New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-10

us the morningI
Yea; He has His evening cloud chariot 1t
| is made out of the saffron and the gold and
the purple and the orange and the yermi1ion
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 heav-
ems 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
foundations 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
wesee horses of fire, and chariots of fire and
banners OF fire, and seas of fire, and it seems
| as if the last confagration had begun and
| there is a world on fire. When God makes
| these clouds his chariot let us all kneel. An
other day past-what have we done with it?
Another day dead and this is it's gorgeou s
catafalque. Nowis the time for what David
calls the evening oblation." Oil obi what a
chariot made out of evening cloudl Have
you hung over the taffrail on the ocean and
seen this cloudy vehicle roll over the pave
ment of a calm summer sea, the wheels drip
| ping 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 homage? Oh, what rich God we have
that lie can put on one evening sky pictures
that excel Michael Angeles 'sLast
Judgment and Ghirlandios elaboration of
the Magi' and whole galleries OF Madden
mas, and for only an hour, and then throw
| them away, and the next evening put on the
same sky something that excels all that the
Raphaels and the Titians and the Rem
brandts and the Corregios 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 a
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 all nations. That
which men took for the sound of cannonad-
ing at Sebastopol, at Sedan, at Gettysburg,
at Tel-el-Kebir, at Bunker Hill, were only the
rumblings Of the black chariot of the Al
mighty. Aye, it is the chariot Of stormcloud
armed with thunderbolts, and neither man
nor angel nor devil nor earth nor hell nor
heaven can resist Him. On these boulevards
of blue this chariot never turns out for any
thing. Aye, no one else drives there. Under
one wheel of that chariot Babylon was
crushed and Baalbeck fell dead and the Ro-
man empire 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 the highest mountains. The
throne of the Caesars was less than pebble
under the right wheel of this chariot, and the
Austrian despotism less than snowflake
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
400, 900 men marched to take Moscow but
that chariot of clouds rolled back, and only
%, 900 out of the 400, 900 troops lived to re-
turn. No great snow storm like that had
ever since visited Russia Aye, the chariot
of the Lord is irresistible. There is only one
thing that can hault OF turn any of His char
lots, and that is prayer Again and again it
has stopped it, wheeled it around, and the
chariot of black clouds under that sanctifed
human breath has blossomed into such
brightness and color that men and angels
had to veil their faces from it's brightness
Mark you, the ancient chariot which David
uses as a 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 uni
verse in battle array could not stop his
black chariot second or diverge it an inch.
the driver of that chariot says: "Call upon
me in the day of trouble and 1 will deliver
thee,' "While they are yet speaking I
will hear" Two-wheeled chariot, one wheel
justice and the other wheel mercy. Aye, they
are swift wheels. Acloud, whether it belongs
to the Sirius the clouds that float highest;
or belongs to the stratus, the central ranges;
or the cumulus, the lowest ranges, seems to
move slowly along the sky if it moves at all.
But many of the clouds go at a speed that
would make seem lethargic a vestibule linn
tied lightning express train SO swift is the
chariot of our God yea, swifter than the
storm, sWifter than the light. Yet a child 10
years old has been known to reach
courser of that chariot by the bit and slow it
up, or stop it, or turn it aside, or turn it back
The boy Samuel stopped it. Elijah stopped
it, Hezekiah stopped it. Daniel stopped it,
Joshua stopped it. Esther stopped it. Ruth
stopped it. Hannah stopped it. Mary stop
ped it. Ny father stopped it. My mother
stopped it. Ny sister stopped it. We have
and again and again have stopped it,
Notice that these old-time chariots, which
my text uses for symbols, had what we
would call a high dashboard at the front,
but were open behind. And the King would
stand at the dashboard and drive with his
own hands. And am glad that He, whose
chariot the clouds are, drives Himself He
does not let natural law drive, for fate is
merciless. But our Father King drives him
self, and he puts His loving hand on the
reins of the flying coursers, and he has a
owing ear ope8 to the cry of all who want
to catch His attention. Oh, / am so glad
that my Father drives, and never drives too
FAST and never drives too slow, and never
drives off the precipice, and that He controls
by a bit that never breaks, the widest and
most raging circumstances. I heard of a
ship captain who put out with his vessel
with large number of passengers from
Buffalo on Lake Erie, very early in
the season and while there was much
ice. When they were well out the captain
saw to his horror that the ice was closing in
on him from all sides, and he saw no way out
from destruction and death. He called into
the cabin the passengers and all the crew
that could be spared from their posts, and
told them that the ship must be lost unless
God interposed, and, although he was not a
Christian man, hesaid; 'Iet us pray and
they all knelt asking God to come for their
deliverance. They went back to the deck,
and the man at the wheel shouted; sAll right,
NJ