The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-29
AN ARMY IN THE SKIES.
TALMAGE BREACHES A CENTEN.
NAL SERMON.

teCb lSEa-lhe DIVINE hQuipage
on the Side OF American Institute q.
BROOKLYN, Aoril 2S.--At the Tabernacle
today the Roy. r. De Witt Talmags, D.
d., preac red a sormoa appropriate t. the
coming centennial I vast congregation
sang tho hymn beginning:
Before Jeh wars awfp. throne
Ne nations, bow with sacrod Joy.
DR.. Tain geR taxi was II. X ngs vi, II:
And ths Lord open ID tbs eyss OF the
young man; and he sa an /, hshold, the
mountain was fail OF horses aul chart ITS Of
fire round abont Elisha" He said:
AS it cost Il gland many regiments and
! $4,000, 900 year to keep safely a trouble
some captive at st. Helen 8 the King OF
| Syria Sc IDS out whole army to ca pture
| one minister OF relig on perhaps $1,000
| mel 70 take Il sha. During ths night tho
army OF As'y'ians came arOu nj the village
| OF Dot lan, WHO q tho pr pact was staying.
| At early dlybrsak the man servant Of
Elisha rushed in and said; ''What
shall we doe There is wJole army
| co no TO destroy you. We must die.
we mus dien But Elisha was not
scared a bit, for be hooked up AID saw the
mountains all around full Of supernatural
fore $, and no know tlat If tie-e were
$1,000 Assyrla yainst hi thsr5 were
100000 angels for him and Ia answer TO the
3rophe 3 prayer IN b,nalt OF his aFriG ha.d
na1 servant, tho young MAJ saw il too
| II rises OF Il Q h irnes CT to charilts Of are
and drivers OF ire pulling reins Of flre o bits
| OF fire; and warriors Of fire With bra disaed
| sword Of fire, and the brillalcs OF that
m rnlng sunrise was eclipsel by the gall ~
| ing spendDr of the celestial cavalc ID = "a ID
| The Lord OPENED the eyes of the you * man;
and he saw, and, behold, the mountain was
| full horses and charlotS OF fire round
about Elisha" | have often spo lel to YOU
| Of the Assyrian perils which threlten our
| America Institutions, no now as wo arc
! assembling to Keep cen ennial celebration
| Of the lauguratiOl of Washington, ISpeak
OF the upper forces Of The text Tat arc TO
| ght on our side all the low 1--we. ara
! dIled with arm3d tlrelts, | have TO toll you
that the mountains OF our no q aud courage
nd faith a 9 full Of the hors and cha lots
| II diyi 70 rescue.
You will notice that tho divine equlpage
| is always repress ted n chariot Il fire.
| Ezokiei and Isaiah and JJhu whom they
| c)ma to describe the divine cquipage,
| always reDre 'ent it as a wheeled, a har-
| uessot, an upholstered nh lgration. 1t Is
,ot Il chariot Ike kings and Jnquerors Of
| earth mount, but an organic and COM
! pressed fire. That means parity jus JOG,
! cha tissmeut, deiiverance through burning
| escapes Chariot Of rascuel Yes, but chariot
| OF ire. All our national Sc lthrallments
! nave boon through scOrching ag0uies aud
! red disasters Through tribulati m the in
Ividual rises Through tribulation nations
| riss. CaarIot5 of rescue. but chariots of
! fire.
| Bat how do / know that this divine equi-
| page is On the side o, our ms iru ionsf |
| kn ~ h by the history OF the last one hun.
! Dire and ei sht years. The A uerican rovo-
luton started from the pen Of JOIN HaI.
cock 10 lldspe d 'nco hall IN 1776. Tho
| colonies without ships, withou annual
wifi "a. q nm unit ~ mi 81
rlor', without money without
| prestige. GA the other eide,
.hs mightiost nation Of tho earth, the la. e
| 5st armies, and the grande,t navlos, aud
,no most distingli, hel comma ide's and
resolTc S inexhaus -ible, aud near y all ma
lions ready to back them up Ina the aglt
\ timing as ayain5t University.
The caps5 u the A ncric n colonies, which
started ut zero, dropped still we through
th q larreliug Of tbs < nerals, "A nj through
the jsalousle a. small icc9ssss, n I'd through
o. 10 Ni tiers ich irpa3 s-d all D ed scess RI
in depth OF snow "A I'd horrors Of cInge IL
mtnJ Elisha, surrounded by tho whole
Assyriau army, did not sec TO 10 worse
Off than did tha thirteen colo les encom-
passsl and overshad WED by foreign
ssallt What decided tho contest
la our fay ~ The upper forces,
the upper armies. Tho Green aud
" hite mountains Of New England,
the Highlands along the Hud on, tho
mountains Of Virginia, all the Appalach-
ian nyes were full of rein orc5ments
which the young man Washington saw by
eAi h. aud his men ond Ired Tia ozsn feet,
a I'd tho gangrened woInls, aud the OK
hau5tlng hu ger, and { long marcl b.
| cause "Chs Lord opened the Dyes If tho
young man; and be saw. a I'd, behold, the
mou ithins were full OF horses AID cnari It's
Of fire round about E1saa." Was ing
ton himself was a miracle. Wnat
oh In, Et1
American President was in secular history.
A Gus md other inca e2cellei him In diff
ferent things, but ne exc lied them all in
rOuIdness aud completeness OF character
The world never saw his Ike, aud prob ably
a yer VIII sse MS Lie again, because there
prxDably never will bs another such ext
| gency He was let down divine inlorpJsi-
TO o.. He was from God direct
do not know how any man can read the
| history OF those times without admit ing
that toe contest was decided by thJ upper
| forces.
Tn8n in 1861, when our civil war n1eaed,
| many at The II r.h a d Mt the south pro-
nounced il national suicide. It was not
| courage against Wardics; IL was not
! wealth against poverty; ~ was n ,o largo
| STATE against snail states II wa herJism
against h3 Oism; ID was th5 RS 'lrceS OF
many generations AGAINST the resources OF
| gs IerntiOu 10 was the prayer Of tie uJrth
saInst the prayer OF the soltn; IL was Ons-
half Of the nation ia arm wrath n,sting
tue other halt Of t @ maj. On m rmel indig-
n tion. What could como but externina-
ito
Atth' opeulngof the war the comma der
inc ief OF the Unt3l safes fore was a
MAJ ssh had 3so great Ia battl,, Bat Old
age had cone with many iuhrmities, aud
be- hal a right 81 qui tuIs. he Gull not
mount a horse, aud h3 rode on the battle
hBli in carriage, a,ki1g the driver u 10
Ioltit 90 muca. DURING thu most Of the
Z ar ear of tine CO te,t. on the southern
side was man IA M d-ufe, Who bal IN his
veins the blood Of many Re4oIationB IT
warri rs, himself one u the Lcroes Of
g .e-ubu CO aud Cerro Gordo, Conira-
ras and Cnapul ep C. As tae years
passed on aud tne sc-oll Of carnage
uuro led, there ca ne OUT from bDLh
sides n hsroism aud st engtl aud de-
Ter uina,i ~ at tns world mad uevsr saen
mar>haled. A what la; determination
could cone when Puilip S egidan ard
| > 0newnli Jack on met, and Nathaniel
Lyoa and Sidney Johnston rode 10 FROM
| north aud s9utl, aud Grant and l. e, hs
two uuderb),ts Of bait Q, cla,heti Yet,
W. are "a nation, aud YET W are at pc tcs.
| Earthly courage dill not decide the conh Ct
/ r Is u per forces Of the text They b us
there was a b aids fought above the clouds