The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-03-06
SOAR LIKE A SERAPH.
WHICH vs. SWIFT, ASPIRING, RADIANT
AND eUOYANT.

and Useful-The Rustic of Pinions-Di-
vine Velocity.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s.-In this discourse
DR.. Talmage takes a most exalted theme
and makes it practical and useful to the
last degree The subject is wings of
Seraphim,'' and the text is Isaiah vi, 2
with twain he covered his face, and with
twain he covered his feet, and with twain
he did fly
In a hospital OF leprosy good King Uzziah
Ind died and the whole land was shadow
ed with solemnity, and theological and
phophetic Isaiah was thinking about re
ligious things, one is apt to do in time
OF great national bereavement, and, forget
ting the presence of his wife and two SONS,
who made up his family, he has dream,
not like the dreams OF ordinary character,
which generally come from indigestion,
but a vision most instructive and under
the touch Of the hand of the Almighty.
The place, the ancient temple; building
grand, awful, majestic. Within that tenn
PIE q throne higher and grander than that
occupied by any car or sultan or emperor.
On that throne the eternal Christ. In
lines. surrounding that throne, the bright
ct celestials, not the cberuhi1n, but high
q than they, the most exquisite and rndi-
ant of the heavenly inhabitants-the scra-
phim. They are called burners because
they look like fire. 1ips of fire, eyes of fire,
fest Of Nre. In addition to the features
and the limbs, which suggest human be-
ing, there are pinions, which suggest the
litnest, the swiftest, the most bnoyant and
the most aspiring of all unintelligent crea.
taon, bird. Each seraph had six wings,
each two Of the wings for different pur.
pose Isaiah q dream quivcrs and flashes
with these pinions. Now folded, now
spread, now beaten In looomotion. with
twain he covered his feet, with twain he
no
Unimagincd Celebrity.
The probability Is that these wings were
not all used at once. The seraph standing
there near the throne, overwhelmed at the
tnsiGni6cance Of the paths his feet had
trodden as compared with the paths trod-
den by the feet of God, and with the lame
ness OF his locoInotion, amounting almost
70 dccrepitudc as compared with TIC divine
velocity, with feathery veil of angelic mod
esty hides the feet with twain he did
cover the feet"
Standing there, overpowercd by the over
matching sp1endors of Gods glory and
unable lonrrr 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
scrnph TO go to the farfhest outpost of i'm
mensity ON message of light and love and
Joy and get back before the first anthem,
Is does not take the scraph a great while
20 spread himself upon the air with un-
Imagined celebrity, one stroke Of tho wing
equal to 10, 900 leagues OF air with twain
he did fly
The most Practical and useful lesson for
you and mc-wf.cl sec the seraph
spreading his wings Cscr tie fc1;--is the
lesson OF humility at imperfcction. The
brightest angels Of God are SO far beneath
God that he charges them with folly. The
scraph SO far beneath God, and we so far
beneath the seraph In service, we ought to
be plunged in humility, utter and com
pletc Our feet, bow laggard they have
been in the divine scrvicci Our feet. how
many missteps they have takcni Our feet,
In how many paths of worldlincss and folly
they have walkedl
Neither God nor seraph intended to nut
my dishonor upon that which is one of
the masterpieces Of Almighty God--the
human foot Psychologist and anatoinist
arc overw helmcd at the wonders of its or
gnnixation. THE Bridgewater Treatise, y
written by Sir Chaircs Bell, on the wis.
dom und goodness OF Gcd as illustrated in