The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-10-12

Thee and look up" / rejoice in these
Scripture ejaculations: "Joy COM
eth in the morning." "My soul
waitheth for Thee more than they that
watch for the morning." "If 1 take the
wing Of the morning." ''The eyelids of
the morning." ''The morning cOmeth,"
'sWho is she that looketh forth as the
Ellis going forth is prepared /
as the morning ''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 |
Yea, He has His evening cloud chariot. |
1t is made out of the saffron, and the gold,
and the purple, and the orange, and the
vermilion and up shot fame OF the SUM
set That is the place where the splen-
doris that have marched through the day,
having ended the procession, throw down
their torches and set the heavens on fire.
That is the only hour of the day when the
atmosphere is clear enough to let us see
the wall of the Heavenly City with its
twelve manner of precious stones, from
foundation of jasper to middle strata OF
sardius and on up to the coping OF ame-
thyst. At that hour, without any of
Elisha's supernatural vision, we see
horses Of fire, and chariots of fire, and
banners of fire, and ships Of fire, and
cities of fire, seas of fire, and it seems as
if the last conf agration had begun and
there Is a world on fire. When God makes
these clouds His chariot let us all kneel
Another day past what have we done
with it? Another day dead, and this is
its gorgeous catafalque. Now Is the time
for what David called the "evening
sacrifice" or Daniel called the ''evening
obligation" OIL ohl what a chariot
made out of evening cloud Have you
hung over the taffrail on the ocean and
seen this cloudy vehicle roll over the
pavements of calm summer sea, the
wheels dripping with the magnihcenoeI
Have you from the top Of Ben LOmond or
the Cordilleras or the Berkshire hills seen
the day pil1owed for the night, and yet
had no aspiration of praise andehomage?
Oh, what rich God we have that He can
put on one evening sky pictures that ex Gel
Michael Angeles ''Last Judgment" and
Ghirlandio's "Adoration of the Msgi,"
and whole galleries of Madonnas, and
for only an hour, and then throw them
away, and the next evening put on the
same sky something that excels all that
the Raphaels and the Titans, and the Rem
brandts, and the Corregios, and the Le-
onardo da Vincis ever executed, and then
draw a curtain of mist over them never
again to be exhibited! How rich God
must be to have a new chariot of clouds
every evening
But the Bible tells us that our King
also has a black chariot. CLOUDS and
darkness, " we are told, ''are round about
Him." That chariot is cloven OF night
and that night is trouble. When He
rides forth in that black chariot pestf :
lence and earthquake and famine and
hurricane and woe attend Him. Then let
the earth tremble. Then let nations pray.
Again and again He has ridden forth in
that chariot OF black clouds, across
England and France and Italy and
Russia and America and over all
nations. That which men took for the
sound of cannon aiding at Sebastopol, at
| Sedan, at Gettysburg, at Tel-el- Kebir, at
Bunker HILL were only the rumblings
| of the black chariot of the Almighty.
| Ave, it is the chariot of storm
cloud armed with thunderbolts, and
neither man nor angel nor devil nor
/ earth nor hell nor Heaven can resist Him.
/ On those boulevards Of blue this chariot
never turns out for any thing. Aye, no
/ one else drives there. Under one wheel
/ of that chariot Babylon was crushed and
| Baalbeck fell dead and the Roman En-
| pire was Frustrated, and Atlantis a whole
| continent that once connected Europe with
America, sank clear out of sight so that
the longest anchor of ocean steamer can
not reach the top of its highest mount
| aims. The throne of the CBsars was less
| than the pebble under the right wheel OF
| this chariot, and the Austrian despotism
| less than q snowflake under the left
| wheel. And over destroyed worlds on
worlds that chariot has rolled without q
jar or jolt
Mark you, the ancient chariot which
| David uses as a symbol 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 taken. Aud our
| Lords chariot has only two wheels, and
| means instant reversal, and instant help
and instant deliverance. While the COM
bined forces of the universe in battle
array could not stop His black chariot q
second or diverge it an inch, the driver OF
that chariot says: "Call upon Me in the
day OF trouble and 1 viii deliver thee; !"
t'While they are yet speaking viii
hear" Two-wheeled chariot, one wheel
justice, and the other wheel mercy. Ay e.
they are swift wheels. A cloud, whether 4
belongs to the cirrous, the clouds that fioa
the highest; or belongs to the stratus, th'
central ranges; or to the cumulus, tn
lowest ranges, seems to move slowly
along the sky, If it moves at all. Bu
many Of the clouds go at speed tina
would seem lethargic to vestibule linn
tied lightning express train, SO swift Il
the chariot Of our God; yea, swifter thar
the storm, swifter than the light. Yet
child ten years old has been known Il
reach up, and with the hand of praye
take the courser of that chariot by the bi
and slow it up. or stop il. or turn It aside
or turn it back. The boy Samuel stOppet
it. Elijah stopped 1t. Hezekiah stoppes
it. Daniel. stopped it. Joshua stoppet
It. Esther Stopped it, Ruth stopped it
Hannah stopped it. Mary stopped It III,
father stopped it. My mother stopped It
Ny sister stopped it. We have In ou
Sabbath-schools children who again, an
again, and again have stopped 1t.
Notice that these old-time chariota
, which my text uses for symbol, had Wha
we would call high DASH board at tn
front but we're open behind. And tn
King would stand at the DASH board an
drive with his own hands And 1 an
Glad that He whose chariots the clouds ar
: k-drfves Himself He does not let natura
law drive, for natural law is deaf II
! | does not let fate drive, for fate Is merci
, , less But our Father King drives Him
. self and He puts His loving hand on th
refns Of the flying cOursers, and He has
loving ear open TO the cry Of all who wan
TO catch His attention, Oh, am 20 gla
! that my Father drives, and never drive
, too fast, and never drives too slow, an
! ! never drives of the precipice, and tina
: He controls by bit that never breaks
! the widest and most raging circum
+ | stances.
/ heard Of a ship captain who put OF
/ with his vessel, with a large number {
passengers, from Buffalo, on Lake Eri'
! very early in the season, and while theF
/ was much ice. When they were well oE
1 the captain saw. TO h1s horror, that th
. ice was closing in on him from al side
g | and he saw no way out from destructio
0 and death. He called into the cabin n
passengers and all the crew that could
= spared from their posts, and told thel
. that the ship must be lost unless God II
{ terposed, and although he was not
Z Chriatian man be said Let US pray,