The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-05

base to Its top, $4,000 feet, $4,000 feet,
10000 feet, and cut through with
ravines 1900 feet deep. No. David did
not make fragile or unworthy repre-
sentation Of God in the text when he
spoke of the clouds as his chariot But
as suggested in the case of an earthly
king, he has his morning cloud chariot
and his evening cloud chariot--the cloud
chariot in which he rode down to Sinai
to open the law, and the cloud chariot in
which he rode down to Tabor to honor
the Gospel, and the cloud chariot in
which he will come to Judgment.
When he rides out in his morning
chariot at this season, about o'clock, he
puts golden coronets on the dome Of
cities and silvers the rivers and out of
the dew makes diamond ring for the
finger of every grass blade and bids good
cheer to invalids who in the night said
"Would God it were morning." From
this morning cloud chariot he distributes
light, light for the earth and light for
the heavens, light for the land and light
for the sea, great bars Of it, great
wreaths of it, great columns Of it, a
world full of it. Hail him in worship
as every morning he drives out in
his chariot Of morning cloud and
cry with David: "My voice shalt
thou hear in the morning, in the
morning will I direct my prayer unto
thee and look up" I rejoice in these
Scripture CALCULATIONS: "Joy cometh in
the mornings" "My soul waiteth for thee
more than they that watch for the morn
ing;" "lf ! take the wing of the Morn
ing;" "The eyelids of the morning."
"The morning cometh;" "Who is she
that looketh forth as the morning."
Ellis going forth is prepared as the morn
ing;" LAS the morning spread on the
mountains;" "That thou shouldst visit
him every morning." What mighty
thing the King throws from his chariot
when he throws us the morning!
Yea. he has his evening cloud chariot.
It is made out of the saffron and the
goldand the purple and the orange
and the the vermillion and upshot
flame of the sunset That is the
place where the splendors that have
marched through the day, having ended
the procession, throw down their torches
and set the heavens on fire. That is the
only hour of the day when the atmos-
phere is clear enough to let us see the
wall Of the heavenly city with its
twelve manner of precious stones, from
foundation of jasper to middle strata of
sardius and on up to the coping Of
amethyst. At that hour without any
of Elisha's supernatural vision we
see horses of fire and chariots of fire
and banners of fire and ships of fire and
cities of fire, seas Of fire, and it seems
as if the last confagration had begun and
there is world on fire. When God
makes these clouds his chariot let us 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
calm summer sea, the wheels
dripping with the magnifcence?
Have you from the top of Ben Lomond
or the Cordilleras or the Berkshire hills
seen the day pillowed for the night, and
yet had no aspiration Of praise and hon.
age? Oh, what rich God we have that
he can put on one evening sky pictures that
excel Michael Angeles LAST Judgment"
and Ghirlandjo's elaboration of the
Magi" and whole galleries of Madonnas,
and for only an hour, and then throw
them away, and the next evening put on
the me sky something that excels all
that the Raphaels and the Titians and the
Rembrandts and the Correggios 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 new chariot of
clouds every evening!
But the Bible tells us that our King
also has black chariot. "Clouds and
darkness" we are told, "are round about
him." That chariot is cloven out of
night, and that night is trouble. When
he rides forth, in that black chariot pesti-
lence 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 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 rum
blings 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 anything.
Aye, no one else drives there. Under
one wheel of that chariot Babylon was
crushed and Baalbeck fell dead, and the
Roman empire was Frustrated an0 At
lantis, whole continent that once con-
nected Europe with America, sank clear
out of sight SO that the longest anchor
of ocean steamer cannot touch the top
of its highest mountains. The throne
of the Caesars was less than pebble I'M
der the right wheel of this chariot, and
the Austrian despotism less than a snow
flake 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
nv, <o tlo ,,ortbuoct IF E,1rOna in 1910