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TALMAGE 1) day Sermo. bmiperfections.” Text: “With twcain he covered hie 1 . with twain he covered his feel, and wilh twain he did fly." —1Isaiah vi., 2 In a hospital of leprosy goot K'nz Uszziah had died, and the whole land was shadowad with solemnity, and theolozical and proph- etic Isaish was thinking about religious things, as one is ant to do 1n time of great national bereavement, and forgetting the presence of his wife and two sons, who made up his family, he had a dream, nor like the creams of ordinary character, which gea- erally cove from indigestion, but a vision most instructive, and under the touch of the hand of the Almighty, The place—the ancient temole: building ~grand, awiu', majestic Within that temple a throne higher and grander than that occupied by any czir, or suitan or em- ror, On that throne the eternal Christ, Pr lines surrounding that throne the bright est celestials, not the cherubim, but hizher than they, toe most exquisite and radiant of the heavenly inbabitants, ths ssraphim, They are called burners because they look like fire. Lips of fire, eyes of fire, feet of fire, In addition to the features and tae limbe, which suzgest a human being, there are pinions, which su zgest the lightest, the swiltest, the most buovant and most in- spiring of all inteiligent creation-—-a bird, Fach seraph had six wings, each two of the wings for a differant parposs, Isaiah's dream quivers and flashes with these pinion. Now folded, now spread, now beaten in locomotion, ‘With twain he cov. ered bis feet, with twain he covered his face, and with twain he did fly.” The probability is that these wings were not all used at once. The seraph standing there near the throne overwhelmed at the in- significance of the paths his teet had trodden as compared with the paths trodden by the feet of God, and with the lameness of his wwcomotion amounting almost to decrepitudas ks compared with the diviae velocity, with feathery veil of angelic modesty hides the feet, “With twain he did cover his feet.’ Standing there overpowered by the over matching splendors of Got's glory, and une ahie longer with the eyes to loo ¢ upon them, snd wishing those eves shaded from the in- sufferable glory, the pinions gather over the vuntenance, ‘Wtl i iid cover the aggard wo Our feet, tb { o aken:! Cu ad m ho 1 FP worldliness and f have walged Neither God nor sera inten ied to put any dishonor upon t which is one of the masterpieces of Ale ¥ =the haoman toot, hysiologzist aod anatomist whelmed at the wonders of its org “The Bridgewater Treatise,” writ 3 {"bharles Bell, on the wisdom and goodness of God, as iliustrated in the human hand, was a result will and testament of the Earl o Bridge. water for the encourangement of Christian iterature, ‘Ihe world could afford to for- give his eccentricities, thouzh he had two dogs seated at his tab.e, and though be put ®X dogs alone in an eguipage drawn by four borses and attended Ly two footnen, With his Jarge teqa lusng Sir Charles Bell to write so valuable 8 book on the wiscom oo! God in the str ire of the buman hand, the word coal Tord to for- give his oadities, Am + world coud now afford tv have anothe { Bridgewater, however wdiosynceratic, if he v id induce some other Sir Charies Bell 1 write 8 LOO 2 on the wisdom and ¥ of Uod in tha onstruction of the icuiation of its booes, tue is ¢ 2 of its joints, the gra genuiLy o VOILE, 1 wt} I sound tae With that we hs the foundation the base © oss an irreg invaluatue Know its paralysis hate crushed, of POS Kuile hatn ampullate The Bie hounorsit, Espec.ai ear: “I thou dasa © t st will not snffe feet shall “3 - © Been thy shall side in di the world's diss a00t on the sen Give ma give you the § * uo what s ivities, nr irectiions, at han I want &0 ths ; rae than thi crimes ol th i . 1, we want the wings of humility to cover the feet, Ourht we not to go into solf abernation before the all searchiag, all scrutinizing, all trying eya of God? The seraphas do, How muca more we? “With twain he coverad the feet” All this talk about the diguity of human nature is bragzidosio and a sin, Oar na- ture startad at the hand of God regl, bus it has beens pauperizsl., There is a well ia Belgium whica ones bad very purs water, and it was «toutly masons | with stone and brick: but that well atterward bcane the centre of the bates of Waterloo, At the opening of the battle the soldiars wit 1 their sabers compelled the gardener, William Von Kyisom, to draw water out of the well for them, aud it was very pure water, dead and half dead were ung into the well for quick and easy buria', so that the wall of refreshment becaae the well of death, no water, Bo the human soul was a well of good, but the arniles