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the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy,
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and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often
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have occurred when but few of them existed, yet
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TtTHN HACK. THE PAGES,
Turn hack the pages with weary years
fraught,
Where childhood had traced its first happy
thought;
Feel the wild thrill of the days that are gone,
Rich with the glamour of childhood’s first
dawn;
See the blue Heaven where clouds never
frowned;
Hear the quaint echoes through forests re
sound;
Hear the bird’s song with that childish de
light;
Follow the streams in tlicir murmuring
flight.
Sad the experience knowledge bestows,
Take all 1 know uf the world and its woes;
Gladly return all its wisdom and lore
Just for a glimpse of my childhood once
more;
Vain hopes that vanish and leave but de
spair,
Glittering baubies that hurst on the air.
Base gold and trumpery take from my sight
None are so dear as my childhood to night.
Oh, forthe faith of my childhood I yearn!
Gladly life’s knowledge I would return,
Doctrines first taught at a kind mother’s
knee,
Sweeter than all the world’s learning would
he,
Pure, holy faith in a Heaven above,
Happy belief that all mankind is love,
Take the man’s wisdom by error defiled.
Give me the innocent face of a child.
Turnback the pages of a troublesome life.
Trace back the wayward years bletted by
strife;
Usher again the bright hours of yore;
Oh, for a glimpse of its pleasures once more.
Happy childhood’s innocence long has de
cayed,
Gome again and this cold heart pervade,
Over life’s pages your happy thought trace,
Smooth the deep wrinkles once more from
thy face.
STRVOVY yVRTvWUUY.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE
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num],
THE SIX WINGS.
“With twain he covered his face, with
twain he covered his feet, and with twain
did he fly.”—lsaiah vi, 2.
In a hospital of leprosy good King
Uzziah had died, and the who.e laud
was shadowed with solemnity, and
theological and prophetic Isaiah was
thinking about religious things, as one
is apt to do in time of great national
bereavement, and forgettiug the pres
ence ol his wife and two sons, who
made up his family. He has a dream,
not like the dreams of ordinary charac
ter, which generally come from indi
gestion, but a vision most instructive,
and under the touch of the hand of the
Almighty. The place, the ancient
temple building, grand, awful majes
tic. Within that temple a throne
higher and grander than that occupied
by any czar or sultan or emperor. On
that throne the eternal Christ. Iu
lines surrounding that throne the
brightest celestials, not the cherubim,
but higher than they, the most exquis
ite and radiant of the heavenly inhab
itants, the seraphim. They are called
burners, because they look like fire.
Lips of fire, eyes of fire, feet of fire. In
addition to tho features and the limbs,
which suggest a human being, there
are pinions which suggest the lightest,
the swiftest, the most buoyant and the
most aspiring of all unintelligent crea
tion—a bird. Each seraph had six
wings, each two ol the wings for a
different purpose. Isaiah’s dream quiv
ers and Hashes with these pinions, now
folded, now spread, now beaten in lo
comotion. “With twain he covered
his feet, with twain he covered his
face, and with twain did he Hy.” The
probability is that these wings were
not all used at once. The seraph stan
ding there near the throne, overwhelm
ed at the insignificance of the paths his
feet had trodden as compared with the
paths trodden bj the feet of God, and
with the lameness of his locomotion,
amounting almost to decrepitude as
compared with the divine velocity,
with feathery veil of angelic modesty
he hides the feet. “With twain did
he cover the feet.’’ Standing there,
overpowered by the overmatching splen
dors of God’s glory, and unable longer
with the eyes to look upon them, and
wishing those eyes shaded from the in
sufferable glory, the pinions gather
over tluti countenance. “With twain
he did cover the lace.” Then as God
tells this seraph to go to the furthest
outpost of immensity on messages of
light and love and joy, and get back
before the first anthem, it does not take
the seraph a great while to Bpread him
self upon tho air with unimagined ce
lerity, one stroke of the wing equal to
10,000 leagues of air. “With twain
he did fly.” The most practical and
useful lesson for yon and me. When
we seo the seraph spreading his wings
over the feet, there comes the lesson of
humility at imperfection. The bright
est angels of God are so far beneath
God that He charges them with folly.
