The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-03-06

O1lR1OAl lnere 1nu1CAiln9 IDAI zoo takes
all the dust of all the continents between
the thumb and two fingers. You wrap
around your hand a blue ribbon five times
ten times. You say it is five hand breadths
or it is ten handbreadths- So indicates the
prophet God winds the blue ribbon of the
sky around his hand. 'tHe meteth out the
heavens with a SPAN You know that
balances arc made of q beam suspended in
the middle with two basins at the extremi-
ty of equal left. In that way what vast
heft has been weighed. But what are all
the balances Of earthly manipulation com
pared with the balances that Isaiah stw
suspended when he saw God putting into
the scales the Alps and the Apennines and
Mount Washington and the Sierra Neva-
das- You see the earth had to be hallasted.
1t would not do to have too much weight
ia Europe, or too much weight In Asia, or
too much weight In Africa or IN America
60 when God made the mountains he
weighed them. The Bible distinctly says
90. God knows the weight OF the great
ranges that cross the continents, the tons,
the pounds ayoirdupois, the ounces, the
grains, the 1nilligrams-just how much
they weighed then, and just how much
they weigh now. ''He weighed the noun
tains in scales and the hills in a balance
Oh, what a God to run against! Oh, what
a God to disobey. Oh, what a God to dis
honor! Oh. what a God to defy! The bright
est, the mightiest angel takes no familiari-
ty with God. The wings of reverence are
lifted. with twain he covered the face
Another seraphic posture IN the text.
The seraph must not always stand still
Be must move, and it must be without
clEznstness. There must be celebrity and
beauty in the movement with twain he
did fy." Correction, exhilaration. Cor
rection at our slow gait, for we only crawl
in the service when we 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 instru-
ment of 1ocon,otion- They may not be like
seraphs' wing, they may not be like birds
wing, but the soul has wings. God says
30. "He shall mount up on wings as
eagles" Wear made in the divine image,
| and God has wings. The Bible says SO.
Healing in his wings Under the shad-
| ow of his wings Under whose wings hast
| thou come to trust The, soul with fold
| ed wing now, wounded wing, broken wing,
| bleeding wing, Gagged wing Aye, I have
| 1t now! Gagged within bars of bone and I'M
der curtains of flesh, but one day TO be
free. / hear the rustic of ptnions in Sea
! graves poem, which we sometimes sing:
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings.
| / hear the rustic of pinions in Alexan-
| der Pope's stanza, where he says:
| 1nount. fly.
| o death, where is thy victoryi
Wings to Heaven.
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| A dying Christian not long ago cried
! out, wings, wings, wings"' The air is
| full OF them, coming and going, coming
| and going. You have seen how the dull,
sluggish ch.ysalis becomes the bright but
terfy-the duh and the stupid and the
| 1ethargic turned into the alert and the
beautiful. Well, my friends, in this world
| we are In the chrysalid state Death will
unfurl the wings. Oh, If we could only
/ realize what grand thing Ii will be to
| get rid of this old clod of the body and
mount the heavens! Neither sea gull nor
lark nor albatross nor falcon nor condor,
| pitching from highest range of Andes, SO
| buoyant or SO majestic of stroke
See that eagle in the mountain nests 1t
looks 80 sick, SO ragged feathered, 30 worn
out and SO half asleep. LIS that eagle dy-
ingf No. The ornithoIogist will tell you
1t Is the Inolting season with that bird.
Not dyiT =, but melting. You see that
Christian sick and weary and worn out
and seeming about to expire on what IL
| called his dcathbedP The world says he IL
dying j say it is the molting season fo'