The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-03-10
SOAR LIKE 4 SERlPH.
WHiCr IS SWIFT, AsPiR2HT. 2AOIANE
AND BU0YANT.

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course DR.. Talmage takes most eX-
allied theme and makes il practical
and useful 10 the last degree. The
subject is Wings OF Seraphim, and
the text is Isaiah Vi ,, With twain
he covered his face, and with twain
ne covered his feet, and with twain ne
did fly"
In a hospital OF leprosy good King
Uzziah mad died, aud the whole land
was shadowed with solemuity, and
theological and phophetic Isaiah was
thinking about religious things, as
one is ap: 10 doin time of great nation
al bereavement, and, forgetting the
presence OF his wife aud two sooS,
who made Up his family, he has q
dream no! like the dreams Of ordinary
character, which generally came from
indigestion b1t a vision most instruct
i've and under the touch Of the hand OF
the Almighty.
The place, the ancient temple;
building grand, awful, majestic.
Within that temple throne higher
and eranGer than that occupied by
car Or sultan Or emperor. On that
throne the eternal Christ. In lines,
surrounding that throne, the brightest
celeStials. not the cherubim, but high
er than they, the most exquisite and
radiant OF the heavenly inhabitants
the seraphim. They are called burn
ers because they look ike fire. Lips
CT fire, eyes of FIRE, feet OF fire. In
addition to the features and the limbs,
which suggest q human being, there
sre pinions, which suggest the lithest,
the swiftest, the most buoyant and the
most aspiring Of ali unintelligent crea-
ton, a bird. Each seraph had six
wings, each two of the wings for
different purpose. Isaish's dream
Quivers and flashes with these pinions.
Now folded. row spread, now beaten
in locomotion. With twain he Gov
cred his feet, with twain he covered
his face, aud with twain he did fly"
The probability is that these wings
were all used at once. The seraph
standing there near the throne, over
whelmej at the insignifcance OF the
paths his feet had trodden as compared
with the paths trodden by the feet OF
God, and with the lameness Of his 10.
comotion, amounting almost to de-
crepitude as compared with the divine
velocity, with feathery veil of angelic
modesty hides the feet. with twain
he did cover the feet.
Standing there, overpoWered by the
overwhelming splendors of Goo' glory
aud unable longer with the eyes to
look upon them and wishing those
eyes shaded from the insuferable
glory, the pinions gather over the
countenance. With twain he did
cover the face" Then, as God tells
this seraph to 90 to the farthest out
post of immensity on message Of light
and love and JOY acd get back before
the first anthem, it does not take the
sci aph great while to spread himself
upon the air with unimagined celerity,
one stroke of the wing equal to 10,OOO
| leagues OF air. with twain he did
dy."
The most practical and useful lesson
for you and me-when we see the ser
aph spreading his wings over the feet
is the lesson Of humility at imper:
fection. 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 fSr beneath
the seraph in service, We ought to De
plunged il humility, utter and COM
plete. Our feet, how laggard they
have been in the divine service, Our
feet, how many missteps they have
taken. Our feet, in how many paths
of worldliness and folly they have
walked!
Neither God nor seraph intended to
put any dishonor upon that which IS
one Of the MASTERPIECES Of Almighty
God-the human foot. Physiologist
and anatomist are overwhelmed at
the wonders of its organization. The
Bride ewater Treatise" written by Sir
Charles Bell, on the wisdom and good
ness of God as illustrated in the hui
man hand, was result OF the $40, 600
beoueathed in the last will and testa.
ment OF the Earl Of Bridgewater for
the encouragement of Christian liter
ature. The world could afford to for
give his eccentricities. though he had
two dogs seated at his table and though
he pat six dogs alone in an equipage
drawn by four horses and attended by
two footmen. With his large beQuest
inducing Sir Charles Bell to write so
valuable book on the wisdom OF God
| in the structure Of the human hand the
world could afford to forgive his oddi-
ties. And the world could now afford to
| have another Earl Of Bridsewater now
ever idosyncratic, if he would induce
some other Sir Charles Bell to write
book on the wisdom and goodness OF
God in the construction of the human
foot. The articulation Of It's bones,
the fabrication OF lis joints, the grace.
fulness OF its lines, the ingenuity Ct
its csrtilages, the delicacy OF its veins,
tire rapidity CT its muscular contrac-
ton, the sensitiveness OF its nerves.
sound the praises of the human
foot. With that we halt or climb or
march. II is the foundation OF the
paysical fabric. 1t is the base OF God
poised column. With it the warrior
braces himself for battle With it the
orator plants bimseIf for eulogium.
With it the toiler reaches his work.
With it the outraged stamps his indlg-
nation. It's loss an irreparable dlsas-
ter. It's health an invaluable equip.
ment. II you wantto know is value,
ask the man whose foot paralysis hath
shriveled, or machinery hath crushed.
or surgeons knife hath amputated.
The Bible honors it. Especial care,
Lest thou dash thy foot agains: a
stone, He will not suffer thy foot to
be moved, Thy feet shall not stun
ble Especial charge, Keep thy
loot when thou gcest to the house OF
God" Especial peril. Their feet
shall slide in due time. Connected
with the worlds dissolution, He shall
set one foot on the sea and the other
on the earth.
Give me the history Of your foot,