The seraph so far beneath God and we
so far beneath the seraph in service, We
ought to be plunged in humility utter
and complete. Our feet, hoW laggard
they have been in the divine service.
Our feet, how many fiaisatepsitHey have
taken. Our feet, in how many paths
of worldliness And folly they have
walked. Neither God nor seraph in
tended to put auy dishonor upon that
which is one of the masterpieces of Al- 1
For i>yspepsia.
Costiveness,
l Sick Headache,
Chronic Diar
rhoea, Jaundice,
Impurity of the
Blood, Fever and
f Ague, Malaria,
and all Diseases
caused by De-
| mighty God—tho human foot. Physi
ologists and anatomists arc overwhelm
led at the wonders of its organization.
The Bridgewater Treatise written by
bir Charles Bell on the wisdom and
goodness of God, as illustrated in the
“Human Hand,” was a result of the
$40,000 bequeathed in the last will and
testament of tho Earl of Bridgewater
1 for the encouragement of Christian lit-
I erature. The world could afford to
■ forgive his eccentricities, though he
I had two dogs seated at his table, anfl
though he put six dogs alone in an
1 equipage drawn by four horses and at
tended by two footmen. With his
large bequest inducing Sir Charles
Bell to write so valuable a book as the
i wisdom of God in the structure ol the
human hand, the world could not afford
to forgive his oddities. And ihe world
could now afford to have another Earl
' of Bridgewater, however idiosyncratic,
if he would induce some other Sir
Charles Bell to write a book on the
wisdom and goodness of God in the
construction of the human foot. The
articulation of its bones, the lubrication
of its joints, tho gracefulness of its
lines, the ingenuity of its cartilages, the
delicacy of its veins, the rapidity ol
its muscular contraction, the sensitive
ness of its nerves. I sound the praises
of the human foot. With that we halt
or climb or march. It is the founda
tion of the physicial fabric. It is the
base of a God-poised column. With
it the warrior braces himself for battle.
With it the orator plants himself for
eulogiura. With it the toiler reaches
his work. With it the outraged stamps
his indignation. Its loss an irrepara
ble disaster. Its health an invaluable
equipment. If you want to know its
value, ask the man whose foot paraly
sis hath shrivelled, or machinery hath
crushed or su-geon’s knife hath ampu
tated. The Bible honors it. Espec
ial care. “Lest thou dashjjtliy foot
against a stone;” “He will not suffer
thy foot to be moved,” “Thy feet shall
not stumble.” Especial charge: “Keep
thy foot when thou goest into the
house of God ” Especial peril: “Their
feet shall slide in our time.” Connec
ted with 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 his
tory of your lifetime. Tell me up
what steps it hath gone, down what
declivities and in what roads and in
what directions, and I will know more
about you than I want to know. None
of us could endure the scrutiny of our
feet, not always in paths of God some
times in paths of worldliness. Our
feet a divine and glorious machinery
for usefulness and work, so often mak
ing missteps, so often going in the
wrong direction. Crimes of the hand,
crimes of the tongue, crimes of the eye,
crimes of the ear not worse than the
crimes of the foot. Ob, we want the
wings of humility to cover the feet.
Ought we not go into self-abnegation
before the all-searching, all-scrutiniz
ing, all-trying eyes of God? The ser
aphs do. How much more we. “With
twain ho covered the feet.” All this
talk about the dignity of human na
ture is braggadocio and a sin. Our
nature started at tho hand of God re
gal, but it has been pauperized. There
is a well in Belgium which once had
very pure water, and it was stoutly
masoned with stone and brick; but that
well afterward became the centre of the
battle of Waterloo. At the opening
of the battle the soldiers with their sa
bres compelled the gardener, William
von Kylsom, to draw water out of the
well for them, and it was very pure
water. But the battle raged, and 300
dead and half dead were flung into the
well for quick and easy burial, so that
the well of refreshment became the well
of death, and long after, people looked
down 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 siu have fought around it,
and fought across it and been slain,
and it has become a well of skeletons.
