The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-12

| the morning spread ON the mountains,
THAT Thou shouldst visit him every morn
ing" What a mighty thing the Kin,
| throws from His chariot whep He throw
| US the morning,
Yea; He las His evening cloud chariot
| It il made out OF the saffron and the gols
and the purple and the Grange ard tn,
vermillion and upshot fame of the sunset
That is the place where the splendors tina
have marched through the day. havin,
ended the procession, throw down thei
torches and set the heavens on fire. Tha
ID the only hour in the day when the at
ihosphere is clear enough to let US see tn,
| wall of the heavenly city with its twelv,
manner Of precious stones, from founda.
| tion of jasper to middle strata Of sardiu,
and on up to the coping of amethyst. A
that hour without any of iSlisha's super
natural vision we see horses Of fire anC
chariots of fire and banners Of fire anc
ships Of fire and cities of fire, seas of fire
and it seems as if the last confiagratior
had begun and there is a world on fire
When God makes these clouds His chariot
let all kneel. Another day past, what
have we done with it? Another day dead
and this is its gorgeous catafalque. Now
Is the time for what David called the
"evening sacrifice" or Daniel called the
"evening oblation." Oh. oh. what a
chariot made out of evening cloud Have
you hung over the taffrail on the ocean
and seen this cloudy vehicle roll over the
pavements of a calm summer sea, the
wheels dripping with the magnifcence:
Have you, from the top of Ben Lomond OF
the Cordilleras or the Berkshire hills. seen
the day pillowed for the night and yet had
no aspiration of praise and homage:
o, what a rich God we have that
He can put on one evening sky
pictures that excel Michael Angeles Last
Judgment and Ghirlandjo's Alteration
of the Magi" and whole galleries of Ma
donnas, and for only an hour, and then
throw them away and the next evening
put on the same sky something that ex-
cells all that the Rapbaels and the Titians
and the Rembrandts and the Corregios and
the Leonardo da Vincis ever executed. and
then draw a curtain of mist over them,
never again to be exhibited. How rich
God must be to have a new chariot of
clouds every evening.
But the Bible tells us that our King also
has black chariot. "Clouds and dark
ness, we are told, "are around about Him. +"
That chariot is cloven out of night and that
night is trouble. When He rides forth in
the black chariot pestilence and earth
quake and famine and hurricane and woe
attend him. Then let the earth tremble.
Then let nations pray. Again and again
He has ridden forth in that chariot of black
clouds across 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- Kebir, at
Bunker Hill, were only the rumblings OF
the black chariot of the Almighty. Aye.
it is the chariot of storm cloud
armed with thunderbolts and neither
man nor angel nor devil nor earth
nor hell nor Heaven can resist Him. On
those boulevards of blue this chariot never
turns out for any thing. Aye: no one else
drives there. Under one wheel of that
chariot Babylon was crushed and Baal-
beck fell dead and the Roman Empire was
Frustrated and Atlantis, a whole continent
that once connected Europe with America,
sank clear out of sight so that :he longest
anchor of ocean steamer can not .ouch the
top of its his hest mountains. The throne
of the Caesars was less,than pebble under
the right wheel of this chariot, and the
Austrian despotism less than a snowflake
under the left wheel. And over DESTROYED
worlds on worlds that chariot has rolled
without jar or jolt. This black chariot
of war cloud rolled up to the northwest OF
Europe in 1872 and four hundred thousand
men marched to take Moscow, but that
chariot of clouds rolled back, and only
twenty five thousand out of the four hun
dred thousand troops lived to return. No
great snow storm like that ever before or
has ever since visited Russia,
Aye, the chariot of the Lord is irresisti-
bic. 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 vail
their faces from its brightness. Mark you,
the ancient chariot which David uses as a
symbol in my text had only two wheels,
and thatwas that they might turn quickly,
two wheels taking less than half the time
that four wheels would have taken. And
our Lords chariot has only two wheels
and that means instant reversal, and in
slant help, and instant deliverance.
While the combined forces of the
universe in battle array could not
stop his black chariot a second or
diverge it an inch. The driver of that
chariot says: "Call upon me in the day of
trouble and l will deliver thee" "while
they are yet speaking will hear" Two
chariot, one wheel justice and
the other wheel mercy. Aye, they are
swift wheels. A cloud, whether it belongs
n ha cir he 81 hot
highest, or belongs to the stratus, the CEN
trail ranges or to the cumulus, the lowest
ranges, seems to move slowly along the
sky if it moves at all. But many of the
clouds go at a speed that would seem leth-
argic to vestibule limited lightning ex-
press train, so swift is the chariot of our |
Sod: yea, swifter than the storm, swifter |
han the light. Yet q child ten years old |
has been known to reach up, and with the |
hand of prayer take the courser of that |
chariot by the bit and slow it up, or stop |
{, or turn it aside, or turn it back. The |
BOY Samuel stopped it. Elijah stopped it. |
dezekiah stopped it. Daniel stopped it. |
Joshua stopped 1t. Esther stopped 1t. |
Ruth stopped it. Hannah stopped 1t.
Nary stopped it. Ny father stopped it.
Wy mother stopped it. My sister stopped
t. We have in our Sabbath schools chill
lren who again and again and again have
topped it.
Notice that these old time chariots,
which my text uses for symbol, had what
We would call a high dashboard at the
ront, but were open behind. And the
King would stand at the dashboard and
lrive with his own hands. And l am glad
hat He, whose chariot the clouds are,
lrives Himself. He does not let natural
aw drive, for natural law is deaf. He
loes not let fate drive, for fate is merci-
ess. But our Father King drives Himself
nd He puts His loving hand on the reins
4 the flying coursers and He has q loving
ar ODen to the cry of all who want IN |