The Brookhaven leader., 1888-10-11


waitheth for Thee more than they that
watch for the morning." "It I take the
wing Of the morning." 1.-THE eyelids OF
the morning." 1.-THE morning oometh,"
"Who is she that looketh forth as the
morning." "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
morningl
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
vermlion and up shot fame of the sun.
set. That is the place where the splen.
doris that have marched through the day,
having ended the procession, throw down
Oh ir 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 its
twelve manner of precious stones, from
foundation of jasper to middle strata Of
sarlius aud on up TO the coping Of ame-
thyst At that hour, without any of
EliSha's supernatural vision, we see
horses Of fire. and chariots of fire, anu
banners Of fire, and ships Of fire, aud
cities VI fire, seas of fire, aud it seems as
il the last conhagration had begun and
there Is q world on fire. When God makes
these clouds His chariot let us all kneel.
Another day past what have we done
with il? Another day dead, and this Is
its gorgeous catafalque. Now is the time
for what David called the evening
sacrifice" or Daniel called the "evening
obligation" Oh! oh! what q chariot
male out of evening cloudl Have you
hung over the taffrail on the ocean and
seHn this cloudy vehicle roll over the
ravements OF calm summer sea, the
wheels dripping 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
ha no aspiration of praise and homagep
o., what a rich God we have that He can
put on one evening sky pictures that excel
Michael Angeles Last Judgment" and
Ghirlaudjo's Alteration 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
sam sky something that excels all that
the Raphaels and the Titans, and the REM
bra lltI, aud the Corregios, and the Le-
onardo da Vincis ever executed, and then
draw Il curtain of mist over them never
again to be exhibited How rich God
must be TO have new chariot Of clouds
every evening.
Eut the Bible tells us that our King
also has black chariot. Clouds and
darkness" we are told, "are round about
Him" That chariot is cloven of night,
and that night is trouble. When He
rid IS forth in that black chariot pesti =
lencs 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 cannonading at Sebastapol, at
S. dan, at Gettysburg, at Tel-el- Kebir, at
Bunker Hill, were only the rumblings
of he Dlack 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 bouisvards 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 Roman En-
pre- 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 can
not reach the top Of its highest mount
aims. The throne of the CAESARS was less
~. thn nahhle under the right vince, OF
this chariot, and the Austrian despot1sm
less than a snowflake under the left
| wheel. And over destroyed worlds or
| worlds that chariot has rolled without q
jar or jolt
| This black chariot of war cloud rolled
up to the Northwest of Europe in 1872 and
| four hundred thousand men marched to
| take Moscow, but that chariot of clouds
| rolled back, and only tweuty-f thou
sand out Of the four hundred thousand
troops lived to return. No great snow
storm like that had ever before, or has
ever since, visited Russia. Aye, 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, wheel
ed it around, and the chariOts of black
clouds under that sanctified human breath
has blossomed into such brightness aud
color that men aud angels have to vail
their faces from its brightness.
Mark you, the ancient chariot VIII ic b
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. Ald our
Lords chariot has only two wheels, and
means instant reversal, and instant help,
and instant deliverance. While the COM
bined forces of the universe in battle
array could not stop His black chariot a
second or diverge 1t an inch, the driver OF
that chariot says: "Call upon Me in the
day of trouble and | will deliver thee"
"While they are yet speaking / will
hear" Two-wheeled chariot, one wheel
justice, and the other wheel mercy. Ave,
they are swift wheels. A cloud, whether it
belongs to the cirrOus, the clouds that float
the highest; or belongs to the stratus, the
central ranges; or to the cumulus, the
lowest 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 to a vestibule linn
tied lightning express tram, so swift is
the chariot of our Col; 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,
HsAnah stopped it, Mary stopped it. My
father stopped it. My mother stopped it.
My sister stopped it. We have in our
Sabbath schools children who again, and
again, and again have stopped it,