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

Russia or Germany viii launch a war that
will iHcaFnadine & continent 1 fall back on
the faith that my Father drives Yes
I cast this as an anchor, snd plan this
q column Of strength. and i4EE this
as q telescopes and Duld TINS aa
perturbation to launch upon an unknown lu-
ture trium phant in the T. Ct that ms Father
drives. Yes. He drives very near. i know
that many of the clouds that you see "a sum
mer are far OF, the basis of some Of them iVe
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 lie had risen Ia
a balloon tWenty-three thousand Ieets 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 ca riOt is made
may sometimes be far away, often they are
close b., aud they touch our shoulders, and
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
chariot Of clouds that were mtugliug Of fog
and smoke and fire, God drove down to the
top OF q terrible cray fifteen hundred feet
high, now called Jebel-Musa, then called
Mount Sinai and he stepped out Of His
The mountain shook as with an ague, and
taere were ten VOlleYs Of thunder, each Of
the Ten emphasizing a tremendous Thou
shall" or Thou shalt not" Then the Lord
resumed His chariot Of cloud aud drove up
the hills OF heaven. They were dark and
pOrtentOus clouds that made that chariot at
the giving OF the law. But one day He took
another ride aud this time down TO Mount
Tabor the clouds out OF which His chariot
was made bright clouds, rOseate clouds, illu-
mined clouds, ara music rained from all Of
them, and the music was mingling of carol
and chant and triUmPhal marcn: This is
My beloved Son, in v hem am well pleased. -
TRANSPORTATION Chariot
"Oh" say hundreds OF you 81 wish could
have seen those cAEriOts-the black one that
brought the Lord 10 JabeI-Musa at the giving
of the law, and the white one that brought
Him down to TabOr.N Never mind, YOU will
see something grander than that, and it will
be mightier mingling of the sOmbre ana the
radiant and the pOmp OF It viii be such that
the churiOts in which Traian, and DIOcletian,
and ZenObia, and Caesar and Alexander, and
all the cOnqUerers Of all the ages rode will be
unworthy OF mention; and what stirs me the
most is that when he comes in that chariot Of
cloud and goes back, lie VIII ask you and me
to ride with Him both ways. How do / know
that the judgment chariot viii be made out of
clOudsl Revelation j, Z: behold he cOmeth
with clouds" Oh. He will not then ride
through the heavens alone as He does now.
He is going to bring along with him escort Of
ten full regiments. Inspiration says: 'tBe-
hold the Lord cOmeth with ten thousand of
his saints" But these fLures simply mean
that there will be q great thrOng. And as we
shall probably through the atOuement of
Christ be in heaven before that 1 hope that
we can come down III that escort OF chariot.
Christ is the centre chariot but charIOts be
fore Him TO clear the way, and chariOts be
hind HIN, and chariOts on either side of Him.
Perhaps the prophets and patriarchs OF the
old dtspensatiOn ma ride ahead each one
chariOted-A Draham ana Moses and Ezekiel
and David an d Joshua, who fOret old his first
coming. On either side of the central charf-
OF apostles and martyrs who in the same or
Approximate centuries suffered for Him-Paul
Stephen and Ignatius and POlycarp aud JUS
tin MARTYR aud mu.titudes who went up in
chariot OF nre now coming IN chariot OF cloud
while in the rear OF the central chariot sha
be the multitudes of later days and of our
own time who have tried to serve the Lord,
ourselves 1 hope among them. Behold the
Lord cOmeth with ten thousand of His saints
Yes; although all INV OrthY OF such com
paniOuship we want TO come with Him or
that day to see the last Of tn old world
which was once our resid eHce. Coming
through the skies mYriads Of chariOts rolling
aud rolling down. By that time how
changed this world will be. It's deserts ali
nOWers, It's rocks ali messed ana ucneneu, It's
poor houses all palaces, its sorrows all JOYS
its sins all virtues, and in the same pasture
| field lion and calf, aud on the same percl
hawk and dove. Now the chariOts of cloud
strike the earth, filling all the valleys, RnC
covering all the mountain sides, and hulting
in all the cemeteries and graYeyards and OVe
the waters deep where the dead sleep in cora
surcOphagus. A loud blast of the resurree-
/ tiOn trumpet is given and the bodies of the
dead rise and Join the spirits from which
! they have long been separated Then Christ
our King, rising In the centre chariot o.
| cloud, with His SCARED hands waves the SIG
! nal and the chsriOts wheel and come int,
! line for glorious ascent. Drive OuI Drive
upl ChariOls of cloud ahead Of the King
/ chariOts of cloud on either side o. the King,
/ chariOts of clouds following the King. Up
| ward and auast starry hosts, and through i'm
/ menSlttes. aud across inhnltudes, higher
| higher, higher, unto the gates the shining
/ gates. Lift up your heads, We Everlasting
/ Gates, for Him who inaleth the clouds Hi
/ chariot, and who through ccndesceudiug anI
/ uplifting grace invites US to mount and rid,
/ with Him