The Brookhaven leader., 1888-10-11

bphFtu posAsf hAN ''i'' th'NAA
that the ship must be lost unless God in
terposed. and although he was not a
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 shoutedi
"All right Cap'n; it's blowing nor ~
nor'west now.n
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"
MOP 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 misfortuues. In earn
est prayer put all your affairs in the
hands OF God. You will come out all
right Some one else is managing the
shipl 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. 1t did not mere
ly happen so that Luther rose from the
place where he was sitting just in time TO
keep from being crushed from q stone
that the instant after fell on the very
spot Had he not escaped, where would
have been the Reformation? 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 unvailed America 1t did not
merely happen so that when George
Washington was i'll Brooklyn 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 Generals Howe and Clinton. In q
chariot of mist and cloud the god OF
American independence rode along here
But there are clouds that touch the earth
and dis barge 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 Shout
ders, and they touch our homes, and they
touch us all over. | have real 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 mIngling of fog and smoke
and fire, God drove down to the top of a
terrible crag 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 ague, and
there were ten volleys Of thunder, each OF
the ten emphasizing a tremendous Thou
shalt' or "Thou shalt not" Then the
Lord resumed His chariot of cloud and
drove up the hills OF Heaven. They were
dark and portentOus clouds that made
that chariot at tho giving of the law.
But one day He took another ride, and
this time down to Mount Tabor; the
clouds out of which His chariot was made,
bright clouds, roseate clouds illumined
| clouds, and music rained from all OF
them, aud the music was a mingling OF
carol and chant and triumphal march:
"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 BACK
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 will see something
grander than that and it will be might
! Ter mingling Of the somDer and the ra-
diant, and the pomp Of 1T will be such that
the chariots in which Trajan, and Diocle-
tan, and Xenobia, and Cesar, and Alex
ander, and all the cOnquerors Of all the
ages rode will be unworthy of mention;
and what stirs 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 Him both ways. How do | know that
the judgment chariot will be made OF
| clouds?
Behold He cometh with Clouds Revelation
IL
Oh, He will not then ride through the
heavens alone as He does now. He il
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 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 eau
come down In that escort Of chariots.
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
dispensation may ride ahead, each one
| charioted-Abraham and Moses, and
Ezekiel and David and Joshua, who fore
|
the cen trail chariot apostles and martyrs
| who, in the same or approximate centu-
ries, suffered for Him-Paul, Stephen and
Ignatlus,an POlycarp and Justin 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, and
OF our own time, who have tried to serve
IA al 4 1o,
behold the Lord come til with ten thou
sand 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 orr residence.
Coming through the skies myriads Of
chariots rolling on and rolling down. By
that time how char; this world will be.
Its deserts all flowers, its rocks all
messed and lichened, its poor houses all
palaces, its sorrows all joys, its sins all
virtues, and in the same pasture field
lion and calf, and on the same perch
hawk and dove. Now the chariOts of
cloud strike the earth, filing all the val =
leys, and covering all the mountain siles,
and halting in all the cemeteries anu
grave yards and over the waters deep
where the dead sleep in coral sarcopha-
gus.
A loul blast Of the resurrection trump
ct is given and the bodies of the dead
rise and join the spirits from which they
have long been separated. 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 on!
Drive up! ChariOtS of cloud ahead OF the