West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-11

and the Corregios and the Leonardo da Vincis
ever executed, and thon draw q curtain OF
mist over them never again 10 be exhibited
How rich God must DO to have new chariot
OF clouds every EVENING"
But tho Bible tells as that our King also
has black chariot CLOUDS and darkness y
We are told, ''are round about him. That
chariot Is cloyen out OF night, and that night
y trouble When He rides forth I'm that
black chariot pestilence and earthquake and
iamine and hurricane and woo attend Him
Then let the earth tremble. Then let ma
tons pray. Again and again He has ridden
forth in that chariot OF black clouds across
England, France. Italy. Russia and America
and over all nations. That which men took
Tor the sound OF cannonading at Sehastopol
mt Sedan, at Gettysburg, at Tel-el-Kebir. at
Bunker HUI, wero only the rumblings Of the
black chariot OF the Almighty. Ave. Il IL
tho chariot OF stormc,oui armed with thun-
derbolts. and neither man nor angel nor devil
nor earth nor hell nor heaven can resist Him
On those boulewards OF blue this chariot
never turns out for anything Aye no ono
else drives there Under one wheel o.
that chariot Babylon was crushed and BaAl-
beck fell dead and the Roman Empire was
prostratet and Atlantis, whole continent
that once connected Europa with America
sank clear ont OF sight so that the longest
anchor OF ocean steamer cannot touch the ton
OF It's highest mountains. The throne of the
C1sars was less than a pebble under the
right wheel OF this chariot and the Austrian
despotism less than n snowflake under the left
wheel. And over DESTROYED worlds on worlds
that chariot has rolled without jar or Jolt.
This black char lot of war cloud rolled up
TO the northwest OF Europe in 1912 and four
hundred thousand men marched TO tako Mos
COW, but that chariot of clouds rolled back
and only twenty-five thousand out OF the forr
hundred thousand troops lived 70 return. No
great snow storm like that had ever before or
has ever since visited Russia. Aye, the chariot
OF tho Lord is irresistible There is
only one thing that can halt or turn any of
His chariots, and that is prayer Again and
again 1t 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 bad 20 veil their faces from It's bright.
ness. Mark you, the ancient chariot which
David uses as n symbol in my text had only
two wheels. and that was that they might turn
quickly, two wheels taking less than hal
the time TO turn that four wheels would
have taken. Aud our Lords chariot has
only two wheels, and that means instant re-
versal, 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,
enc driver OF that chariot says: Call upon
Nc in the day of trouble and 1 will de
speaking l win hear" Two-wheeied
chariot one wheel Justice and the other
wheel mercy. Aye, they are swift wheels.
a cloud, whether it belongs TO the cirrhus,
VIZ
TO the stratus, the central ranges; or 10 tho
cumulus, the lowest ranges seems TO move
slowly along the sky il it moves at all. But
many clouds 60 at speed that would make
a vestibule limited lightning express train
seem le'harRic, so swift is the chariot OF our
God; yea, swifter than the storm, swifter
than the light. Yet child ten years old has
been known to reach up, and with the hand
or prayer take the courser OF that chariot
by the bit and slow it up, or stop It, or turn
1t aside. or turn IL back The boy Samuel
stopped it. Elijah stopped it. Hezekiah
stopped it. Daniel stopped il. Joshua
stopped it. Esther stopped il. Ruth stopped
IL Hannah stopped It. Mary stopped It,
MY sister stopped it, We have in our Sab
bath-schoos children who again and again
and again have stopped it,
Notice that these old time chariots, which
my text uses for symbol, had what we would
call high dashboard at the front. but were
open behind. And the king would stand at
the dish board and drive with his own hands,
And l am glad that He, whose chariot the
clouds are, drives Himself He does not let
natural law drive. for natural law is deaf He
does not let fate drive, for fate is merciless
Bat our Father King drives Himself
and He puts His loving hand on the reins OF
the flying coursers. and He has a loving ear
open 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 Sow, and never drives off the
precipice and that He controls, by a bit that
never breaks the widest and most raging
circumstances / heard of n ship captain
who put out with his vessel with a large
number OF passengers from Buffalo on Lake
Erie, very early in the season and while
there was much ice When they were we
outthe captain saw to his horror that the ice
was closing in on him from all sides, and be
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 sh d must DO lost
unless Col interposed, and although he was
not Christian man he said: Let us pray"
and they all knelt asking God 10 come for
their deliverance. They went back TO the
deck, and the man at the wheel shouted: "All
right, capn, it's blowing nor by nor west
nov" While the prayer was going on in the
cabin the wind changed and blew the ice out of
the way. The mate asked :"Shan Iput on more
sail, cap'nT mol" responded the captain.
Don t touch her Some one else is managing
this ship"
Oh, men and women. shut in on all sides
by icy troubles and misfortunes in earnest
prayer put all your affairs in the hands Of
God You will come out all right Some ono
else is managing the shipi It did not merely
happen so that when Leyden was besciged,
and the Duke of Alva felt sure OF his tri-
umph, suddenly the wind turned, and the
swollen waters compelled him to stop
the Siege, aud the city was saved.
God that night drove along the
coast OF the Netherlands in a black chariot
Of storm cloud. Itdid not merely happen 50
that Luther rose from the place where no
was sitting Just in time 10 keep from being
crushei by a stono that the instant after fell
on the very spot Had he not escaped where
would have been the Reformation re did not
merely happen 40 that Columbus
was saved from drowning by an oar
that was floating on tho waters. Other
wise, who won a have unveiled America7
IL did not merely happen so that when
George Washington was i'm Brooklyn a great
church stands, and over all this end Of Long
Island, and that under that fog he and his
army escaped from tho clutches Of Generals
Howe and Clinton. In a chariot Of mist and
cloud the God OF American Independence
rode along here On that pillow Of consolat ton
put down my head TO seep at night.
On that solid 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, or no
tariff at all, but only whether the Demo-
Gratis or tie Republicans shall have
the salaried Offices Yea, when Eu-
ropean nations are holding their breath,
wondering whether Russia or Germany viii
launch n war that will incarnadiue con-
tinont. J fall back on the faith that my
Father drives. Yes, I cast this a. an anchor
and plant this as a column Of strength, and
lift this as n telescope and build this az n
fortress, and propose without any perturb1-
ton - launch upon an unknown future trium-
plant BOO The fact That my Father drives Yes
ne drives very near. ! know that many Of
the clouds that you SEQ in summer are far
OF, tho bases o. some Of them five miles
above the earth. High on the highest peaks
oi The Andes travellers have seen clouds far
higher than where they we're standing
Gay Lues4C. after he had risen iu a.