New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-10

BROOKLYN, IN. ., sept. OO.-Ine nyInl
sung at the opening of the services in the
Brooklyn tabernacle this morning was:
Welcome, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise"
After expounding appropriate passages OF
Scripture the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, D.
d., took tie text: Psalm civ, 8: "Who
maketh the clcads His chariot" DR.. Tai
mage said:
Brutes are constructed so as to look down.
Those earthly creatures that have wings
when they rise from the earth still look
down, and the eagle searches for mice in the
grass, and the raven for carcasses in tSa
field. Man alone is made to look up. To
induce him to look up God makes the sky a
picture gallery, a Dusseldorf, a Louvre, a
Luxembourg, a Vatican that ecipses all that
German or French or italian art ever ac-
rcomplished. But God has failed so far to
attract the attention of most of us by the
scenery of the sky. We go into raptures
over flowers in the soil, but have little or no
appreciation of the morning glories" that
bloom on the wall of the sky at sunrise or
the dahlias in the clouds at sunset. We are
dial veil of fair fabric, or snowbank of ex-
,quisite curve but see not at ALL or see with
out EN- otion, the bridal wells of mist that
cover that face of the Catskills, or the sway
ing upholstery around and couch of the dy-
ing day, or the snoWbanks of vapor piled up
In the heavens.
My text bids us lift our chin three or four
h. +a1az Il,
under the forehead are put on swivel easily
-&urned upward, and see that the clouds are
not merely uninteresting signs of wet or dry
weather, but that they are embroidered can
.opies of shade, that they are the cons erVato-
Eies of the sky, that they are thrones
pomp, that they are crystalline bars, that
they are paintings in water color, that they
are the angels of the MIST that they are great
Gathedrals of light with broad aisles for an
-gelic feet to walk through and bow at affairs
of amber and alabaster, that they are the
mothers of the dew, that they are ladders for
ascending glories, Cotopaxis of belching
eAame, Niagaras of color, that they are mas
sterpieces Of the Lord God Almighty. The
clouds are favorite Bible simile and the
sacred writer's have made much use of them
After the deluge God hung on cloud in con-
centric bands the colors of the spectrum, saw
ing: II do set my bow in the cloud" AS a
mountain is sometimes entirely hidden by
the vapors, SO, says God, II have blotted
out as a thick cloud thy transgressions -
David measures the divine goodness and
found it SO high he apostrophized: 'sThy
9aIthtulness reacheth unto the Clouds" AS
sometimes there are thousands of heeces of
vapor scurrying across the heavens, SO, says
Isaiah, will be the converts in the millennium,
cas- clouds and as doves" AS in the wet sea-
No tha Slyv oIa tbo,, 10,
comes another abscuration, SO, says Solomon,
one ache or ailment of old folks has no more
than gone than another pain comes "as
clouds return in the rain" A column of
illumined cloud led the Israelites across the
wilderness. In the book of Job, Elihu, watch
ting the clouds, could not understand why
they did not fall or why they did not all roll
together, the laws of evaporation and con-
densatlon then not being understood, and he
cries out, "Doest thou know the balancing of
the clouds?' When I read my text it sug-
,gests to me that the clouds are the Creators
equipage, and their whirling masses are the
wheels, and the tongue of the cloud is the
pole of the celestial vehicle, and the winds are
Che harnessed steeds, and God is the royal
occupant and driver "Who maketh the clouds
His Chariot
To understand the psalmist's meaning in
the text you must know that the chariot of
old was sometimes scul ptured briliancy
and rolled on two wheels which were fastened
to the axle by stout pins, and the awful
defeat OF OcOnmaus by Pelops was caused by
the fact that a traitorous charioteer has in
serted a linchpin of wax instead of Inch pin
~ofiron. All of the 600 charots of Pharaoh
lost their linchpins in the Red sea- for the BIZ
bic says: The Lord took of their wheels -
Look at the long fash of Solomon's 1.4OO
echariots, and the 10000 chariots of the
Philistines. If you have ever visited the
buildings where king or queen keeps the
coaches of state, as l have, you know chat
kings and queens have great varieties of
turnout. The keeper tells you: '"This is the
casions." "This is the coronation carriage,
and in it the King rode on the day he took
the throne" SIN this the Queen went to
open parliament" '"rhis is the coach in
which the Gar and the sultan rode on the
occasion Of their visit" All costly and
tesselated and enriched and embIazoned
are they, and when the driver takes
the reigns of the 10 white horses in his
hands, and amid the mounted troops and
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 spectators the
scene is memorable. But my text puts all
such occasions into insignifcance, as it rep
resents the King of the Universe coming to
the door OF His palace, and the gilded vapors
of the heavens rolling up to His feet and He
stepping in and taking the reins of the gal
looping winds in His hand, starts in triumphal
ride under the arches of sapphire, and over
the atmospheric highways of opal and chrys-
olite, the clouds His chariot.
My hearers, do not think that God belittles
himself when He takes such conveyance Do
you know that the clouds are among the
most wondrous and majestic things on the
whole universe? Do you know that they are
flying lakes and rivers and oceans?
God waved his hand over them and
said: Come up higher" and they obeyed
the mandate. That cloud, instead of being,
as it seems, small gathering of vapor a few
yards wide and high, is really seven or eight
miles across, and is amountain, from it's base
to its top, $4,000 feet, $4,000 feet, 90 900
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 as His chariot.
But as suggested in the case of an earthly
king, He has His morning cloud chariot and
His evening cloud chariot in which he rode
down to Sinia to open the law, and the cloud
chariot in which He rode down to Tabor to
honor the gospel, and the cloud chariot in
which de will come to Judgment.
When he rides out in His morning chariot
sib this season, about o'clock, he puts
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