Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-26

OF sardius and on up 10 tie COP
ing OF AMETHYST AT that hour with
out any OF ElIsha's supernatural vision
We see horses Of fire and cHariOts OF nrs and
banners OF fire ami ships OF fire and cities or
fire, seas OF fire, and it seems as II the last
conhagratf0n had begun aud there is a world
on fire When God makes these clouds His
chariot let all kneeL Another day past. what
have we done with III Another dAr dead ana
and this is IFS gorgeous ratai alQue- Now
is the time for what David called the "eVen-
ing sacrifice FOR Daniel called evening Obla-
ton" l5hl Ohl what ch riot made out OF
evening clOudI Have you hung over the tan
rail on the ocean aud seen THIS cloudy vehicle
roll over the DaVements or calm sumner
sea, the wheels dripping with the maguln-
cenc-2 Have you from the tOD Of Ben LO-
mOnd or the Cord .lieras or the Berkshire hills
seen the day piilOWed for the night, and
yet had no aspiration Of praise aud hOmagef
Oh, what rich God We have that lie can put
on one evening sky pictures that excel Mich
ael Angeles Last Judgment and Ghlrland-
JOS Alteration of the Magi" and whole gal
leries OF MadOnuas, aud for only an hour, and
then throw them away, and the next evening
put on the same skr something that eZcels
all that the Ra Dhaels and the IltanS aud the
Rembrandts aud the CorregiOs and tie
Leonardo ia NIncis ever executed, aud then
draw q curtain of mist over them never again
to be exhibitedf How rich God must be to
have a new chariot OF clouds every morn
ingl
But the Bible tells Us that our King also
has a black chariot Clouds and darkness"
we are told, ARE round bout him - That
chariot Is CtOEGu out OF night, anu LlaE night
is trouble When lie rides forth in that black
ChrriOL pestilence and earthquake and fam
inc and hurricane and woe attend Him.
Then let the earth iremb!e. Then let nations
pray Again and again He has ridden
forth IN that chariot Of black clouds, across
England and France ana Italy and Russia
and America aud over all nations That
which men took for the sound of caHnOnad-
ing at SebIstOpOl. at Sedan, at Gettysburg, at
Tel ei-keblE at Bunker Hill, were only the
rumbIings of the black chariot Of the Al
mighty. Aye it is the chariot OF storm cloud
armed with thunuerDOltS. and neither man
nor angel nor devil nor earth nor he'll nor
heaven can resist Him. On those bOuleVards
of blue this chariot never turns out for
anything. Aye, no one else drives there.
Under one wheel OF that chariot Babylon
was crushed and Baalbeck feel dead aud the
Roman empire was Frustrated and Atlantis,
whole continent that once connected Europe
with America, sank clear out Of sig bit 80 that
the longest anchor of ocean steamer cannot
touch the top of its highest noun ains. The
throne of the Caesars was less than pebble
under the right wheel Of this chariot, and
the Austrian despOtism less than snow
flake under the left wheel And over de-
strOyed 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 four
hundred thousand men marched to lake
Moscow, but that chariot Of clouds rolled
back, aud only twenty five thousand 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.
Ave, the chariot of the Lord is irres istihle.
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 ciOunds un-
der that sanctihed human breath has bios.
sOmed into such brightness and color that
men aud angels had to veil their
fHces from its brightness. Mark YOU the
ancient chariot when David uses as a sym
bJl 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 tanen. And our
LORDS ch riot has only TWO wheels, and that
means instant reversal, and instant help. and
instant deliVerance. While the combined
forces of the universe in battle array could
not stop his black chariot. a second or dIverge
it an inch, the driver of that chariot SAYS {:
"Cuu 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 vince! mercy. Aye, tEey
are swift wheels. A cloud, whether it be-
longs 10 the crrhus, tile 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 il moves
at all. But many of the clouds 20 at a speed
thai would seem leIharg-c "a vest bule limited
lightning express trulI, so swift is the chariot
of our God; Ell, sWIftrr than the storm.
sWifter than the light Yet 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 1t up, or stop it,
or turn It aside, or turn it back The boy
Samuel stopped it, Elijah stopped IT, Heze-
kiah stopped il. Daniel stOl ped it, Joshua
stopped iJ. Esther stopped it,. Ruth stopped
it Hannah stopped it, Mary stopped it.
My father stopped L. My mother stopped IT,.
My sister stopped it. We have in our Sal
bath schools children who again and AGAIN
Notice that these old-tIme chariOts,
which my text uses for symbol,
had what We would call a high
dash board at the from, but were open b.
hind. Aud the king would stand at the
dash board ami drive with his own hands
And 1 am glad that He, whose chariot the
Clouds are, drives II aselE lie does not let
fate drive, Tor fate IS merciless. But our
Father King drives himself ana he puts His
loving hand on the reius OF the flying cOursers
and de has loving ear open to the cry OF all
who want to catch his attention. On, I am
SO glad that nv Father drives, and never
drives too last, and never drives too slow
aud never drives off The precipice, and that
lie controls by a bit that never breaks, the
widest and most raging circumstances.
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
aud while there was much Ice. When they
were we'll out the captain saw TO lis hOr or
that the ice was closing in on him from ali
sides, and he saw no way out from destruc-
ton and death. He He'd into the cabin the
passengers and all the crew that could be
spared from their posts, and told them that
the ship must he lost unless God interpOsed,
and although he was not Christian man he
s i'd: LET US pray" and they all kneIt ask
ing God to come for their deliveranee. They
went back to the deck, and the man at the
wheel shouted: AL right, Cap'1, its blow
ing nOr' by nor west now" While the prayer
was gong on in the cabin the wind changed
and blew tue ice out of the way. The mate
asked: Shall L put on more sale, cap'uF'
''No" responded the captain
Don't touch her. Some one else is manEg-
ing this ship" On, men and women, shut
Ia on all sides bv lev troubles AID
misfrOtunes, in earnest prayer put all your
affairs in the hands OF God. You will
come out all right. Some one else is IN IL
aging the shipl 1t did not merely happen 50
that when Leyleu was besieged, and Tie
Duke of Alva felt sure of his triumph sud-
/ denly 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 q black