Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-10-06

Bunker Hill, were only the rumbllnCs OF tue
Hack chariot of the Almighty. ave, IL Is
the chariot of stormc.oul armed w:tn tnuli,
lerbolts. and neither lnnn nor angel nordevil
nor earth nor hell nor heaven can resist H'n:
On those bouewardS of blue tins charloo
never turns cat fer ANYTHING. Aye, no one
elso drives there Under one wheel OF
that chariot Babylon was crushed and Baal-
beck fell dead and the Roman Empire was
PROSTATE! and Atlantis, who.e contiheho
that once connected Europa with America,
sank clear out OF sight so that the lonsesC
oncho. Of ocean steamer cannot touch the top
of its highest mountains. The throne OF Gne
C,,s.rs was less than n pebble under the
richt wheel of this chariot. and the Austrian
lesnotism less than snowflake under the LETT
wheel And over DESTROYED worlds on worries
that chariot has rolled without lar or JOLT.
This. black cha, lot of war cloud rolled up
TO the northwest Of Europa IN ~: anu .0ut
hundred Thousand men marched 10 taEe MUS
COW. but that chariot OF clouds roliei oack'
and only twenty-five Thousand OUT OF Tue AoN.
hundred thousand troops lived to return NO
cr,at 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 charots, and that is prayer. Again ana
main it has stopped it, whee!el IL around,
and tho chariot of black clouds under tnat
sanctiiied human breath has blossomed INTO
such brightness and color that men ana
nnrels had to veil their faces from its bright
ness. Mark YOU. the ancient chariot winch
David uses as a symbol in my text had only
two wheels and that was TINT they might turn
quickly, two wheels taking less than nal
the timc TO turn that four wheels would
have taken Aud our Lords chariot mas
only two wheels. and that means inss.int re-
yer>al, and instant help, aud. Instant deliver
n
universe in battle array could not stop his
black chariot second or diverge it an inch,
tie driver OF that chariot says: Call upon
No in the day of trouble and will de-
liver thee" "While they are yet
speaking l will hear" Two-wheeled
chariot, one wheel justice and the other
wheel mercy Ave. they are swift wheels.
A cloud. whether it belongs to tine cirrhuS,
the clouds that float the highest; or belongs
to the stratus. the central range7; or to the
cumuluS the lowest ranges, seems TO move
slowly along the sky ii it moves at all. But
MANY clouds 20 ut Il speed that would make
vcStibule limited lightning express tram
seem lethargic. so swift is tho chariot o! our
God: Yea. swifter than the storm, swlfter
than the light. Net a child ten years Old nag
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.
Nv sister stopped it. We have in our Sab
batll-Schoo,s 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 ut the front. but wero
open benind And the king would stand at
the dash. board 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 natural law is deaf: lie
does not let fate drive. for fate is mercileSS,
Bat our Father King drives Himself,
and He puts His loving hand on the rens OF
the flying coursers; and He has loving ear
opan to the cry of all who want to catch His
attention. oh. am 50 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 q oit That
never breaks, the widest and most raging
circumstances. ! heard of 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 wei
out the captain saw to his horror that the ice
was closing in on him from all sides, and he
He called into the cabin the passengers and
all the crew that could lie spared from their
posts, and told them that the ship must he lost
unless God interpoSel, and although he was
NOT Caristan man he said: Let us pray"
and they all knelt asking God to come for
their deiverance. They went back to the
deck, AMI thu man at the wheel shouted: "All
right capn, it's blowing nor by nor west
now" While the prayer was going on in the
Il oh or
the way. The mate asked: Shall put on more
sail. capn:n Mo- responded the captain.
Don't touch her. Some one else is managing
this ship"
by icy troubles aud misfortuues, in earnest
prayer put al your affairs i'll the hands o;
Col. You will come out all right. Some ont
e,se is managing the ship 1t did not merely
harpen so that when Leyden was beseisef.,
and the Duke of Alva felt sure of bis TIL
umph, suddenly the wind turned, and tue
swollen waters compelled him to stop
tbs siege and the city was savea.
God thct night drove along tho
coast Of the Netherlands in a BLACK charioe
of storm cloud Itdid not merely happenso
that Luther rose from the place wnsIe ns
was sitting U.S.. in time TO keep from beng
crt,sfe by a stone that the instant after ieli
on the very spot Had he not escaped where
would have been the Reformation: 1t did no5
merely huppan so that Columbus
was saved from drowning by an oar
that WIS floating on the waters Other,
wise. who would have unveiled Americas
It did not merely happen so that when
GEORGE Washington was in Brooklyn grelt
fog settled down over all the place where this
church stands, and over all this end OF Long
Island, and that under that fog he and his
army escaped from the clutches OF Generals
Howe and Clinton. In u chariot OF mist and
cloud the God of American Independence
rode along here On atpllow OF consolation
| put down my head to sleep at nl%hl.-
On that solid foundation build when see
this nation in po;itica! paroxysm every four
wears not because they care two cents aoou6
whether it is high tarilf, or low tariff, or no
tariff at all, but. only whether the Demo-
Gratis or the Republicans shall have
the salaried Offices. Yea. when Eu-
ropean nations arc holding their breath,
wondering whether Russia or Germany VIII
launch q war that will incarnadine a con-
tinent, fall back on the faith that my
Father drives. Yes, cast this as an anchor,
and plant this as a column of strength, ana
lift this as q telescope, and build tins as
fortress, and propose without any pertl:pa-
ton to launch upon an unknown future trlunl-
Hhant in the fact that my Father drives eS:
He drives very near. l know that many OIL
the clouds that you see III summer are lar
OIL, tine BASES vi Sullie VI tlSl1t -
above the earth High ON the highest peaks
of tho Andes travellers have seen clouds lar
higher than where they were standing.
Gay Lussac, after he had risen III a
balloon twenty-tiiree thousand feet, sslll
saw clouds above him.
But there are clouds that touch the EARN
and discharge Their rain, and, though uhe
clouds out Of which Gods chariot IS liiSuo
NAV sometimes he far away often they are
c.ose by, aud they touch our shoulders, and
they touch our homes, and they touch us all
over. have read OF two rides that tie
Lord took in two different charl9{s
of clouds, and of another that ne
will take One day, in CHARIOT OF
smoke and fire. Col drove down to the top
of terrible crag fifteen hundred feet high,
now called Jebel-A Iusa, then called Mount
Sinai, and He stepped out OF His chariot
among tine split shelvings of rock. Inc