The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-10-04

Lords chariot has only two wheels,
and that means instant reversal, and in
slant help, and instant deliverance
While the combined forces of the uni
verse In battle array could not stop his
black chariot second or diverge it an
inch, the driver of that chariot saws,
ssCan upon me in the day of trouble and
will deliver thee," .'While they are yet
speaking I will hear' Two wheeled
chariot, one wheel justice and the other
Wheel mercy. Aye, they are swift
wheels. A cloud, whether it belongs to
the cirrhus, the clouds that float the
highest; or belongs to the stratus, the Gen.
tral ranges; OF to the cumulus, the low
est ranges, seems to move slowly
along the sky if it moves at all.
But many of the clouds go at a
speed that would seem lethargic vesti-
bule limited lightning express train, so
swift is the chariot of our God; yea,
swifter than the storm, swifter than the
light. Yet child ten years old has been
known to reach up, and with the hand
of prayer take the courser of that chariot
by the bit and slow it up, or stop it, or
turn it aside, or turn it back The boy
Samuel stopped it. Elijah stopped 1t.
Hezekiah stopped it Daniel stopped it,
Joshua stopped it. Esther stopped it,
Ruth stopped it. Hannah stopped it.
Mary stopped it. Ny father stopped it.
My mother stopped it. My sister stopped
it. We have in our Sabbath schools
children who again and again and again
have stopped it.
Notice that these old time chariots,
which my text uses for symbol, had
what we would call high DASH
board at the front, but were open behind.
And the king would stand at the DASH
board and drive with his own hands.
And am glad that He,- whose chariot
the clouds are, drives himself. He does
not let natural law drive, for natural law
is deaf He does not let fate drive, for
fate is merciless. But our Father King
drives himself, and he puts his loving
hand on the reins of the flying coursers,
| of all who want TO catch his attention.
Oh, I am SO glad that my Father
| drives, and never drives too fast,
and never drives too slow, and
never drives off the precipice, and that
| he controls, by bit that never breaks,
| the widest and most raging circum-
stances. heard of q ship captain who
put out with his vessel with large num-
ber of passengers from Buffalo. on Lake
Erie, very early in the season and whilo
| there was much ice. When they were
well out the captain saw to his horror
that the ice was closing in on him on
all sides, and he saw. no way out from
destruction and death. He called into
| the cabin the passengers and all the crew
| that could be spared from their posts,
and told them that the ship must be lost
unless God interposed, and although he
was not Christian man he said: LET
us pray" and they all knelt, asking God
to come for their deliverance. They went
back to the deck. and the man at the wheel
shouted: ''All right, cap'n, it's blowing
nor by nor'west now" While the
prayer was going ON in the cabin the
wind changed and blew the ice out of the
way. The mate asked: ''Shall put on
more sail, cap'n?'' "No'' responded the
captain. Don't touch her. Some one
else is managing this ship" Oh, men
and women, shut in on all sides by icy
troubles and misfortunes, in earnest
prayer put all your affairs in the hands
of God You viii come out all right.
Some one else is managing the ship! 1t
did not merely happen SO that when
Leyden was besieged, and the Duke Of
Alva felt sure Of his triumph, suddenly
the wind turned, and the swollen waters
compelled him to stop the siege, and the
city was saved. God that night drove
along the coast of the Netherlands
in black chariot of storm cloud. 1t
did not merely happen SO that Luther
rose from the place where he was sitting
just in time to keep from being crushed
by stone that the instant after fell On
the very spot. Had he not escaped
where would have been the Refornls-
tion2 1t did not merely happen so that
Columbus was saved from drowning by
an oar that was floating on the waters.
Otherwise, who would have unveiled
| America? 1t did not merely happen so
that when George Washington was in
Brooklyn a great fog settled down over
all the place where this church
stands and over all this end of Long
Island, and that under that fog lie and
his army escaped from the clutches of
Gems. Howe and Clinton. In a chariot
|
independence rode along here. On that
pillow of consolation l put down my
head to sleep at night. On that solid
foundation l build when see this nation
in political paroxysm every four years,
not because they care two cents about
whether it is high tariff, or low tariff, or
no tariff at all, but only whether the
Democrats or the Republicans shall have
the salaricd officers. Yea, when Euro
pean nations are holding their breath,
wondering whether Russia or Germany
will launch a. war that will incarna-
dine continent, l fall back on the
faith that my Father drives. Yea, cast
this as an anchor, and plant this as a
column Of strength, and lift this as a
telescope, and build this as a fortress, and
propose without any perturbation to
launch upon an unknown future triumph
ant in the fact that my Father drives.
Yes, he drives very near. | know that
many of the clouds that you see in sum-
mer are far off, the bases of some of them
five miles above the earth. High on the
highest peaks of the Andes travellers have
seen clouds far higher than where they
were standing. Gay Lussac, after he
had risen in balloon twenty three thou
sand feet, still saw clouds above him.
But there are clouds that touch the
earth and discharge their rain, and,
though the clouds out of which Gods
chariot is made may sometimes be far
away, often they are close by, and they
touch our shoulders, and they touch our
homes, and they touch us all over.
have read of two rides that the Lord
took in two different chariots of clouds,
and of another that he will take. One
day, in chariot Of clouds that were a
minglins of fog and smoke and fire,
God drove down to the top of a terri.
BILE crag, fifteen hundred feet high, now
called Jebcl- Musa, then called Mount
Sinai, and he stepped out Of his chariot
among the split shelvings OF
rock. The mountain shook as with an
ague, and there were ten volleys of thun-
der, each of the ten emphasizing ire
mcndous ssThou SHALT" or ''Thou shalt
not" Then the lord resumed his chariot