6 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSLAY, MARCH 11, 1897. HEAVEN LY INHABITAN “ho Seraphim is the Most Hxe quisite and Radiant. wossons to be Lenrned from the Six Wings That Isaiah Describes Humility, Reve erence, and the Swiftness with Which Should Do God's Bidding, we Dr cultivate in his latest sermon urged his hearers to more reverence wred things and talked about the Heavenly pinions with which our souls will be clothed. The text he preached from was Isaiah 6: 2: ‘With twain he covered his face, with twain he covered his feat, and with twain he did fly.’ In a hospital of leprosy King Uzziah had died, and the whole land was shadowed with solemnity, and the- ological and prophetic Isaiah was thinking about religious things, as one is apt to do in time of great national bereavement, and forgetting the pres- ence of his wife and two who made up his family, he has a dream, not like the dreams of ordinary char- acter, which generally come from indi- instructive, hand of the for 5 on wl sons, but a vision most * the touch of the gestion, and unde might. The place, ing grand, that temple er than that sultan or emperor, Christ. In lines su throne, the brightest ubim, but higher than they, exqu and of inhabitants: called burne: the ancient temple: build- awful, majestic. Within a throne higher and grand by any czar or On that throne, the rrounding occupied eternal that not the cher the the Heavenly phim. they celestials, radiant the rs because most isite sera They are of fire, eyes ion to the a suggest HY look like fire. Lips of fire, feet of fire features and human being, ther suggest the lithest, the me In addit the limbs whic! pinions which the most aspiring of swiftest, wt bu bird, each two purpose all un creation—a Eacl of the Isainl thesa nin . seraph six wings, different charges * Seraph sG far be- the be Com they Our have beneath ough t to utter and laggard far seraph we plunged in humility ete I we 80 have been in service feet taken! of wor walked N¢ four hceses tment. With ing Sir Char.es jell to w 80 nabie WOK on the ture of the wld eonld afford to And the world another Earl of Bridgewater, however idiosyncratic, if he woul duce Charles Bell write a wisdon const an and his | | wisdor struc human forgive A could now affor have some other Sir book on the of God in the The vhe lubriea- ’ ulness of its carti and alness human foot its bones the grace ty of Its vein LRIOS, ie rapidity of the sensitive human limb or the of a is the th it base umn Wi the war if for battle. With it the orator plants himself for eulogium, With it th God-po rior braces himse toller reaches his work itraged stamps his indige nation ter O88 | disas- invaluable equip know ts value, paralysis hath hath erushed, knife hath amputated, honors it. Especial dash thy foot irreparable Its If th an ment ask the m whrive «Or surgeon's “The Bible “Lest thou stone” ou want to an whose foot led, or machinery against a ble.” Especial charge: “Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God * Especial peril: “Their feet shall slide ia due time.” Connected with the world’s dissolution: “He shall set one foot on the sea and the other on the earth.” Give me the history of your foot, and I will give you the history of your life. time. Tell me up what steps it hath gone, down what deciivities, and in what roads and in what direction, and I will know more about you than I want 0 know. None of us could en dare the scrutiny, Our feet not always in paths of God. Sometimes in paths of worldliness. Our feet, a divine and glorious machinery for usefulness and work, so often making missteps, so often going in the wrong direction, God knowing every step, the patriarch ying: “Thou settest a print on the cols of my feet.” Crimes of the hand, crimes of the tongue, crimes of the eye, erimes of the ear not worse than crimes of the foot. Oh, we want the wings of humility to cover the feet, Ought we not to go into Aion sorb the all-searching, all-serutinizing, all. trying eye of God? The seraphs do, How much more we? “With twain be covered the foot” i All this talk about the dignity or hn. man nature is braggadocio, sin. Our native started at the hand of God regal, but it has been pauperized. There is n well in Belgium which once had very pure water, and it was steutly masoned with stone and brick: but that well nfterward became the center of the battle of Waterloo, At the opening of the battle the soldiers with their sabers compelled the gardener, William Von Kylsom, to draw water out of the well for them, and it was very pure water, Talmage | | half { quick and easy | of refreshment i hopes, { the world as to-day. | defaced | figures ping { in the fact care; | | rogant and