The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-03-06

SSA Nw Mmade up his family
hESA RsTA MNh he has a dream, no
ERNsGA A&2&sAMWM like the dream O.
REV. TALMAGE. ordinary character
which generally come from indiges
! ton, but a vision most instructive anC
under the touch of the hand of h AL
mighty. The place, the ancient tenn
pie; building grand, awful, majestic
Within that temple a throne higher
and grander than hat occupied by any
czar or sultan or emperor. On tina
throne the eternal Christ. In lines
surrounding that throne, the brightest
celestials, not the cherubim, but high
err than they, the most exquisite and
radiant of the heavenly inhabitants
the seraphim. They are called burn
ers because they look like fire. Lips
of fire, eyes of fire, feet of fire. In ad
dition to the features and the limbs
which suggest a human being, there
are pinions which suggest the lithest,
the swiftest, the most buoyant and the
most inspiring of all unintelligent
creations bird. Each seraph had six
wings, each two of the wings for q diff
ferent purpose. Isaiah's dream q~uivers,
and flashes with these pinions. Now
folded, now spread, now beaten in To-
comotion. "With twain he covered his
feet, with twain he covered his head,
and with vain he did fly"
The probability is that these wings
were not all used at once. The seraph
standing there near the throne, over
whelmed at the insignifcance of the
paths his feet had trodden as COM
pared with the paths trodden by the
feet of God, and with the lameness of
his locomotion amounting almost to
d~eerepitude as compared with b di-
vine velocity, with feathery veil of an
gelic modesty hides the feet. "With
twain he did cover the feet"
Standing there overpowered by the
overwhelming splendors of Gods glory,
and unable longer with the eyes to
look upon them, and wishing those
ewes shaded from the insufferable
glory, the pinions gather over the
countenance. with twain he did
cover the face" Then. as God tells
this seraph to go to the farthest out
post of immensely ON message of light
and love and joy, and get back before
the first anthem, it does not take the
a great while to spread himself
upon the air with unimagined celebrity,
one stroke of the wing equal to 10000
leagues of air. ''With twain he did
fly"
The most practical and useful lesson
for You and me-when we see the
spreading his wings over the
feet, is the lesson of humility at imper-
lection. The brightest angels of Tod
are so far beneath God that lie charges
them with folly. The seraph so far
beneath God, and we so far beneath
the seraph in service, we ought to
plunged into 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. Psychologist
and auatomist are overwhelmed at the
wonders of its organization. The
Bridgewater Treatise written by Sir
Charles Bell, on the wisdom and
goodness of God as illustrated Ia
the human hand, was a result
of the $40, 900 bequeathed in the last
will and testament of the earl of
RridgeYater for the encouragement OF
Christian literature. The world could
to forgive his eccentricities,
though he had two dogs seated at his
table, and though he put six dogs alone
ia an equipage drawn by four horses
and attended by two footmen. With
his large bequest inducing Sir Charles
Bell to write so valuable a book on the
wisdom of God in the structure of the
human hand, the world could a ford to
forgive his oddities, And the world
could now afford to have another earl
of Bridgewater, however idiosyncratie,
if he would induce some other Sir
Charles Bell to write a book on the
wisdom and goodness OF Zoe in the
construction of the human foot. The
of it's bones, the lubrica-
ton of its joints, the gracefulness of
its lines, the ingenuity of its cartil-
the delicacy of its veins, the
rapidity of its muscular contraction,
the sensitiveness of it's nerves.
l sound the praises Of the human
foot. With that we halt or climb or
1t is the foundation of the
physical IdDT1C- IL Is Lnt Ddbc u u
.od-poised column. With it the war
rior braces himself for battle. With
It the orator plants himself for eulo-
GUM. With 1T the toiler reaches his
work. With it the outraged stamps
his indignation. Its loss an irrepara-
BILE disaster. Its health an invaluable
equipment. If you want to know its
ask the man whose foot paraly-
sis hath shriveled, or machinery hath
crushed, or surgeons knife hath am
p~utated. The Bible hanprs it. Espe-
-ial care: Lest thou dash thy foot
a stone;" HE will not suffer
foot to be moved thy feet shall
lot stumble" Especial charge: keep
foot when thov goest to the house
If God" Especial peril: s'TheiF fset
slide In due time" Connected
with the worlds d~issolutioni "He
hall set one foot on the sea and the
on the EARTH
Give me the history of your foot, and
will give you The history Of your life
line. Tell me up what steps 1t hath
rome, down what d~eclivities, and In
What roads and in what directions, and
will know more about you than |
want to know. None of us could en-
the scrutiny. Our feet not al
Ways in paths of God. Sometimes in
'aths of worldliness. Our feet, d d.
line and glorious machinery for use
illness and work, so often making mis-
teps, SO often going the wrong direc-
ion. God knowing every step. the
,atriarch saying: Thou settest a
'ript on the heels of my feet" Crimes
# the hand, crimes of the tongue,
of the eye, crimes of the ear not
worse than crimes of the foot. Oh, we
want the wings of humility TO cover
he feet. Ought we not to go into
elf-abnegation before the ~all-search-
ng, all-scrutinizing, all-trying eye of
'oaP The seraphs do. How much
WEE with twain he covered
he feet"
Another seraphic posture in the text;
With twain he covered the face
hat NEAR reverence Godward.
so much i~rreyerence abroad in
he world as to-day. You see it in the
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