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from all Of them, and the music was ming

from all of them, and the music was ming,
ling of carol and chant and triumphal
march: s.This is My beloved Son, in whom
am well pleased" TRANSPORTATION chariot
"Oh," say hundreds of you, -! wish could
have sean those chariots-the black one tna1
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
zee something grander than that, and 1t will
be mightier mingling of ths sombre and
the radiant, and the pomp Of it will
be such that the chariots in which
Trajan, and Diocletian, and Zenooia,
and Caesar, and Alexander, ana
be unworthy Of mention; and what stlrs me
the most is that when he comes in that
chariot Of cloud aud goes back, He will ask
YOU and me to ride with Him both ways
How do 1 know that tue Judgment
chariot will be made out OF cloudst
Revelation i, Z: Behold He cometh with
clouds" Oh, He will not then ride through the
heavens alone as He does now he Is gong
to bring along with Him 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, l hope
that % Te cSarot saa cong ehriss in the csntre
chariot but chariots before Him to clear the
wav, and chariots behind Him, and chariots
on either side of Him Perhaps the proph-
ats and patriarchs Eof the old diSpensatlon
NAV ride ahead each one charioted-A Abraham
and Moses and Ezekiel and DaYid and Joshua,
who foretold his first coming. On either side
of the central chariot apostles and martyrs
who in the same or approximate centuries
suffered for Him-Paul, Stephen, and lgna-
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multitudes who went up in chariot OF tre
now coming in chariot of cloud, while in the
rear of the central chariot shall be the multi
tudes of latter days and OF our own time who
have tried to serve the Lord, ourselves lhope
among them Behold the Lord cometh with
ten thouS and 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 our resi-
dence Coming through the skies myriads of
chariots rolling on and rolling down: By
that time how changed this world will be.
Its deserts all flowers, its rocks all mossed
and lichened, its poor houses all palaces,
it's 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, filling
all the valleys, and covering all the mount
ain 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
trumpet 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 onl Drive upl Chariots of
cloud ahead of the King, chariots of
cloud on either side Of the King,
chariots of cloud following the King. Up
ward and apast starry hosts, and through
immensities, and across intinitudes, higher,
higher, higher, unto the gates, the shining
gates Lift up your heads, ye Everlasting
Gates, for Him who maketh the clouds His
chariot, and who through coudescendlng anu
uplifting grace invites us to mount and ride
with HimI