West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-11
CHARIOIS.
SERMON BY REV. DIR. rALsrAcE.
How the King or all pings
Moves in hts Majesty.

~, brutes are constructed 50 as 10 look down.
1noSs earthly creatures that have wings
wren they rise from the earth still look
Gown, and tho eagle searches for mice in tho
grass ana tue raven for carcasses in the field
Man alone is made 20 look up. TO induce
hiul 10 lo'Nk up God makes the sky a picture
gallery, Dusseldorf. q Louvre, q Luxem-
oourg, Vatican that eclipses all that Ger
man. or Wrench, or Italian art ever accom-
plished. But God has failed 80 far 70 attract
the attention of most OF US by tho scenery OF
tho SKY, We go into raptures flower overs
IN the SOIL, but have little or no appreciation
OIL the morning glories' that bloom on the
wall OF the sky at sunrise OF the dahlias i'm
the clouds at sunset We are I'm ecstosies
over gobelln tapestry or n bridal veil of
rare fabric, or snowbank of exquisite curve.
put see not at all, or SEQ without emotion,
the bridal veil OF mist that covers the face of
the Catskills, or the swaying upholSterv
around the couch OF tho dying day, or the
snowbanks OF vapor piled up In the heavens.
MY text bids US lift our chin three or four
inches and open the two TELESCOPES which
under the forehead are put on swivel easily
turned upward, and see that the clouds are
not merely uninteresting signs OF wet or dry
weather, but that they are embroidered
canopies OF shade, that they are tho con-
servatories or the sky, that they arc thrones
Of pomp, thnt they are crystalline bars that
they are paintings In water color that they
are the angels of tho mist, that they are
great cathedrals of light with broad aisles
TOT angelic feet to walk through and bow at
affairs OF amber and alabaster, that
they are the mothers of the dew,
that they are ladders for ascending
and descending glories, Cotopaxis OF
ociching flame, Niagarns OF color, that they
are the masterpieces OF tho Lord God All.
mighty. The clouds are a fayorite Bibie
simile and the sacred writers have made
much use of them. After the deluQe God
hung on cloud in concentric bands the
eolors OF the spectrum, saying: II do set my
bow Glnlnq Az n 1.
times entirely hidden by vapors, so, SAYS
God, II have blotted out as a thick cloud
tiny transgressions." David measured the
divine goodness and found it so high ne
apostrophized; THY faithfulness reaches unto
the clouds As sometimes there are thou-
sands OF heeces of vapor scurrying across the
heavens, so, says Isaiah, will be the converts
In the millennium, las clouds and as doves -
as IN the wet season no sooner
does the sky clear than there comes
another observation. so, says Solomon
ono ache or ailment OF old folks has no more
tnan gone than another pain comes Gas
clouds return in the rain" A column of
illumined cloud led the Israelites across the
wilderness. In the book OF Job Elihu. witch.
ing the clouds, could not understand why
they did not fall or why they did not oil rob
together, the laws OF evaporation and con
densatlon then not being understood, and he
cries out: ''Dost thou know tho balancing OF
the cloudsin When | read my text il suR-
gests 70 me that the clouds are tho Creators
equipage, and their whirling masses are the
wheels, and the tongue OF the cloud is the
pole OF the celestial vehicle and the winds
are the harnessed steeds, and God is the
Royal occupant and driver ''who maketb
the clouds His chariot"
To understand the psalmist's meaning In
the text you must know that the chariot OF
OLD was sometimes a sculptured brilliancv
made out OF ivory, sometimes Of solid silver
and rolled on two wheels which were
fastened TO the axle by stout pins and the
awful defeat OF Oenomaus by Pelops was
caused by the fact that traitorous charioteer
had inserted Inch pin of wax instead OF n
Inch PIN OF iron. All OF the six hundred
charlotS OF Pharaoh lost their Inch pins in
the Red Sea, for the Bible says: The Lord
TOOK on their wheels" Look at the long
and the thirty thousand chariots OF tho
Phillstines IL you have ever visited tho
buildings where king or queen keeps the
coaches OF state, as 1 have YOU know that
turnout. The keeper tells you: This Is the
state carriage; and used only on great
occasions" This is the coronation
carriage, and in it tho king rode
on the day he took the throne" '1n this the
Queen went TO open Parliament" This is
the coach In which the Car and the Sultan
rode ON the occasion of their VISIT All
costly and tesselated and enriched and en-
blazoned are they, and when the driver takes
the reins OF the ten white horses in his hands
force sounding the national air, the splendor
starts and rolls on under arches entwinei
with banners, and amid the huzza OF hum
dreds or thousands OF spectators the scene is
memorable. But my text puts all such oc-
casions into insgni6cance as IL represents
the King or the Universe coming TO the door
OF his palace, and the giIded vapors Of the
heavens rolling up TO His feet, and He stop
ping in and taking che reins of tho galopinR
winds IN His hand starts in triumphal ride
under the arches OF sapphire, and over the
atmospheric highways OF opal and chrvsolite
the clouds His chariot
Ny hearers, do not think that God BELT
Ties Himself when he takes such convevanca
DO you know that the clouds are among the
most wondrous and majestic things In tho
whole universal Do you know that they ara
lying lakes and rivers and oceansl God
waved dis hand over them and said: "Come
up hiRherl" and they obeyed the mandate
That cloud instead Of being, as it seems. a
small gathering OF vapor few Yards wide
and high Is really seven or eight miles across.
and rs mountain, from its base to its top,
l5,OOO feet, 1900 feet, 10000 feet, and cut
through with ravines 800 feet deep No
David did not make fragile or unworthy
representation Of God IN the text when no
spoke OF the clouds as His chariot But as
sugges'ed IN the case OF an earthly king. He
has His morning cloud chariot and evening
Cloud chariot-the cloud chariot in which
He rode down 60 Sinai 20 open the law. and
the cloud chariot in which he rode down 60
Tabor TO honor the gospel, and the cloud
chariot m which He will come TO judgment
When He rides out in His morning chariot
~ To season, about six o'clock, he puts gol-
den coronets on the dome Of cities. and sill
yers the rivers and out OF tho dew makes n
diamond ring for the finger OF every grass
blade and bids good cheer 20 invalids who in
the night said: would God e were morn
ing" Prom this morning cloud chariot Ha
distributes light, light FOR the earth and light
Tor the heavens, light for the land and light
Tor the sea, great bars OF 10, great wreathes
OF it great columns Of it. a world full OF H.
hnil Him in worship as every morning He
drives out in His chariot Of morning cloud,
and cry with David.
Ny voice shalt Thou hear IN the morning.
ln the morning viii direct my prayer unto
Thee aud look no" ! rejoice iu these Scrip
ture CALCULATIONS. Joy cometh i'm the morn.
ing. Ny soul waiteth for Thee more than
they that watch for The morning. of take
the wing Of the morning. "The eyelids OF
the morning. "The morning cometh-n "Who
Is she that loOketh forth as tho morning.
Ills going forth Is prepared as the morn.
ngi' AS the morning spread on the mount
aims That thou shouidst visit him every
morning" What mighty thing the King
throws from Ills chariot when lie throws ne
The morning
Yea. He has his evening ciOud chariot no
pr made out Of The saffron and the gold and
the purple and The orange and the vermilion
and upeh0t flame ~ tho sunset That is the
place where The splendors that have marched
through tho day, having ended The procos-
sion. throw DOM the torches and set the
heavens on fire. That "a the only hour Of tho
day when The atmosphere is clear enough e.
let us se3 The wall Of the heavenly city with
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