The Penn's Grove record., 1897-03-05

clenee, He lns orfe bridge, with which he
crosse evetfthtn$-his omnipresence. He
mas one naemerse with which he builds
everything..his .6Snnlpotence. Pat Two
tablespoonful Of water in tho palm 81
your hand! and It fFlil overflow, but Isaiah
isdiratgs mat uof puts the Atlantic, and
the fac,hcl va tnH Arctic, and the Antarc-
nc, ana me Nedetertanean, and this Black
yea; ana az re WATERS Of tbs earth IN the
hollow o. h.sIha1d. The fingers tho beach
on Que s,ue,tt1e wrist the beach on the other.
hand"
As you take a pinch OF salt or powder be-
tween YOU and two fingers, so Isaiah
indicates uou Fakes up the earth. He meas
ures tnn ause y b earth. the original there
n1icaung .n1ft God takes all the dust Of nil
the conti1enlf between the thumb and two
nngers' houl wrap around your hand q blue
rlhD9n nVe pines, ten times. You saw II Is
hye MANI Drefadihs or 1t is ten hand breadths,
50 indicates the prophet God winds the
blue rlDnon r. tho sky around His hau1.
HE ,metstn Tut the heavens with a
span. You syiow that balances ARE
made OF a beam ~Isuspendei in the middle.
with W naslns{ at tho extremity OF equal
heft, IN that Way what vast heft has been
weignedl Y tlwhat nre all the balances OF
earthiy maniPtttatton compared with the
BALANCES .nn. asa1iah saw suspended when he
'fN y II ScttitS ID6 AIDS anu
the Apennines IHhd Mount Washington and
the Sierra NYvadas? You see the earth had
to be ballastfd. 1t would not do to have too
much weighf In Europe. or too much weight
in Asia, or t9o much weight In Africa or In
America, so when God made the mountains
no weignsdk them. The Bible distinctly
says so. do$ knows the, weight OF the great
ranges tnat Yross the continents, the tons,
the pounds A~yoirdupols, the ounces, the
grains, me miflegrams-iust how much they
weighed 1hen Hand Just how mu h they weigh
now, ne weighed the mountains In scales
and the NILS INA balance" Oh, what a God
TO run agatnstY Oh, what a Col to disobeyi
Oh, what q ,Yod to dlshonorl Oh, what a
God 10 deiyl 1.-THE brightest, the niightiest
angel takes MP familiarity with God. The
wings OF reverence are lifted, h'With twain
he covered tAe face"
Another s@raphic posturein the text. The
seraph mustt not always stand still. He must
move, and III must be- without clumslness.
There must by celebrity and beauty In the
movement. with twain he did fiy.' Cor
%rection, exhI ~aration. Correction at our
slow gait. fo9 we only crawl in the service
when We ought to fly at the divine bidding.
Exhilarationt in tho fact that the soul has
wings as thel seraphs have wings. What Is
a wingf All instrument OF locomotion.
They may nbt be like ser iphs' wing, they
may not be IKE birds wing, but the soul has
wings. Gcq says 50. He shall mount up
on wings as eagles" We are made in the
divine imagf. and Goo has wings. The Bible
says so. "Healing In His wings" .sUnder
the shadow of Hs wings.' Under Whose
wings hast fthou come to trust" The
soul with folded wing nov, wounded
wing, broke9 wing, bleeding wing, Gagged
wing. Aye. have it now! Gagged within
bars OF bong and under curtains Of flesh, but
one day to1be free. 1 lear the rustic OF
pinions in aeagrave's poem which we some
times sing:
Rise, my sour, and stretch thy wings.
Ihear the rustic OF pinions in Alexander
Pope's stanza, wherei he says:
Imount, 1 HX.
death, whsre is thy victory
Oh, people prGod, let US stop playing the
fool and prepare for rapturous flight. When
your soul Stands on the verge OF this life,
and there aire vast precipices beneath and
sapphired dGmes above, which way will you
6yf viii YOU swoop, or will you soar2 VIII
you fly downward, or will you fly upwardf
Everything On the wing this day bidding us
aspire. Holy Spirit on the wing. Angel of
the New Covenant on the wing. Time on
the wing, flying away from us. Eternity on
the wing, lying toward us. Wings, wings,
wingsl
Live so near to Christ that when YOU are
deal peopieIstandih by your lifeless body
will not sofiloquize, saying; tsWhat a dis
appointment life was to himl How averse he
was to depaEturel What a pity 1t was he had
to die! Whit al awful calamity" Rather
standing There my they see a sign more
vivid on YOUR still face thar the vesttges OF
pain, something that will indicate that
it was a N ppy exit, the clearance from
oppressive quarantine. the cast-oH chrysa-
lis, the Noting of the faded and the useless,
and the ascent from malarial valleys to
bright, shining mountain tops, and be led to
say, as they tiand there contemplating your
humility and your reveren e in life and your
happiness in death. with twain he covered
the feet, wiki twain he covered his face,
with twain De did fly" Wings, wings, wings!