The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-03-10

he crosses everything-his omnlpres-
ence. He has ole hammer, with which
he builds cverything-his omnirotence.
Put two tablespoonfuls Of water in the
palm of your hand, and it will over
flow, but Isaiah indicates that Gcd puts
the Atlantic, and the Pacific, and the
Arctic, and the Antarctic, and the Med
iterranean, and the Black sea, ard all
the waters Of the earth in the hollow Of
his hand. The fingers the beach on one
side, the wrist the beach on the ether.
"He holdeth the water i'll the hollow of
his hand
The Blue Ribbon.
As you take pinch of salt or powder
between your thumb and two fingers, SO
Isaiah indicates Gcd takes up the earth
He measures the dust Of the earth, the
original there indicating that God takes
all the dust of all the continents be-
tween the thumb and two fingers You
wrap around your hand blue ribbon
five times, ten times. You say it is five
hand breadths CT it is ten hand breadths.
So indicates the prophet God winds the
blue ribbon CT the sky around his hand.
"He meteth out the heavens with a
span." Yen know that balances are
made of beam suspended in the mid
die, with two basins at the extremity of
equal heft. In that way what vast heft
has been weighed! But what are all the
balances of earthly manipulation COM
pared with the balances that Isaiah saw
suspended when he saw God putting
into the scales the Alps and the Apen-
mines and Mount Washington and the
Sierra Nevadas? You see the earth had
to be ballasted. It would not do to have
tco much weight in Europe, or too
much weight in Asia, or too much
weight in Africa or in America, SO
when God mace TIE 15 ne
weighed them. TIE Bible distinctly
says SO. Gcd knows the weight Of the
great ranges that cross the continents,
the tons, the pounds avoirdupois, the
ounces, the grains, the millegrams-
Just how much they weighed then and
just how much they weigh, now. "He
weighed the mountains in scales and
the hills in balance" Oh, what God
to run against! Oh, what God to dis
obey! Oh, what God to dishonor! Oh,
what Gcd to defy! The brightest, the
mightiest angel takes 10 familiarity
with God. The wings Of reverence are
lifted. "With twain he covered the
face"
Another seraphic posture in the text.
The seraph must not always stand still.
He must move, and it must be without
clumsiness. There must be celebrity and
beauty in the movement. with twain
he did fly Correction, exhilaration.
Correction at our slow gait. for we only
crawl in the service when we ought to
fly at the divine bidding. Exhilaration
in tie fact that the soul has wings as
the seraphs have wings. What is a
wing? An instrument Of locomotion.
They may not be like seraphs' wing,
they may not be like birds wing, but
the soul has wings. God says so. He
shall mount up en- wings as 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 whose
wings hast thou ccre to trust. - The
soul with folded wing row, wounded
wing, broken wing, bleeding wing,
Gagged wing. Aye, have it new! Gagged
within bars of bone and under curtains
of flesh, but one day to be free. hear
the rustic Of pinions in Seagrave's poem
which we sometimes sing:
Rice, my SOUL end stretch thy wings.
hear the rustic of pinions in Alex
ander Pope's starza, where he says:
Imount, fly.
o death, where is thy victoryf
On Wings to Eternity.
A dying Christian not long ago cried
out, Wings, wings, wingsH' The air
is full of them, coming and going, COM
ing and going. You have seen how the
dull, sluggish chrysalid becomes the
bright butterfly the dull and the stupid
and the lethargic turned into the alert
and the beautiful Well, my friends, i'll
this world we are in the chrysaEd state.
Death will unfurl the wings. Oh, if we
could only realize what 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 b1oyant or so majestic of
stroke.
Sec that eagle in the mountain nest.
1t looks so sick, so ragged feathered, so
worn out and so half asleep. Is that
eagle dying? No. The ornithologist will
tell ycu it is the molting season with
that bird. Not dying, but molting.
You see that Christian sick and weary
and worn out and seeming about to ex-
r',e Cn what is called his deathbed. The
world says he is dying. I say it is the
molting season for his soul-the body
dropping away, the celestial pinions
coming Oh. Not dying, but moltlng.
Melting out of darkness and sin and
struggle into glory and into God. Why
oo you not shout: Why do you sit shiv-
ering at the thought of death and trying
to hold back and wishing you could stay
here forever, and speak Of departure as
though the subject were filed with skel-
etons and the yaInish of coffins, and as
though you preferred lame foot to swift
wing?
Oh, people of God let us stop playing
the fool and prepare for rapturous fight
When YOUR soul stands On the verge Of