Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-30

that know must have won the applause
OF tho heavens II you could only real
with me few Of the Thousands OF Letters
that have come to my desk IN The Chris
tian Herald olice, you would know how
deep their sympathy, how large their sacri
fec has been. II have sold my bicycle and
now send you the money" is the language
OF one noble Young man who wrote TO The
Christian Herald. "Thls is my dead sons
gift to me, and have been led TO send II u
you writes a mother in Rhode Island.
A blind octogenarian invalid in York,
Pa, sends his mite and his prayer Thanks
TO all the newspaper press. Have you no
tiood how kind and sympathetic all the sec
ular newspapers have been, and oil course
all the religious newspapers, with two or
three nasty e1ceptionsi You say that news
papers sometimes get things wrong. Yes,
but which OF us does not sometimes get
things wrong II you want to find man
who has never made mistake, do not
waste your time by looking in this pulpit.
Thanks TO the editors and reporters and
publishers. Gentlemen VI the Brooklyn
and New York printing press, II you never
report anything else that | say, please to re-
port that. Yes. see you arc getting II all
down.
Az n church we from this day make new
departure We will preach more instruc-
tive sermons We will offer more faithful
prayers We will do better work in all de
partments. We will ia the autumn re-
sumo our lay college. We will I'LL all the
rooms OF this magnificent pile with work
for God and suffering humanity More
prayers have been offered for this church
aud on both sides tho sea thnn for any
church that has ever existed, and all those
prayers will be answered. Clear the track
for the Brooklyn Tabernaclel "Sing We to
the Lord. for be hath triumphed Rloriously;
the horse and his rider hath he thrown
into the sea-
But do you not now really think that the
Miriam OF my text rejoiced too soonS DO
you not think she ought to have waited till
the Israelitish host got clear over to Caa-
nan before she struck her knuckles against
the timbrel or tambouriuei MiriRmi You
do well to have the tambourine ready, but
wait n little before you play 1t. You are
not yet through the journey from Egypt to
the Promised Land, You will yet have to
drink out of the bitter water Of Marnh md
many Of your army will eat 80 heartily OF
the fallen quails that they will die Of collie,
and you will, at the foot of Sinai, be scared
with thunder, and there will be fiery ser
penis In tho way and many bnttles to fight,
and last OF all the muddy Jordan to cross.
Miriaml have no objections to the tam
BOURNE, but do not Jingle its bells or thump
its frightened parchment until you are ali
through.
All, my friends, Miriam was right. II
we never shouted victory till we got clear
through the struggles of this life, we would
never shout ut all Copy the habit OF Mir.
lam and Moses The moment you get a
victory celebrate 1t. The time and place
to bold jubilee for the safe crossing OF
the Red sea Is on its beach and before you
leave II. 1t is awful, the delayed hosan-
mas, tho belated halleluias, the postponed
doAologies, the trains OF thanksgiving com.
ing In 30 long after they are due 1t is said.
do not rejoice over u revival too soon, for
the new members might not hold out.
Do not thank God for the money you
made today, for tomorrow you might lose
1t all and more Do not be too grateful for
your good health today, for tomorrow you
may get the grip. Do not be too glad about
your conversion, for you might fall from
grace, Do not rejoice too soon over n
church's deliyerance, because there might
be disasters yet to come Oh let us have
no more Adjourned gratitudel The time to
thank God for rescue from temptation ia
the moment you have broken the wine flask.
The time "a thank God for your salvation
Il the moment after the first flash Of par,
don. The time to be grateful for the com.
fort OF your bereft soul is the first moment
Of Christ's appearance at themauaoleum OF
Lazarus The time for Mirlam's tnrnbour
Inc TO sound its most iubllant note is the
moment the Inst Isrnelite puts his foot on
the sand Of tho parted inland ocean. Alas,
that when Gods mercies have such swift
wings, our praises should have such leadcn
feet,
ACAvALRI CHARGE.
Notice that Miriam's song In my text had
for It's burden the overthrow cavalry. IL
was not 10 much the infantry or the men
on foot over whose defeat she rejoiced with
ringing tlmbrel, but over the men on horse.
baek-the mounted troopsl 1.-THE horse
and his rider hath he thrown into the sea"
There Is something terrible in a cavalry
charge. You see 1t is not like n soldier
afoot, TRUSTING n bayonet or striking with
asword, using nothing but the strength Of
bis own muscle and sinew, for the cavalry
man adds TO the strength OF his own arm
the awful plunge of steed at full ggllop
A'NN'eiNouh " VI " war ~ tlle chYnlryl
Josephus says that in that host that
crossed the Red sea there were $4,000 cayal-
rymen. Epaminondas rode into battle with
5000 cayalrymen and Alexander with 900
Marlborough depended on his cavalry FOR
the triumph at Blenheim 1t was not alone
the snow that despoiled the French armies
In retreat FROM Moscow, but the mounted
CossaekA Cavnlrymen decided the battles
OF l.euthen and Leipsic and Winchester
and Hanover Courthouse and Five Forks.
Souie OF you may have been in the relentless
raids led on by Forrest or Chalmers or Nor
gun or Stuart OF the southern side, or Pleas.
anton, or Wilson or Fitzpatrick or Sheridan
OF the northern side. The army saddles
are the thrones OF battle. Hurricanes In
stlrrups are the cayalrymen.
No wonder that Miriam WINS chiefly CRATE
full that the Egyptian cayalrymen, putsu.
ing the israelites down TO midway the Red
sea, were unsaddled. unstirruped, endorsed
Miriam struck the center OF the tam BOURNE
With the full force OF her right hand when
She came to that bar of the music. the
horse and his rider hath he thrown into the
sea-" All, my friends, 1t Is the mounted
troubles that we must fear. The little trou.
bles we can endure. The clnder liz the eve.
the spllnter under the nail, the thorn In the
foot, the social slight tho mean fling, the
inridious comparison or the remarks that
snub