St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-04-03

grainA ne millogrammss-just how
much they weighed then, and IT how
much they weigh now. ''He weighed
the mountains In scales and Tie hills
In . balance" Oh, what . God to rum
against oh, what = God 70 disobeys
Oh, what . God 70 diahonoe; oh, what .
God 70 de3yi The brightest, the might
lest angel takes no familiarity with
God. Tho wings Of reverence are
lifted. "With twain he covered the
face.n 50.
Another seraphic posture in the text
The seraph must always stand stu.
He must move, and It must be without
clumsiness. Thereimust be celebrity and
beauty in the movement with twain
he did hy." Correction, exhilaration.
Correction ut our slow gait, for we only
crawl in the service when we ought to
fly ut the Divine bidding. Exhilaration
in the fact that the soul has wings
Is the seraphs have wings. What
is . wing? An instrument OF
locomotion. They may not be like
seraph's wing, they may not be
like birds wing, but the soul
has wings. God says 90: HE shall
mount up on wings Is eagles" We are
made in the Divine image, and God has
wings The Bible says SO: Healing
in His wings" Under the shadow OF
His wings" Under VIII ose wings hast
thou come to trust" The soul with
folded wing now, wounded wing. Aye!
have it now. Gagged within bars OF
bone and under curtains Of aesh, but
one day to be free. / hear the rustic
Of pinions in Seagrave's poem which we
sometimes sing:
Rise. my SOUL and stretch thy wings.
hear the rustic of pinions in Alex
ander Pope's stanza, where he says:
Imount. ay.
o Death where Is thy victory!
A dying Christian not long ago cried
ont: wings, wings, wings! The air
u full Of them, coming and going. con-
ing and going. You have seen how
the dull, sluggish chrysalid becomes
the bright butterfly; the dull and
the stupid and the lethsrgic turned
into the alert and the beautiful. Well,
my friends, in this world we are in the
chrysalid state. Death will unfurl the
wings. Oh, If we could only realize
what q grand thing it will be to get
rid Of this old clod of the body and
mount the heavens, neither seagull
nor lark nor albatross nor falcon. nor
condor pitching from highest range OF
Andes SO buoyant or so majestic OF
stroke.
See that eagle in the mountain nest
It looks 50 sick, 50. ragged-feathered,
SO worn out and SO half asleep. Is that
eagle dying: No. The ornithologist
will tell you it Is the moulting season
with that bird. Not dying, but moult-
ing. You see that Christian sick and
weary and worn out and seeming about
to expire on what is called his dea.A-
bed. The world says he js.dXng,
say it is the moulting season Tor his
soul-the body dropping away, the
celestial pinions coming on. Not dy-
ing, but moulting. Moulting out
Of darkness and sin and struggle
into glory and into God. Why do you
not shoutsi Why do you sit skivering
at the thought of death and trying to
hold back and wishing you could stay
here forever, and speak of departure -
though the subject were filed with
skeletons and the varnish of collins,
and as though you preferred lame foot
to swift wing!
Oh, people of God, let usstop playing
the fool and prepare for rapturous
fight When your soul stands IN the
verge of this life, and there are vast
precipices beneath, and sapphired
domes above, which way will You dyl
viii You swoop or will you soar? Will
you fly downward or will you fly up
ward? Everything on the wing this
day bidding us aspire. Holy Spirit
ON the wing. Angel of the new cove.
nant on the wing. Time on the wing,
flying away from us. Eternity ON the
wing, flying toward us. Wings, wings,
wings!
Live 50 near to Christ that when you
are dead people standing by your life.
less body will not soliloquize, saying
''What disappointment life was t.
him; how averse he was to departure;
what . pity it was he had to die; what
IN awful calamity" Rather standing
there may they see . sign more
vivid ON your still face than the
vestiges 1fspsin, something that, viii
indicate thafit was . happy exit Ahe
clearance from oppressive quarantine
the cast OF chrysalid, the moulting Of
the faded and the useless, and the
ascent from malarial valley r.
bright shining mountain tops. and
be led to say, rs they stand there
contemplating your humility and your
reverence in life, and your Happiness.
in death: with twain He covered the
feet, with twain He covered the face
with twain He did ny." Wings! Wings
Wings.
UnieeA salvatioa.
Tho weakening of one church - the
weakening Of al the churches Iso
lated salvation 10 impossible. The
traditional theory. that . class 10 or
dsined to be saved and . elias,
- =. Let .iA. er,ri.l diaorwa nj