Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-03-04
SOAR LIKE.A sERAPH.
WHICH is SWIFT, ASPIRING. RADIANT
AND eUoYAHu.

WIiC7 70 oWtr rSoFthifSt7s HADiANi
AND eUoYANu.-
Rev. Dr. TaIneEe breaches Upon an Ex-
altsd Theme. BUT Re Makes II Practical
and UssfuI-The Rustic sf Pinions-Ds-
vine Velocity.
WASHINGTON, Feb 2s.-In this discourse
DR.. Talmage takes most exalted theme
and makes it practical and useful to tho
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"
Ina hospital of leprosy good King Uzziah
had died, and tho whole land was shadow
cd with solemnity, and theological and
phophetic Isaiah was thinking about re-
ligious things, as one Is apt to-do In time
Of great national Bereavement, and, forget
ting the presence Of his wife and two sonss
who made up his family, he has dream,
not like the dreams OF ordinary character,
which generally come from indigestion,
but 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 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
est celestiels, not the chorubinl, but high
er than they, the most exquisite and rndi-
ant of the heavenly inhabitants-the sera-
phim. 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 be-
ing, there are pinions, which suggest the
lithest, the swiftest, the most buoyant and
the most aspiring of all uninteiligent crsa-
tion, bird. Each seraph had six wings,
each two'of the wings for different pur-
pose. Isaiah's dream quivers and flashes
with these pinions. Now folded, now
spread, now beaten in locomotion. with
twain he covered his feet, with twain he
covered his face, and with twain he did fly"
Unimagined CELEBRITY.
The probability is that these wings were
not all used at once. The seraph standing
there near the throne, overwhelmed at the
insignifcance 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 locomotion, amounting almost
TO decrepitude as compared with the divine
velocity, with feathery veil of angelic mod
esty hides the feet. "With twain he did
cover the feet"
Standing there; overpowered by the over
matching splendors of Gods glory and
unable longer with the eyes to look upon
them and wishing those eyes shaded from
the insufferable glory, the pinicns gather
over the countennnce. "With twain be did
cover the face" Then, as God tells this
seraph to go to the farthest outpost of i'm
mensity on message Of light and love and
Joy ard get back before the first anthem,
it does not take the seraph q great while
to spread himself upon the air with un-
imagined celebrity, one stroke of the wing
equal to 10, goo leagues Of air. with twain
he did fly"
The most practical and useful lesson for
you and ne-when we see the seraph
spreading his wings over the feet--is the
lesson of humility at imperfection. 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 fan
beneath the seraph in service, we ought to
be plunged in humility, utter and com.
plcte. Our feet, how laggard they have
been in the divine seTyicei Our feet how
| many missteps they have takenl Our feet
| in how many paths of worldliless and folly
they have walked!
Neither God nor seraph intended to put
any dishonor upon that which is one O.
the masterpieces Of Almighty God-th,
human foot. Psychologist and anatomis
are overwhelmed at the wonders of it's or
| ganization. 1.-THE Bridgewater Treatise, ;
written by Sir Chalres Bell, on the wis
dom and goodness of Gcd as illustrated il
the human hand, was result of the $40,
600 bequeathed in the last will and tesla
ment of the Earl of Bridgewater for tn,
encouragement of Christian literature
| The world could afford to forgive his &c
centricities, though he had two dogs seat
| ed ct his table and though he put six dog
alone in an equirage drawn by four horse
and attended by two footrnen. With hi
large bequest inducing Sir Charles Bell t,
write SO valuable book On the wisdom o
God in the structure of the human hand
the world could afford to forgive his oddi
ties. And the world could now afford Il
have another Earl of Bridgewater, how
ever idiosyncratic, if he would induce som
other Sir Charles Bell to write q book OF
the wisdom and goodness Of God in tn
| construction of the human foot. The an
ticulation of its bones, the fabrication @
its joints, the graeefulness of its lines, th
ingenuity of its cartilages, the delicacy @
f>ff ffer
traction, the sensitiveness Of its nerves.
| Apostrophe to the Foot.
sound the praises of the human foot
With that we halt or climb CT march. /
is the foundation of the physical fabric. ]
is the base of a God poised column. Wit
it the warrior braces himself for battle
With it the orator plants himself for eulc
gium. With it the teiler reaches his work
With it the outraged stamps his indigns
4 tion. It's loss an irreparahle disaster. II
health an Invaluable equipment If yo
want to know it's value, ask the ma
whose foot paralysis hath shriveled, {
machinery hath crushed, or surgeon
knife hath amputated. The Bible honor
it. Especial care, LEST thou dash th
foot against stone, /" "He will not suffe
thy foot to be moved, Thy feet shall nc
stumble. Especial charge, Keep th
foot when thou goest to the house of God.
Especial peril, "Their feet shall slide i
due time" Connected with the world
dissolution, He shall set one foot on til
sea and the other on the earth. !"
Give me the history Of your foot, and
will give you the history Of your lifetime
| Tell me m what stems III hath gone dow
what declivities and y what roads and i
what directions, and will know mol
about you than want to know. None
us could endure the scrutiny. Our feet nj
. always in paths of God, sometimes
paths of worldliness Our feet a divir
and glorious machinery for usefulness al
work, SO often making missteps, SO ofte
going in the wrong direction. God know
ing every step, the patriarch sayin,
stThou settest print on the heels of m