Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-06
GLORIOUS CAVALCADES.
TALMAGE ADDS ANOTHER TO
HIS POWERFUL SERMONS.

the Text of Yesterday-''The Mounted
Troops" the Title of the Discours e.
The GIOries of the Bible Horse Beauti.
full Pictured.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Oct. 5.-At the
Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning DR.
Talmage read and expounded verses
from Genesis about the first Eden and
from Revelation about the last Eden. The
services closed with the hymn:
''Who are these in bright arrav.
This Innumerable throng
Round the altar night and day
Tuning one triumphant sOng?"
The subject of the sermon was EsThe
Mounted Troops" and the text was taken
from Revelation xix. IA: ''And the armies
which were IN heaven followed him upon
white horses" DR.. Talmage said:
We cannot in this age understand the beau
ty and glory of the ancient horse. This ami
NAL comes to us through centuries of oppres-
sion and hard treatment which have taken
the gracefulness from his limbs and the flame
from his eye and the arch of pOmp from his
neck. The finest horse that is now to he found
pranclng In the parks an ancient king would
not have been seen riding. of old the OK and the
ass titled the ground and carried the burdens
but the horse was used for corOnations and
triumphant professions, kings and chieftains
sitting upon him. Job describes war horse
until can almost hear the champing of his
bit and the clatter of his hoofs among the
fallen shields. ''Hast thou given the horse
strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with
thunder? The glory of his nostrils is terrible.
He paweth IN the valley and rejoiceth In his
strength. He gOeth forth to meet the armed
men. lie swalloWeth the ground with fierce
ness and rage. He saith among the trumpets
'ha! han and he smelleth the battle afar Off.
the thunder of the captains and the shouting y
When my text in figure represents the ar
mics of the glOriied as riding upon white
horses it sets forth the strength, the feetness,
the victory and the innocence of the redeemed
The horse has always been an emblem OF
strength. When startled by sudden sight or
sound, how he plunges along the highway !!
The hand of the strong driver on the reins is
like the grasp of a child. His hoofs strike
fire, the harness is snapped and the vehicle
hurled over the rocks. With nostril painting
and foam flying IN flakes, his head tossed on
either side In wild triumph, he stops not for
the missiles hurled at him nor the loud
whoa. WhOa!" of the multitude. Away he
flies irresistibly. Therefore, when the re-
deemed are represented as riding on white
horses their strength is set forth. The days
of their lnvalidism and deerepitude are
passed. Never shall they be sick again or
tired again. Take the strength of ten of the
giants of earth and the weakest inhabitant of
heaven could master him. Oh. the day when
having put of the Metaphysical impedimenty you
shall come to the mightiness of heavenly
vigor There will be hardly anything YOU
The horse used in the text is also the en-
blem of fleetness. The wild horses on the
plain at the appearance of the hunter make
the miles slip under them, with snort
they bound away, and the dust rises in Whirl-
winds from their flying feet, until far away
they halt with their faces to their pursuer
and neigh in giadne5s at their escape. More
swift than they shall be the redeemed in
heaven. Oh the eXhilaration of feeling that
you can take worlds at a bound, vast dis
tances instantly oyerGome-no difference be-
tween here and there! Heaven is said to be
the centre of the universe. If so, how swift
must messenger spirit fly in order to reach
us in any crisis Of peril! Light flies 1876 600
miles a second, and yet there are worlds that
have been created for ages whose light has
just reached us. If light flying l95,G00 miles
second, has taken ages to come from worlds
this side of heaven, how swift must messen-
ger-spirit ny from heaven in order to admin
lister unto usy Swlfter than feetest horse
under lash or spur. Swifter than eagles
wing or light are the redeemed.
The horse IN the text is also a symbol of vic
tory. He was not used on ordinary occasions,
but the conqueror mounted him and rode on
among the acclamations of the re
jOicing multitudes. SO all the redeemed OF
heaven are victors. Yea, they are more than
conquerOrs through Him that hath loved
them.
