The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-03-04

ptdity however learned, reverence for In.
capacity however finely inauguratsd, have
none. But We want more reverence for
God, more reverence for the sacramento.
more reverence for the Bible. more revcr-
ence Tor the pure, more reverence for the
good. Reverence u characteristic OF all
great Latures. You hear it in the roll OF the
master oratorios, You see 1t in the Raphuels
and Titians and Ghirlandaois. You study 1t
In the architecture OF the Aholiats and
Christopher Wrens. Do not bo flppaut
about God. Do not joke about death. Do
not make fun about the Bible. Do no. de-
ride the Eternal. Tho brightest and might
lest seraph cannot look unabashet upon
Him. lnvoluntarily the wings come up.
with twain he covered his face"
who Is this God before whom the arrogant
intractable refuse reverence? There
was an engineer by the name OF Strasicra,es
who was In the employ OF Alexander the
Great, and he offered to hew a mountain in
the shape OF his master. tho emperor, the
enormous figure to hold in tho left hand a
city OF 1908 inhabitants, while in the right
bandit was to hold a BASIN large enough to
coiiect all the mountain torrents. AIexan-
ger appiauded him for his ingenuity. but for
badelhe enterprise because OF its cOstliness.
Yet have to tell you that our King holds In
one hand all tho cities Of the earth, and all
tho oceans, while he has the stars OF heaven
for his tiara.
Earthly power goes from hand 10 hand
from Henry | to Henry II aul Henry III.
from Charles Ito Ch1rlcs II. from Louis /
10 Louis II ani Louis Ill, but from evrrlast-
Ing to everlasting is God. God the first, Got
tho last, God the only. lie has one telescope.
with which he secs everything-his omnis-
cience. He has ono bridge, with which he
crosses everyihing-his omniprrsenc'. lie
has one hammer, with which hc builds
everything his Omnipotence. Put two
tablespoonfuls Of water IN the palm of
your hand, and I; will overflow, but ISAIAH
indicates that God puts the Atlantic, aud
the Pacific, ani II" Arctic, and the Autarr-
Tie, and the Mcdltercanran and thu Black
Sen, and all tho waters Of tn, earth in tho
hollow of His hand. The fingers tho beech
on one sidr,thn wrist tho beach on the other.
"sa holdcth tho water in the hollow Of His
hand"
As you take a pinch OF salt or powder be-
tween your thumb and two fingers, so Isaiah
indicates God takes up the earth. He meas
ures the dus, OF the earth, the original tHcro
indicating that God takes ali the dust Of all
the continents between tho thumb aud two
fingers. You wrap around your hand Il blue
ribbon five times, ten times. You say Il is
five hnni brcaiths or it Is ten hand brenlths.
so indicates tho prophet God winds the
blue ribbon OF tho sky around His han |.
"Ho metrih out tEo heavens with II
span" You know that balances arc
made OF II beam suspended in the middle.
with two basins ut thu extremity OF equal
heft In that way what vast iel, has been
weighed! But whnt are al the balances OF
earthly manipulation compared with the
balances that Isaiah saw suspended when ho
saw God putting into the scales the Alps and
the Np'nnines and Mount Washington and
the SinrrN Ncyldas! lou see the cartl had
TO be- hnllastei. 1t would not do to have too
much weight In Europe, or too mu'a weight
In Asia, or too much weight in Africa or in
America, 50 when God mal" 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 uyoirdupois, the ounces, the
grains, the milIrgrlms-just how much they
weighed then aud just how mu h they weigh
now. "llr weighed tho mountains in scales
and tho hills in u In .uurr.' On, what u God
to run against! Oh, what 4 Col to di-ubry,
Oh. what II God to iish0nor' on. what a
God to defy, The brightest. tho mighlirst
angel take. no familiarity with God. The
wings OF reverence atc lifted. "With twain
he covered the face"
Another scraphic pn1tutCin the text. Tho
serGph must not always stand still. He must
move, AMI II must ho without clumsinrss.
There must be celebrity and beauty in the
movement. 'With twain he did NJ" Cor
%rcction, cxhi'aration. Correction nj our
slow gait, for We only crawl in the sorylco
when We ought 20 fly at the divine bidding.
Exhilaration in tho TACT that the soul has
wings n tho scrJphs have wings. What Is
n wing? An instrument Of locomotion.
They may not bo like ser Iphs' wing, thoy
may not be like birds wing, but the soul has
wings. GCd SAYS 50. ''Iio shall mount up
on wings rs eagles" We are made In tho
divine image. and God has wings. The Blb.a
says so. Healing In HIS wings" Under
the shadow OF Hls wings" Under Whose
wings hast thou come to trust" The
soUl with folded wing now, wounded
wing, broken wing, blce ling wing. Gagged
wing. Aye, ! have II now! Gagged within
bars Of bone and under curtains OF flesh, but
one day to ba free. | hear the rustic o.
pinions in Scasravc's poem which We some
times sing:
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wing.
lhoar the rustic Of plnlons in Alex ,nder
pope's s%lLa2n, whore he says:
mount, ! fly.
o Gclth, where Is thy victory?
Oh, people Of God. let us stop playing the
lOuI ana prepare LOT rhptltOlS Ileht. When
your soul stands On the Verge OF this life,
and there are vast precirices beneath and
sapphirei domcs above. which way viii Won
fly? viii YOU swoop. or will you soar: viii
you ny downward, or will you fly UPWARD
Everything on the wing this day bidding va
aspire. Holy Spirit on the wing. Angel OF
the New Covenant on the wing. Time on
the wing, flying away from us. Eternity on
the wing, lying iOwar! US. Wings, wings.
wings!
Live so near to Christ that when you are
dead people standiag by you ~llfelcss body
will no. s~oliloquize, saying; "What n dis
life was to MIN! How aversc he
was to departure! Whit u pity II was he had
TO die! What an awful calamity" Rather
there my they see n sign more
vivid on your still face than tho ves,igcs OF
pain, something that will indicate that
1t WAS n happy exit, the clearance from
oppressive quarantine. the cist-oiY chrysa.
lis. the molting OF the faded and the useless,
md the ascent from malarial valleys TO
bright, shining mountain tops, and be led to
say, as they stand there contemplating your
humility and your reverence in life and your
happiness In death. "With twain he covered
he feet, with " ain he covered his face.