Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-03-06

he builds evelything-his omnipotence.
Put two tablespoonfuls Of water in the
palm of your hand, and it will over
flow, but Isaiah indicates that God puts
the Atlantic, and the Pacific, and the
Arctic, and the Antarctic, and the Med
iterrmean, and the Black sea, and all
the waters of the earth in the hollow of
his hand. The fingers the beach Oh one
side the wrist the beach OH the other.
"He holdeth the water i'll the hollow of
his hand. F"
The Blue Ribbon.
AS you take pinch of salt or powder
between your thumb and two fingers, so
Isaiah indicates God takes up the earth.
He measures the dust of the earth, the
original there indicating that God takes
all the dust of all the continents be-
tween the thumb and two fingers You
wrap around your hand blue ribbon
five times, ten times. You say it 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 i'll the mid
die, with two basins at the extremity of
equal heft. In that way what vast heft
has been weighed! But what are all the
balances of earthly manipulation conf
pared with the balances that Isaiah saw
suspended when he saw God putting
into the scales the Alps and the Apen-
mines and Mount Washington and the
Sierra Neyadas? You see the earth had
to be ballastcd Itwould not do to have
too much weight i'll Europe, or too
much weight i'll 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 millcgrams-
just how much they weighed then and
just how much they weigh now. He
weighed the mountains i'll scales and
the hills in n balance. Oh, what God
to run against! Oh, what Gcd to dis
obey Oh, what God to dishonor! Oh,
what 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 posture i'll the text
The seraph must not always stand still
He must move, and it must be without
clumsiness. There must be CELEBRITY and
beauty III the movement. with twain
he did fly" Correction, exhilaration.
Correction at our slow gait. for we only
crawl in the service when VIC ought to
fly at the divine bidding Exhilaration
in the fact that the soul has wings as
the seraphs have wings What is
wing? An instrument of locomotion
They may not be like seraphs' wing,
they may not be like birds wing, but
the soul has wings. God says so. He
shall mount up OH wings as eagles. -
We are made in the divine image, and
God has wings. The Bible says So
"Healing in his wings. ~ Under the
shadow of his wings. - Under whose
wings hast thou come to trust" The
soul with folded wing now, wounded
wing, broken wing, bleeding wing,
Gagged wing. Aye, I have it nowl Gagged
within bars of bone and under curtains
of flesh, but one day to be free. l hear
the rustic of pinions i'll Seagrave's poem
which we sometimes sing:
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings.
hear the rustic of pinions in Alex
ander Pope's stanza, where he says:
mount, fly.
death, where is thy victoryP
On Wings to Eternity.
a dying Christian not long ago cried
out, wings, wings, wings!" The air
is full of them, coming and going, COM
ing and going. You have seen how the
dull, sluggish chrysalid becomes the
bright butterfly the dull and the stupid
and the lethargic turned into the alert
and the beautiful. Well, my friends, in
this world we are III the chrysalid state
Death will unfurl the wings. Oh, if we
could only realize what a grand thing
it will be to get rid of this old clod OF
the body and mount the heavens, neither
seagull nor lark nor albatross nor falcon
nor condor pitching from highest range
of Andes so buoyant OF SO majestic OF
stroke.
See that eagle in the mountain nest.
1t looks SO sick. so ragged feathered, so
worn out and SO half asleep. Is that
eagle dying? No. The ornithologist will
tell you it is the melting season with
that bird Not dying, but melting.
You see that Christian sick and weary
and worn out and seeming about to ex-
pire OH what is called his deathbed. The
world says he is dying. 1 say it is the
melting season for his soul-the body
dropping away, the celestial pinions
coming on Not dying, but melting.