Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-03-04

between your thumb ana 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 between
the thumb and two fingers. You wrap
around your hand n blue ribbon five times,
ten times. You say it is FIVE ehandbreadths,
or it is ten handbreadths.. So indicates the
prophet God winds the blue ribbon of the
sky around his hand. che meteth out the
heavens with q span." You know that
balances are made of beam suspended in
the middle with two basinsat the extremi-
ty of equal heft. 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 saw
suspended when he saw God putting into
the scales .s4H Alps and the Apenuines and
Mount Washington and the Sierra Neva-
das. You see the earth had TO be ballasted.
1t would not do to have too much weight
in Europe, OF too much weight in 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 milligrams-just how much
they weighed then, and just how much
they weigh now: "He weighed the noun
tains in scales and the,hiIls in a balance"
Oh, what a God,to run against Oh, what
God TO disobeyl On. what God to dis
honorl Oh, what God to defy! The bright
est, the mightiest angel takes no familiari-
fxy with God Tho MIN s-e of roxoro,,ca a ya
lifted. "With twain he covered the face"
Another seraphic posture in the text.
The seraph must not always stand still.
He must move, and it, must be without
clumsiness. There must be celerity and
beauty in the movement. "With twain he
did fly" 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 hhs wings, as the seraphs
have wings. What is wingP An instru-
ment of locomotion. They may not bo like
seraphs' wing, they may not be like birds
wing, but the soul has wings. God says
so. "He shall mount up on wings as
eagles. - We are made in the divine image
and God has wings. The Bible says soI
Healing in his wings. +" "Under the shad-
ow of his wings" Under whose wings hast
thou come to trustl' The soul, with fold
| ed wing now, wounded wing, broken wing,
| bleeding wing, Gagged wing. Aye have
| it now! Gagged within bars of bone and un-
der curtains Of flesh, but one day to be
free. hear the rustic of pinions in Sea-
| graves poem, which we sometimes sing:
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings.
1 hear the rustic of pinions in Alexan-
der Pope's stanza, where he says:
Imount, Ify.
o-death, where is thy victoryP
Wings Co Heaven.
A. dying Christian not long ago cried
out, "Wings, wings, wingsp' The air is
full of them, coming and going, coming
and going. You have seen how the dull,
sluggish chrysalis becomes the bright but
| terfly-tle dull and the stupid and the
| lethargic turned into the alert and the
| beautiful. Well, my friends, in this world
1 we are in the chrysalid state. Death will
| unfurl the wings Oh, il we could only
| realize what q grand thing it will be tC
| get rid of this old clod of the body and
| mount the heavensl Neither sea gull nol
lark nor albatross nor falcon nor condor,
| pitching from highest range of Andes, SC
buoyant or so majestic of strCke.
! See that eagle in the mountain nestp II
| looks so sick, so ragged feathered, so worn
| out and so half asleep. Is that eagle dy
ing? No. The ornithologist will tell you
| it is, the melting season with that bird.
Not dying, but molting. You see thai
Christian sick and weary and worn Out
and seeming about to expire on what j:
called his deathbedP The world says he i,
dying. I say it is the molting season fol
his soul-the body dropping away, the ce
lestial pinions coming on. Not dying, b1'
molting. Molting out of darkness and siI
and struggle into glory and into God. Why
do you not shoutf Why do you sit shiver
ing at the thought of death and trying tt
hold back and wishing you could stay herr
forever and speak Of departure as though
the subject were filled with the skeletons
and tho varnish of coffins and as though
\ you preferred lame foot to swift wiagf
Il Oh, people of God, let us stop playini
the fcol and prepare for raptJlrous fight
When your soul stands ON the verge o
this life and there are vast precipices be
meath and sapphired dones above, whicl
way will you fyP VIII you swoep, or viii
you soar? Will you hy downward, or viii
you fly upward2 Everything on the win;
this day bidding us aspire. Holy Spirit OIL
the wing. Angel os the New Covenant OF
the wing. Time on the wing, flying ava
from us. Eternity on the wiring, flying to
ward us. Wings, wings, wings!
Live SO near 90 Christ that when yo1
are dead people standing by your lifeles
body will not soliloquize, saying; "Wha
q disappointment life was TO him; hoy
, averse he was ta DEPARTURE; what pity
was he had to die; what an awful calam
ity." Rather, standing there, may they Sc
a sign more vivid on your still face tina
the vestiges Of pain, something that wi
indicate that it was o happy exit-th
clearance from oppressive quarantine, th
cast off chrysalid, the molting of the fade
and the useless and the ascent from NAL,
rial valleys to bright, shining mountai
tops, and be led to say, as they stand thel
contemplating your humility and yor
reverence in life and your happiness
, death, StWith twain he covered the fee
with twain he covered the face, with twai
he did fly" Wings, wings, wings!
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r The native tendency of women to ga
about is variously repPessed in di6ereI
ages and countries. In China their fel
are early put in bandages, compressin
? them to point where locomotion is a
. tended with extreme difficulty. In 9th,