and sin and
struggle into glory and into God. Whv
90 you not shout? Why DO you sit
shivering at the thought of death and
try ing 20 hold back and wishing Won
could stay here forever, and speak Of
departure as though the subject vera
ME" with skeletons and the varnish /.
OF collins. and as though you preferred
lame foot 20 swift wing?
. people OF cod. let MS ston rl,ytn,,
the TOOL and prepare for a rapturous
flight When your soul stands ON tho
verge of this life, and there are vast
prcc.pices beneath. and sapphired
,aloin's above, which way will you avP
VII. you swopp or will YOU soar2 Wiu
You Wy downward or will YOU ny M
ward' Everything on the wing his
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