Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-01


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 80 glad that nv
Father dives. aud never drives TOO fast,
and never drives too slow, and never
drives of the precipice, and that He con-
trolls by bit that never breaks, the wild
est and most raging circumstances.
heard of a ship captain who put out with
his vessel with q large number of passen-
gers from Buffalo on Lake Erie, very early
in the season and while there was much
ice. When they were we'll ont the captain
saw. to his horror that the ice was closing
in on him from all sides, and he saw no
way out from destruction and death. He
called into the cabin the passengers and sll
the crew that could be spared from their
posts, and told them that the ship must be
lost unless God interposed, and although
he was not Christian man he said: 'Let
us pray" and they all knelt, asking God
to come for their dsliverance. They went
back to the deck, and the man at the wheel
shouted: "All right, csp'n, it's blowing
nor by nor west now" While the prayer
was going on in the cabin the wind
changed and blew the ice ont of the way.
The mate asked: ''Shall I put on more sail,
cap'n ?' ."Now responded the captain.
Don't touchl 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
cone out all right. Some one else is man
aging the ship! 1t did not merely hap
pen go that when Lsyden was besieged,
and the Dnke of Alva felt sure OF his ti-
umph, suddenly the wind turned, and the
swollen waters compelled him to stop the
siege, and the city was saved. God that
night drove along the coast of the Neither
lands in black chariot of storm cloud.
1t did not merely happen 20 that Lut her
rose from the place where he was sitting
just in time
TO KEEP From BEING CRUSHED
by stone that the instant after fell on the
very spot Had he not escaped, where
would have been the Reformation? Itdid
not merely happen 80 that Columbus was
saved from drowning by an oar that was
floating on the waters. Other wise, who
would have unveiled America? 1t did not
merely happen so that when George Wash
ington was in Brooklyn great 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 chariot of mist and cloud the God Of
American Independence rode along here.
On that pillow of consolation put down
my head to sleep at night. On that solid
foundation build when | see this nation
in political paroxysm every four years, not
because they care two cents whether il is |
high tariff, or low tariff, or no tariff at all,
but only whether the Democrat, or the |
Republicans shall have the eslsred Off
GERS. Yes, when European nations are
holding their breath, wondering whether |
Russia or Germany will launch a war that |
will incarnadine continent, fall back on |
the faith that my Father drives. Yea, |
cast this as an anchor, and plant this as
column of strength, and lift this as
a telescope, aud build this az q |
fortress, and propose without any
perturbation to launch upon an unknown
future triumphant in the fact that my |
Father drives. Yes, He drives very near |
know that many of the clouds that you |
see in summer are far of, the bases of
some of them five miles above the earth. |
High on the highest peaks of the Andes |
travellers have seen clouds far higher than |
where they were standing. Gay Lussac,
after he had risen in balloon twenty-three |
thousand feet, still saw clouds above him. |
But there are
CLOUDS THAT TOUCH THE EARTH
and discharge their rain, and, though the
clouds out of which Gods chariot is made |
may sometimes be far away, often they are
close by, and they touch our shoul ters.
aud they touch our homes, and they touch |
us all over. I have read OF two rides that |
the Lord took in two different chariots of
clouds, and of another that He will take.
One day, in a chariot of clouds that were
a mingling of fog and smoke and fire,
God drove down to the top of a |
terrible crag, fifteen hundred feet high, |
row called Jebsl .Muss, then called Mount
Sinai, and He stepped ont of His chariot,
among the split shelvings of rock. The
mountain shook az with an ague, aud |
there were ten volleys of thunder, each |
of the ten emphasizing a tremendous
"Thou SHALT" or Thou shall not" Then
the Lord resumed His chariot of cloud and |
drove up the hills Of heaven. They were
dark and portentous clouds that made that
chariot at the giving Of the law. Bot one
day He took another ride, and this time |
down to mount Tabor, the clouds out of
which his chariot was made being bright |
clouds, roseate clouds, illuminated clouds,
and music rained from all Of them, and the |
music was q mingling of carol and chant |
and triumphal march: This Is Ny be-
loved Son, in whom 1 am we'll pleased "
TRANSPORTATION chariot!
On" say hundreds Of you, u wish
could have ssen those cbariots--the black |
one that brought the Lord to Jebel-Muss
at the giving OF the law, and the white
one that brought Him down 10 Tabor"
Never niud, You will see something grand
er than that, and il will be a mightier |
mingling of the sombre and the radiant, |
and the pomp of II will be such that the |
chariots in which Trajan, and Diocletisn,
and Xenoti,, and Cesar, and Alexander,
and all the cong uerors Of all the ages rode |
will be unworthy Of mention and what
stirs me the mgst is that when be comes in |
that chariot Of cloud and goes hack. He
will ask You and me to ride with him both |
WAYS. How do l know that
THE JUDGMENT CHARIOT
will b, made oat of clouds? Revelation |
i. 7: Behold He cometb with cloads"
Oh, He will not then ride through the
heavens alone ss He does now. He is
going to bring along with Him escort Of
ten full regiments. Inspiration says:
"Bshcld the Lord cometh with ten thoI-
sand of his saints" But these figures
simply mean that there will be Q great
throng. And as we shall probably through
the atonement Of Christ bs in heaven be-
fore that, hope that We can come down
in that escort Of chsriot'. Christ in the
centre chariot, bat chariots before Him 70 |
clear the way, and chariots behind Him,
and charlotte on either side of Him Pet
haps the prophets and patriarchs Of the
old dispepsation may ride ahead each one