intractable refuse revere “He will not suffer thy foot to | be moved;” “thy feet shall not stum- Towns of Strasicrates, who | he jut the battle raged, and 500 dead dead were flung into the burial; and well for 80 that the well the well of looked became death down and long after, people into the well and they saw the bleached skulls but no water, So the human soul was a well of good, but the armies of sin have fought around it, and fought across it and been slain, and it has been a well of skeletons. Dead dead resolutions, dead opportu- nities, dead ambitions, An abandoned well unless Christ shall reopen and | purify and fill it as the well of Belgium never was, Unclean, unclean. An seraphic posture in the text “With twain he covered the face.’ That means reverence Godward. Never so much irreverence abroad in You see it in the statuary, in the cutting of 8 from fine paintings, in the chip- of monuments for a memento, that military guard must stand at the graves of Lincoln and Garfield, and that old shade trees must cut down for firewood, though 50 George I’. Morrises beg the woodmen to other yr spare the tree, and that calls a Corpse a cadaver, and that speaks of death as going over to the majority, and substi- tutes for the reverent terms father and mother, “the old man” and *the old woman,” and finds nothing impressive he ruins of Baalbee or the columns of Karnae, and no difference in the Sabbath from other days except it allows more dissipation, and reads the Bible in what is called higher criticism it not the word of God but good book with some fine things in it. Irreverence never so much abroad. How mas ake the name of God vain, how many tr hings . . 3 about the mighty int sees making Any ivial Not lin wwe God in they roll up s of sentimentality and humanita- ism and impudence and imbecility, and call it God. er the face, Al to 3 an the wor a, No wings of reverence no taking off of ly ground You ean way they talk they could have better world than this, and that the God of the Bible shocks every sense of They talk of the ina way WS you lieve it does not m any shoes on from the made a tell propriety. love of they be difference he will come in They talk of ove of God in a way which she God hat she ake how bad a man is here, at the shining gate the Ws you ey think it is a general jail del the scoun- No punishment very | the abandoned and of the universe In one love wants to do with me So th the mer to the breath of hus ne BUINAD Ne ite, so a tack ham- a thun onfronts tries lerbolt rfles the s of heag and bend the 's chariot goes by, and because he splendor, and the Heaven ‘Holy, veriasting God, while Heaven the Knee as Lhe King the archangel cannot chorus the hierarch bow turns away the empires of full endure of all comes in with holy, holy! Reverenge the diapason, for he old merely ence for for rever- sham, reverence ! because it dity everence for incapacity is old stup however learned, however fine naugurated, | more But we 1. more none vant revers for Go tt sacraments, more Hible ore more revers pure, reverence for he god Reverence a ’ characte You oratories sitio hear it in You Titians and study it in the Aholiabs and Chris Do not be flippant about Do not Do not deride I'he brightest and mighti- all great natures we roll of th vee it in the i thir master aphaels and You irchiwcture of the topher Wrens anda jos God. Do not joke about death make fun of the Bible the Eternal ost seraph cannot Him up «wok unabashed upon Involuntarily the “With twain he covered his face.” wings come Who is this God before whom the are ence? There was an engineer by the was in the of Alexander the Great, and offered to hew a mountain in the shape of his master, the emperor, the enormous figure to hold in the left hand a city of 10,000 inhabitants, while with the right hand it was to hold a basin large enough to collect all the mountain torrents. Alexander ap- piauded him for his ingenuity, but for- bade the enterprise because of its costliness. Yet I have to tell you that our King holds in one hand all the cities of the earth, and all oceans, while He has the stars of heaven for His tiara, Earthly power goes from hand to hand, from Henry I. to Henry IL and Henry KIL, from Charles I. to Charles IL, from Louis I to Louis IL and Louls IIL, but from everlasting to overlast- ing is God. God the first, God the last, God the only. He has one tel with which He sees everything: His omnisclence. He has one bridge with which He crosses everything: His om. nipresence, He has one hammer with which He builds everything: His om- nipotence. Put two ta 1 of water into the palm of your hand and it will overflow; but Isaiah indicates that God puts the Atlantic and the Pa- silic, the