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

wide and high is really seven or eight
miles across, and is O mountain, from its
base to its top, $4,000 feet, $4,000 feet,
10000 feet, and cut through with
ravines 5000 feet deep. No. David did
not make a fragile or unworthy repre-
sentation of God In the text when ho
spoke of the clouds as his chariot. But
as suggested in the case of an earthly
king, he has his morning cloud chariot
and his evening cloud chariot-the cloud
chariot In which he rode down to Sinai
to open the law, and the cloud chariot in
which he rode down to Tabor to honor
the Gospel, and the cloud chariot in
which he will come to- Judgment.
When he rides out in his morning
chariot at this season, about 6 o'clock, he
puts golden coronets ON the dome of
cities and silvers the rivers and out of
the dew makes diamond ring for the
finger of every grass blade and bids good
cheer to invalids who in the night said:
''Would God it were morning." From
this morning cloud chariot he distributes
light, light for the earth and light for
the heavens, light for the land and light
for the sea, great bars Of 1t, great
wreaths Of it, great columns of 1t, a
world full Of it. Hail him in worship
as every morning he drives out In
his chariot Of morning cloud and
cry with David: "My voice shalt
thou hear in the morning, in the
morning WIFI direct my prayer unto
thee and look up" / rejoice in these ]
Scripture CALCULATIONS: "Joy cometh in
the morning;" my soul waiteth for thee
more than they that watch for the morn
mgr '.If / take the wing Of the morn
ing;n 1.-The eyelids of tho morning.
'sThe morning coineth;" "Who is she
that looketh forth. as the morning;"
ellis going forth is prepared as the morn
ing;" 'sAs the morning spread on the
paountains;n THAT thou shouldst visit
him every morning. What a mighty
thing the King throws from his chariot
when he throws Us the morningl
Yea, he has his evening cloud chariot.
It is made out Of the saffron and the
goIdand the purple and the orange
snd the the vermillion and upshot
fame Of the sunset. That is the
place where the splendors that have
marched through the day, having ended
the procession, throw down their torches
and set the heavens on fire. That is the
only hour of the day when the atmos-
phere is clear enough to let us see the
wall of the heavenly city with its
twelve manner Of precious stones, from
| foundation Of jasper to middle strata of
sardins and on up to the coping Of
amethyst. AT that hour without any
of Elisha's supernatural vision we
see horses of fire and chariots of fire
and banners of fire and ships Of fire and
cities of fire, seas of fire, and it seems
as if the last confagration had begun and
there is world on fire. When God
makes these clouds his chariot let us all
kneel. Another day past, what have we
done with it? Another day dead and
this is its gorgeous catafalque. Now is
the time for what David called the
''evening sacrifice" or Daniel called the
sevening oblatiop.'' Obi OH what a
chariot made out of evening cloud!
Have you hung over the taffrail on the
ocean and seen this cloudy vehicle
roll over the pavements of a
calm summer sea, the wheels
dripping with the magnifcence?
Have you from the top Of Ben Lomond
or the Cordilleras or the Berkshire hills
seen the day pillowed for the night, and
yet had no aspiration OF praise and hom-
age? Oh, what rich God we have that
he can put on one evening sky pictures that
excel Michael Angeles "Last Judgment"
and Ghirlandjos "Adoration Of the
Magi" and whole galleries of Madonnas,
and for only an hour, and then throw
them away, and the next evening put on
the same sky something that excels all
that the Raphaels and the Titians and the
Rembrandts and the Correggios and the
Leonardo da Nincis ever executed. and
then draw a curtain of mist over them
never again to be exhibited How rich
God must be to have {. new chariot of
clouds every evening!
But the Bible tells us that our King
also has black chariot. ''Clouds and
darkness we are told, 9'are round about
him." That chariot is cloven out of
night, and that night is trouble. When
he rides forth in that black chariot pesti-
lence and earthquake and famine and
hurricane and woe attend him. TheD
let tho earth tremble. Then let nations
pray Again and again he has ridden
forth in that chariot of black clouds,
across England, and France, and Italy,
and Russia, and America, and over all
nations. That which men took for the
sound of cannenading at Sebastopol, at
Sedan, at Gettysburg, at Tel-el-Kebir, at
Bunker Hill, were only the rum
blings of the black chariot Of
the Almighty. Aye, it is the chariot of
storm cloud armed with thunderbolts and
neither man, nor angel, nor devil, nor
earth, nor hell, nor heaven can resist
him. On those boulevards of blue this
chariot never turns out for anything.
Aye, no one else drives there. Under
one wheel of that chariot Babylon was
crushed and Baalbeck fell dead, and the
Roman empire was Frustrated an0 At
lantis, whole continent that once con-
nected Europe with America, sank clear
out of sight SO that the longest anchor
of ocean steamer cannot touch the top
of its highest mountains. The throne
of the Caesars was less than q pebble un-
der the right wheel of this chariot, and
the Austrian despotism less than snow
flake under the left wheel. And over
destroyed worlds on worlds that chariot
has rolled without jar or jolt.
This black chariot OF war cloud rolled
up to the northwest of Europe in 1919
and four hundred thousand mcn marched
to take Moscow, but that chariot OF
clouds rolled back, and only twenty-five
thousand out of the four hundred thou
sand troops lived to return. No great
snow storm like that had ever be-
, fore or has ever since visited Rus
sia. Aye, the chariot of the
! Lord is irresistible. There is
, only one thing that can halt Or turn any
! of bis chariots, and that is prayer. Again
and again it has stopped it, wheeled it
around, and the chariot of black clouds
under that sanctitied human breath has
) blossonaed into such brightness and color
that men and angels had to veil their
, faces from its brightness. Mark you, the
ancient chariot which David uses as y
symbol in my text had only two wheels,
and that was that they might turn
quickly, two wheels taking less than
4 half the time to turn that -four
$ wheels would have taken. And o.t