News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-11

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| cow but that chariot of clouds rolled back,
| and only twenty-five thousand out of the four
| hundred thousand troops lived to return. No
| great snow storm like that had ever before or
| has ever since visited Russia. Aye, the chariot
| of the Lord is irresistible There IS
| only one thing that can halt or turn any OF
| His chariots, and that is prayer. Again and
| again it has stopped it. wheeled it around,
| and the chariot of black clouds under that
| sanctified human breath has blosSomed into
| such brightness and color that men and
angels had to veil their faces from its bright
| ness. Mark YOU, the ancient chariot which
| David uses as a symbol in my text had only
| two wheels, and that was that they might turn
quickly, two wheels taking less than hal
the time to turn that four wheels would
| have taken. And our Lords chariot has
only two wheels, and that means instant re-
verSal, and instant help, and instant deliver
ance. While the combined forces of the
universe in battle array could not stop his
black chariot second or diverge it an inch,
the driver of that chariot says: Call upon
liver thee" while they are yet
speaking 1 viii hear" Two-wheeled
chariot, one wheel Justice and the other
wheel mercy. Aye, they are swift wheels.
A cloud, whether it belongs to the cirrhuS,
the clouds that float the highest; or belongs
to the stratus, the central ranges; OF to the
cumulus, the lowest ranges, seems to move
slowly along the sky if 1t moves at all. But
many clouds go at a speed that would make
a veStibUle limited lightning express train
seem lethargic, so swift is the chariot of our
God; yea, swifter than tho storm, swifter
than the light. Yet a child ten years old has
been known to reach up, and with the hand
of prayer tlke the courSer of that chariot
by the bit and slow it up, or stop it, or turn
it aaide, or turn it back. The boy Samuel
stopped it. Elijah stopped it. Hezelliah
stopped it. Daniel stopped it. Joshua
stopped it. Esther stopped it. Ruth stopped
It. Hannah stopped it. Mary stopped it,
Nv father stopped it. My mother stopped it.
My sister stopped it. We have in our Sab
bath-schOoiS children who again and again
and again have stopped it.
Notice that these old time chariots, which
my text uses for symbol, had what we would
call high dash board at the front. but were
open behind. And the king would stand al
the dashboard and drive with his own hands
And | am glad that He, whose chariot the
Clouds are, drives Himself. He does not let
natural law drive, for natural law IS deaf. He
does not let fate drive, for fate is merciess,
But our Father King drives Himself,
and He puts His loving hand on the reinS of
the flying coursers, and He has a loving ear
open to the cry of all who want to catch His
attention. Oh, am SO glad that my Father
drives and never drives too fast, aud never
drives too slow, and never drives of the
precipice, and that He controls, by a bit that
never breaks the widest and most raging
who put out with his vessel with large
number of passengers from Buffalo on Lake
Erie very early in the season and while
there was much ice. When they were we
out the captain saw to his horror that the ice
was closing in on him from all sides, and he
saw no way out from destruction and death
He called into the cabin the paSsen gers and
all the crew that could be spared from their
posts, and told them that the sh p must be lost
unless Col interpoSej and although he was
M n Ia al l.. Tat nc
and they all EDelt asking God to come for
their deliveranCs. They went back to the
dec'5, and the man at the wheel shouted: "All
right, Capn, it's blowing nor by nor west
now W h lie the prayer was going ON in the
cabin the wind changed and blew the ice out OF
the way. ! he mate asked: ''Shall Iput on more
sail, capn.' MOI 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 misfOrtunes, in earnest
prayer put all your affairs in the hands OF
Col You viii come out all right. Some one
e Sc is managing the shipL 1t did not merely
happen so that when Leyden was bese1ged,
md the Duke of Alva felt sure of his tri-
lmph, suddenly the wind turned, and the
wollen waters compelled him to stop
he siege, and the city was saved.
