National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-05-27
RELIGION AND RACING
AsERMoN BY GENERAL ABE BuFoRD.
What Recent Convert Has to Say on Horse Racing
The Horse and the Bible-He WIN Con-
tinue TO Race Horses aud Yet
Stick TO the Faith.
I,om he lo,isnRe Courier. journal.

The church and the Turf" the enucing title OF
General Abe Buford's lecture last evening drew
large and interested audience, who listened with
deep attention 10 the speakers views on horse.
racing from n Bible standpoint. In the Bible Ere.
Quent illusions W, re made TO the animal. out of
tho whirlwind lie spoke to Job:
Hast thou given the horse strength Hast though
clothed his neck with thunder2 Caiis thou make him
efTC La paweR il tic Ygeyy and DR. rrS SG
bis STRENGTH Tie mocket Et isar land and + not ,tos Of
The culver ratteth against him the rittering spear
aud the shield. lie swalloweth the around with
Bercenoss aud rage neither beleveth he that is the
sound Of the trumpet, lie saith among the trumpets
thunder OF tie captplns and the shouting
General Buford also quoted Il number Of other
pcssagts showing the great reverence In which
the horse was held by the divine writer's. Nor.
dCcai, the man whom Ahasuerus honored, was
given the horse that the king had ridden upon
lie was brought Oh horseback through the city
also.
a chariot and horses Of fire awaited Elijah ON
his translation. Elijah cried: MY Father, my
Father, the Christ of Israel aud the horscmen
thereof" Again, when the King of Syria encom-
passed the camp of Elisha. the heavenly allies
came to his aid land behold the mountain was
null OF horses aud chariols OF fire about Elisha"
From Genesis to Revelations the horse is FIRE.
quenuy mentioned, aud the direct inference given
that in celestial form It is an inhabitant Of
Heaven. In the Apocalypiic vision OF st. John he
say white hoTss and 9e that so! on hi him was
was called Tho Word OF God "
From hc Louisville Commercial.
General Abe Buiord was once one of the best.
known turimen In the country, and his sermon
the other night in which he defined what, in his
opinion, the relation between the turf and the
church, WIS read aud commented on all over the
land. a reporter of the Commercial saw the Cen
cinl last night mud had a conversation with him
about horses and horse racing aud his relation to
the church now. Nobody who knew him twenty,
or even ten years ago, would recognize him. Age
has furrowed his face and removed ell the supple
ness from his limbs. Family Affections, however,
have done more than age 10 mark the old iun'
mans face.
"sit down, my dear friend" said the general,
rolling his own easy chair around TO the table,
and removing ON open Bible, which he had doubt
| less been reading nS the reporter entered, ana,
| telling him 10 lay his note. book where the Word
| of1ruih had lain, he continued
"Nou say you want to know something about
| old horse mciug times in Kentucky ana some.
| thing of my own connection with the turf?
Well, began dealing in race. horses after / lcit
the Fist Regiment of Dragons in 1851. bough,
| Bosquc Bonita in Woodford County. II contains
800 of the finest laud In the world, Is i'll the
center Of The blue grass county and has u
| dia;ely went into the breeding OF horses, The
frsI horse bought was imported Sovereign. J
then got u few good brood mares and begun
breeding and rearing fine horses
In 1859, when Sovereign was about to die, got
Revenue from John NJ Bolts, Of Virginia, aud put
him at the head Of my stud.
"When the war came sent some of my stock to
Illinois, md some were stolen from me. Then
Uau rn", SONY W u' u,'aJ nv
bennington from Cameron, of New York.
bennington had some remarkable offspring.
GUY vi SIX cuiIs nv y, tvi WIZ " III
| ran Inquirer and Lynchburg the first kenner
stakes ever run in America, at Saratoga"
81 Wo, some,yhaye bst,yecn s5t Go ana go, ooo
After he broke down put him in my stud, and
| mud lpNplOupu his SInlliOuSh
VI" I'm Your early day. General, racing was con.
,as,, ~, A'ueA ''''0's''' '"'''' ''0Ni ho"'
"1 "it ,nas t,aood p,codo,s ora rooro-s or 4, no
ri,s WIS ' ln anu IereIs oi e
st 81 rcet nt a~ @ ~ @
| o,vi'ar Inv Sarc ibpn scotiorni s,no,ts Tho
farmers tI,roiigh tho ccunir, ma t,e pace rnurso
nSd nnibiny ~ tba rad Gaii,,rn. II moov nos Tho
a 10 o rOcs wS o Gg t tnoopgn
3rsqs 70 tnS s@Se 5SR s 'ey would race 'hem
10, n vas , ~ w he,on ,noso do,,,
| o-oipU ~" WIS 'he 'eu'Hs uone III 'hose ."!s' oe'
There were no pools. md one gentleman vould
,,s, co., ~, nnn,btr iii ho, co., SIN ~ a. nnn s
The case might be, Most of TIC betIlpS was 1on ne
| an The 6eIds THOSE who bot were gcnciniIv ricS
mon or ricb sambl"rs Highnr i,,5iwiduni hets
men men or rifn o G"0 o iu nn , pels
"oS mt near w ninch money M si,,tc All tbn i.
| changed now The breeders sell their coils ms
v""rings whom n snnrtiug man ,aios oh ar,,, m1
| ihsm and runs them When Tho breeders ran
| wrre no nullhacis They wnuid bet al, tho f,ir
on a nV naai,s ov v HI
ss usw re onnv s6on h s u
than When he wins,
WHAT was Inc greatest race Won ever saw in
| ,,osn IA davs GenersISS NV '0N S''' S"" AZ
'iUT The U rrea,est race ever saw was the Nowbr.
| TOR rnne IN ioui,ytIie NIrWhirt"r ,yns N ,ha a
,er ru loid ~ lie 1 WIS antSs
10y aud vas sited Nv Iunnirer He ran a,tsius,
W., Tr,," I'D nodar pam to- ILL., " SSnii ioS
nonSs M 1 hS In d w6ic eyo wu' ~.
pman sdtnita il n hotter Tacr linn Ten nyoeck's
| siziE viii 10 nonnds ms n i've yenr.oid In Ihis
pacn KT"Wi,tor ran n1aInet III. 6nid on,siia ~
,'tddianf iha ,racI, AMI vrhnn the n,a,ch 900, vs
s.nr,ad was fIur ienItbs hahind Tho start;no ,oss
and SShem he anished WAS in % hsmd gSo pSSe
whereas Ten prneck WINS rim nm n vsIyet earmal5
with n horse behind him 10 stir him mn ,vitiioni
eYcting him TIE 1reatast single rnne " aver
| wns INF b"tween Innnirer and KiWS Fisher so ",
Iony Brnnch Where tSere were three benls Oh M
iSni' was n Srnnnd rnce and the aenerai's eve,
| ii"htcd nm ' WV
| 'siWboI e. tho hest brood NJ horscs NOW IN IN,
| turfy" 80 'N 'NS' ~ "N'N "'" "" ''''
"Ibe hest bred horse IS I'm my oninion Goof
NI,hi Hc is to .day The hest hrn3 borsn IN NOR
icas hovine comiinaiion Of IeamIngtnn ,' nnJ
| Iexinglon mud IeTimgton nnd Glencos inst III,
lind Of n crSss the fngIish like" '''' 'N'
| lynn think there Is n good deal I'm blood do Won
| 81 mink everytbinp IA I'm blood II is truer n