Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-13

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any measure the pulpit has lost its power it
is because of forsaking the method of the
Master. If vines trailed down the hillside
of Judea, he says: 81 am the vine, ye are the
branches" If the last supper is eaten in a
room of strangers house, he declares,
Sin my Fathers house are many
mansions" So if a beetle is the
most striking form of human tion the apes
tie exhorts: "Fight the good fight of faith,'
and if there are games and races, he urges.
"run with patience the race set before you."
Thus the writers of the Bible intimate
sympathy with nature and with life.
A great deal of misanthropy has been ex
tracted from peryerse use of poorly
translated text. mean Tim, ", 8. "Bod
lily exercise profteth little but goodness is
profitable unto all things having the prom
Use of the life that now is and also of that
which is to come" Rather read it, "bodily
exercise profteth for little while but god
illness is profitable forever **,'' and you
understand the approval of physical culture,
which it gives along with an unbounded
exaltation of godliness.
Foot racing was the most favorite form of
racing with the ancients, as horse racing is
with us. 1 suppose sin ce this figure fur
nishes Us with our mo rning lesson that I
ought to say something about the
MORALITY OF RACING.
know one thing about it and that is that
a good horse is not nearly the source of sin
to me that a bad one is, especially if I am
the driver. like good horse. One of
nerve and mettle and speed. If he has been
carefully selected and has twenty genera
lions of good blood in him, so much the bet
ter. Why may not horse be an aristo-
crat? And if he has been carefully trained
and knows how to use himself, I like him
still better. Why should not lhorses
have their teachers and their colleges as we'll
as men? 1t is no more wicked to train a
horse than it is to train boy. There is
nothing wicked then, in the beauty and
strength of horse. There is nothing wick
ed in his trim and swift legs. There is moth
ing wicked in his training and
development. There is nothing wicked
in my love of fine horse. good horse is
a worthy embodiment of the thought of God
and glory of his creation. The author of
the book of Job revels in his magnificent
portrayals of nature, and shows his sympa-
thy with starry sky and bounteous earth.
Horsemen ought to love the book of Job,
for the thirty ninth chapter contains one of
the finest descriptions of good horse that
may be found in all literature.
Need add, lest I be misunderstood, that
cruelty is wrong; gambling is wrong; drunk
enness is wrong; swearing is wrong; rowdy-
ism is wrong? But one of the things large
ly needed in practical morals is a discrimi-
nation between what is wrong in itself and
what is made wrong by perverse misuse.
If Paul wrote the Book of Hebrews, and 1
think he did, it was written during
his sojourn as prisoner in Rome. From the
window of "his own hired house, he could
probably see the great ampitheaters de-
voted to races and games. He wrote, let us
suppose, the eleventh chapter containing the
brief biographies of the men of faith-Abel,
Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph,
Moses,-and then, as the heroes thickened
on his memory, he declares that time fails
him to describe all the worthy hosts of the
past, and closes the review.
He pauses, and Timothy, who is his
ceases his writing and waits for
the great master. But his eye has wandered
outward to the great stands and ampithea
ters of Rome, where the ohiefest men and
women of the empire gather to speed on
those who struggle for the prizes, and as they
come in on the race to greet them with cheer
on cheer.
The vast multitudes ranged seat above
seat, impended over the scene like the clouds
of heaven. He turns again to the work be-
fore him. The lists melt away; the crowds
vanish from his eyes: the tumult dies. The
prizes wither and tarnish. And while he
muses. and dreams, another vision rises be-
fore him,
The lists are those of life. All activities
blend into mighty race toward God and
heaven. The judges stand is occupied by
the Lord Jesus himself. The prizes are
"glory and Immortality and eternal life.''
The mighty dead of the ages draw near
unto him. His pulses quicken as he thinks
Of their struggles and triumphs. The men
of faith come back again. Being dead, yet
they speak. They fill the heavenly ampi-
theater built in the soft Italian sky. Paul
turns to the waiting Timothy, and breaks
the sileuce-"Wherefor seeing we also are
,ompassed about with 80 great cloud of
witnesses, let us run with patience the race
set before;" and Timothy wrote it down,
the lesson in the Immortality of
scripture. a.
1. Hindrances to the Race-''Lay aside
avery weight and the sin that doth so easily
beset u.s."
Most men are like horse blind in one
aye; they have one side on which the devil
san come pretty close before they are aware
If it. ff-l ~
II. Method of the Race-"Run with
Some horses are splendid for
short distance. The first quarter, you are
sure he will win, but it is the home stretch
hat counts in the race. There are Christians
experience, but soon the apostle says, eye
lid run well who did hinder you"
III. Inspiration of the Race-"Looking
unto Jesus He endured all before US.
Are we desolate? He "trod the wine press
alone.'' Do we mourn sometimes? He
wss 'tman of sorrows Do the
thorns pierce our feet? His head
vas pierced with. crown of thorns, and,
beloved, ''for the Joy set before him. he
endured it all. The Joy of redeemed and
,lorifed brotherhood of man.
He will be our judge at the last, and the
,warder of the prizes of life; for he is the
'finisher of our faith" am not afraid, for
vas he not tempted in all points like as we
ire ?" He knoweth our power; he will re-
member that We are dust.
Army Orders, Department of Dakota.
The following paragraphs are extracted
rom orders issued the past week from de-
partment headquarters in this city:
Leave of absence for one month, is grant
I'D Colonel John Gibbon, Seventh infantry,
Fort Smelling, MINI.
Leave of absence for twenty days, is grant
I'D to First Lieutenant Thomas Sharp, Seven
seenth infantry, Fort Yates, D. L.
Private Hugh J. Watson, Company "F,"
Seventh infantry, is detailed for duty at the
Fort Abraham Lincoln ordnance depot.
Lieutenant Colonel Z. F. Townsend,
Eleventh infantry, is relieved from duty at
Fort Custer, as of date August Is, 1880, and