The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-01

captain. "DOnt touch her. Sohe one
else is managing this shIp."' Oh, men ard
women, shut in on all ST les by icy troubles
aid m,sfortunes, in earnest prayer put all
your affairs in the han S Of God You VIII
come out all right S me one else il man
aging the shipl 1t did not merely happen
so that when Leyden was besieged, and the
Duke Of Alva felt sure OF his triumph, sud
denly the wind turned, and the swollen
waters compelled him to stop tie siege, and
the CITY was saved. God that night drove
along the coast Of the Netherlands in a
black chariot of storm-coud. 1t did not
merely happen 50 that Luther rose IRON
the place where he was sitting just IN time
to keep from being crushed by stone that
the instant after,fell on the very spot Had lie
not escaped where would have been the
reformationa 1t did not merely happen so
that Columbus was saved from drowning
by an car that was floating on the waters.
Otherwise who would have unveiled Amer
lea. 1t 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 at fog he and
his army escaped from the clutches OF
Gems Howe and Clinton. In a chariot Of
mist aud cloud the God Of American in
dependence rode along here. On that pillow
OF consolation put wn my head to sleep
at night On that solid foundation | build
| when | see this nation in political paroxys'n
every four years, not because they care two
cents about whether it is high taliff, or low
tariff. or no tariff at all. but only whether
| the democrats or the republicans shall have
the sa aried Offices. YEA when European
nations are holdinE their breath, wonder
! ing whether Russia or Germany VIII launch
# war that will incarnadine a continent, L
| fall back on the faith that my Father drives.
| Yea | cast this a. an anchor, and plant this
as a column OF strength, and lift this
as a telescope, and build this as
fortress, and propose without any
perturbat to lauH CHI upon an unknown
future, triumphant in the fact at my
Father drives. Yes, he drives very near.
| know that many of the clouds that you
see in summer are afar off, tie bases of
sOge Of them five miles above the earth.
High on the highest pea!;s of the nndea
| travellers have seen clouds far higher than
where they were st aiding. Ga LuSsac,
after he had risen in a balloon %, 900 feet,
still saw clouds above him.
But there are clouds thnt touch the earth
and discharge their rain 9ut though the
cloucs out of which Col chariot is made
NAV sometimes be far away, pitel they are
close by, and they toucI GU shoulders, and
they touch our homes. and they touch us all
over. ] have read of two rides that the
Lord took in two different charots cf
clouds and of another that he will
take. One day in a chariot of clouds,
that were mingling Of fog and
smoke and fire, God drove down to the top
of terrible crag 800 feet high, now called
Jebel-Musa, then called Mount Sinai, and
he stepped out of his chariot among the
split shelvings of rock. The mountain
shook as with an ague, and there were
ten volleys of thunder, each of the ten en-
ln,.a hale -
Thou shalt not" Then the Lord resumed
his chariot of cloud and drove up the hills
of heaven. They were dark and pOrtentous
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, illum-
med clouds, and music rained from all of
them, and the music was a mingling of
carol and chant and tIiumphal march:
This is my beloved son. in whom am
well pleased" TRANSPORTATION chariot
ooh " say hundreds of you, II wish |
could have seen those chariots-the black
one that brought the Lord to Jebel-Musa at
the giving of the law, and the white one
that brought him down to Tabor" Never
mind, you will see something grauder than
that, and it will be a migatier mingling of
the sombre and the radiant, and the pomp
of it will be such that the chariots in which
Trajan and Diocletian, and Xenobia, and
Cesar, and Alexander, and all the con-
querors of all the ages rode will be UNI
worthy of mention; and what stirs me the
most is that when he comes in that chariot
Of cloud and Des back, he will ask YOU and
me to ride with him both ways. How do l
know that the judgment chariot will be
made out of clouds9 Revelation i, 7: BE
hold he cometh with clouds" Oh, he will
not then ride through the heavens alone as
he does now. He is going to bring
along with him escort of ten full regiments.
Inspiration says; Behold tie Lord
cometh with ten thousand of his saints"
But these figures simply mean that there
will be great throng. And as we shall
probably through the atonement of Christ
lie in heaven before that, | hope that we
can come down in that escort of chariot.
Christ in the center chariot, but chariots
before him to clear the way, and chariots
behind him, and chariots on either side of
HIM. Perhaps the prophets and patriarchs
of the old dispensation may ride ahead each
one charioted-Abraham and Moses and
Ezekiel and David and Joshua. who fore
told his first coming. On either side Of the
central chariot apostles and martyrs who
in the same or approximate centuries suf
fered for him-Paul, Stephen and lgnatius
and Polycarp and Justin Martyr and multi
tudes VINO went up in chariot of fire now
coming i'll chariot OF cloud, while In the
rear of the central chariot shall be the
multitudes of later days and of our
own time who have tried to serve the Lord,
ourselves / hope among them. Behold
the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his
saints" Yes; although all unworthy of
such companloDship, we want to come with
him on that day to see the last of this old
world which was once our residence Com
ing through the skies myriads of chariots
rolling on and rolling down. By that time
how changed this world will be. Its
de,erts all flowers, its rocks all messed aud
fchened its poor houses all palaces, its sor-
rows all joys, it's sins all virtues, and in the
same pasture field lion and calf, and on the
same perch hawk aud dove. Now the
chariots of cloud strike the earth, filling all
the valleys, and covering all the mountain
sides, and hating in al the cemeteries and
graveyards and over the waters deep where
the dead sleep in coral sarcophagus A
loud blast of the resurrection trumpet
is given and the bodies of the dead
rise ana join he spirits from which they
have long been separated. Then Christ our
King, rising in the center chariot of cloud,
with his SCARED hands waves the signal.
and the chariots wheel and come into line
| for glorious ascent. Drive on Drive up!
Chariots of cloud ahead of the King, char
lots Of cloud on either side of the King,
chariots of clouds following the King. Up
ward and apast starry hosts, and through
immensities, and across infinitudes, higher,
higher, higher, unto the gates, the shining