News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-06-01

| Rhode Island.
A blind octogenarian invalid in Y DIRK,
| Pa, sends his mite and his prayer
Thanks to all the newspaper Iress.
| Have you noticed how kind and sympa-
thetic all the secular newspapers have
be 4 and of course all the religious
newspapers, with two or three nasty ex-
ceptions? You say that sometimes news
papers get things wrong. Yes, butwhich
of us does not sometimes get things
| wrong? If you want to find man who
has never made Il mistake, do not waste
your time by looking in this pulpit.
Thanks to the editors and reporters and
publishers. Gentlemen of the Brooklyn
and New York printing press, if you
never report anything else that l say,
please to report that. Yes, see you are
getting it all down.
NEW DEPARTURE.
As church we from this day make
new departure. We will preach more
instructive sermons. We will offer more
faithful prayers. We will do better
work in all departments. We will in
the autumn resume our lay college.
We will fill all the rooms of this magnif-
cent pile with work for God and suffer
ing humanity. More prayers have been
offered for this church, and on both
sides the sea, than for any church that
has ever existed, and all those prayers
will be answered. Clear the track for
the Brooklyn Tabernacle! "Sing We to
the Lord, for he hath triumphed glori-
ously; 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 soon?
Do you not think she ought to have
waited till the Israelitish host got clear
| over to Canaan before she struck her
knuckles against the tinbrel or tam
BOURNE? Miriam! You do we'll to have
the tambOurine ready, but wait little
before you play it. 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 Marah,
and many of your army will eat so heart
lily of the fallen quails that they will die
of collie, and you will at the foot of Sinai
be scared with the thunder, and there
will be fiery serpents in the way and
many battles to fight, and last of all the
muddy Jordan to cross. Miriami l have
no objections to the tambourine, but do
not jingle its bells or thump its frightened
parchment until you are all through.
All, my friends, Miriam was right. If
we never shouted victory till we got
clear through the struggles of this life,
we would never shout at all. Copy the
| habit of Miriam and Moses. The mo-
ment you get victory celebrate it. The
time and place to hold jubilee for the
safe crossing of the Red sea is on its
beach and before you leave it. 1t is aw-
full, the delayed hosannahs, the belated
halleluiahs, the postponed doxologies,
the trains of thanksgiving coming in so
long after they are due!
1t is said, do not rejoice over a 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 it all and more. Do not
be too grateful for your good health to-
day, 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 a church's
deliverance, because there might be dis
more adjourned gratitude!
The time to thank God for a rescue
from temptation is the moment after you
have broken the wine flask. The time
to thank God for your salvation is the
moment after the first flash of pardon.
The time to be grateful for the comfort
f your bereft soul is the first moment of
Christ's appearance at the mausoleum of
Lazarus The time for Miriam's tam
BOURNE to sound its most jubilant note
is the moment the last Israelite puts his
foot on the sand ON the parted inland
ocean Alas, that when Gods mercies
have such swift wings our praises should
| have such leaden feet!
MIRIAM's SONG.
Notice that Miriam's song in my text
had for its burden the overthrown cav
airy. 1t was not so much the infantry
or the men on foot over whose defeat she
rejoiced with ringing timbrel, but over
the men on horseback-the mounted
troops! 1.-The horse and his rider hath
he thrown into the sea-" There is some
thing terrible in a cavalry charge. You
see it is not like soldier afoot, thrusting
bayonet or striking with sword, using
nothing but the strength of his own mus
Gle and sinew, for the cavalryman adds
to the strength of his own arm the awful
plunge of steed at full gallop. Ire
mendous arm of war is the cavalry!
Josephus says that in that host that
crossed the Red sea there were $4,000
cavalrymen. Epaminondas rode into
battle with 5000 cavalrymen and Alex
ander with 1000. Marlborough depended
ON his cavalry for the triumph at Blen-
helm. 1t was not alone the snow that de-
spoiled the French armies in retreat from
Moscow, but the mounted Cossacks. Cav
alrymen decided the battles of Leuthen
and Leipsic and Winchester and Hanover
Court House and Five Forks. Some of you
may have been in the relentless raids led
On by Forrest or Chalmers or Morgan or
Stuart of the southern side, or Pleasanton
or Wilson or Fitzpatrick or Sheridan of
the northern side. The army saddles are
the thrones of battle. Hurricanes in
stirrups are the cavalrymen.
No wonder that Miriam was chiefly
grateful that the Egyptian cavalrymen,
pursuing the Israelites down to midway
the Red sea, were unsaddled, unstirruped,
endorsed. Miriam struck the center of
the tambourine with the full force of her
right hand when she came to that bar of
the music, 1.-THE horse and his rider hath
he thrown into the sea-" All, my friends,
it is the mounted troubles that we most
fear. The little troubles we can endure
the cinder in the eye, the splinter under
the nail, the thorn in the foot, the social
slight, the mean fling, the invidious COM
parison or the remarks that snub.
| The annoyances and vexations on foot
we can conquer, but alas for the mount
ed disasters, the bereavements, the bank
ruptcies, the prosecutions, the appalling
| sicknesses that charge upon us, as it
were, with uplifted battleax or consum-
| ing thunderbolt of power. There are
those among my hearers or readers who
have had whole regiment of mounted
disasters charging upon them. But fear
not. The smallest horsefy ON the neck
of pharaoh's war charger, passing be-
tween the crystal palisades of the up
heaved Red sea, was not more easily
drowned by the falling waters than the
$4,000 helmeted and plumed riders on the
backs of the sc, 900 neighing and capari-
| soned war chargers.
And | have to tell you, o child of
God, that the Lord, who is on your side
now and forever, has at his disposal and
under his command all waters, all winds,