The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-03-11

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wv IA thinking about re-
lgious things as
one is apt to do in
time of great ma
Honal bereavement, and forgetting the
presence of his wife and two sons who
made UP his family, he has a dream
not like the dreams Of ordinary char
acter, which generally come from indi-&
gestion, but vision most instructive,
and under the touch of the hand of the
Almighty.
The place, the ancient temple: build
ing grand, awful, majestic. Within
that temple throne higher and grand
er than that occupied by any car or
sultan or emperor. On that throne, the
eternal Christ. In lines surrounding
that throne, the brightest celestials
not the cherubim, but higher than they,
the most exquisite and radiant of the
heavenly inhabitants: the seraphim.
They are called burners because they
look like fire. Lips of fire, eyes of fire,
feet of fire. In addition to the features
and the limbs which suggest a human
being, there are pinions, which suggest
the lithest, the swiftest, the most buoy
ant and the most aspiring of all unin-
telligent creation-a bird. Each seraph
had six wings, each two Of the wings
Tor different purpose. Isaiah's dream
qulvers and flashes with these pinions.{
Now folded, now spread, now beaten
In locomotion. with. twain he COW
erred his feet, with twain he COW
cred his face. and with twain he did
n.y."
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
MS locomotion amounting almost to
decrepitude as compared with the di-
vine velocity, with feathery veil of
angelic 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
p1nlons gather over the countenance
With twain he did cover the face"
Then as God tells this seraph to go to
the farthest outpost of immensely on
message of light and love and joy,
and get back before the first anthem,
1t does not take the seraph a. great
while to spread himself upon the air
with unimagined celebrity, one stroke
of the wing equal to ten thousand
leagues Of air. with twain he did fly"
The most practical and useful lesson
for you and me-when we see the SER
aph spreading his wings over the feet,
is the lesson Of humility at imperfec-
ton. 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 be plunged in
humility, utter and complete. Our feet,
now laggard they have been in the d.
vine service. Our feet, how many mis-
steps 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
C od-the human foot. Physiologist and
.anatomist are overwhelmed at the won
ders of its organization. The Bridge
water 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 encour-
agement of Christian literature. The
world could afford to forgive his ec-
centricities, though he had two dogs
seated at his table, and though he nit
six dogs alone in an equipage drawn
by four horses and attended by two
footmen. With his large beuuest in
ducing Sir Charles Bell to write so
valuable book on the wisdom of Cod
in the structure of the human hand
the world could afford to forgive his
oddities. And the world could now af-
ford to have another Earl Of Bridge
water however idiosyncratic, if he
would induce some other Sir Charles
Bell to write book on the wisdom and
goodness of God in the construction OF
a the human foot. The articulation Of
its bones, the fabrication Of its joints
the gracefulness of its lines, the in
genuity Of its cartilages, the delicacy
of its veins, the rapidity of it's muscu-
lar contraction, the sensitiveness Of its
nerves.
I sound the praises Of the human
foot. With that we halt or climb o,
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 i
the orator plants himself for eulogium
With it the toiler reaches his work
With it the outraged stamps his in
dignation. It's loss an irreparable dis
aster. Its health an invaluable equip
ment. If you want to know its value
ask the man whose foot paralysis hatl
shriveled, or machinery hath crushed
I or surgeons knife hath amputated