The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-10-12
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est prayer put all your affairs in the
hands OF God. You viii come out all
right Some one else Is managing the
shiDl It did not merely happen so that
when Leyden was besieged, and the Duke
OF Alva felt sure OF his triumph, sudden
ly the wind turned, aud 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. It did not mere~
ly happen so that Luther rose from the
place whore he was sitting just in time to
keep from being crushed from a stono
that the instant after fell on the very
spot Had he not escaped whore would
have been the ReformationP 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 unYailed American 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 or
Long Island, and that under that fog he
and his army escaped from the clutches
Of Generals Howe and Clinton. In q
chariot OF mist and cloud the god Of
American Independence rode along here.
On that pillow OF consolation put down
my head to sleep mt night On that solid
foundation build when / see this nation
DOllNlCAA pAEOAg hAn 0fUAy AVuA yNhAH
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 Repu blicans shall have
the salRried officers. Yea, when European
| nations are holding their breath, wonder
| ing whether Russia or Germanywill launch
| aWaF that will incarnadine a continent, ]
| fall back on the faith that my Father
drives Yea. / cast this es an anchor,
| and plant this as a column Of strength,
| and lift this as q telescope, and build this
/ as a fortress, and propose without any
! perturbation to launch upon an unknown
/ future triumphant in the fact that my
! Father drives. Yea, He driyes very near.
| I.know that many OF the clouds that you
see In summer are far of, 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 we're standing, Guy
I Lussac after he had risen in a balloon
twenty three thousand feet still sew
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 shoui-
ders 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 a chariot OF clouds
that were a mlngling of fog and smoke
| and fire, God drove down to the top OF
/ terrible orag fifteen hundred feet high,
now called Jebel- Musa, then called Mount
Sinai, and He stepped out of His chariot
| among the split shelvings OF rock. The
mountain shook as with an aguo, and
| there were ten volleys Of thunder, each OF
the ten emphasizing a tremendous "Thou
! et, oh nf
| Lord resumed His chariot of cloud and
| drove up the hills of Heaven. They were
dark and portentous clouds that made
that chariot at the giving Of the law.
But one day He took another ride, and
this time down 10 Mount Tabor; the
clouds OutOf which His chariot was made,
| bright clouds, rOseate clouds, illuminod
clouds, and music rained from all Of
them, and the music was a mingltng OF
carol and chant and tFiumphal marchi
This is My beloved Son. In whom am
well pleased" TRANSPORTATION chariot.
'Oh, +" say hundreds of you, 81 wish
could have seen those chariOts-the black
one that brought the Lord to Jebel~ MusR
at the giving OF the law, and the white
one that brought Him down to Tabor"
Never mind, you will see something
0rander than that, and IL Will be might
| Ter mingling OF the somber and the ra-
diant, and the pomp Of it will be such that
the chariots in which Trajan, and DiOcle-
tfau. and XenObia, and Caesar, and Alex
ander and all the conquerors or all the
ages rode will be unworthy OF mentions
and what stirH me the most is that when
He comes in that chariot OF cloud and
goes back He will ask you and me TO ride
with Hin both ways. How do l know that
the judgment chariot will be made OF
cloudsf
Behold lie comoth with clouds. Revelation,
] l. r.
Oh, He will not then ride through the
heavens alone as He does now. He is
going to bring along with Him an escort OF
ten full regiments. Inspiration says
''Behold the Lord cometh with ten thou
sand of His saints" But these hgures
simply mean that there will be q great
thronR. And as we shall probably,
through the atonement of Christ, be Ia
Heaven before that, / hope that We eau
come down in that escort Of chariots.
t Christ in the center chariot but
t charfots before Him to cleor the
. way, and chariots behind Him, and
. chariots on either side Of Him. Perhaps
: the prophets and patriarchs OF the old
t dispensation may ride ahead, each one
t Observation-Disclosures and Moses, and
: Ezekiel and David and Joshua who fore-
> told His first coming. On either Side oi
the cen trRl chariot apostles and martyrs
q who in the sRme or approximate .centu-
. F1GH. BufE&TGQ Tor EALA-G NMAq NytD HANA A-aAA
r Ignatlua, and POlycarp . and justin Martyr
t and muititudes who went mp IN chariot
= Of ere, nov coming IN chariot OF cloud.
! while in the rear of the central chariot
4 shall be the multitudes OF later days, and
] OF our own time, who have tried 20 serve
the Lord. ourselves, hope, among them
y 'sBehold the Lord come th with ten thou
sand Of His safnts.D
r Yes; although all unworthy OF such
d compan ionship wo want TO come viii
Him on that ay to see tho last Of this old
J. world which was once our reSl0@mcs
{ Coming through the skies myrtad4 o
0 chariots rolling on and rolling 1oWn. ~
o that time how changed this world VIII De
It's deserts all flowers, it's rocks al
a mossed and lichened, its poor -houses 81
o palaces, It's sorrows all joys. its sins al
i virtues, and ia the same pagture-neAe
Q lion and calf, and on the same perez
> hawk and dove. Now the ehariota o.
. cloud strike the EARTH filling ali the Fei'
o leyB, and covering All the mountain siaos
a and hating in all the cemeteries anf
It grave yards and over the waters ueei
d where the dead sleep In coral Sareopf'a
a gus.
4 A Iou1 blast OF the resurrection trump.
4 ct Is given and the bodies OF the deas
!. | rise and join the spirits from Wnich tns.
: have long been separated Then Cnftss
our King, rising in the center enariot o
= / cloud. with His SCARED hands waves IN
= signal, and the chariots wheel and COM
into lire for glorious ascent Drive on
= Drive upl Chariots Of cloud ahead Of th
= King, ohariots of cloud on either SIDE o
the King. chariots Of clouds following IN
2 King. Upward and apast starry hosts
I, and through immensities, and aoross In
y ATTITUDES, higher. higher, higher, unto I'd
Z gates, the shining gates. Lift up you
Y heads, ye everlasting gates, for Him VIII
% naksth the clouds His chariot, and whf
through eondescending and upIiitin
:, grace. invites Us 20 mount and ride wit
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