The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-10-10
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ONLY AFTER THE SPOlLS.
DIR. TaLMaGE'S OPINION OF WHAT
POLITICAL PARTIES WANT.
He Saws They Don't Care Whether 1t Is
High Tariff, Low Tariff or No Tariff at
! All-Offces Are What They Want--The
CIercyma Sermon on Clouds.
Rev DIR. Talmage preached on Sunday
in the Brooklyn Tabernacle to largely
increased congregation. His sermon
was on the ssChariots of God," and for
the first time since he returned from his
vacation DR.. Talmage introduced little
of politics. His text was from Psalm ci.,
3: "Who rnaketh the clouds his chariot. y
eve go into raptrres, " he said, "over
flowers in the soil, but have little or no
appreciation of the morning glorles'
that bloom on the wall Of the sky at
sunrise, or the dahlias in the clouds at
sunset. We are in ecstasies over a
gobelin tapestry or bridal veil OF rare
fabric, or snowbank of exquisite curve,
but sec not at all, or see without emotion,
the bridal wells of mist that cover the
face of the Catskills, or the s'gaying up
holstery around the couch OF the dying
day. or the snowbanks Of yapor piled up
il the heavens.
"My text bids us lift our chin three
or four inches and open the two tele-
scopes, which under the for head are
put on swivel easily turned upward, and
see that the clouds are not merely Sp-
interesting signs of wet or dry weather,
but that they are embroidered canopies
of shade, that they are the conserVatorles
of the sky, that they are thrones OF pomp,
that they are crystalline bowers, that
they are paintings in water color, that
they are the angels of the mist, that
they are great cathedrals of light with
broad .aisles for angelic feet to walk
through and bow at alters OF amber and
alabaster, that they sre the mothers OF
the dew, that they are ladders for ascend
ing and descending glories, Cotopaxis OF
be!ching flame, Niagaras of color, that
they are the masterpieces OF the Lord
God Almighty. When read my text it
suggests to me that the clouds are the
Creators equipage, and their whlrllng
masses are the wheels, and the tongue
os the cloud is the pole of the celestrlal
vehicle, and the winds are the harnessed
steeds, and God is the royal occupant
and driver who maketh the clouds HIS
chariot
Having pictured in language OF burn!
ing elouuence the beauties OF nature, OF
the clouds and the beauteous appearance
both at morning and evening when the
sun rises and sets, DR.. Talmage con-
tiuued: ga chariot made out OF evening
cloud! Have you hung over the Iatfrali
Oh the ocean and seen this cloudy vehicle
roll over the pavements Of calm sum-
mer sen, the wheels dripping with the
magniGcence? Have you from the top
of Ben Lomond, or the Cordilleras, or
the Berkshire hills, seen the day pillowed
for the night, and yet had no aspiration
of praise and homage? Oh, what rich
God we have that He can put on one
evening sky pictures that excel Michael
Angt los Last Judgement and Ghlrland-
JOS Alteration of the Mag, 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 Raph-
aels and the Titans and the .Rembrardts
and the Corregios and the Leonado da
Vincis ever executed, and then draw q
curtain of mist over them never again to
be exhibited How rich God must be to
have new chariot of clouds every eve
ming!
"But the Bible tells US that our King
also has black chariot, Clouds and
Darkness We were told, 'are round about
him. That chariot is cloven out OF
night, AMI that night is trouble. When
He rides forth in that black charlot
pestilence and earthquake, and famine
and hurricane and woe attend Him.
Then lot 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 cannonading at Sebastopol,
at Sedan, at Gettysburg, as Tel-el.Ke5lr,
at Bunker Hill, were only the rumbllngs
of the black chariot of the Almighty.
Aye, it is the chariot of storm-cloud
armed with thunderbolts, and neither
man nor angel nor devil, nor earth nor
heaven, can resist Him. On those boule-
wards OF blue this chariot never turns
out for anything. Under one wheel OF
that chariot Babylon was crushed and
Baalbeck fell dead, and the Roman En-
pire was prostrated, and Atlantis. a
whole Continent that once connected
Europe with America, sank clear out OF
sight so that tho longest anchor OF ocean
steamer can not touch the top OF its high
est mountains The throne OF the Caesars
was less than pebble under the right
wheel of this chariot, and the Austrian
despotism less than snowflake under
the lett wheel. And over destroyed
worlds on worlds that chariot has rolled
without a jar or jolt.
ssThis buck chariot of war cloud rolled
up to the northeast OF Europe in 1872,
and 400, 900 men marched to take Mos
COW, but that chariot of clouds rolled
back, and only 1000 out of tho 400, 600
troops lived to return. No great snow
storm like that had ever before or hiss
ever since visited Russia. Aye, the