Arctic and Antarctic and the employ + RO | | 0 | that | « | 8 blue | 8 ten hand-breadths | prophet | pasins | snw | Alps and the | It would | Bible distinctly says so. | weight of the I ANCH | mg #fediterranenn and the Black Sea and tll the waters of the earth in the hol- ow of his hand, The fingers the beach the wrist the beach on the holdeth the water in the " m one side, ther, “He hollow of His hand. As you take a pinch of salt or powder wiween your Isaiah arth, He the original God takes all the ontinents be ngers. You wrap around ribbon five say it is five hand-breadths So indicat thumb and God the there two fingers, takes up the the Indl ating nll the tween the thumb and two hand times or it the s ribbon of “He meteth You made of a beam with of vast indicates measures dust of arth, dust of your times, ten Y ou God winds the blue vhe sky around his hand. jut the heavens with snow that balances are uspended in the middle at the extremity eft, In that way what has been weighed jut tll the balances earthly manip- alation compared with the bal- ince Isaiah saw suspended when he God putting into the scales the Appenines and Mount Washington and the Sierra Nevadas. You see the earth had to be ballasted. to have much weight in Europe or too much weight 1 Asia, or too much weight in Africa, or in America, so when God made the nountains he them The God knows the a span.’ two equal heft what are of not do 100 w eig he d great the ranges that cross the pounds the gr 16 continents, tons, is, the ains, rammes voirdupo OUnees, he milleg weighed the n wel now nins in just how much they anda “He SCRies Oh, what a God to disobey, © what a a God to est wit} d. just how much they ghed the moun- the hills in a bal- a God to run against, gh wel and wh, what wl to dishonor, y! The takes what brightest, the mig) famil re | covered the face.’ in the text: 8 stand still without ocierity “With no arity wings of yerence th twain he other seraphic posture must not alway erapn : must move, and it must be Ness must " wi ony ngs hast thom © { ome tot a with ed wing caged wing bars within nto the Well, my in the unfurl the the in this world we are Death will if we law what a grand thing it to get rid of this old clod of the body and mount the heavens, neither nor lark nor albatross nor nor eondor pitching from highest range of Andes 0 buoyant or so majestic of stroke. See that eagle in the mountain nest alid state wings. Oh, could only real will be seaguil fale on, | [t looks so sick, so ragged-feathered, | wo worn out and so half saleep. Is that eagle dying? No The ornithologist { will tell you it is the moulting season with that bird. Not dying, but moult You that Christian sick and and worn out and seeming about leath he is dying. | for his the ae Nears expire on what is eallied his ¢ bed Ihe Ay It is the mouiting season the body dropping elestial pinions coming on but mouiting. Moulting out ess and and world says soul BWHRY Notdying, of dark sin struggie into giors { and into God O people of Ged, let us stop playing the f and for rapturous Right When your soul stands on the verge of this fife, and are vast beneath, sapphired domes above will you fly? Will you swoop or will you soar? Will you fly dovinward or will you fly up ward? Everything on the wing this day bidding us aspire. Holy Spirit on the wing. Angel of the New Covenant m the wing. Time on the wing, flying sway from us. Eternity on the wing, fying toward us. Wings, wings, wings! Live so near to Christ that when you sre dead, people standing by your life ess body will not solliloquise, saying: “What a disappointment life was to sim; how averse he was to departure; what a pity It was he bad to die; what sn awful calamity!” Rather standing sere may they see a sign more vivid m your still face than the ves of min, something that will indicate that Lt was a happy exit—the clearance from oppressive quarantine, the osst- off chrysalid, the moulting of the faded and the useless, and the ascent from nalarial valleys to bright, shining pountain tops, and be led to say, as ihey stand there contemplating your asumility and your reverence in life, ad your happiness in death: “With twain he covered the feet, with twain 10 covered the face, with twain he did fy." Wings! Wings! Wings! vol prepare there and which way precipices Ellot's iy mible It is asserted by phial ave shorities that the fret ible printed in America was “John Eliot's Indian Bible,” in 1008, The into which this Bible was translated is ex- dnet, and it is sald only one or two peraons are able to read Is | DGCASIONS QUEER WEDDINGS. | THE CHANGE OF LIFE. WHEN ODDITY WAS IMPRESSIVE FEATURE, AN Frenks Whe Have lock Been Joined In Wed. Many Cases of Marriage Wedded