Dead hopes, dead resolutions, dead am
bitions. An abandoned well unless
Christ shall reopen and purify and fill
it as the well of Belgium never was.
Unclean, unclean.
Another seraphic posture in the text
—“With twain he covered the face.”
That means reverence Godward. Nev
er so much irreverence abroad in the
world as to-day. You see it in the de
faced statuary, in the cutting out ol
figures from fine paintings, in the chip
ping of monuments for a memento, in
the fact that military guard must stand
at the graves of Lincoln and Garfield,
and that old shade trees must bo cut
down for firewood though fifty George
P. Morrises beg the woodman to spare
the tree, and that calls a corpse a cad
aver, and that speaks of death as going
over to the majority, and substitutes
for the reverend terms father and moth
er, “the old man” and “the old wo
man,” and finds nothing impressive in
the ruins of Baalbee or the columns of
Karnac. It has no reverence for the
great, and sees no difference in the Sab
bath from other days except that it ql
lows more dissipation, and reads the
Bible in what is called higher criticism,
making it not the word oi God but a
good hook with some fine things in it.
Irreverence never so much abroad. How
many take the name of God in vain,
how many trivial things said about the
Almighty. Not willing to have God
in the world, they roll up an idea of
sentimentality and humanitarianism
and impudence and imbecility and call
■it God. No wings of reverence over
the face, no taking off of shoes on ho
ly ground. You can tell from the way
they talk they could have made a bet
-1 ter world than this, and that the God
of the Bible shocks every sense of pro
priety. They talk of the love of God
in a way that shows you they believe
it does not make any difference how
bad a man is here, he will come out
the shining gate. They talk of tho
love of God in a way that shows you -
they thiuk it is a general jail delivery
for all the abandoned and the scoun
drels of the universe. No punishment
hereafter for any wrong done here. The
Bible gives two descriptions of God,
and they are just opposite, and they
are both true. In one place the Bible
says God is love. In another place the
Bible says God is a consuming fire.
The explanation is plain as plain can
be. God through Christ is love God
out of Christ is fire. To win the one
and escape the other we have only to
throw ourselves, body, mind and soul
into Christ’s keeping. “No,” says ir
reverence, “I want no atonement, I
want no pardon, I want no interven
tion; I will go up and (ace God, and I
will challenge Him, and I will defy
Him, and I will ask Him what lie
wants to do with me.” So the finite
confronts the infinite, so a tack-ham
iuer trys to break a thunderbolt, so
the breath of human nostrils defies the
everlasting God, while the hierarchs of
heaven bow the head and bend the
knee as the King’s chariot goes by,
and the archangel turns away because
he cannot endure the splendor, and the
chorus of all the empires of heaven
comes in with full diapason, “Holy,
holy, holy!” Reverence for sham, rev
erence for the old merely because it is
old, reverence for stupidity, however
learned, reverence for incapacity, how
ever finely inaugurated, 1 have none.
