The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-10-05
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tariff at all, but only whether the Dem
ocrsts or Republicans shall have the salaried
officers. Yea, when European nations en-
holding their breath, wondering whether
Russia or Germany win launch q war that
win incarnadine continent ] TALL bacl
on the faith that my Father drives. Yea
cast this as an anchor, and plant
this as column Of strength. and Lift thil
as o telescope, and build this q
Q fortress, and propose without any
perturbation to launch upon an unknown
future triumphant In the fact that my
Father drives Yes, be drives very near.
know that many Of the clouds that you see
In summer are Tar of, the bases Of some Of
them five miles above the earth. High or
the highest peaks Of the Andes travellers have
seen clouds far higher than where they were
standing. Gay Lussac, after he had risen IL
q balloon twenty-three thousand feet, still
saw clouds above him.
But there are clouds that touch the earth
and discharge their. rain, and, though tbs
clouds out of which Gods chariot Is made
may sometimes be Ear away, often they arr
close by, and they touch our shoulders and
they touch our homes and they touch Us al
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 q
chariot Of clouds that were o mingling Of
fog and smoke and fire, God drove down &c
the top Of terrible crag fifteen hundred
feet high, now called Jebel- Musa, then called
Mount Sinai, and he stepped out Of his char.
lot among the split shelvings of rock. The
mountain shook as with an ague, and
there were ten volleys Of thunder, each Of the
ten emphasizing a tremendous "Thou shalt
or ''Thou shalt not" Then the Lord re.
sumed his chariot Of cloud and drove ND the
hills Of heaven. They were dark and DOR.
tentous clouds that made that chariot at the
giving Of the law. But one day be tool
another ride, and this time down to Mount
Tabor, the clouds out of which his chariot
was made bright clouds, roseate clouds, illu.
mined clouds, and music rained from all Of
them, and the music was mingling Of carol
and chant and triumphal march: "This d
my beloved son, In whom am well pleased n
TRANSPORTATION chariot
"Oh,n say hundreds Of you, ~ wish could
have seen those chariots-the black one that
brought the Lord to Jebel-Musa at the giving
Of the law, and the white one that brought
him down to Tabor" Never mind, you WI
see something grander than that, and IL will
be mightier mingling Of the somber and
the radiant, and the pomp Of 1t win be such
that the chariots In which Trajan and
Diocletian, and Zenobia, and Caesar, and
Alexander, and all the conquerors Of all
the ages rode win be unworthy Of mention;
and what stirs me the most Is that
when he comes in that chariot Of cloud
and goes back, he win ask you and me to
ride with him both ways How do know
that the Judgment chariot win be made out
Of cloudsl Revelation 1, q: Behold be
oometh with clouds" Oh, he win 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
thousand of his saints" But these figures
simply mean that there will be great
throng. And as we shall probably through
the atonement Of Christ be in heaven
before that, hope that We can come
down in that escort of chariot Christ In the
center chariot. but chariots before him to
clear the way, and chariots behind him and
chariots on either side Of him Perhaps the
prophets and patriarchs Of the old dispense
ton may ride ahead, each one charioted-
Abraham and Moses and Ezekiel and David
and Joshua, who foretold his first coming.
On either side Of the central chariot apos-
ties and martyrs who In the same or ap-
proximate centuries suffered for him-Paul,
Stephen and Ignatius and Polycarp and JUS
tin Martyr and multitudes who went up
In chariot Of fire now coming in chariot
Of cloud. while in the rear Of the central
chariot shall be the multitudes of later days
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the Lord, ourselves, hope, among them,
behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand
Of his saints" Yes; although all unworthy
Of such companionship, we want to come
with him on that day to see the last Of this
old world which was once our residence
Coming through the skies, myriads Of
chariots rolling on and rolling down. By
that time how changed this world win be
Its deserts all flowers, its rocks all messed
and lichened, its poorhouses all palaces, its
sorrows all joys, its sins all virtues,
and In the same pasture field lion and cali,
and on the same perch hawk and dove Now
the chariots Of cloud strike the earth, filling
all the valleys and covering all the mountain
sides, and halting In all the cemeteries and
graveyards and over the waters deep where
the dead sleep in coral sarcophagus. A loud
blast Of the resurrection tretnpet Ii given,
and the bodies Of the dead r1ss and join the
spirits from which they have long been sepa-
rated. Then Christ our King, rising In the
center chariot Of cloud, with his SCARED
hands waves the signal, and the chariots wheel
and come into line for glorious ascent Drive
oni Drive upl Chariots Of cloud ahead Of
the King, chariots of cloud on either side Of
the King, chariots Of clouds following the
King. Upward and apast starry hosts and
through immensities and across ininitudea
higher, higher, higher. unto the gates, the
shining gates Lift up your heads, ye ever
lasting gates, for him who maketh the clouds
his chariot, and who, through condescending
and uplifting grace. invites us to mount and
ride with him