Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-13

know tnat they are ~ AZ lakes and rivers
and oecansr cod waved His hand over
them aud said. Come up higher!' aaa
they ohey,d tie mandate. That cloud,
instead of being, a. IL seems 4 small
gathering % VapOr a few wards wide and
high is ready seven or eight miles acrOss,
and il q mountain lromlts base TO its top.
-, 0U0 feet, -, zoe feet, 90. GEO feet, and
Cut through with rayin,s j, ESQ feet deep
| 10. David did net nuke a fragile or uu
worthy representation Of Goa IN The text
when he spOAc OF the clouds 2s His
chariot. But a. suggested in the case
Of an earthly king. He has His morning
cloud chariot and He evening cloud
ch2riui-the cloud chariot in which he
rode down t. Sinai 10 open the law, and
! the cloud chariot III which ne rode down
} to Tabor to honor the gospel, and the
, cloud chariot in which lie viii ONE 10
judgment.
TIE Lou CnARIoTS OF I'll NoRNlNG.
When he rides oGt in His morning
! chariot at TINS season, atoGt so clock, he
puts golden Coronets III the lone of
cities, and si.vers tAe rivers, and out Of
the dew makes Il diamond ring for the
finger Of every grass blade, and SidS
good cheer To invNlids who in the night
said "Would God it were morning, =
From ibis morning cloud chariot He dis
tributes light, hght for the earth and
light for the heavens, light for the land
ana light FOR tie sea, great bars Of it,
great wreathcs of it. grea, columns Of IT,,
4 world full Of il. Hail Him in worship
as every morning He drives out in His
chariot Of morning cloud, and cry with
David, My voice shalt Thou hear III
the morning. in the morning will ! direct
my prayer unto Thee and look up.
rejoice in these scripture cjcculations
",jov comcth IN the morning My soul
waitcth for Thee more than they that
watch FOX the morning, IF q the
wing Of the morning The cyeliis OF
the morning, The morning cometh,
who is suc that lookcth forth as the
morning." His coing forth is prepared
~ the morning., AS the morning spread
on the mOuntans.' That thou shouldst
visit Him every morning. What a
mighty thing the King throws from His
chariot when he throws rs The morning!
YEA; Ne has his evening cloud chariot.
i is made out of the saffron and the gold
and the purple and The orar@c and the
vermiiiion and upshot flame oI The sun
set. That is The place where thc splcn-
! ,lJI~ lJlL JiNE UlIl NllGll l}liOu&I INV way
having ended the procession, throw down
thcir torches and set the heavens on IRE
That is the only hour OF The day when
The atmosphere IL clear enough to let Us
see the wall OF the
HEhEENLY.CfTY
with It's twelve manNcr OF precious
stones, from Foundation OF jasper to
middle Strata Of sardius and on mp 10 the
Z Lr,t,t, ~ ut,. tl,yf.f 4 that hour VsIt H.
out any Of Elisha's supernatural vision
We see horses of fire and chariots Of fire
and banners of FIRE and suips OF tire and
cities OF fire, and it seems as if the last
~contiagration had begun and there is Z
world Oh fire. When God makes these
clouds His chariot let us al bncel. An.
O her day past, what have We done with
it? Another day dead and this Is is
gorgeous catalogue. Now 10 the time
for vhat David called the evening sacri
fees or Daniel called the evening
obligation On ohi what a chariot
made out of the evening cloud, Have
YOU hung over the ~iaifrail on the ocean
and seen this cloudy vehicle roll over the
pavements of Il calm summer sea, the
wheels dripping with the magniticenceF
Have YOU from the top OF Ben Lomand
or the COrlii!eras or the Berkshire hills
seen the day piliowed Tor the night, ana
yet had no aspiration OF praise and nom
aeey Oh, what 2 rich God we have that
he can pat on one evening sky pictures
that excel Michael Angeles "Last Judg-
ment' and Chirlandjo's Alteration Of the
Nagj' aud 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
the itaphaels and the Titans and the
Rembrauats and the Corregios and the
leonardo ola NiuCis ever executed, and
then draw a curtain mist over them never
again to bc exhibited How rich God
must be To have 0 new chariot Of clouds
every evening"
CLOUDS AND DARKNESS.
But the Bible tells usthat oHr King also
has a black chariot. Clouds and dark
ness" we are told, ARE round about
him" That chariot j. Cloyen ont of
night. and that night is trouble. When
lie ride. forth in that black chariot pes
,ilcnce and earthquake and famine and
hurricane ana woe attend Him. Then let
the earth trcmble. Then let nations
pray. Again AID again lie has ridden
forth III That cnariot Of black clouds,
across England and France and Italy and
Russia aud America and over all nations.
That which the men took for the sound
OF c~annonading at S~ebastopol, at Sedan,
~ Gettysburg, ut Tclcl kcbir, at Bunker
Hi. were only the rumblingsof h BLACK
chariot o. the Almighty. Aye, il is the
chariot OF storm c,oud AIMED with thun-
dprbDlts. and neither man nor angel noT
devil nor Garth nor hell nor heaven can
resist linn. On those houlevaTds Of blnr
this chariot never turns out for anything.
Ave. no one else drives there. Under pat
wheel Of that chariot Babylon was crush
cd and Baalbeck fell dead and the Roman
empire was Frustrated and Atlantis, {
whole continent that once connected Eu
rome with America, sank clear ont OF
sight so that the longest anchor Of al
ocean steamer canro touch the top OF lis
highest mountains. The throne OF th(
Caesars was less man a pebble under th'
right wheel Of this chariot, and the Aus
uian despotism less than a sno" ilak'
under the lift wheel. And over destroyc'
worlds Oh worlds that chariot la. rollet
without a jar or jolt.
This black chariot Of war cloud rolled
UP to the northwest of Europe in Isl;
and 400, 000 men marched to take Mos
COW, but that chariot Of clouds rolie'
back, and only %, 900 out Of the 400, 0U
troops lived 10 return. No great snow
) storm like that had ever before Or ha
J aver since yiaitnl Ruseia. Ave the char