standing where it can reflect the rays of the summer's sun, it will make your eyes dazzle to look at it. And there he stands, with his loins girded with fine gold of Uphaz, or with what is just as brilliant and as dazzling. He looks like a thing that can run. Oh, yes, he is like a young colt; he has got the run in him; he can run like the lightnings. But what is this magnificent creature we are looking at? Is it a man or is it an angel? Is it an earthly creature or is it an heavenly creature? The fact is, that it is a combination of both. This man is a compound being. If this man or this angel or this chariot did not possess a compound nature, then, according to the universal law of gravitation and the inertia of matter, it must stand where it is forever, because matter does not possess any self-moving power. It does not and cannot, under any circumstances, move itself.
When the prophet Ezekiel was sent to prophesy against the idolatry of the children of Israel, there was revealed unto him a vision of living creatures and of wheels. Now, it is generally supposed that these wheels symbolize the provi-
