The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-01

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eight miles across, and is a mountain, from
its base to its top, 1900 feet, $4,000 feet,
10000 feet, and cut through with ravines
5000 feet deep. No, David did not make
fragile or unworthy representation of
God in the text when he spoke of the
clouds us his chariot. But as | suggested
in the case of an earthly king, he has his
morning cloud chariot and his evening
| cloud chariot-the cloud chariot in which
he rode down TO Sinai to open the law,
| and the cloud chariot in which he rode
down TO Tabor 10 honor tho gospel, aud
the cloud chariot in which he will come to
judgment.
When he rides out in his morning
chariot at this season, about o'clock, he
puts golden coronets ON the dome of cities,
and silyer the rivers, and out of the dew
makes diamond ring for the finger Of
| every grass blade, and bids good cheer 10
invalids who in the night said: "Would
God II were morning" From this morn
ing cloud chariot he distributes light, light
for the earth and light for the heavens,
light for the land and light for the sea,
great bars OF IL, great wrcathcs OF il, great
columns OF Il, n world full oft. Hail him
| in worship rs every morning lac drives out
in his chariot of morning cloud, and cry
with David "My voice shalt thou hear
in the morning, in the morning will |
| direct my prayer unto thee and look up."
] rejoice in these Scripture calculations;
"Joy cometh in the morning" "My soul
waiteth for thee more than they that
watch for the morning." "lf take the
wing OF the morning" 1.-THE cyelids of tho
morning. "rhe morning -" "Who
is she that looketh forth ~ the morning."
Ills going forth is prepared as the morn
ing" AS the morning spread on the
mountains" THAT thou shouldst visit
him every morning" What a mighty
thing the King throws from his chariot
when he throws us the morning.
Yes; he has his evening cloud chariot.
II il made out of the saffron and the gold,
and the purple and the orange, and the
vermillion and the upshot flame OF the
sunset That IN the place where the
splendors that have marched through the
day, having ended the procession, throw
| down their torches and set the heavens on
fire. That IL the only hour OF the day
when the atmosphere IL clear enough TO
let VA see the wall Of the heavenly city
with lis twelve manner Of precious stones,
from foundation Of jasper TO middle strata
of sardius, and ON up 30 the coping of
amethyst. At that hour, without any Of
Elisha's supernatural vision, We see horses
OF fire, and ships OF fire, and cities oi fire,
seas OF iiIc, and II seems ~ II the con fla
grafton had begun and there tx n world on
fire. When God makes these clouds his
chariot let us all knecl. Another day
past, what have we done with it2 Another
day dead aud this is its gorgeous cataial-
que. Now IL the time for what David
called the evening sacrifices or Daniel
called the evening oblation." OH OIL
what q chariot made out Of evening cloud
Have You hung over the tnilfail ON the
ocean and seen this cloudy vehicle roll over
the payCmcnts Of calm summer
sea, the wheels dripping with the mag.
nihconco7 Have you from the top Of Ben
| Lcmond or the CordillcraH or the lIerk.
shire hills seen the day pillowed for III,
night, and vet had no aspiration OF prais,
and homage oh, what rich God w
have that he can put on one evening sky
| pictures that excel Michael Angeles
last Judgment and GhitlandiUs "Ad.
| Grafton ol Magi' aud whole galleries of
Madonnas, and Tor only an hour. and then
| throw them away, aud the next evening
/ put on the same sky something that tx
GELS all that the Raphacs and the rtans
| the Leonardo ia Nincis over executed and
then draw q curtain Of mist over them
never again 10 bo exhibited How rich
God must be- to have a new chariot ol
clouds every evening
But the Bible tells M that our King also
| has black chariot. CLOUDS aud dark
ness" we are told, care round about
him" That chariot In cloycn ont oi
night, and that night IN trouble. When
/ lac rides forth In that black chariot pvsli-
| lcnCc aud earthquake and famine and hur.
ricane and WOO attend him. Then let tho
earth trcmblc. Then let nations pray.
| Again and again be- has ridden
/ forth in that chariot " black clouds, ncrus,
/ England and France, and Italy and Rus
sia and America, aud over all nations.
| That which men took Tor the sound Oi
cannonading ut scbastopol, at Sedan, al
| GcttyRburs at Iclcl-kchif, nt Bunker
| Hill, were only the rumblngs II the black
| chariot of tho Almighty Aye, II H. the
chariot II slorm.cloud armed with thun,
! dorbDlts. aud neither man nor angel, NOT
devil, nor earth, nor hell, nor heaven can
resist him. On those boulcyarls ~ blue
this chariot never turns out Tor anything.
Ave, no one clro drives there. Under on,
wheel Of that chariot Babylon was crushed
and Baalbcck fell dead, aud the Roman
ompirc wau Frustrated, aud Atlantis, d
whole continent that once connected In
rope with America, fank clear ont VI sigh
~ that the longest anchor Of ocean steamer
| cannot touch the top oi iiH highest mount
aims. The throne Of tho Caesars was lees
than pebble under the right wheel o
this chariot, and the Austrian dcspotisu
less than snowflake under the lci
| wheel. And over destroyed worlds %
worlds that chariot has rolled without !
jar OF JOLT
This black chariot oi war cloud role,
IN 10 the northwest ol Europe in 1872, un,
400. 900 men marched 10 take Moscow, bu
thht chariot oi clouds rolled back uu,
only "a. 900 out Of the 10000 troops live,
10 return. 40 great snUW-fiurm like Tia
had ever before or has over since yutD,
Russia. Aye, tho chariot of tho lord ]
irresistible. There Is only ono thing TIA
can halt " turn any NJ bis chariDls, ans
that " PRAYER Again aud uguin II hu
stopprd 10. wheeled Il around. aud th
chariot 81 black clouds under that snnCti
fed human breath has bloVOm'i int
such brightness .aud color that men aul
angels hbd b. veil their faces from ii
brightness. Mark you, the ancient char
lot which David uses ~ symbol Ia m
text, had only two wheels, and that W.
that they might turn quickly, two wheel
taking lees than hall the time to turn tha
four wheels would have taken. Aud Uu
Lords chariot has only two wheels, am
that means instant reversal, anl iuslau
help, and instant dcliycmncc. While tl
combined forces u the universe in BATH
array could not stop his black chariot