The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-03-05

rogant and intractable refuse reverence
There was an engineer by the name Of
Strasicrates who was III TIE employ Of
Alexander the Great, and he offered to
hew mountain in the shape of his
master, the emperor, the enormous fig
IRE to hold III the left hand Il city Of
10, GOO inhabitants, while with the right
hand it was to hold basin large enough
to collect all the mountain torrents.
Alexander applauGcd him for his i'll.
genulty, bit forbade the enterprise be-
cause Of its 0stliness. Yet | have TO
tell you that ur King holds in one hand
all the cities 4 the earth, and all the
oceans, while he has the stars of heaven
for his tiara
Earthly power goes from hand to
hand frcm Henry ] to Henry II and
Henry LII, from Charles | to Charles
Ill, from Louis l to Louis Ii and Louis
III, but from everlasting to everlasting
is God. God the first, God the last, God
the only. lie has one telescope, with
which he secs everything-h omnis-
cience. He has one bridge, with which
he crosses rything-his omnipres-
ence. He has one hammer, with which
he builds everything-his omnipotence.
Put two tablespoonfuls Of water in the
palm of your hand, and it will over
flow, but Isaiah indicates that God puts
the Atlantic, and the Pacific, and the
Arctic, and the Antarctic, and the Med
iterranean, and the Black sea, and al
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
He holdeth she 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, 50
Isaiah indicates God takes up the earth
He measures the dust of the earth, tho
original there indicating that God takes
all the dust of all tie continents be-
tween the thumb and two fingers. You
wrap around your hand a blue ribbon
five times, ten times. You say it is five
hand breadths or it is ten hand breadths.
So indicates the prophet God winds the
blue ribbon Of the sky around his hand.
"He meteth out the heavens with a
span. " You 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. 1t would not do to have
too much weight in Europe, or too
much weight in ASIA or too much
weight i'll Africa CT 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 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 a God to dishonorl Oh,
what God to defy! The brightest, the
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
There must be CELEBRITY and
beauty i'll the movement "With twain
ne did fly. D." Correction, eXhilaration.
at our slow gait, for we only
'rawl i'll the service when we ought to
1y at the divine bidding. Exhilaration
n the fact that the soul has wings as
he seraphs have wings. What is a
wing? An instrument of loCOmotion
They may not be like seraphs' wing,
hey may not be like birds wing, but
he soul has wings. God says so. "He
hall mount up on wings as eagles"
Ne are made in the divine image, and
Tod has wings. The Bible says So
Healing in his wings" Under the
hadow Of his wings. " Under whose
wings hast thou come to trust" The
oul with folded wing now, wounded
wing, broken wing, bleeding wing,
aged wing. Aye have it nowl Gagged
within bars of bone and under curtains
f flesh, but one day to be free. l hear (
he rustic Of pirions in Seagrave's poem
which we sometimes sing:
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings.
l hear the rustic of pinicns in Alex
nder POpe's stanza, where he says:
mount, fly.
o death, where is thy viotory2
On Wings to Eternity.
A dying Christian not long ago cried
ut, wings, wings, w1ngs!" The air
} full Of them, coming and going, COM
lg and going. You have seen how the
ull, sluggish chrysalid becomes the =.
right butterfly the dull and the stupid
nd the lethargic turned into the alert :
nd the beautiful. Well, my friends, in
lis world we are i'll the chrysalid state. g
'eath will unfurl the wings Oh, if we
ould only realize what a grand thing {
will be to get rid of this old clod of q
lie body and mount the heavens, neither