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

Crimes OF the foot. - we want the
wings of humility TO cover the feet.
Ought we not go int self-abnegation
before the all-search Ing, all-scrutiniz-
ing, al-trying eye of God? The SER
apis do. How much more wep with
twain he covered the feet"
All this talk about the dignity of hui
man nature is braggadocio and sin
Our nature started at the hand of God
| regal, but it has been pauperized.
There is well in Belgium which once
had very pure water and il was stout
ly masoned with stone and brick; but
that well afterward became the center
of the battle Of Waterloo At the OPEN
ing of the battle the soldiers with their
sabers compelled the gardener. VIM.
| Won kylSom, to draw water out of the
well for them, and il was very pure
water But the battle ragged, and
three hundred dead and half dead were
/ flung into the well for quick and easy
burial; SO that the well of refreshme mt
/ became the well of death, and long
after people looked down into the well
and they say the bleached skulls but
/ no water. So the human soul was a
well of good but the armies OF sin have
Dug Int across IL and been slain and il
has become n well OF skeletons
Dead hopes, dead resolutions, dead
opportunities, dead ambitions.
An abandoned well unless
Christ shall reopen and purify and fill
1t as the well OF Belgium never was
Unclcan, unclean.
Another seraphic posture in the text:
With twain he covered the face"
That means reverence Godward. New
er so much irreverence abroad in the
world as to-day. You see it in the de-
faced statuary, in the cutting out of
figures from fine paintings, in the chip
ping of monuments for a memento, in
the fact that a military guard must
stand at the graves of Lincoln and
Garfield, and that old shade :rces
must be cut down for fire
wood, though so George r. Nor
rises beg the woodsman TO spare the
tree, and that calls n corpse n cadavcr.
And that speaks of the death as going
over TO the majority, and substitutes
Tor the revercnt terms father and
mother, the old man" and 1.-THE old
woman, and finding nothing impress
sive in the ruins OF Baalbec or the
columns OF Karnac. and sees no d fer
ence in the Sabbath from other days
except 1t allows more dissipation. and
reads the Bible in what is called higher
criticism. making it not the word of
God, but book with some things in il.
lrrevercnce never so much abroad.
How many take the name of God
in vain, how many trivial things said
about the Almighty. Not will
ing to have God in the world. they roll
up an idea of sentimentality and hu-
manitarianism and impuence and i'm
becility, and call it God. No wings of
reverence over the face, no taking off
of shoes on holy ground You can tell
from the way they talk they could have
made better world than this. and
that the God of the Bible shocks every
sense of propriety. They talk of the
love of God in way that shows you
they believe it does not make any diff
ference how bad a man is here. he will
come in at the shining gate. They
talk of the love of God in n wav which
shows you they think it is general
Jail delivery for all the abandoned and
the scoundrelly of the universe. No
punishment hereafter for any wrong
done here.
The Bible gives two descriptions of
God, and they are just opposite, and
they are both true. In one place the
Bible says God is love In another
place the Bible says God is a consum-
ing tire. The explanation is as plain
as plain can be. God through Christ
Is love. God out of Christ is fire. To
win the one and to escape the other
we have only to throw ourselves
body, mind and soul into Christ's keep
ing. No says irreverence, Il want
no atonement, | want no pardon.
want no intervention, will go up and
face God, and will chal-
lenge him, and will defv
him. and l will ask him what he
wants 50 do with me" So the finite
confronts the infinite, so a tack ham
mer tries to break a thunderbolt 40
the breath Of the human nostrils defies
the everlasting God. while the hier-
arch OF Heaven bow the head and bend
the knee as the Kings chariot goes by.
and the archangel turns away because
he can not endure the splendor. and
the chorus of all the empires Of Heav-
en- comes in with full diapason. "Holv
holy, holy"
reverence for sham reverence for
the old merely because il is old. revor-
ence for stupidity however learned
reverence for incapacitv however fine
~ inaugurated. / have none. Euf we
want more reverence for God more
reverence for the Bible. more rev,.r-
ence for the pure, more reverence for
the good Reverence characteristics
OF all great natures You hear
lt 10 the roll of the master ora
tories. You -,c it in the EavhleI- and
itans and GhrIandajos You study
IL in the architecture of Tho
Aho.abs and Christopher Wren- ID,
not Dee hppaut about cod. DO r,t
Joke about death Dpuo. maxi. fun Of
the Bible. DO not dcrIie tine Eterr.,l
The brightest and migutIc,t ,er,,l
can not look uuabashed upon Him In-
voluntarily the wings com. up. -yy.,D
twain Doe covered his face
Who Is this God before whom ,H.
arrogant and iutractable rcfr..
reverence There was an engipc.-
hy The name OF ~t-asfc-atce vvh,
va, in the employ OF AIcxander
the Great and hc offered To rcyv
mountain In the shape OF his master
the emperor the enormous fgur. to
mold in his left hand city of ten tho,-
sand inhabitants. while with his RIGHT.
hand DO was % hold basin Iary,.
enough 90 collect all the mountain tor.