Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-01
A CHARIOT OF CLOUD.
DR.. TALMAGB'S ELOQUENT TABERNACLE
SERMON YESTERDAY.
Brutss are Constructed So as to Look DOwn-han
Looks Up TO Hsavsn-fhs Lord in His
Chariot Of ClOuds-ls Applica-
ton TO Christians

special telegram 10 TIE Register.
BROOKLYN, September 2s-The hymn
sung at the opening of the services in tn
Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning was:
welcome, sweet day Of rest,
That saw the Lord arise"
After expounding appropriate psssage'
of Scripture, the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmsge
D. D., took the text: Palm civ. 3: "Wht
maksth the clouds His chariot" DR.
Talmage said:
Brutes are constructed 30 as to loof
down. Those earthly creatures that have
wings when they rise from the earth still
Look down, and the eagle searches for mics
in the grass and the raven for csrcasses il
the field. Man alone is made to look up
To induce him to look up God makes the
sky picture gallery, Dusseldorf, 6
Louvre, q Luxembourg. Vatican that
sclipses oil that German or French ol
Italian art ever accomplished. But God
has failed so far to attract the attention ol
most of US by the scenery of the sky. We
90 into raptures over flowers in the soil,
but have little or NO appreciation of the
morning glories" that bloom on the walls
of the sky at sunrise or the hshlias in the
clouds at sunset. We are in ecstscies over
a gobelin tapestry or 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 Cstskills, or the swaying uphols.
terry around the couch of the dying day, or
the suowbanks Of vapor piled up in the
heavens.
NV text bids us lift our chin three or
four inches and opeu the two telescopes
which under the forehead are put on
swivel easily turned upward, and see that
the clouds are not merely uninteresting
signs of wet or dry weather, but that they
are embroidered csnopies of shade, that
they are the conservstories of the sky,
that they are thrones of pomp that they are
crystalline bars, that they are paintings in
water color, that they are the angels OF
the mist, that they are great cathedrsls of
light with broad aisles for angelic feet to
walk through and bow at altars of amber
and alsbaster.
TO UNDERSTAND THE PsALMIsT's 8 MEANING
in the text you must know that the char
lot of old was sometimes q sculptured
hrilliancy made out of ivory, sometimes
of solid silver, and rolled on two wheels
which were fastened to the axle by stout
pins, and the awful defeat Of Oenomaus by
Pe!Ops WIS caused by the fact thst trai.
torous charioteer had inserted Inch pin
of wax instead Of Inch pin of iron. All
of the six hundred chariots of Pharaoh
lost their Inch pins in the Red Sea, for the
Bible says "The Lord took off their
wheels"
My hearers, do not think God belttles
Himself when He take3 such conveyance
Do you know that the clouds are among.
the most wondrous and majestic things in
the whole universe? Do you know that
they are flying lakes and rivers and oceans?
God waved His hand over them and said:
Come up higher" and they obsyed the
mandate.
But the Bible tells us that our King also
has black chariot Clouds and dark
ness,n We are told, "are round about
Him" That chariot is cloven out of
night, and night is trouble. When He
rides forth in that black chariot pes
thence and earthquake 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
Eogland and France and Italy and Russia
and America and 6ver all nations That
which men took for the souud of cannon
aiding at Sebastopool, at Sedan, at Gettys-
burg, 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.
Ou tho'e boulevsrds of blue this chariot
never turns out for anything. Aye, no
one else drives there. Under one wheel
of that chariot Babylon was crushed and
Baalb SEX fell dead and the Roman empipe
was Frustrated and Atlantis, whole con-
tinent that once connected Europ, with
America, sank clear out of sight 80 that
the longest anchor of ocean steamer can
no. touch the top Of its highest mountains.
The throne of the Cesars WAS less than o
pebble under the right wheel of this char
lot, and the Austrian despotlsm less than
a snowflake under the left wheel. And
over destroyed worlds on worlds that char
lot has rolled without a jar or Jolt.
This black chariot of war cloud rolled up
to the northwest of Europe in 1912, aud
four hundred Thousand men marched TO
take Moscow, 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 Wis.
tied Russia. Aye, the chariot of the Lord
is irresistible. There ia only one thing
that can halt or turn any Of His chariots,
and that is prayer. Again and again il
has stopped it. wheeled il around, and the
chariot OF black clouds under that sanCti-
fed human breath Bas blossomed into
such brightness and color that
men and angels had 10 veil their
faces from its brightness. Mark You, the
ancient chaIiJt which David uses as
symbol in my text had only two wheels,
and that was that they might turn
quickly, two wheels taking less than half
the time to turn than four wheels would
have taken. And our Lords chariot has
only two wheels, and that means instant
reversal, and instant help, aud instant de-
hverance, While the combined
FORCES OF THE UNIVERSE
in battle array could not stop his black
chariot q second or diverge il an inch, the
driver of that chariot says: "Call upon
me in the day of trouble and will de-
liver thee" "While they are yet speaking
will hear" Two-wheeled chariot one
wheel Justice and the other wheel mercy.
Aye, they are swift wheels. A cloud,
whether il belongs to the cirrhus, the
clouds that float the highest, or belongs TO
the stratus, the central ranges; or to the
cumulus, the lowest ranges, seems to move
slowly sloDg the sky If 1t moves at
all. But many Of the clouds 90 at
sped that would seem lethargic, vesti-
buls limited lightning express train, so
swift is the chariot of our God; yea, swift
or than the storm, swifter than the light
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