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

one else IL managing the ship! 1t did no
merely happen SO that when Leyden wa
besieged, and the Duke Of Alva felt sur
of his triumph. suddenly the wind turned
and the swollen waters compelled him 4
stop the siege, and the city was saved
God that night drove along the coast o
the Netherlands i'm q black chariot o
storm cloud. 1t did not merely happen s.
that Luther rose from the place where b.
was sitting just in time to keep from beins
crushed by stone that the instant afte
fell on the very spot. Had he not escaped
where would have been the Reformation
1t did not merely happen SO that Co
lumbus was saved from drowning b,
an oar that was floating on the wa
tiers. Otherwise, who would have unvailet
American 1t did not merely happen 5,
that when George Washington was il
Brooklyn a great fog settled down Owe
all the place where this church stands, anC
over all this end Of Long Island, and tina
under that fog he and his army escaped
from Generals Howe and Clinton. In &
chariot of mist and cloud the God o.
American Independence rode along here
On that pillow of consolation I put dowr
my head to sleep at night. On that solit
foundation build when see this Nation
in political paroxysm every four years
not because they care two cents about
whether it is high tariff, or low tariff, OIL
no tariff at all, but only whether the
Democrats or the Republicans shall have
the salaried offices. Yea, when European
nations are holding their breath, wonder.
| ing whether Russia or Germany will
launch war that will incarnadine a con.
tinent, / fall back on the faith that nv
Father drives.
Yea, cast this as an anchor, and pla nj
| this as a column of strength and lift this
as telescope, and build this as fortress,
and propose without any perturbation to
launch upon an unknown future triumph
ant in the fact that my Father drives
Yes, He drives very near. | know that
many of the clouds that you see i'm summer
are far off, 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. Gay Lussac, after he had
risen in a balloon $1,000 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 shoulders,
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 a chariot of clouds that were a
| mingling of fog and smoke and fire, God
drove down the top of a terrible crag 1900
feet high, now called Jebel- Musa, then
| called Mount Sinai. and He stepped out
Of His chariot among the split shelly
ings of the rock. The mountain shoob
as with an ague, and there were ten VOL
leys of thunder, each of the ten empbasiz-
ing 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 Civ
ing 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
were bright clouds, roseate clouds, illu-
mined clouds, and music rained from all of
them, and the music was a mingling of
carol and chant and trium phal march:
This is My beloved Son, in whom am
well pleased" TRANSPORTATION chariot!
80" 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 the white one
that brought Him down to Tabor" Never
mind, you will see something grander than
that, and it will be a mightier mingling of
the somber and the radiant, and the pomp
it will be such that the chariots in which
Ira Jan and Diocletian, and Xenobia, and
Caesar, and Alexander, and all the con-
querors Of all the ages rode will be I'M
worthy Of mention; and what stirs me the
most is that when he comes in that charioe
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 out of clouds. Revelations /. .:
Behold He cometh win clouds"
o, He will not then ride
through the heavens clone as He
does now. He is going t. bring along
with Him escort Of ten full regiments. In
spiration says: Behold the Lord cometh
with ten thousand of His saints" But
these figures simply mean that there will
be great throng. And as we shall prob.
ably through the atonement Of Christ be
in Heaven before that, hope that we can
come down in that escort of chariot. Christ
in the center chariot, but chariots before
Him to clear the way, and chariots behind
Him, and chariots on either side of Him.
Perhaps the prophets and patriarchs of
the old dispensation may ride ahead, each
one Observation-Disclosures and Moses and
Ezekiel and David and Joshua who fore
told His first coming.
On either side of the central chariot
apostles and martyrs who i'm the same ap-
proximate centuries suffered for Him
Paul, Stephen and Ignatius ard Polycarp
and Justin Martyr and multitudes who
went up in chariots of fire now coming in
chariot Of cloud, while in the rear Of the
central chariot shall be the multitude of
later days and of our own time who have
tried to serve the Lord, Ourselves, l
hope, among them. Behold the Lord
with ten thousand of His saints"
Yes, although all unworthy of such COM
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 belts
deserts all flowers, its rocks all moses
and lichens, its poor houses all palaces,
its sorrows all joys, its sins all vir.
tues, 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 valleys and covering all the mountain
sides and hating in all the cemeteries and
and over the waters deep |
where the dead sleep in coral sarcophagus. |
A loud blast Of the resurrection trumpet |
IS given and the bodies of the dead rise |
and join the spirits from which they have |
ong 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 ,