But we want more reverence for God,
more reverence for the sacraments,
more reverence for the Bible, more rev
erence for the pure, more reverence for
the good. Reverence a characteristic
of all great nations. Yon hear it in
the roll ol the master oratorios. You
see if in the Raphaels and Titians and
Ghirlondjos. You study it in the ar
chitecture of the Apoliabs and Christo
pher Wrens. Do not be flippant about
God. Do not joke about death. Do
not make fun of the Bible. Do not de
ride the eternal. The brightest and
mightiest seraph cannot look unabash
ed upon Him. Involuntarily the
wings come up. “With twain he cov
ered his face.” Who is this God be
fore whom the arrogant and intractable
refuse reverence? There was an engi
neer by the name of Strasicrates who
was in the employ of Alexander the
Great, and he offered to hew a moun
tain in the shape of his master, the
Emperor, the enormous figure to hold
la the loft hand a city of 10,000 in
habitants, while with the right hand it
was to hold a basin large enough to
collect all the mountain torrents. Al
exander applauded him for his inge
nuity, but forbade the enterprise be
cause of its costliness. Yet I have to
tell you that our King holds in His
one hand all the cities of the earth, and
with the other all the oceans, while He
has the stars and heaven for His tiara.
Earthly power goes from hand to hand,
from Henry I. to Henry 11. and llenry
111., from Louis I. to Louis 11. and
Louis III.; but from everlasting to ev
erlasting is God: God the first, God
the last, God the only. He has one
telescope with which He sees every
thing: His omniscience. He has one
bridge with which He crosses every
thing: His omnipresence. He has
one hammer with which He builds ev
erything: His omnipotence. Put two
taole-spoonfuls of water in the palm of
your hand and it will overflow; but
Isaiah indicates that God puts the At
lantic, and the Pacific, and the Arctic,
and the Antartic, and the Mediterra
nean, and the Black sea, and all the
waters of the earth in the hollow ot Ilis
hand. The fingers the beach on one
side, the wrist the beach on the other.
“He holdeth the water in the hollow of
his hand.” As you take a pinch of
sslt or powder between your thumb and
two fingers, so Isaiah indicates God
takes up the earth. He measures the
dust of the earth.
The original there indicates that
God takes all the dust of all the con
tinents between the thumb and two
fingers. You wrapt around your hand
a blue ribbon five tirae.s, ten times.
You say it is five-hand breadths, or it
is ten-hand breaths. So indicates the
prophet, Ged winds the blue ribbon
of the day around his hand. “He
■i etetli out tho heavens with a span.”
You know that balances are made of a
beam suspended in the middle with
two basins at the extremity, of equal
heft. Iu that way what vast heft has
been measured. But what are all the
balances of earthly manipulation com
pared with the balances that Isaiah
saw suspended when he saw God put
ting into tho scales the Alps and Apen
nines and Mount Washington and the
Sierra Nevadas. Y r ou see the earth
had to be balasted. It would not do
to have too much weight in Eu ope, 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 conti
nents, the tons, the pouuds avoirdu
pois, the ounces, tho grains, the mille
grammes—just how much they weigh
now. “Ho weighed the mountains in
scales and the hills in a balance.” Oh!
what a God to run against. Oh! what
a 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.
Tiie seraph must not always stand still.
He must move and it must be without
clumsiness. There must be celerity
aud beauty in the movement. With
twain he did fly.” Correction and ex
hilaration. Correction at our slow gait
lor we only crawl in the service when
we ought to fly at tiie divine bidding.
Exhilaration in the fact that the soul
has wings as the seraphs have wings.
What is a wing? An instrument of
locomotion. They may not be like
seraph’s wing, they may not be like
bird’s wings, but the soul has wings
God says so. “He shall mount upon
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 thou hast
come to trust.” Folded wing now,
wounded wing, broken wing, bleeding
wing, caged wing. Ah! I have it now.
Gaged within bars of bone and under
curtains of flesh, but one day to be free.
I hear the rustle of pinions in Sea
grave’s poem which we sang at the be
ginning of the service:
“Rise rnysoul and stretch thy wings.”
