Fallen are the engines
Of war and commotion;
Shouts of salvation
Are rending the sky."
When the children of Israel were passing through the wilderness, the Lord went before them in a pillar of a cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, so that they could go by day and night. Now, this pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night is a perfect symbol of the intense activities that exist now in our own day. All our great statesmen are more interested in and more concerned about our manufacturing and commercial enterprises than about any thing else.
We must follow the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night; our revolving wheels must be kept in motion day and night, or there will be wreck and ruin and disaster. Our schools and churches and other institutions of learning cannot be supported if the wheels stop; the vast and increasing populations of our great cities will languish and die, unless the wheels are kept in motion.
