Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-05


Is deaf. He does nos let ia;e drive. Ter
fA.e ts merciless. Bus cur F,ther King
drives himself, and He puts dis loving
hand OF the reins OF
THE FLYING CoURsERe,
and He has loving err open to the cry
of sill who want 20 eaten Ills attention.
On, sm so glsd that my Father drives,
aud never drives too fss', and never
drives too slow, and pevar drives Of the
'prsciplce, snd thzt he controls by q bit
thEt never breaks, the wilces. and most
raging circumstances. l heard Of ship
csptsin who put GU. with his vessel with
a large number Of passengers from Buff
fslo on Like Erie, very early in the ses-
son snd-wh.le there WAS much ice. When
they were we'll out the captain saw to his
horror that the ice was closing in on
him from all sides, and he
sew no way out from destruc-
ton and death. He called into the cabin
the passengers and all the crew that
could be spared from their posts and told
them that the ship must be lost unless
God interpreted, and although he WAS not
q Christian man he said: "Let Us pray"
and they ell knelt asking God to come
for their deliVersnce. They went back to
the deck, and the man at the wheel
shouted: Gan right Csp'n; it's blowing
nor by nor'wes now" While the prayer
YVES going on in the cabin the wind
changed and blew the ice GU. of the way,
The mate asked: "Saall l pus on more
sail, Cap'n?" "Nol" responded the Cap
tain; "don't touch her. Some one else is
managing the ship" On, men AID wo
men, shut in on sll sides by icy troubles
and misfortunea, In earnest prayer put sll
your affairs inlthe hands of God. You Will
come out all right. Some one else is mar
sging the ship It did not merely hap
pen so that when Leydea was besieged
and the Duke of Alvs felt sure Of his til
umpb, suddenly the wind turned and the
swollen waters compelled him to stop the
siege, and the city WAS saved. G1d that
night drove along the coast OF the Neither
lands in black chariot Of storm cloud.
L. cid not merely happC so that Luther
rose from the place where he was sitting
1st il time TO Keep from being
CRUSHED BY STONE
inst the instant after fell on the very spot.
Had he not escaped where would have
baen the Reformation? L. did not merely
happen so that Columbus was saved ffon
drowning by sn oar that IVES foatiug en-
the waters. Otherwise, who would have
unveiled America?
II did not merely happen SO thst wher
George Washington WIS in Brooklyn c
great fog settled down over all the place
where this church stan is, and over Ill this
cad CT Long Island. and that under iha.
fog he ard his armies escaped irom the
clutches Of Generals Howe and Clinton
In 3 chariot OF mist and cloud lhe God 81
American Independence rode along here
Ga that pillow OF consolation put down
my head to sleep At night. On thst solid
foundation l build when sac this nation
in political paroxYsm every four years.
not because they care two cents sOoui
whether it is high tsrIff, or low tariff, c.
no tariff at sll, but only whether the
Democrats or the Republicans shall hsvs
the salaried fiices. Yes, when European
Ea.ions are holding their breath, wonder
ing whether Russis or Germany vii
launch & YVar that will in 3arnaiine e con
tluen, l fsll back on the faith that ny
Father driyes. Yea, 1 cast tits az ri
anchor, and plant this SIS Q column o.
strength, and lit this as tele-
scope, and build this as s
fortress, ara propose without suy
perturbation to LAUNCH upoa an unknowL
future tr.um qhsnt in thu fact that nj
Fsther dr!vas, Yee, H drives very neN
| know that mSny CT the clouds .a&5 YaE
see in summer ere far of, the bases d
some OF them fivs miles &Dnve the earth
High OF the highest peaks OF fhe Andes
travellers have seen clouds ;;r higher
taNn where they were stsn1iGg. Guy
L1sssc, after he had x
RISEN IN A BALLOON ~
1000 feet, still sSw clouis soova hin.
But there are clouds thsS touch the
earth and discharge their rsin, snd
though the clouds out OF which Gods
chariot is made may sometimes be la
away, often they sre close ~, and toeJ
t0uoa our shoulders, snd they touch Gu
/ homes, and they touch as Sll over. hsTt
resd Of two rides that the Lord took il
two different chaEiots OF clouds, and Of
another that He will tSke. One Gay, in .
Chariot Of clouds tina. were mirgling o
| fog and sraoke end fire, Gao
crave down TO the top Of c terrbl,
crag 1860 feet high, now called
Jeoel Muse, then called Mount Sinai, an(
He stepped out O; His chariot among th'
| split shelvings Of rock. Tie mouu
tsin shook ss with an sgue, and therj
were ten yolleys OF thunder, each of tn,
ten emph.siz ng tremendous "Thor
shalt" or "rhou shalt not " Then tn
Lord resumed His chariot Of cloud anc
drove up the hills OF heaven. They wer
DARK and portentous clouds that mad
that chariot ST the givipgot the law. Blu
one day He took smother ride, and thi!
time down to Mount Tabor, the cloud
out Of which His chariot WAS mad
clouds, and music ralned from ell o
them. snd the music was mingling @
carol and chant and triumphsl msrch
"This is My beloved Son, in whom 1 an
we'll pleased" TRANSPORTATION chariot
"Oo," say hundreds of you, III wish
could nave seen those chariote-the blsc
one that brought the Lord to Jebel Mus
st the giving of the law, and the whit
one that brought Him down to Tabor.
Never mind, you will see som ethir
grsnder than that, and 1t will be
mightier mingling of the sombre and tn
radiant, and the pomp of it will be such tbs
the chariots in which Trs jan, and Diocle
tian, and Xsnoois, and Caesar, and Alex
ander, and all the
CONQUKRoRs OF ALL THE AGES
rode will be unworthy of mention; an
what stirs me the most is that when q
comes in that chariot Of cloud and gne
oack, He will ask you and me to ride wit
Him both ways. How do know that tn
! judgment chariot will be made on
OF clouds? Revelation t., 7: "Behol
He cometh with Clouds" Oh, He wi
not then ride through the heavens alon
as He does now. He Is going to bril
along with Him escort of ten full regi