Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-01

sung At tie opening CT the services in tnG
Brooklyn tabernacle this morning was:
Welcome, sweet Fay of rest.
That saw The Lord arise.
After expou2diDg appropriate p.sssps
CT scripture, the Rsv. T. de Witt Tai
mag, D. d, tcck tie tex, Psalm civ,
verse 8: "Who makath tie clouds HIS
cn4iioE." DR.. TaLmage ssiG:
B;dtes are Constructed 30 as TO look
dOwh. Tacge earthly creatures that have
wings Wnen tiey rise from The earth Sill
lock down, and the eagle searches for
mice In the grass and the raven for CAT :
cas9e5 IN the field. Man alone Is made to
lock up. 70 induce hin TO lock up God
makes the SLY Z picture gallery, d Das-
seid-rt, Louvre, = Luxembourg, 6 Vat
jean tnat ecilpses ell ina G54mEn or
French or 1taliSi art ever plsie 4.
Blg Goa has iEi.eG SO far TO sttrsC. the
attention OF mes. CT as by the scenery OF
tie sky. We 20 into TGptuIes over flow
ers IL the SOL. out have little or no ap-
probation Of the "morning giories" mat
Dloom On the val! cf the ezy ct
suurlse CT Inc Cseliss in the
clouds at sunset. We are in
&C. scies over gob2iin tapestry or 4
bT ! veil Of rare taOric, or q snowflake
CT exquisite curve, bu. see not II all, or
zee without emClIoE, the brid.l wells u
mist thst cover tae face CT The Cs.ssllls,
CT the swaJipg upholstery arouad the
crucn Ct the cJirg Gay, or the Stow b.nRs
CT vapor pi!sd up IN tue heaveDa.
My tex! bids Us liz Gus chin three or
four inches Gnd open the two telescopes
which u7der the forehead are pu. On
swivel easily Turned upward, and see
that the clouds are not mercy uninte1
est!ng sjgus Ct wet or cry weather, but
inst they are embToi tered cEnopies Of
shSde, that they ale the c0nserynLCriss CT
the ekV, thSt hey sre
THRONES OF P0MP,
Inst they are CryotSlIne osrs, thGt Trey
are paintings In wafer color, that they
are the srgris Of the mist, that lhey ore
erest cAthedrals OF lighJ wlsa brcsd sl5Ies
Tor angelic feet to walk through AMI bow
1T sltsrs Cf smoer and alabastar, that
tney are the mothers CT the oew, thai they
are ladders for ascending end descending
elCries, C0topSI.s of belching fame,
HiSgaEas Of color, that they are the
masterpieces of TIE Lord GOD Almighty.
TIE clouds are tavorite Bible smile,
az the sacred writer's have made muCd
use Of Them. After the deiuge God hung
On cloud in concentric bands the colors
of the spectrum saying: "Ido set my bow
10 the cioud." AS mountain is sometimes
entirely hidden by the vspors, so, says
Goc1"I have otred out as thick cloud
thy tra1sgressions." David measures
the divine goodness and found 1t so high
he spostGophized: "Tny fsl,hfulness
reacheth unto the clouds" AS some.
times there are thousands Of fceces OF
vapor scurrytng across the heavens, SO,
Isaiah will hn tho in
millennium "ss clouds snd as doves"
AS in the we: season no sooner does the
sky clear than there comes another OBJ
scurat!on, 50, says Solomoo, one sche or
ailmert Of old folks has no more than
gons Than another pain comes "as clouds
return in the rain" A column of illum-
iIed cloud Jed the Isrselites across the
wilderness. Ia the book OF Job ElihC,
watching the cloudF, could not under
stand WY they did not fall or why they
did lot sll Toll together, the laws Of evsp-
Grafton and condensation then not being
understood, and he cries out: "DhsE
thou know The balau cling Of the clouds?"
When l read my text it suggests to me
thst the clouds are the Cresror's equip
age, and their whirling masses are the
wheels, and the tongue OF the cloud is the
pole CT the Celestial vehicle, and the winds
ere
THE HARNE sSRD sTEEDs,
and Gcd is the royal occupant and driver
"wt o maketh the clouds HIS Chariot"
T" understand the psglmist's meaning
in the text ycu must know that the
chariot CT old Was sometims 8 scuIptur d
brillisncy made cut of ivory, sometimes
Ct soil silver, and rolled Oh Two wheels
which were fastened to tie axe by stout
pins, end the swiul dtfesi CT Oencmaus
by Pelops WAS caused By tide fact tnat
trs!torous chsrioleer had inserted
Inch pin OF wsI instead of q Inch pin Of
iron. All Of the SIX huI dred chariots Of
Pharaoh lost thsir / nch pins In the BED
Ser, for the B ole sHys: ''rhe Lord took
off heir wneeis" Look al the long lash
or SJiom Jl'J fourteen hundred che .ote,
ana the thirty thousand cnsrio's OF the
Philistlnes. II you have ever visited the
build mas where king or QUEEN keeps
The coaches Of STATE, as have, you know
thst kings Snd queens have great varis-
Ties Of turnout. The keeper tells you:
"This is the state slri1ee, and used only
on great occa sions" this Is the Coros
nation carrlsge, and in 1t the King rote
on tbe day he took the throne" In this
the Queen went to open Parliament"
"Fhis IS the coach In which the Car and
Sdiisn rode On the occasion OF their
visit" Ali costly and tesselated and en-
riched and emblazoned are they, and
when the driver takes the reirs o: the ten
white horses IN his hands, snd
amid mounted troops aud bands in
full. force sounding the national air, the
splendor starts and rolls on under arches
entwined with banners, and amid the
huzza Of hundreds Of thousands of spec
tstors the scene is mem orable. But ny
tex. puts ell such occasions into insig.
nihcsnce, SIS II represents the King Of the
Universe coming TO the door Of his palace
and
THE GILEED yAPORs
of the heavens rolling up to His feet and
He stepping in and taking the reins of
Inc g&lloping wirds In His hand starts in
tflunpnsl ride nader the srches Of sep.
pairs end over the atmospheric highways
IF opal and chrssollte, ,he clouds His
chSriot.
My henrers, Go not think thst God be-
Titles himself when he takes such coz
veyance. Do you know inst the clouds |
are among the most wondrous and ms. !