The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-01

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, q world full of it.
Hail him in worship as every morning he
drives out in his chariot of morning cloud,
and cry with David: M voice shalt
thou hear in tie morning, in the morning
will direct nv prayer unto thee and look
up" rejoice in these scripture ejacula-
tons: ''Joy cometh in the morning" "My
soul waiteth for thee more than they that
watch for the morning. If take the wings
the morning." the morning cometh; .
''Who is she that looketh forth as the morn
iug" His going forth is prepared as the
morning." "As the morning 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 morning
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 ver-
million, and upshot flame of the sunset
That is the place where the splendors that
have marched through the day, having
ended tire procession, throw down their
torches and set the heavens on fire That
is the only hour Of the day when the atmo;-
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 If sardius and On up
to the coping of amethyst. at that hour
without any Of Elsha's supernatural vision
we see horses of fire and chariots OF fire and
banners of fire ard ships of fire and cities
IF fir, seas of fire, and it seems as if the
last confagration lad 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 i
Another day dead and this is its gorgeous
H.. &
David called the evening sacrifice OF
Daniel called the "eve ing obiation." Oh!
oh what a chariot made cut of evening
cloud, Have you hung over the taffrail on
tie ocean and seen this cloudy
vehicle roll over the pavements of a calm
summer sea, the wheels dripping with the
magnificercel Have you from the tip of
Ben Lonlond, or the Cordilleras, or tie
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 he can put on one evening
sky pictures that excel Michael's Angeles
Last Judgment" AID Ghirlandjos "Adora-
ton 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 same sky something that excels
all that the Raphaels and the Titans and
the Rembrandts 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 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 cioven out of night, and that
night is trouble. When he rides forth in
that black chariot, pestilence, and earth
quake, 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, aud
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 rumblings of
the black chariot of the Almighty. Ave, 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 any,
thing. Aye, no one else drives there. Un-
der one wheel of that chariot Babylon was
crushed and Baalbeck fell dead and the
Roman empire was Frustrated and Atlantis,
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 its highest
mountains. The throne of the Caesars was less
than pebble under the right wheel of this
CHART, 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 blacA chariot of war cloud rolled I'D
to the northwest of Europe in 1912 and four
hundred thousand men marched to take
Moscow, but that chariot of clouds rolled
back, and only twenty-five thousa I'd out of
the four hundred thousand troops lived to
return. No great snowstorm like that had
ever before, or has ever since, visited Rus
sia. Aye the chariot of the Lord is ire
sistible. 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 sanctified human breath
has blossoned into such brightness and color
that men and angels had TO veil their
faces from its brightness Mark you, the
ancient chariot which David uses as SYM
Dol in my text had only two wheels, and
that was that they might turn quickly, two
wheels taking less than half the time to
tnrn that four wheels would have taken.
And our Lords chariot has only two wheels,
and that means instant reversal, and in
slant help. and instant deliverance. While
the combined forces of the universe in bat
tie array could not stop his black chariot a
second or diverge it an inch, the driver of
that chariot says; Call upon me in the day
of trouble and l viii deliver thee" HWhle
they are yet speaking 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
cirrhus. the clouds that font the
highest: or belongs to the stratus, the
central ranges; or to the cumulus, the low
est ranges, seems to move slowly along the
sky If it moves at ALL But many Of the
clouds go at speed that would seem
lethargic; vestibule limited lightning ex-
press train, so swift is the chariot Of our
God; yea, swifter than the storm, swifter
than the light. Yet a child ten years old
has been known to reach up, and with the
hand of prayer take the 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
stopped it. My father stopped it, NV
mother stopped it. My sister stopped it.
We have incur Sabbath schools children
who again and again aud again have
stopped it.
Notice that these old-time ehariots, which
my text uses for symbol, mad 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
t,xVf, endQ And aup clad that ba xrhnso