The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-03-05

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REV. TALMAGE. ordinary character,
which generally come from indiges-
ton. but vision most instructive and
under the touch of the hand of the AL
mighty. The place. the ancient tenn
pie; building grand, awful, majestic.
Within that temple a throne higher
and grander than that occupied by any
ear or sultan or emperor. On that
throne the eternal Christ. In lines
surrounding that throne, the brightest
celestials, not the cherubim. but high
er than they. the most exquisite and
radiant of the heavenly inhabitants,
the seraphim. They are called burn
ers because they look like fire. Lips
of fire, eyes of fire. feet of fire. In adj
dition to the features and the limbs
which suggest human being. there
are pinions which suggest the lithest,
the swiftest. the most buovant and the
most inspiring of all unintelligent
creation-a bird. Each seraph had six
wings. each two of the wings for a diff
ferent purpose. Isaiah's dream quivers,
and flashes with these pinions. Now
folded now spread. now beaten in lO-
comotion. with twain he covered his
feet, with twain he covered his head,
and with twain he did fly
The probability is that these wings
were not all used at once. The seraph
standing there near the throne. over
whelmed at the insignifcance of the
paths his feet had trodden as COM
pared with the paths trOdden by the
feet of God. and with the lameness of
his locomotion amounting almost to
decrepitude as compared with the di-
vine velocity. with feathery veil of an
gelic 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 shaded from the insufferable
glory, the piniOns gather over the
countenance. with twain he did
cover the face" Then as God tells
this seraph to go to the farthest out
post of immensely on message of light
and love and joy, and get back before
the first anthem, it 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 imper-
lection. The brightest angels of God
are so far beneath God that He charges
them with folly. The seraph SO far
beneath God, and we SO far beneath
the seraph in service, we ought to
plunged into humility, utter and COM
plete. Our feet. now laggard they
have been in the divine service. Our
feet, how many missteps they have
taken. Our feet. in how many paths
of worldliness 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 wisdom and
goodness of God as illustrated in
the human hand, was a result
of the $4,000 bequeathed in the last
will and testament of the earl of
Bridgewater for the encouragement of
hn
afford to forgive his eccentricities,
though he had two dogs seated at his
table, and though he put six dogs alone
in an equipage drawn by four horses
and attended by two footmen. With
his large bequest inducing Sir Charles
Bell to write SO valuable a book on the
wisdom of God in the structure of the
human hand. the world could ford to
forgive his oddities. And the world
could now afford to have another earl
of Bridgewater. however idiosyncratic,
if he would induce some other Sir
Charles Bell to write a book on the
wisdom and goodness of God in the
construction of the human foot The
articulation of its bones, the lubrica-
ton of its joints, the gracefulness of
its lines. the ingenuity of its cartil-
lagos, the delicacy of its veins, the
rapidity of its muscular contraction,
the sensitiveness of its nerves.
l sound the praises of the human
foot With that we halt or climb or
march. 1t is the foundation of the
physical fabric. 1t is the base of
God-poised column. With it the war
rior braces himself for battle. With
it the orator plants himself for eulo-
gium. With it the toiler reaches his
work. With it the outraged stamps
his Indignation. Its loss an irrepara-
BILE disaster. Its health an invaluable
equipment If you want to know its
value, ask the man whose foot paraly-
sis hath shriveled, or machinery hath
crushed, or surgeons knife hath am
putated. The Bible honors it Espe-
cial care: lest thou dash thy foot