The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-10-11
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fortress, and propose without any perturba-
ton to launch upon an unknown future triuui-
phant in the fact that my Father drives. Yes.
He drives very near. L know that many OF
the clouds that you see in summer are far
oil, 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 ,wenty-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 shoulders, and
they touch our homes, and they touch us all
over. l have read of two rides that the
Lord took I'm two different chariots
of clouds, and Of another that He
will take. One day, III, IN a chariot Of
smoke and fire, Col drove down to the top
OF n terrible crag fifteen hundred feet high,
now called Jebel- Musa, theu called Mount
Sinai, and He stepped out of His chariot
among the split shelvings Of rock. The
mounta I shook as with an ague, and there
were ten voeys Of thunder, each of the ten
emphasizing tremendous thou shalt or
| "lhou shalt not.n Then the Lord resumed
| His chariot of cloud and drove up
the hills of heaven. They wore
uurk anu pOTttntDuS tnat tnAt
chariot at the giving of the law. But one
day He took another ride, and this M, down
| to Mount Tabor, the clouds out OF which His
chariot was made were bright clouds, roseato
| clouds. illumined clouds, and music rained
| from all of tlorn, and the music was n ming
| ling OF carol and chant and triumphal
march: This is My belo, ed Son, in whom ]
am well pleased" Transliguration chariot
| "Oh, say hundreds OF you, "Iwish could
have seen those charots-the black one that
brought the Lori To Jebel.Alusa at the giving
: OF the law, and the white one that brought
Him down to Tabor Never mind, you will
see som,thrg grander than ttat, and it will
/ be "a mlghtier mingling OF ths sombre aud
the radiant and the pomp of 1t will
be such that the chariots in which
Irajan, and DIocletian, aud Zenobia,
and Caesar, and Alexander, and
ali the conquerors of all the ages rode will
| be unworthy OF mention; and what stlrs me
the most is that when he comes in that
| chariot of cloud aud 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 cloudsl
! Revelation l., :: "BchDd He cometh with
/ clouds Oh, lie will not then ride through the
| heavens alone AS lie does now He is going
to bring along with Him escort of ten full
regiments. Inspiration says: "Behold the
| Lord cOmeth win tn thousand of his saints y
| But these figures simply mean that there
viii be IA great throng And as we shall
probably through the atonement Of Christ
De III heaven before that, / hope
that we can come down in that es.
! sort of chariots Christ in the centre
| ,hariot, but chariots before Him TO clear the
| way, and chariuts behind Him, and chariot,
IN either side of HIM. Perhaps the proph
/ sts anu patrlnrchs kof the old dispensatlon
pay ride ahead each one chnriotcl-Abraham
AMI Moses and Ezekiel and Dnyid and joshua
| WHO foretoli his first coming. On either side
/ OF the central chariot apostles and martyrs
who in the same or Approximate centuries
| suffered fer Hlm-Paul stephen and lgna
| thus, and Holycarp, and Justin Martyr, aud
multitudes who went up IN cnariot of fire
/ now coming in chariot OF cloud, while in tho
rear of the central chariot shall bc the multi
/ tudes of latter days and OF our own time who
| have trie to serve the Lord, ourselves | hope
| among them. Behold the Lord coneth with
| ten thOuS inl of His saints Yes, although
! all unworthy of such companionship we
want 10 come with Him on that day to sec
! the last of this old world which was our resi-.
dencc. Coming through tha skies myrals Of
| charlots rolling ON AMI rolling down. by
that time how changed this world will be
| lts deserts all flowers its rocks all mossed
and lchened, its poor houses all palaces,
/ Its sorrows all joys its slnS all virtues,
| AMI in the same pasture field lion and calf,
| aud on the same perch hawk and dove. Now
/ the charlotS OF cloud strike the earth, filling
all the valleys AMI covering all the mount
| ain SIDES, and halting in all the cemeteries
! AMI grayeyarlS ana over the waters deep
! where the dead sleep in coral sar ophagus
a loud blast of the resurrection
/ trumpet IS given and tho bodies of the dead
/ risA and ioin the spirits from which they have
/ long been separated. Then Christ, our King,
I rising in the center chariot of cloud, with his
| scared hands waves the signal, and the
| charlots wheel aad come into line for glorious
ascent Drive on! Drive up Chariots OF
/ cloud ahead of the King chariCts Of
| cloud on either side Of the King,
chnriots Of cloud following the KIM. Up.
warl aud apIst starry hosts aud through
. Universities, and across iniinitules, higher,
higher, higher, unto the gatcs, the shining
] gltes, Lift up your heads, ye Everlasting
Gates, for Him who maicth the clouds His
chariot, AMI who through condc3cending and
uplifting grace invites us TO mount aud ride
/ with HINT