The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-02

far higher than where they were standing.
Gay Lussac, after lie had risen in balloon
twenty-thrce 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 arc close
by, and they touch our shoulders, and they
touch orr homes, and they touch US all over.
l have read Of two rides that the Lord took in
two different chariots of clouds, and of an
other that He will take. One day, in 8
chariot of clouds that were a ming
ling Of fog and smoke and fire,
God drove down to the top of a
terrible crag fifteen hundred feet high now
called Jebel-Musa, then called Mount Sinai
and He stepped out Of His chariot among the
as with an ague, and there were ten volleys Of
thunder, each of the ten emphasizing tre-
mendous "The shalt" or "Thou shalt 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. But one day
He took another ride, and this time down to
Mount Tabor, the clouds ont of which His
chariot was made, bright clouds, roseare
clouds, illumined Clouds and music rained
from all of them, and the music was mingling
of carol and chant and triumphal march:
"This is My beloved Son, in whom l am well
pleased" TRANSPORTATION chariot
"Oh," say hundreds Of you, 81 wish I could
brought 1.-THE Lord to Jebel-Mesa at the giving
of tho law, and the white one that brought
Him down to Tabor" Never mind, you will
see something grander than that, and it will
be mightier mingling OF the scmbre and the
radiant, and the pomp of it will be such that
the chariots in which Traian, and Diocletian,
and Xenobia, and Caesar, and Alexander and
all the conquerors 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, He will ask you and me to
ride with Him both ways. How do know that
tho judgment chariot will be made out OF
clouds? Revelation /. Z: "Behold He cometh
with clouds" Oh, He will not ride through
the heavens alone as He does now. He is
going to bring along with Him escorts of
ten full. regiments Inspiration says
"Behold tho Lord cometh with ten
thousands of his saints" But these figures
simply mean that there will be great throng.
And as we shall probably through the atone
ment of Christ be In heaven before that, l
hope that we can come down in that escort of
chariot. Christ in the center chariot, but
chariots before Him Eto clear the way, and
chariots behind him, and chariots on either
side of Him, Perhaps the prophets and patri-
archs of the old dispensation may ride ahead
each one charioted-Abraham and Moses and
Ezekiel and David and Joshua, who foretold
his first coming. On either side of the central
chariot apostles and martyrs who in the same
or approximate centuries suffered for Him
Paul, Stephen and Ignatius and Polycarp and
justin Martyr ana multltuQeS VINO went ap IN
chariot Of fire now coming in chariot of cloud,
while In the rear of the central chariot shall be
the multitudes of later days and of our
own time who have tried to serve the Lord,
ourselves, hope, among them. "Behold the
Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints"
Yes; although all unworthy of such compan-
tonship, we want to come with him on that
day TO see the last Of this old world which was
once our residence. Coming through the skies
myriads of chariots rolling on and rolling
D,.Al hate ~. TO-
will DO. Its deserts all flowers, its rocks all
messed and lichened, its poor houses all pal
aces, its sorrows all joys, its sins all virtues,
and in the same pasture field lion and calf,
aud on the same perch hawk and dove. Now
all the valleys, and covering all the mountain
sides, and hating in all the cemeteries and
graveyards and over tho waters deep
phagus. A loud blast of the resurrection
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 center chariot of cloud, with his
SCARED hands waves the signal, and the char
lots wheel and come into line for glorious
ascent. Drive onl Drive upl Chariots of
cloud ahead of the King, chariots of cloud on
either side of the King, charots of cloud fol-
lowing the King. Upward and apast starry
hosts, and through immensties, and across in
fnitudes, higher, higher, higher. unto the
gates, the shining gates. Lift up your heads,
we everlasting gates, for Him who malIeth the
clouds his chariot, and who, through condo
scending and uplifting grace, invites US to
mount and ride with Him!