The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-12-06

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CMG5 ing that in all their
g work they might
realize that God has always been on
the side of this nation. Text: III Kings,
vi: II, "And the Lord opened the eyes
Of the young man and he saw; and be-
hold, the mountain was full of horses
and chariots OF fire round about Elisha
The American congress is assem-
bling. Arriving or already arrived are
the representatives Of all sections OF
this beloved land. Let us welcome
them with prayers and benedictions.
A nobler group Of men never entered
Washington than those who will to-
morrow take their places in the senate
chamber and the house of representa-
tives. Whether they come alone, or
leave their families at the homestead
far away, may the blessing of the
Eternal God be upon them! We invite
them to our churches, and together,
they in political spheres. and we in re-
ligious circles, will give the coming
months to consideration of the best in
terests Of this country which God has
blessed so much in the past that
propose to show you and show them
so far as may now reach their ear, or
tomorrow their eye through the print
ing press, that God will be with them
TO help them as in the text he filed the
mountains with help for Elisha.
AS it cost England many regiments
and two million dollars year to keep
safely a troublesome captive at st.
Helena, so the king Of Syria sends out
a whole army to capture one minister
Of religion-perhaps $4,000 men-to
take Elisha. During the night the army
OF Syrians came around the village of
Dothan where the prophet was stay
ing. At early daybreak the man-ser-
want of Elisha rushed in and said
What shall we do? there is a whole
army come to des' 10Y you! We must
die! We must diew But Elisha was
not scared a bit. for he looked up and
saw the mountains all around full of
supernatural forces, and he knew that
IL there were $4,000 Syrians against him
there were 100000 angels for him; and
in answer to the prophets prayer in
behalf OF his affrighted man-servant,
the young man saw IL too. Horses of
fire harnessed to chariots of fire, and
drivers of fire pulling reins of fire on
bits OF fire, and warriors of fire with
brandished swords Of fire, and the bril-
lance Of that morning sunrise was
eclipsed by the galloping splendors of
the celestial cavalcade. And the Lord
opened the eyes of the young man; and
he saw: and behold the mountain was
full of horses and chariots of fire round
about Elisha" ! speak of the upper
forces of the text that are to fight on
our side as nation. If all the low levels
are filed with armed threats, have to
tell you that the mountains of our hope
and courage and faith are full OF the
horses and chariots of Divine rescue.
You will notice that the Divine equip
age is always represented as a chariot
of fire. Ezekiel and Isaiah and John,
when they come to describe the Divine
equipage always represent IL as a
wheeled, a harnessed, an upholstered
conhagration. 1t is not a chariot like
kings and conquerors Of earth mount,
but an organized and compressed fire.
That means purity, justice, chastise-
ment, deliverance through burning es-
capes. Chariot Of rescue? yes. but q
chariot of fire. All our national olsen
| treatments have been through scorch-
ing agonies and red disasters. Through
! tribulation the individual rises.
| Through tribulation nations rise.
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| But how do l know that this Divine
euuipago is on the side of our institu-
tons? / know it by the history of the
| last one hundred and nineteen years.
| The American revolution started from
the pen of James Hancock in indie
| pendence hall in 1776. The colonies,
without ships, without ammunition,
without guns, without trained warriors,
without money, without prestige. On
the other side, the mightiest nation OF
the earth, the largest armies. the grand
est navies, and the most distinguished
commanders, and resources inexhausti-
BILE, and nearly all nations ready to back
them up in the fight. Nothing, as
against immensely.
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which started at zero, dropped still
lower through the quarreling of the
generals, and through the jealousies at
small successes, and through the win
ters which surpassed all predecessors
IN depth of snow and horrors Of con-
gealment. Elisha surrounded by tho
whole Syrian army did not seem to be
worse off than did the thirteen colonies
encompassed and overshadowed by
foreign assault. What decided the con-
test in our favor? The upper forces,
the upper armies. The Green and
White mountains of New England, the
highlands along the Hudson, the noun
tains OF Virginia. all the Appalachian
ranges we're full Of reinforcements
which the young man Washington saw
by faith; and his mon endured the
frozen feet and the gangrened wounds,
and the exhaustiDg hunger, and the
long march, because "the Lord opened
the eyes of the young man; and he saw:
and behold. the mountains were full OF
horses and chariots of fire round about