of sin have fought around it, anil fouzit across it and been sini, and 1t has become n well of skeletons, Dead hopes, dead resolutions, dead oppore tunities, dead ambitions, An aban tons! well uniess Christ shall reopsn and purity and fill it as the well of Belgium never was, Uneclean, unclean! h Another seraphic postars in the text “With twain he covered the face” That means reverencs Godward, Nover so much irreverencs abroalin the world as to-day, You see it in the defaced statuary, in the eusting out of figures from fine paintings, in the chipping of monuments i / me mento, in fact that a military must stand at the graves of Grant and Gar. Bald, und ht old shade yess Iman Se! out wi for firewood ugh P P, Moksises bag the woolmo oy spare tree, asd that calls a | corpse a cadaver, anl that spoaks of jdeath as going over to the mas | jority, ani substitutes for the raverent | terme, father antl mather, “the old man” | and “the old woman,” and finds nothing | impressive in the ruins of Baalbas or the columns of Karne, and szes no diff srenes { in the Sabbath from any otber davs excapt it allows more dissipation, and reads tao Bible in what is ealled higher criticism, | making it not the Word of Gol, but a gol boox with soma fine thinzs in ir. Irrever. | sues never so muoi abroad, How many taka the name 0 wool In vain, paw m ny | trivial taings said about the Almighty Not willing to have Gol in the worl? they roll un» an ited o seantimanta ity { and hamanitarianisia and impudenca and imbec lity and call it Got No wings of reverenca ovr tho tace, no taking off of sboes on oly round, You ean tell from the way they talk eould have made a better world than this, and that the | God of the Bible shocks every ssnse of pros priety. They talk of the love of God in a make any difference how bad a man is here, he will come inat t e shining gate, They livery for all tae abandonel and the scoun- hereafter for any wrong done neve, I'he Bible gives two descriptions of Gol, and they are just opposite, and thay are both tru, In ons place the Bible says God ilove. In another place the Bible says God plain as plain can be, God through Chriss Is love. God out of Christ is fire. To win the one an i to escape the other wo have only to tarow ourselves, body mind ani soul ine to Christ's keeping. “No,” says Irrever. ance, “| want no atonement, I want no par don, 1 want no intervention; 1 will go up and face God, and [ will challenge Him, and [ will defy Him, and [ will ask Him what He wants to do with me” Bo ths finite con- fronts the influite, 50 a tack hammer tries to break a thunlerbolt, 83 the breath of human nostrils defies the everiasting rod, whiitle the pierarchs of heaven bow t head and bend the knee as the ¥ing's chario: goes by, and ths archangel turas away because hi» cannot endure tha splendor, and the chorus of all the empir of heaven comes in with fall fiapason, ‘Holy, holy, holy” Reverencs for snam, reverence for the old meray we @ it is old, reverencs for stu. pility 1 rer learned, reverence [or In- ywever finely inaugurated, [ have s Vanut mora ravar 0S for sacraments, God say ngs 08 enzo % + s francs in ¢ ine fa. Aled, age, ani Gol has iv. The B SAYS 50 sl 1 £2 + ge > 3 A fealing in His winz { vy e shadow of His win i ES Ix has. come to! gt." We have pder whose wings thou foldet wing now, wounded 3 broden wing, bissding wing, caged wing, Aye! 1 have it now, Cngsd within bars of bone an under cur tains of flesh, but one day to bs free. | hear toe rustic of pnions ia Seagraves poem, which we often sing: Hise, my soa! sad atretehs thy wage, I hear the rustie « as in Alexander Pope's stanz i, whic 3 I sonnet, | O Death, where is (hy victory? long ato osied waing aad gains ¢ seers how the bright © nat i 1 oY No, mon dir but mo yea and wear ad worn out and se to expire what is called his dea The world says he is dying. 1 say it his sou.-tha wit I pinaons come Molting wuggie into glory and Why de death # ou cou departare with sk } s and as though you orefer sas foot wo swift wi i fy af (3 , lot glor elas ng tha Aizht, Wi the from toward ive # y Christ hea you dead peoples standin rour lifeless body will not solilogu “What a dis- appointment life « Uv iim; how averse he to die: what an awinl csdamity.” Rather standing thers nay thay ses a sign more vivid on your still face than thy vestizes of pan, somothing that will inficite that it was a happy exit—ihs clearance fron op - pressive quarantine, the cast off chrysalid, the molting of the twiel and use .eam and the secent from malarial valleys to bright shining mountain tops, and be led to say as thoy stand thers contemplating your humil ity and your reverencs in life and your hap pines in death, “With twala le covered the feet, with twain he coverasd