The Forrest City times., 1888-10-06

Inc and hurricane and woe attend Him. Then let She earth trems'e. Then let nations pray. Again and again He has ridden forth 10 that chariot Of black clouds, across England and France and Italy and Russia and America aud over all nstiona That
 which men took for the sound Of caunonad- log al Sebasiopol. st Sedan. at Gettysburg, at Tel lelkebir, at Bunker Hili. were only the rumbiings Of the black chariot of the AL mighty. Aye. h Is the chariot of storm cloud armed with thunderbolis and neither man nor angel nor devil nor earth nOr hell nor heaven can resist Him. On those boulevards or blue this chariot never turns out for anything. Are, no one else drives there. Under one wheel of that chariot Babylon was crushed and Baalbeck feel dead and the Roman empire was prostrated and Atlantis, a whole continent that once connected Europe with America, sauk clear out Of sig ht 60 that the longest apehor Of ocean steamer cannot touch the top of its highest mountains. The throne of the Caesars was less than 6 pebble under the right wheel of this chariot, and the Austrian despotlsm less than . snow. flake under the left wheel And over de- stroyed worlds on worlds that chariot has rolled without jar or jolt
 This black chariot uf war cloud rolled up to the northwest Of Europe in lsl2 and four hundred thousand men marched to take Moscow, but inst chariot of clouds rolled back, and only twenty five thousand out of the four hundred thousand troops lived to return. No great snow storm like that had ever before or has ever since visited Russia
 Ave, Inc chariot of inc Lord Is irresistible. There Is only one thing that can halt or turn any Of His cbsrlots. and that Is prayer. Again and again tt has stopped it wheeled it around, and the chariot of black clounds un.
 der that sanctlfed human breath has bios. somed into such brightness and color that men and angels had to veil their faces from It's brightness Mark you, the ancient chariot whicn David uses as a sym Dol 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 wheel, would have taken. And our Lords chariot has only two wheels, and that means instant reversal, and instant help and instant deliveraDce. While the combined forces or the universe .1 battle srrsy could not stop his black chariot, & second or dlverQe it an inch. the driver Of that chariot says: 'Call upon me in the day of trouble and will deliver thee" "While they are yet speaking will hear" Two-wheeled chariot, one wheel justice and the other wheel mercy. Aye, ttey are swift wheels. A cloud, whether it be- longs to the cirrhus the clouds that float the highest; or belongs to the stratus, the central ranges; or to the cumulus, the lowest ranges, seems to move slowly along the sky if it moves at all. But many of the clouds go at speed that would seem letbargic a vestlbule limited lightning express train, so swift is the chariot of our God; yea, swifter than the storm, swifter than the light Yet a child ten years old has been known to reach up, and with the hand of prayer take ihe courser of that chariot by the bit and slow 1t up or stop 1t or turn 1t aside, or turn it back. The boy Samuel stopped it. liish stopped 1t Heze- kiah stopped it. Daniel stopped 1t Joshua stopped it. Esther stopped It. Ruth stopped t. Hannah stopped 1t. Mary stopped 1t My sister stopped 1t. We have in our Sab. bath schools children who again aad again and again have stopped t-
 Notice that these old-time chariots which my text uses for symbol, had what we would call s high dash board at the front, but were open be- hind. And the king would stsnd st inc dash. board and drive with his own hands. And l am glad that He whose chariot the clouds are drives Himself He does not let fate drive, fer fate is merciless But our Father King drives himself ana he puts His loving hand on the reins of the flying coursers and He has loving car open to the cry Of ell who want to catch his attention. Oh, l am so glad that my Father drives and never drives too fast, and never drives too slow. and never drives of ihe precipice, and that He controls by bit that never breaks, the widest and uost raging circumstances. heard of a ship captain who put out with his vessel with large number of passengers from Buffalo on Lake Erie, very early in the season aud while there was much Ice. When they were well out the captain saw to his horror that the ice was closing In on him from ali sides and lie saw no way out from destruc- ton and death. He called into the cabin the passengers and all the crew that could be spared from their posts, and told them tn at the ship must be lost unless God interposed, and although he was not Christian man he i'd: "Let us prayn and they all knelt ask ing God to come for their dellverance. They went back to the deck, and the man at the wheel shouted: All right, cap'n, its blow ing nor by nor west now" While the prayer was going on in the cabin the wind changed and blew the Ice out of the way. The mate asked: Shall put on more sale, cap'np "Nol' responded the captain.
 Don't touch her. Some one else is manag- ing thls ship" Oh, men and women, shut in on all sides bv icy troubles and misfrotuues, in earnest prayer put all your affairs in the hands Of God. You will come out all right. Some one else is man. that when Leyden was besieged, and the Duke of Ava felt sure of his triumph, sud denly 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 Netherlands in black chariot of storm cloud. It did not merely happen so that Luther rose from the place where he was sitting just in time to keep from being crushed by stone that the in- stant after fell on the very spot. Had he not escaped where would have been the Reforma- tloni II did not merely happen so that Col umbus was saved from drowning by an oar that was floating on the waters. Otherwise, who would have unveiled Amerlcai It did not merely happen so that when George Washington was in Brooklyn a 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 q chariot of mist and cloud the God of American Indepen- dence rode along here. On that pillow of consolation l put down my head to sleep at night On that solid foundation 1 build when I see this nation in political paroxysm every four years. not because they care two cents about whether 1t Is high tariff. or low tariff, or no tar fl at all, but only whether the Democrats or Republ cans shall have the sal sried offices Yea, when European nations are holding their breath, wondering whether Russia or Germany will launch a war that will incarnadine s continent l fall back on the faith that my Father drives Yes cast this as an anchor, and plan this as a column of strength. and lift this as telescope, and build this as fortress, and propose without any perturbation to launch upon an unknown fu- ture triumphant iu the fact that my Father drives. Yes, He drives very near. l know that many of tbe clouds that you see in sum meF arc far of, the basis of some of them five lnlles hDDNt tue cdIlu Iltkh bu thc uikuceh peaks of the Andes travellers have seen clouds far higher than where they were standing Gay Lussac, after he had risen fin balloon tweuty-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 shoulders, and they touch our homes, and they touch us all over. l have read of two rides that the Lord took in two different chsrots of clouds. and oi another that He will take. One day, in a chariot of clouds that were q mingling of fog and smoke and fre God drove down to the ton of a terrible crag fifteen hundred feet high, now called Jebel- -Muss, then called Mount Sinai and he stepped out Of His chariot among the split sheivings of rock. The mountain shook as with an ague and there were ten volleys Of thunder, each of the ten emphasizing a tremendous Thou shalt" or Thou shalt not" Then the Lord resumed Ills chariot of cloud and drove up the hills of heaven. They were dark and porteutous 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 out of which His chariot was made bright clouds, roseate clouds, illu- mined clouds and music rsined from all of them and the music was mingiing of carol and chant and triumphal march: This is Nv beloved Son, in whom am well pleased. !" Transfguration ehariotl
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