My text places us on one of the MANY ave-
nues of the Celestial City. The soldiers of
God have come up from earthly battle and are
on the parade. We shall not have time to see
all the great hosts ofthe redeemed; but John
in my text points out a few of the battali0ns:
And the armies which were in heaven fol-
lowed him upon white horses" You h9ve
sometimes stood i'll street waiting for hours
for a procession to come up. Then you saw
great excitement in the street and heard mn
usual shouting and you knew that the pro-
cession was near. L hear the sound of the
heavenly hosts advancing. The shout of the
redeemed from the mansions and
palaces of heaven seems nearer
The procession is IN sigh, the marshals Of
heaven clear the way, and the great Com
mander rides past at the head of the host.
The Roman victor, having slain at least 5000
men in battle, rode into the ancient city with
robe gold embroidered; in one hand a Iau-
rel, in the other sceptre; the captives go
ing before, the army coming after; the whole
population III holiday dress cheering along the
line. But in my text the heavenly Command
er rides with the sword of universal triumDh
and on his head are many crowns; all the city
turns out to greet him-the onqueror Of
earth and heaven and hell. Strew flowers
along the shining way: wave all the banners of
light; ring all the bells OF heaven! "Hosanna!
Blessed Is he that cometh in the name of the
Lord! Hosanna, in the highest!n
Now come ION the battaliOns OF the saved -
Here passes the regiment of Christian mar
tyr5. They endured all things for Christ
They were bounded. they were saWn asunder
they were hurled out of life. Here come the
$4,000 Scotch covenanters who persisted in one
persecution. Escaped from the clutches of
ClaverhOuse and bloody Mckenzie and the
horrors of the grass market, they ride in the
great battalions of Scotch martyrs Hugh
McKail and James Renwick and John Knox
and others whose words are battle shout for
the church milltant-men of high cheek bones
and strong arms and c0nsecrated spirits
Grayfriars' church-yard took some of their
bodies, but heaven took all their souls. They
went on weary feet through the glens of Scot
land in times of persecution and crawled UP
the crags on their hands and knees; but now
they follow the Christ for whom thew fought
and bled, on white horses Of triumph. Ride
on! ye conquerors! victors of Dun0ttar Castle
and Bass Rock ant RutherglenI Ride on!
Here comes the regiment of English
martyr. Queen Mary against King Jesus
made an uneven fight. The 10000 chariots of
God coming down the steeD OF heaven will
ride over any foe. Queen Mary thought that
by sword and fire she had driven PrOtestants
down, put she only drove them up. Here they
pass: Bishop Hooper and Rogers, pFebendary
of st. PauPs, and Archbishop Cranmer who
got his courage hack in time to save his soul:
and Anne Askew, who, at 25 years of age,
rather than forsake her God, submitted first
10 the rack without a groan, and then went
with bones so dislocated she must be carried
on chair to the stake-her last words rising
through the flames being a prayer for her
murderers. o. cavalcade of men and women
whom God snatched up from the iron fingers
of torture into eternal life! Ride on, thou
glorious regiment of English martyrs!
Look at this advancing host of a hundred
thousand. Who are they? Look upon the
nag and upon their uniform and tell us. They
are the men who fell On st. Bartholomewis
day in Paris, in Lyons, in Orleans, in Bor-
deaux, while the King looked out of the win
dow and cried: "KiI! kille' Ohwhat night
followed by what a day! Who would think
that these on white horses were tossed out of
windows, and manacled and torn and dragged
and slain, until it seemed that the cause of
God had perished, and cities were illuminated
with internal joy, and the cannon of St. An
gelo Numbered the triumph of helll Their
gashed and despatched bodies were thrown
into the Seine, but their souls went up out of
a nations shrek into the Eight Of God: and
now they pass along the boulevards of heaven.
''Soldier of God, well done!
Rest by thy loved employ;