the fac, Wings! Sms I — cose cst PeorLE admire a woman who tries to look as pretty and attractive after marriage as she did before. Her hus band always looks happier and more contented than the husband of the woman who lets her appearance go, and thinks that curl papers and old clothes are a part of the marriage contract. mn SII 1 The twentieth session of the Grand Order of Afro-American United Odd Fellows, in annual convention at Co lambus, O.. adopted resolutions dee nouncing the outrages in the South, and condemning the Government for its indifference, Fhe Varlous Secret Societies and What They Are Doing. If vou delay longer making applica. ion for membership it may be too late, nstances have been Kn 1 where men mve waited as vou m oin nd found, i pre vide the jo heir family Do not Many men insure nentionin« the fact t their wives, in yrder to surprise them —not a bad pra ice But it is better to take vour wife nto vour contidence and have her posted 18 to the dates when avinesnts are due id be away from home gr on a sick bed your wif hould be ina po America in Denver us an ime ind one of the wonderful ions of this vear of remarkable ssemblios Reports showed the Knights l'emplar to be in total number of meml of Grand and shape The The lar the fu whose othe James R. Carnabas, 1 the uniformed rank of the Knights Pythi as, has an army of 40,000 men. This is declared to be the largest, the ablest and the best drilled military or semi military organization in the country. I is estimated that at least 16,000 of these uniformed rank men, under the leader ship of the major general, will camp in’ Kansas City Aug. 23. At Milwaukee two years ago 12,000 uniformed knights | encamped. That was an experiment, but | swh a successful experiment as the Kan. say City encampment is a certain succes of even greater magnitude. Locomotives in Tug of War. Owing to a dispute as to who should nse the switch first, the crews of two | trains that met at the Third street cross. ing of the North Penn Railroad insti. | tuted a novel pushing match today which may cost them their situations, Both engines were shifters, and each had about a dozen cars attached. They met with a slight bump at the switch, and, ter an exchange of warm words, each opened his throttle intending to push the other back. Both the engines snorted and Jute, while sparks flew from their api ly revolving wheels, For several minnites neither budged an inch, Finally the came’-back was forced to give way. [Philadelphia Record, Housing Sleepers, In the olden time church services were so long—prayers, hymns, and sermons--that iv is no wonder that many of the hard-worked people in Lae congregations could not keep awike, Both in the old world and in the new various devices were resorted to for the purpose of banishing sleep from the church. Among these was not the modern one of making the ervices short and interesting. Our English fathers tried several methods breaking up the offensive practice, method was that known as “bob 4 term thus explained by * in Notes and Queries: mother can remember J Finch, a very masculine sort { woman, being the ‘bobber’ at Holy Trinity Church in the vear 1810. She walked very majestically along the aisles during divine service, armed with a great long stick like a fishing rod, wnich had a bob fastened to tha end of it; and when she caught any sleeping or talking, they got 4 ‘nudge.’ ” Doctor Thirlwall, Dishop of St David's, gives in one of his “Letters” an amusing account of a Kerry custom for awakening sleepers in churel.. “It Is by ancient custom a part of the sexton’s duty to perambulate the i church during service time with a bell In his hand, to look carefully into every pew, and whenever he finds any one dozing to ring the bell, “‘He discharges thisduty, it is said, ith great vigilance, intrepidity and mpartiality, and consequently with he happiest effect on the congrega~ ion; for as everybody is certain that if he or she gives way to drowsiness fact H- 3 forthwith made » church by a peal i the Hent on Paying His Fare, SIXT ave - a — ODidest Languags . exploration versity of recently return which are o by Hye fess, OH Wes Thes tory of f the expedition back Oh thousand years, to a time of which practically nothing has hitherto been kuown The antiquities found are now in the university museum. mass nin III ct IT is pretty certain that Corot, the French artist, did not paint more than 700 sketches, and yet there have been 12,000 examples of his work palmed upon a picture-busing public, which has only just Legon to learn that auction-catalogued pictures are not always what they pretend to be. ¥ “J had what the doo. tors called the worst case of Ceroiula thoy over saw. 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