by Proxy, by Phonograph Symbolioal Marriages of India, The does not pee Pp and sometimes ro ccuventiopal idea of a wedding agree with the tastes of some le, and occasionally very eccentric mantic marriage cores monies are solemnized. Men and wom- en entirely opposite in disposition and character frequently unite in the holy | bonds of matrimony--sometimes much to their mutual regret. This peculiar fret, it would seem, also applies to oddi ties of human nature. In many of the { traveling shows the freaks who help to draw money from the public intermar ry, and it is not an unusual thing to find the fat man wedded to the skeleton woman and the tattooed man bearded lady. Mrs. Hannah Battersby, who toured the country as a fat wom- an, was married to a man, and it is stated that no sooner were sho began to it. His weight incr he soon took to exh at man. An except itrast, however, one timo a curious fact they married and he nA lose flesh to gain biting bimself His lonel Glover, He the no, together, as a ion to rule of was foot 7 inches ly, CRS when tney they used to ma ny on recor of lived in Italy was a weil to city, and bh contracting pi miles apart when the formed, the n ado resident 8 bride art ie8 were thousands wedding was arrisge being ring mg in a The in Lhe oor who made signatures Texas town brie IFRTOOIm Was represen ted br ide respol as | The two lovers had engaged for a long time, and faple wished to bear the name of Lh 1 thx age lay dy mony by the 8 cousin, the necessary ses and been Mins her } Is proxy ” trothed eve ugh she could d is sometimes one Came has had t in part fair Tice ng ring. Instead of breakfast the I hurch and were thus arried twice ran amuck the the eo tho Arty in one some Years ago among the old fol Georgia town An old soldier, age, Jed to the altar an aged damsel who had seen 72 summers. There maids, whose ages respectively were 60, 658 and 70. They were all spinsters "he best man, who was 75, combined ages up to 423 years GAY ik of n 8 years of An unusual kind of marriage was | celebrated in New York recently. This | was between a couple both deaf and dumb. They held prayer books while a friend pointed out the different passages | in the service as they were spoken by | the clergyman, and they made the cus tomary responses in the deaf and dumb | alphabet An ingenious couple once the idea of being married by phono graph. In the place where the bride- groom resided be and the minister went over the marriage servioe, and he recited the proper responses into the instrument, The phonograph was sent to the lady, she willingly supplying the requisite, “Iwill,” and *'I do'’ in the presence of her pastor, who then pronounced the pair united in matrimony. No explana tion is given of how they got over the difMeculty of the ring. A well known anthropologist, in de- seribing various marriage customs, re- fers to a strange sort of symbolical mar. | riage which is supposed to have origi- | nated in India It is a marriage with trees, plants, animals and inanimate | objects. If any one proposes to enter upon a union which is not in accordance with traditional ideas, it is believed | shat il luck which is sure to follow may be averted by a marriage of this | kind, the evil consequences being borne | by the objéot chosen. In various regions a girl must not warry before her eldest | mister, but the difficulty is overcome by the eldest daughter marrying the branch of a tree. ; Then the wedding of the younger daughter may safely be cele brated. Buffalo Expros. ——————————— Contradictions, “The more the merrier.” Not so One band is enough in a puree. *‘Noth- ing hurts the stomach more than surfeit. ing." Yes, lack of meat. ''Nothing but what has an end.’ Not so. A ring has none, for it is round. “Money is a great comfort.’’ Not when it brings a thief to the gallows. “The world is a long journey.’ Not so. The sun goes over it overy day. “It isa great way to the bottom of the sea.”’ Not so. It is but a stone's cast. “A friend is best found in adversity.” Not so, for then there is pone to be found. “The pride of the rich makes the labor of the poor.’ Not sn The labor of the jjout makes the wide of the rich, — New to This It is said that the t f life Irn o to the | Pennsylvania | ase Bo rapidly that | : were three brides. brought the | conceived | most important period in a won | existence, and owing to modern met | ! | ods of living not more than one woman | out of a thousand | fectly natural chs ene than | | sOometlim Tho the bloo Bees ! tox I su fl ! or find BO. no permanent I tried Remember ham you are any male physician in America, doubt. Some Valuable Statistics in Regard Period. Lydia E. 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