Democratic messenger., 1888-10-06


$4,000 feet, $4,000 feet. 10000 feet. and cut
through with ravines 5000 feet deep. No;
David did not make fragile or unworthy
representation OF God In the text when
he spoke Of the clouds as His chariot.
But as ! suggested In the case Of an earth.
ly king, lie has Ills morning cloud char.
lot In which He rode down 70 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
lie will come to judgement.
VEHICLES OF woSpER0us BEAuTY.
When he rides out IN His morning
chariot at this season about 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 II was morning" From this morning.
cloud chariot lie distributes light-light
for the earth and light for the heavens,
light for the land and light for the sea;
great bars Of It, great wreaths Of II, great
columns Of II, world full Of Il. Hail Him
In worship as every morning He drives
out IN Ills chariot Of morning. cloud and
cry with David: MY voice shalt Thou
hear in the morning; in the morning will
direct my prayer unto Thee and look upr'
rejoice In these Scripture calculations
Joy cometh In the morning." my soul
waiteth Thee more than they that watch
for the morning" "IfI take the wing of
the morning." "Thc eyelids OF the morn.
ing" "Thc morning cometh;" "Who Is
she that lookcth forth as the morning" ?"
"IIis going forth Is prepared as the morn.
ing" "As the morning spread on the
mountains" THAT thou shouldst visit
Him every morning" What a mighty
thing the King throws from His chariot
when lie throws us the morning!
Yea, lie has his evening cloud chariot. II
is made out OF the saffron and the gold and
the purple and the orange and the yer.
million and upslot flame Of the sunset.
That is the place where the splcndors
that have marched through the day, hav.
ing ended the procession. throw down
their torches and set the heavens on fire.
That Is the only hour Of the day when
the atmosphere Is clear enough to let us
see the wall Of the heavenly city with It's
IL manner Of precious stones. from fouu-
,la,ion of jasper to middle of strata saridus
and on up to the coping Of amethyst. Al
that hour without any Of Elisha's super
natural vision we see horses Of fire. and
cl,ario,s OF fire. and banners OF fire, and
cities Of fire, seas Of fire, AMI II seems as
if the last conilagration 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 ca,ailaquc. Now Is the
time for what David called "the evening
sacrifice" or Daniel called the evening oh
lation." Oh Oh! what chariot made
out of evening cloud! Have you hung
over the tafrrail on the ocean and seen
this cloudy vehicle roll over the pave.
ment Of q calm summer sea, the wheels
dripping with the magnifience! Have you
from the top Of Ben Lomond or the Cor.
iileras or the Berkshire hills seen the day
pillowed for the night, and yet had no
ASPIRATION of praise and homage. Oh |!
what rich God we have that He can put
on one evening sky pictures that excel
Michael Angeles Last judgment" and
Ghirlandjo's "Adoration Of the Magi" and
whole galleries Of madonnas end for only
an hour, and then throw them away, and
the Ecxt evening put on the same sky
something that excels all that the Raph-
aels and the Titans and the Rembrandts
and the Corregios aud the Leonardo da
Vincis ever executed, and then draw q
curtain Of mist over them never again &c
be exhibited. How rich God must be to
have new charlet ofclouds ever evening.
on BouLEvARDs or BLUE.
But the Bible tells US that our King also
has a black chariot. "Clouds and dark.
ness" we are told. "are round about
Him." That chariot Is cioven out Of
night, and that night Is trouble. When
lie rides forth in that black chariot pcsti.
lence and earthquake and famine aud hur.
ricane and woe attend Him. Then let the
earth ,remble. Then let nations pray
Again and again lie has ridden forth in
that chariot Of black clouds, cross England
and France and Italy and Russia and
America and over all nations. That which
men took for the sound OF cannonading at
Sebastopol, at Sedan. at Gettysburg, at
Tel.el. .Kcbir, at Bunker IIill, were only
the rumblings Of the black chariot Of the
Almighty. Aye, Il Il the chariot Of storm
cloud armed with thunderbolts, and nei'
ther man. nor angle, nor dcvel, nor earth,
nor hell, nor Heaven, can resist Him. On
these bou lcvarls Of blue this chariot new.
or turns out for anything. Aye, no one
else drives there. Under ono wheel of
that chariot Babylon was crushed, and
Iaalbcck fell dead, aud the Roman En-
pirc was Frustrated, aud Atlantis, a whole
continent that :once connected Europe
with America. sank clear out Of sight 50
that the longest anchor Of ocean steamer
cannot touch the top Of It's highest noun.
tains. The throne Of the Caesars was less
than pcl,ble under the right wheel OF
this chariot, aud the Austrian dcspotism
less than snowflake under the lcil wheel.
And over destroyed worlds on worlds
that chariot has rolled without Jar or
jolt.
up To the northwest Of Europe In 1879
and 100000 men marched to take Moscow,
In, that chariot Of clouds rollet back, and
only $1,000 out Of the 4oO,OOO troops lived
to return No great snow-siorm like that
had ever before or has ever since visited