I hear the rustle of pinions in Alex
ander Pope’s stanza, where he says:
“I mount I fly,
O death where is thy victory,”
A dying Christian not long ago cried
out, “Wings, wings, wings!” The
air is lull of them, coming and going,
coming and going. Vou have seen
how the dull, sluggish chrysalid be
comes the bright butterfly, the dull
and the stupid and the sluggish turned
into the alert and the beautiful. Well,
my friends in this world we are in the
chrysalid state. Death will unfurl the
wings. Oh, if wo could only realize
what a grand thing it will be to get
rid of this old clod of the body and
mount the heavens, neither sea gull,
nor lark, nor albatross, norlalcon, nor
condor pitching from highest range of
Andes, so buoyant or so majestic of
stroke. See that eagle iu the moun
tain nest. It looks so sick, so ragged
feathered, so worn out and so half
asleep. Is that eagle dying? No.
The ornithologist will tell you it is the
moulting season with that bird. Not
dying but moulting. Vou see that
Christian, sick and weary and worn
out, and seeming about to expire on
what is called his deathbed. The
world say he is dying. I say it is the
moulting-season for his soul—the body
dropping away, the celestial pinions
coming on. Not dying, but moulting.
Moulting out of darkness and siu and
struggle into glory and into God.—
Why do you not shout? Why do you
sit shivering at the thought of death
and trying to hold back and wishing
you could stay hero forever, and speak
of departures as though the subject was
filled with skeletons and the varnish 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 a rapturous flight.
When your soul stands on the verge
of this life and there are vast preci
pices beneath and sapphired domes
above, which way will you fly? Will
you swoop or will you soar? Will
yon fly downward or will you fly up
ward? Everything on the wing this
morning bidding us aspire. Holy spir
it on the wing. Angel of the new cov
enant on the wing. Time on the wing
flying away from us. Eternity on the
wing, flying toward us. Wings, wings,
wings! Live so near to Christ that
when you are dead people standing by
your lifeless body will not soliloquize,
saying: “What a disappointment life
was to him; how averse he was to de
parture; what a pity it was lie had to
die; what an awful calamity. Rather
standing there they may see a sign
more vivid on your still face than the
vestiges of pain, something that will
indicate that it was a happy exit—the
clearance from oppressive quarantine,
the cast off chrysalid, the moulting of
the faded and the useless, and the
exultant ascent from malarial val
leys to bright, shining mountain tops,
aud to be led to say, as they stand
there contemplating youv humility and
your reverence iu life and your happi
ness in death: “With twain he cov
ered the feet, with twain he covered
the face, with twain he did fly. Wings!
wings! wings!
A Very ISasliftil Husband.
The Boston Herald tells this story
of a Boonville lawyer: “The follow
ing incident in the early married life
of a lawyer of a village in New York
State, who is as well-known for ex
cessive bashfultress as for eccentricity
and good nature, has never before ap-
peared in print. So bashful was he
that after bringing his lady-like and
accomplished bride from the northern
part of the county, instead of introduc
ing lur to his acquaintances, after the
manner of proud young husbands of
the ordinary stamp, he actually almost
hid himself and her most intimate
friends. To get him to go to church
even was a task that his wife, mother
and sisters found so extremely difficult
that they could only succeed by de
claring that he was ashamed of his
bride. On one occasion a lecture was
to be given which his wife particular
ly desired to attend. Our friend, iu
response to her request for escort, told
his wife that he knew that she would
not like the lecture, and for his part he
should enjoy staying at home with her
much better. She persisted, and he
exhausted argument to prove that she
would not find the lecture enjoyable.
At last the true reason of her husband’s
disinclination to go out flashed over
1 the wife’s mind, and she said: “Well,
lmy dear, yon can never convince me
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that I don’t know, but we had better
stay at home; if you should be seen out
with me too much at night it might
create a scandal.” They went to the
lecture.
A MOMENTOUS QUESTION.
The House Reporter Gives His
Views ox a Point in Sidewalk Et
iquette .
Chicago Tribune.
“Society editor in?”
A rather thin young man with very
tight pants, high collar and a round
cloth cap, the style worn by bycicle
riders, had opened the door of the edi
torial rooms and propounded the above
question.
“No,” said the horse reporter, “the
society editor isn’t in. Did you want
to see him.”
