Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-12


this morning cloud chariot He distribute.
light. light for the earth, and light TO
the heavens. light for the landan ligh
for the sea. great bars of it, grea,
wreaths of it. great columns of it, /;
world full of it. Hail Him in worship as
every morning He drives out i'll His
chariot of morning cloud and Cry with
David: My voice shalt thou hear i'll the
morning, in the morning will l direct
my prayer unto thee and look up"
rejoice i'll these Scripture CALCULATIONS:
Joy cometh in the morning." My soul
| waiteth for thee more than they that
watch for the morning. If 1 take the
wing of the morning.; The eyelids of
Who is she that looketh forth as the
@ as the gong 10' the ppepais
spread on the mountains That thou
shouldst visit him every morning." What
a mighty thing the King throws from
His chariot when He throws us the morn
ing.
Yes. He has His evening cloud chariot.
1t is made out of the saffron and the
gold and the purple and the orange and
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 atmosphere is clear
enough to let us see the wall Of the
heavenly city with it's 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 super
nf1 icin Nf&
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 confla-
grafton had begun and there is a 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 gorge
Gus catafalque. Now is the time for
what David called the evening sacri-
fee. or Daniel called the evening OBJ
lation." Oh! oh! what chariot made
out Of evening cloud! Have you hung
over the taffrail on the ocean and seen
this cloudy vehicle roll over the pave
ments of a calm summer sea. the wheels
dripping with the magnifcence? Have
you from the top of Ben Lomond OF the
Cordilleras or the Berkshire hills seen
tile day pillowed for the night. and yet
had no aspiration of praise and homage?
Oh, what Il rich God we have that He
that excel Michael Angeles Last Judg-
ment" and Ghirlandios Alteration of
the Magi" and whole galleries of Ma
donnas, and for only an hour, and then
throw them away. and the next evening
put on the same sky something that ex-
cells all that the Raphaels and the Titians
and the Rembrandts end the Correggios
and the Leonardo da Vincis ever exc
cuted. 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 a black chariot. Clouds and
darkness" we are told, ARE round about
Him. The chariot is cloven out of
night. and that night is trouble. When
He rides forth in that black chariot
pestilence 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
the sound of cannonading at Sebastopol.
at Sedan, at Gettysburg, at Tel ell 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. 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 En-
pire was Frustrated and Atlantis. a whole
continent that once connected Europe
with America, sank clear out of sight so
that the longest anchor of ocean steamer
cannot touch the top of it's highest
mountains. The throne of the Caesars
was less than Il pebble under the right
wheel OF this chariot, and the Austrian
despotism less than a snowflake 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
up to the northwest of Europe in 1912
and four hundred thousand men
lot 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 ever since visited Russia. Ave,
the chariot of the Lord is irresistible.
There is only one thing that can halt or
turn any of His chariots. and that is
prayer. Again and again it has stopped
it, wheeled it around, and the chariot of
black clouds under that sanctitied hui
man breath has blossomed into such
brightness and color that men and
angels had to veil their faces from its
brightness. Mark you, the ancient char
lot 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 that four wheels would have taken.
And our Lords chariot has only two
wheels, and that means instant reversal,
and instant help, and instant deliver
ance. While the combined forces of the
universe in battle array could not stop
His black chariot a second or diverge it
an inch, the driver of that chariot SAYS,
"Callupon me in the day Of trouble and
will deliver thee" while they are vet
speaking I will hear" Two wheeled
chariot, one wheel justice and the other
wheel mercy. Aye, they are swift wheels.
A cloud, whether it belongs to the cir
rhus. the clouds that float the highest;
or BELONGS to the strains the central