The Russellville Democrat., 1888-10-11

1 merely happen SO that when George
Washington was In Brooklyn great fog
settled down over all the place whore this
| church 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 .
| 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 this nation
in political paroxysm every four years..
| not because they care two cents abot1
whether 1t is high tariff or low tariff, OF
no tariff at all, but only whether ths
| Democrats or the Republicans shall have
| the salaried officers. Yea, when European
nations are holding their breath, wonder
| ing whether Russia or Germanywill launch
war that will incarnadine q continent
fall back on the faith that my Father
| drives. Yea, cast this as an anchor,
and plant this as a column OF strength.
and lift this as telescope, and build this
as a fortress, and propose without any
perturbation to launch upon an unknown
future triumphant in the fact that my
Father drives. Yea He drives very near.
know that many of the clouds that you
see In summer are far of, the bases Of
some Of them five miles above the earth.
High on the highest peaks OF the Andes
travellers have seen clouds far higher
than where they were standing. Guy
Lussac after he had risen in q 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
may sometimes be far away, often they
are close by, and they touch our shout
ders, and they touch our homes, and they
touch us all over. 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 chariot Of clouds
that were a mingling of fog and smoke
and fire, God drove down to the top of q
terrible orag fifteen hundred feet high,
now called Jebel- Musa, then called Mount
Sinai, and He stepped out of His chariot
among the split shelvings Of rock. Tho
| mountain shook as with an ague, and
there were ten volleys of thunder, each OF
the ten emphasizing tremendous Thou
shalt' or "Thou shalt not" Then the
Lord resumed His chariot of cloud and
drove up the hills Of Heaven. They were
| dark and portentous clouds that made
that chariot at the giving OF the law.
But one day He took another ride, and
this time down to Mount Tabor; the
clouds out of which His chariot was made,
bright clouds, roseate clouds, illuminsd
clouds, and music rained from all Of
them, and the music was q mingling Of
carol and chant and triumphal march:
This Is My beloved Son. in whom am
| we'll pleased" TRANSPORTATION chariot.
| "Oh," say hundreds of you, II wish
| could have seen those chariots-the black
one that brought the Lord to Jebel- Musa
at the giving of the law, and tho white
one that brought Him down to Tabor"
| Never mind, you will SEQ something
grander than that, and it will be might
Ter mingling of the somber and the RAJ
1 diant, and the pomp Of it will be such that
the chariots In which Trajan, and Diocle-
tian, and Xenobia, and Caesar, and Alex
ander, and all the conquerors OF all the
ages rode will be unworthy of mention:
and what stirs me the most is that whom
| He comes in that chariot of cloud and
goes back He will ask you and me TO ride
with Him both ways. How do know that
the judgment chariot will be made Of
| clouds?
/ Behold He co meth with clouds Revelation,
liz.
| Oh, He will not then ride through the
heavens alone as He does now. He is
going to bring along with Him an escort of
| ten full regiments. Inspiration saysi
'Behold the Lord cometh with ten thou.
sand of His saints.b 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 / hope that we can
| Aru to hat 1rt - o1o ,o&o
| Christ in the center chariot, but
ohariots before Him to clear the
| way, aud chariots behind Him, and
| chariots on either side of Him. Perhaps
the prophets and patriarchs Of the old
| dispen sation may ride ahead, each one
| charioted-Abraham and Moses, and
Ezekiel and David and Joshua, who fore.
| told His frst coming. On either side oi
the cen trail chariot apostles and martyrs
| who, in the same or approximate centu-
| 5ies suffered for Him-Paul, Stephen and
| Ignatiis, and Polycarp and Justin Martyr,
and multitudes who went up in chariot
of fire, now coming in CHI ariot of cloud.
while in the rear OF the central chariot
shall be tho multitudes OF later days, and
OF our own time, who have tried to serve
the Lord, ourselves, hope, among them.
"Behold the Lord come tn with ten thou
sand 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 once our Residence.
| 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
| messed and lichened its poor houses oil
palaces, its 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, filing all the val.
| leys, and covering all the mountain sides,
| and halting in all the cemeteries and
grave yards and over the waters deep
where the dead sleep in coral sarcopha-
| gus.
A loud blast of the resurrection trump
OF 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 on
Drive upl Chariots of cloud ahead OF the
King, chariots OF cloud on either side OF
the King ohariots of clouds following the
| King Upward and spast starry hosts
| and through irnmensities, and across in
| fnitudes, 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 coudescending and uplifting
grace, invites. us to mount and ride with
Himi