“Oh, awfully,” was the reply. “I
wouldn’t have missed seeing the soci
ety editor for anything. What 1
wanted to tell him shout was very im
portant—really and truly it was.”
“Is Beatrice Perkins going to Muk
wonago for the summer again?” asked
the horse reporter; “because if its any
thing about that, or “South Side so
cial circles will be iu a flutter over the
approaching nuptials of a prominent
belle and one of our prominent busi
ness men,” any of us can attend to it
just as well as the society editor.
Both sentences are kept in type.”
“No, it’s nothing like that.”
“Nothing about several well-known
society young men on the North Side
are about to organize a riding club, is
it? We’ve gut all that ready too, but
we generally wait till about the middle
of June before piintiug it. Then it
means that some dry goods clerks are
going to hire mustang ponies for one
consecutive evening aud spend the bal
ance of the summer getting over it. I
know all • about North Side riding
clubs.”
“I never ride,” said the young man.
“I wouldn’t advise you to, unless
you take along a postage stamp to
make you sit quietly on the horse.
“What 1 want to know,” said the
young man, “is whether in walking
with a lady a gentleman should offer
her his right arm or make it a rule to
have tiie lady on the inside of the
walk, no matter which arm she takes
in accomplishing this result. We’ve
had an awful argument about it over
on Ashland avenue, and Chollyandl
nearly had a serious quarrel.”
lie’s my room mate, you know.
We’ve been awfully friendly ever since
he lent me his mauve colored pants
two years ago. Last winter I gave
him a lovely pair of dove colored silk
suspenders, aud when my birthday
comes lie’s going to give me a real
sweet pair of silk stockings with my
monogram on them. I wouldn’t for
anything in the world have any trouble
to occur between Cholly and I, be
cause we’ve been in the threads togeth
er for nearly a year.”
“In the what?”
“In the threads—in the thread
department, you know—and we think
everything in the world of each other.
I hardly ever buy a lemonade without
asking Oholly to have some of it. But
we’re awfully puzzled about this mat
ter 1 told you about. Cholly says the
gentleman should always offer the lady
his right arm, but I don’t think so.
I’m going to take a splendid young
lady out for a boat ride in Union park
next Wednesday evening, and that’s
how we came to talk about it.”
“Well,” said the horse reporter,
“this what-shall-we-do-with-our-girls
business is a pretty complicated matter.
There are a good many things to bo
considered, and the best authorities
have decided that no absolute rule in
regard to what arm a lady shall take
when walking with a gentleman can bo
laid down. It depends a good deal on
the gait of the girl. I have seen some
shy, demure please-do-not-say-piano
leg-when-I-am-arouud young creatures
that would carry a man all over the
sidewalk if he happened to walk them
in front of a millinery store and had
them hitched up on the off side; and
then there are others that walk in a
corn-on-my-little-toe style. They’re
daises. They sort of drift down the
street sideways, like a one-legged duck
and keep stepping on your aukles, and
acting as if you were the first of a flight
of stairs that they would like to climb
but couldn’t. A nice, square-gaited
girl, that goes straight ahead and
doesn’t lunge around and make you
think every minute that she's going to
break her check rein the next dive, will
do well enough on either side, bur with
the lien-in-a gale-of-wind kind it’s bet
ter to keep them on the left side all the
time, because you can feud ’em off
more naturally.”
“Then you think either way is al
lowable?” asked the young man.
“Certainly. When did you say you
were going out with this girl?”
“Next Wednesday.”
“Well you’ll have time enough be
fore then to have your legs dipped
over”
“Have what?”
“Have your legs dipped over. When
people make candles, you know, and
any of them are spoiled, they just put
them iu the mould and dip them over.
I guess likely yon can find some can
dle moulds on the West Side and im
prove your appearance considerably.”
No child can be healthy if
worms abound in its stomach. Send
for Shriner’s Indian Vermifuge, the
reliable remedy.