Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-10-25
GODS CHARIOT.
The Vehicle In Which He Rides
Through the Heavens.
How God Handles the ReIrs and Controls
the Destinies of Nations-Rev. DIR.
Taimagc's Sunday Morning
Sermon.

Scripture, Rev. DIR. Talmage took the text
Psalms civ. 3: "Who maketh the cloud
His chariot" The eloquent divine spok
as follows:
Brutes are constructed so as to look down
Those earthly creatures that have wing
when they rise from the earth still lool
down, and the eagle searches for mice il
the grass and the raven for carcasses in thu
field. Man alone is made TO look up. IL
induce him TO look up God makes the
sky picture gallery, Dusseldorf, Louvre
a Luxembourg, Vatican that eclipses al
that German or French or Italian art evel
accomplished But God has failed 60 far Il
attract the attention of most of US by the
scenery of the sky. We go into rapture'
over flowers In the soil but have little
or no appreciation Of the "morning glor
iesn that bloom on the wall of the sky
at sunrise or the dahlias in the clouds
at sunset. We are in ecstacies over
a Gobelin tapestry or a bridal veil OF
rare fabric, or snowbank Of exquisite
curve, but see not at all, or see without
emotion, the bridal wells of mist that cover
the face of the Catskills. or the swaying
upholstery around the couch of the dying
day, or the snowbanks OF vapor piled up in
the heavens.
inches and open the two telescopes which
under the forehead are put on swivel easily
turned upward, and see that the clouds are
not merely unnteresting signs Of wet or
dry weather, but that they are embroidered
canopies of shade that thoy are the con-
servatories of the sky, that they are thrones
Of pomp, that they are CRYSTALLINE bars,
that they are paintings in water color, that
IN IL Of ba mic HIT
are great cathedrais OF light with broad
aisles for angelic feet to walk through
and bow at alars OF amber and
alabaster, that they are the moth
ers of the dew, that they are ladders
for ascen ing and descending glories, Coto-
paxis of beichng fame Niagaras Of color.
that they are the masterpieces of tine Lord
God Almighty The clouds are a favorite
Bible smile, and the sacred writers have
made much use Of them After the deluge
God hing on clond in concentric bands the
colors Of a spectrum SAYING; Il do set my
bow in the cloud" As mountain is some
times entirely hidden by the vapors so, says
God, II have blotted ont rs a thick cloud
thy transgressions David measured the
Divine goodness aud found il so high he
apostrophized: "fhy faithfulness reacheth
unto the Clouds As sometimes there are
thousands Of haeces OF vapor scurrying
across the heavens, so, says Isaiah, viii be
the converts in the millennium Has clouds
and as doves - As in the wet season no
sooner does the sky clear than there
comes another observation, so SAYS Solo
mon: one ache or ailnent OF old folks
has no more than gone than another pain
comes "as clouds return in the RAIN
column Of illuminel cload led the Israelites
across the wilderness, In the book Of Job
Elihu, watching the clouds could not under.
stand why they did not fan or why they did |
not all roll toee,hsr the laws Of evaporation |
and condensation then not being understood. |
md he cries out; Dost thou know the |
Of the clouisr Andwhen read |
my text it suggested 20 me that the clouds /
ire the Creators equipa4e aud their whirl- |
ng masses are the wheels, ani the tongue
II the cloud is the pole Of the celestial
7ehice, and the win rs arc the hnrnesse6 |
'teeds and God " The royal occupant and
lrlver 'who massth the ouds His chariot
To understand the psalms S meaning il
lac text you must know that The chariot OF
Nd was sometimes a ,culpiured hriliiapcy
made out Of ivory, sometimes If solid silver.
md rolled on two wheels witch were fas.
ened 70 the axle by stout pins and the
wful defeat Of Oenoman, Nv peioss was
aused by the fact that 4 traitorous chart.
teer hai inserted q lincnrin II wax instead
+ a iuchp.n Of iron AN Of tie six nun
red caariots OF Pharaoh lost their Inch.
ns in the Red Sea, for the Bible saws.
The Lord tool, Oh their wheels Look
: the long fash OF Solomou's four.
cen hundred chariots, and Tire thirty
thousand chariots OF the Philistines
You have ever visited the buildings
'here king or queen keeps the coaches
I state, as have, you know that kings
nd queens have great varieties Of turn
ut The keeper tells you: "This is
he state carriage and used only on great
ccastons.n This is the coronation carriage
nd Ia it the king rode on the day ne took
ne throne" IN this the queen vent tc .
pen Parliament" "rhis is the coach ia I
hitch the Car and the Sultan rode ON the /
ccasion Of their visit" All costly and
ssselated and enriched, and emblazoned are
hey, and when the driver takes the reins Of /
ne ten white horses in his hands. and amid /
lounted troops and bands in fun force ,
'unding the national air. the splendor starts
nd rolls on under arches entwined with /
lnners, and amid the huz2a Of hundreds of |
lousands of spectators the scene is mem.
'aole. But my text puts all such occasions 2
TO insigniilcance, as il represents the King r
the Universe coming to the door of His /
llace, and the gilded vapors Of the heavens a
fling Up to His feet, aud He stepping In !
I'd taking the reins Of the gallopng winds )
His hand starts in triumphal ride under [
learches of sapphire and over atmospheric a
ghways Of opal chrysosite. the clouds His r
lariot. 4
My hearers, do not think that God belit- 5
IS Himself when He takes such convey /
ice. Do you know that the clouds are /
nong the most wondrous and majestic /,
ings in the whole universel SO you know :
at they are flying lakes and rivers and il
cans! God waved His hand over them n
I'd said, Come up higherr and they Y
eyed the mandate. That cloud. instead of v
ing as it seems small gathering of vapor s
few yards wide and high, is really seven
eight miles across, and is a mountain. n
ON its base to its top, fifteen thousand c
ct, eighteen thousand feet. twenty thou- y
nd feet and cut through with ravines FIVE 9
ousand feet deep. No, David did not O
axe fragile or unworthy representation G
God in the text when he spoke of the a
buds as His chariot But as | suggested in is