Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-03-05

who vas in the employ oI Alexander the
Great, aud he Offered 20 hes a mountain an
the shape Of his master. the emperor, the
enormous lgure 20 hold in the leti hand a
city q 1000 inhabitants. waile In the night
hand u was % hold a basin large enough 20
collect all the mountain torrents. AleNan-
der applaudet him Tor ms ingenuity, but for
hadeihe enterprise because o. H. cosiliness.
Yet have 10 tell you that our King holds In
one hand ali the cities % the earth, and alt
the oceans, while he has the stars OF heaven
for his tiara.
Earthly power goes from hand 90 hand
from Henry / to Henry II and Henry III,
from Charles 10 Charles If. from Louis l
20 Louis III and Louis Ill, but from evcrlast-
ing 10 everlasting i God. God the first, God
the last, God the only. He hiss Onetelescope,
with which he sees everythlng-his Omnis-
cience. He has one bridge. with which he
crosses everything-his Omnipresence. He
has one hammer, with which he builds
eyerything-his Omnipotence. Put two
tablespoonful 81 water In the palm OF
your hand. and 1t will overflow, but Isaiah
indicates that God puts the Atlantic, ana
the Pacific, aud the Arctic. and the Antarc-
tie, aud the Mediterranean. and the Black
Sen. aud 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 other.
ale holdeth the water in the hollow OF His
hand
As YOU take pinch Of salt or powder be-
tween your thumb and two fingers, so Isaiah
indicates God takes up the earth. He meas
ures the dust OF the earth, the original there
in iicating that God takes alt the dust of all
the continents between the thumb aud two
fingers. You wrap around your hand blue
ribbon five times, ten times. You saw II Is
five hand breadths or II is ten hand breadths.
So indicates the prophet God winds the
blue ribbon OF tho sky around His hanI
"He meteth out the heavens with a
spun.' You know that balances are
made Of beam suspended in the middle,
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 compared with the
balances that Isaiah saw suspended when he
saw God putting into the scales the Alps and
the Apennines and Mount Washington and
the Sierra Nevadas! You see the earth had
10 be balastel. II would not do to have too
much weight in Europe, or too much weight
in Asia, or too much weight in Africa or in
America. so when God made 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 ayOir1upois, the ounces, the
grains, the millegrams-just how much they
weighed then and just how mu h they weigh
now. 'He weighed the mountains in scales
and the hills in balance" Oh, what God
to run against Oh, what God TO disObey!
Oh, what a God TO dishonor! oh, what a
God TO defy! The brightest, the mightiest
angel takes no 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" Cor
rection, exhilaratiOn. Correction at our
slow gait. for we only crawl in the service
when we ought to fly at the divine bidding.
EXhiaration in the fact that the soul has
wings as the seraphs have wings. What is
Il wing? An instrument OF locomotion.
They may not be like serlphs' wing, they
may not he like birds wing, but the soul has
wings Goa says so. He shall mount up
/ on 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 come TO trust The
soul with folded wing nov, wounded
wing, broken wing. bleeding wing. Gagged
! wing. Aye. | have 1t now! Gagged within
/ bars OF bone and under curtains of flesh, Dur
/ one day to be free. | hear the rustic o.
/ pinons in Seagrave's poem which we some
times sing
Rise, my soul, aud stretch thy wings.
Ihear the rustic of piuions in Alexander
Popes stanza, where he says:
| mount, fly.
o death, where is thy victory?
Oh, people of God, let us stop playing tn
fool and prepare for rapturous flight. Wher
your soul stands on the verge OF this life
and there are vast preclpices beneath anC
sapphired domes above, which way will yoU
I fly? Will you swoop, or will YOU soar vii
you fly downward or will you fly upward
Everything on the wing this day bidding u,
aspire. Holy Spirit on the wing. Angel o
the New Covenant on the wing. Time OF
the wing, flying away from US. Eternity OF
the wing, flying toward us. Wings, wings
wings.
Live so near to Christ that when YOU ar,
dead people standing by your lifeless bod!
will not soliloquize, saying; "What dis
appointment life was to him! How averse HI
was to departure! What d pity it was he haC
TO die! What an awful calamity Rattle
standing there my they see a sign NOR
vivid on your still face than the vestiges o
pain, something that will indicate tina
it was a happy exit, the clearance from
| oppressive quarantine, the east-off chrysa
lis. the melting OF the faded and the useless
and the ascent from malarial valleys L
bright, shining mountain tops, and be led t.
say, as they stand there contemplating you
humility and your reverence in life and you
happiness in death, "With twain he covered
the feet, with twain he covered his face
with twain he did fly" Wings, wings, wings