Sod that night drove along the
oast of the Netherlands IN biack CHARIOT
# storm cloud. Itdid not merely happen so |
hat Luther rose from the place where he |
vas sitting lust in time TO keep from being
rushed by a stone that the instant after fell |
n the very spot. Had he not escaped where |
you'd have been the Reformation. 1t did not |
vas saved from drowning by an oar
hat was floating on the waters. Other
wise, who would have unveiled American |
t did not merely happen so that when |
George Washington was in Brooklyn great |
og settled down over all the place where this |
,hurch stands, and over all this end of Long
island and that under that fog he and his
army escaped from the clutches of Generals
Howe and Clinton. In a chariot OF mist and
cloud the God of American Independence
rode along here. On that pillow of consolation
/ put down my head to Sleep at night.
On that solid foundation | build when see
his nation in political paroXysm every four
7ears, not because they care two cents about
whether it is high tariff, or low tariff, or no
sriH at all, but only whether the Demo
rats or the Republicans shall have
he salaried offices. Yea, when Eu-
opean nations are holding their breath,
wondering whether Russia or Germany will
aunch war that will incarnadine a con-
inent, | fall back on the faith that my
father drives Yes, | cast this as an anchor,
nd plant this column of strength, and
lift this as a telescope, and build this as a
ortreSs, and propose without any perturba-
ion to launch upon an unknown future trium-
,hant in the fact that my Father drives. eS.
He drives very near. L know that many of
he clouds that you see in summer are far
OFF, the bases OF some of them five miles
above the earth High on the highest peaks
If the Andes travellers have seen clouds far
higher than where they were standing.
Jay Lussac, after he had risen i'll a
balloon twenty-three thousand feet, still
saw clouds above him.
But there are clouds that touch the earth
and discharge their rain, and, though the
clouds out of which Gods chariot is made
nay sometimes be far away, often they are
close by, and they touch our shoulders, and
hey touch our homes, and they touch us all
over. l have read of two rides that the
Lord took in two different chariots
Of clouds, and of another that He
will take. One day, in a 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
among the split shelvings of rock. The
mountains shook as with an ague, and there
We're ten volleys of thunder, each of the ten
emphasizing tremendous ''1h ou shalt" or
Thou shalt not.n Then the Lord resumed
His chariot of cloud and drove up
he hills of heaven. They were
lark and portentouS clouds that made that
,nariot at the giving of the law. But one
lay He took another ride, and this time down
o Mount Tabor, the clouds out OF which His
chariot was made, were bright clouds, roseate
clouds, llumIned clouds, and music ralned
rom all of them, and the music was ming
ing of carol and chant and triumphal
march: This is My belo ed Son, in whom /
I'M well pleased" TRANSPORTATION chariot
oh say hundreds OF you, Il wish could
lave seen those chariots-the black one that
brought the Lord to Jebel- Musa at the giving
If the law, and the white one that brought
Him down to Tabor Never mind, you will
ee something grander than that, and it VIII
,e a mightier mingling of thu sombre and
he radiant, and the pOmp of it wIn |
% such that the chariots in which
ira jan, and Diocletian, and Zenobia, |
md Caesar, and Alexander, and |
ii the conquerors of all the ages rode will |
,e unworthy of mentions; and what strs me
he most is that when he comes in that |
hariot of cloud aud goes back, He will ask
ou and me to ride with HIM both ways.
low do L know that tue judgment
hariot will be made out OF clouds'
revelation l., Z: ''Beho He cometh with
louds." Oh, He will not then ride through the
Ravens alone as He does now. He is going |
0 bring along with Him escort of ten full |
e5iments. Inspiration says: Behold the |
ord cometh with ten thousand of his saints" |
'uC these figures simply mean that there |
robably through the atonement of Christ |
g in heaven before that, l hope |
hat we can come down in that es-
ort of chariots. Christ in the centre |
har,ot, but chariots before Him to clear the |
yay, aud chariots behind Him, and chariots |
n either side of Him. Perhaps the proph-
IS and patriarchs Eof the old dispensation |
aay ride ahead each one Standardization |
nd Moses and Ezekiel and DaYid and joshua, |
VhO fOretold his first coming. On either side |
f the central chariot apostles and martyrs |
Who in the same approximate centuries ,
uttered for Him-Paul, Stephen, and Igna-
Jus, and Polycarp, and Justin Martyr, aud |
nultitudes who went up in chariot of fire
low coming IN chariot of cloud, white in the
ear of the central chariot shall be the multi
udes of latter days and OF our own time vino