Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1897-03-11

none. But We want more reverence fox
God, more reverence for the sacrameats.
more reverence for the Bible. more reTer-
ence tor the pure. more reverence for me
good. Reverence q characteristic OF all
grea. natures. You hear it In the roll OF be
master ora,orios. You see it in the Haphaal5
and Titians and Ghirlandaos. You study II
In the architecture Of the Aholiats AID
Christopher Wrens. Do not hs hirpant
about God. Do not joke about death. DO
not make fun abou the Bible. Do no. de-
ride the Eternal. The brightes. and might
Jest seraph cannot look ~unabashed upon
HIN. Involuntary the wings com Up.
With twain he covered hi. face"
Who IS 'his God before whom the arrogant
and tntractab!e refuse reveren,se? There
was al engineer by the lame 81 Strasicra.es
who was in the employ OF Alexander the
Great, and he offered - hew a mountain IL
thu shape Of his master. the emperor. the
enormous figure TO hold in the left hand a
city 81 10. o0) Inhabitants, whils in the right
hand II was 10 hold a basin large enough to
collect all the mountain torrents. Aiexan-
der appiauded him for his ingenuity. bat for
ba1elhe enterprise because Of its eostliness.
Yet l have 10 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.
Earthly power goes from hand to hand
from Henry | 10 Henry II and Henry III,
from Charles | to Charles II. from Louis |
TO Louis II AMI Louis LII, but from everlast-
ins 10 everlasting Is God: God tho FIRST, God
the last. God the only. He has one telescope.
with which he sees everything-his omnis-
cience. He has one bridge, with which he
crosses eyervthing-his omnipresenca. He
has one hammer. with which he builds
everytbipg-his omnipotence. Put two
tabiespoonfuls Of water In the palm OF
your hand. and il will overflow. but Isaiah
indicates that God puts the Atlantic. and
the Pacific, and the Arctic. and the Antarc-
tic, and the Mediterranean, and the Black
Sea. and all the waters Of the earth IN the
hollow Of His hand. The fingers tho beach
on one side the wrist the beach on the other.
'He holdsth the water in the hollow OF His
hand"
As you take a pinch Of salt or powder be-
tween Your thumb and two fingers, so isaiah
indicates God takes up the earth. he meas
ures the dust OF the earth, the original there
iniicating that God takes all the dust OF all
the continents between the thumb and two
fingers. You wrap around your hand a blae
ribbon five times, ten times. You say 1t Is
five hand breadths or it is ten hand breadths.
so indicates the prophet God winds the
blue ribbon Of the sky around His hand.
"He meteth out the heavens with a
span" You know that balances are
made OF a beam suspended in the middle.
with two basins at the extremity Of equal
heft. IL that way what vast heft has BEEN
weighed! But what are all the balances Of
earthly manipulation compared with the
balances that Isaiah saw suspended when he
saw God putting into the scales the Alps ard
the Apennines and Mount Washington and
the Sierra Nevadas? You see the earth had
to be ballasted. 1t would not do TO have too
much weight in Europe, or too much weight
in Asia. or too much weight in Africa or IN
America, so when God made the mountains
he weighed them. The Bible distinctly
says so. God knows the weight Of the great
ranges that cross the continents, the tons,
the pounds avoirdupois, the ounces, the
grains, the millegrams-just how much they
weighed then and Just how mu h they weigh
now. ''He weighed the mountains in scales
and the hills in a balance" Oh. what a God
to run against. Oh, what a God to disobey!
OH. what a God to dishonor. Oh. what n
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 stands still. He must
move, and it must be without clumsiness.
There must be celebrity and beauty in the
movement. "With twain he did fly" Cor
~rection, eXhilaratioD. Correction at ouI
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 nave wings. What is
q wing? An instrument of locomotion.
They may not be like graphs wing, they
may not be like birds wing, but the soul has
wings. God says SO. He shall mount up
on wings as eagles" w are made in the
divine image. and God has wings. The Bible
says SO. "Healing in His wings" "Undel
the shadow OF His wings Under Whose
wings hast thou come to trust" The
soul with folded wing now, wounded
- - :-- ..-- a--A,
wing. Aye, / have it now. Gagged withiI
bars Of bone and under curtains Of flesh, bu
one day to be free. l hear the rustic o
piniCns in Seagrave's poem which we some
times sing:
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings.
1hear the rustic of pinions in Alexander
Pope's stanza, where he says:
mount, l fly.
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 precipices beneath an
~sanphired domes above. which way will vol
fly? Will YOU swoop. or will you soar? viii
YOU fly downward. or will you 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 OIL
the wing, flying away from us. Eternity OF
tit Wink, lily INK toNiIi US. NlNSS, WHY'S
wings
Live so near TO Christ that when YOU ar
dead people standing by your iifeless bod.
Will not soliloquiZe. saying. What a dis
appointment life was 10 him. How averse h
was TO departure, What a pity it was he ha
TO die. What an WI! calamity Rattle
standing there nay they see a sign NOR
vivid on Your still face than the vestiGes Q
pain, something that will indicate tina
it was Il happy exit, the clearance fror
oppressive quarantine. the ~cast-off chrysa
lis. the noting of the faded and the usels ss
and the ascent from maIarial valleys I
bright. shining mountain tops. and be ledtt
say. as they taDd there cOntemp iatingSou
humility and your reverence in life and you
happiness in death. with twain he covere
the feet. with twain he covered his face
with vain be did fly" Wings, wings, wing.
BUYING DOLLAR HORSES.