Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-10-27

was.
"The morning light is breaking
The darkness disappearsi
The sons of men are waking
To penitential tears"
Before the sermon DR.. Talmsge read
and expounded passages of Scripture ap-.
propriate to the subject to be presented,
The text was:
IT, Kings vii lT-"And the Lord opened the eyes oil
the young man and he saw and behold the noun
tain was full of horses and chariOts Of fire round
about Elisha"
Following is the sermon in full:
As it cost England several regiments and
100000 year to keep one troublesome
captive at St. Helena, so the King of Sama-
ria sent a great army to capture one min
ister of religion, perhaps so, 900 men to take
Elisha During the night the troops drove
in and surrounded the village of Dotham,
where the prophet was staying. At day
break the man servant of Elisha rushes IN
crying: "What shall we do, an army is after
you and we must die? But Elisha was not
scared, for he looked up to the mountains
and saw that supernatural forces had gath
cred for his defense, and if there were
$4,000 Assyrians against him, there were
perhaps 100 900 angels for him. In anwser
his prayer in Behalf Of the frightened
man servant the young man saw them too,
horses of fire harnessed TO chariots of fire,
and drivers of fire pulling reins of fire on
bits Of fire and warriors OF fire with drawn
sword of FIRE. the brilliance of that morning
sunrise eclipsed by the galloping splendors
of the celestial cavalcades. "And the Lord
opened the eyes of the young man and he
saw, and behold the moGntain was full of
horses and chariots Of fire round about
Elisha
For two Sabbaths l have spoken to you
of the
Assyrian Perils
that have marched upon us to capture this
nation, the bribery, the low morals, the
drunkenness, the political abandonment.
To day l shall consider the upper forces
hat are sent of God to fight on our side.
If the low levels be filled with armed
threats, the mountains Of our faith and hope
and expectation are full Of the horses and
chariots of Divine rescue. The troops that
ride down from above are mightier than
the troops that ride up from beneath. No,
,ice that the chariots of Divine rescue are
not made of brass or gold or ivory, but OF
fire. Isaiah and Ezekiel and John, sketch
ing the Divine equipage, always gave it as
wheeled and harnessed and upholstered
connagration. Not chariots like that
which other kings and conquerers mount,
but organized and compressed fire. That
means purity and justice and chastisement
and delverance through burning es-
capes. All Of our national disenthrall-
ments have been through scourging
sponies and red disasters. Verify chariots
of rescue but chariots of fire. Through
tribulation the individual rises through
trlbulatl0n nations rise
But how do | know that the upper forces
of the text are on the side of the American
nation? BY the history of lOS years.
American revolution starting from the
point Of John Hancock's pen in lndepend-
ence Hall, Philadelphia, l776. Colonies
without ammunition, without guns without
ships, without trained warriors, without one
famous general at the start without pres
tige, without foreign friends. On the other
side the mightiest nation Of the earth, with
the greatest armies and the grandest navies,
and the most famous commanders and am
munition inexhaustibe, and nearly all the
world to back them in the fight. What
nothingness against what immensity. Amer
ican prospects
Down to Zero
at the start must sink still lower
by tha- quarrels Of our generals and
by the jealousy of little success, and BY
winters that surpassed all their predeces
sors in depths of snow and horror Of con-
realment. Elisha, surrounded by armed
Assyrians no worse OF than thirteen colon
ies, encompsssed and overshadoSed by f'R-
eign invasion. What then must have set
tied the contest in our favor? The upper
forces seen in the text. The White and
Green mountains OF New England, the
highlands along the Hudson, the mountains
of Virginia, the Appalachian ranges were
filled with flaming reinforeements, which
the young man Washington saw By faith,
and without complaint his men endured the
frozen feet, and bleeding wounds, and the
exhausting hunger, and the long march, be-
cause the Lord opened the eyes Of the
young man aad heJsaw, and behold the
mountain was full Of horses and chariots Of
/ FIRE round about Elisha"
The Opening War
of 1861 was thought by many at the North
and South to be national suicide. 1t was
not bravery against corruption, wealth
/ against poverty, great states against snaI'
States, but heroism against heroism, great
resources against great resources, the sftiu-
enee ofgenerations on the one side against
the affiuence of generations on the other
side, theprayers ofthe church North against
the prayers Of the church South, Onehat
the nation in armed wrath against the other
half in armed Indignation. What could
there be but determination? The COM
mander-in-chief Of the army Of the United
States at that time was dear old man with
gout and vertigo and asthma, incompetent
| to mount horse aud who rode upoa the
battle field in an easy carriage, the driver
directed to go slowly lest the occupant be
jOlted. On the other side general in mid
life the blood of whole line Of warriors In
his veins, himself the hero Of Cherubuseo,
\ No--c Gnrdo Contreras and ChaDultapec