The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-29

CITY has been onward and upward. We
have citizenship made mp of hundreds
of thousands of as good men and women
as inhabit the earth, and ] feel honOrcd
in being citizen OF Brooklyn, and pro-
pose to stay here until Join the pupula-
tion in the silent city out yonder, now all
abloom with spring hOwerS-sweet types
of resurrection!
My thanks must be, first 10 God, and
then to all who have contributed by large
gift or small to this emancipation. Thanks
TO tue men, women and children who have
helped. and sometimes helped with self
sacrifices that / know must have won the
applause of the heavens. If you could
only read with me few of the thousands
of letters that have come to my desk IN
the Christian Herald Office, you would
know how deep their sympathy, how
large their sacrifice has been. Il have
sold my bicycle, and now send you the
money!" is the language of one noble
young man who wrote 10 the Christian
Herald. This is my dead sons gift
to me. and / have been led to send
it to YOU writes a mother in Rhode
Island blind OctOgenarian invalid in
York. Pa, sends his mite and his prayer.
Thanks to all the newspaper press. Have
YOU noticed how kind and sympathetic all
the secular newspapers have been, and,
of course, all the religious newspapers,
with two or three nasty EXCEPTIONS You
say that newspapers sometimes get things
wrong. Yes, but which of us does not
sometimes get things wrOng2 If you want
TO find a man who has never made a mis-
take do not waste your time by looking
in this pulpit. Thanks to the editors,
and reporters, and publishers. Gentle
men of Brooklyn and New York printing
press if you never report anything else
that / say, please to report that. Yes, l
see you are getting it all down.
AS a church, we, from this day, make
Instructive sermons. We will offer more
faithful prayers. Wewill do better work
in all departments. We will, in the
autumn, resume our lay college We will
fill all the rooms of this magnificent pile
with work for God and suffering hui
manity. More prayers have been offered
for this church, and on both sides the sea,
than for any church that has ever ex-
listed, and all those prayers will be
answered. Clear the track for the Brook
lyn Tabernacle. "Sing We to the Lord,
for he hath triumphed gloriously; 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 sOonl Do
YOU not think she ought to have waited
till the Israelitish host got clear over to
Caanan before she struck her knuckles
against the timbrel or tambourine?
Miriam! You do well to have the tam
Ibduy, Uub Ndlb ii llublC bClOlC
you play it. You are not yet through the
Journey from Egypt to the promised land
You will vet have to drink out of the
bitter water of Marah, and many of your
army will eat so heartily 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 SER
penis in the way and many battles to fight
and, last of all, the muddy Jordan to cross.
Miriaml | 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
moment you get a 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 awful,
the delayed hOsannahS The belated
hallelujahsl The postponed doxologies?
The trains of thanksgiving coming in so
long after they are due! 1t is said,
do not rejoice over revival too |
soon, for the new members might not
hold out. Do not thank God for the !
money you made to-day, for tomorrow
you might lose ii 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 re- |
ioice too soon over church's deliver |
-ance, because there might be dis !
aSters vet to come O. let us have no |
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 of your bereft |
soul is the first moment of Christ's APP
pearance at the mauSoleum of Lazarus. !
The time for Miriam's tambourine to
sound its most iubilant note is the mo-
ment the last Israelite puts his foot on
the sand of the parted inland ocean. Alas!
that when Gods mercies have such swift
wings, our praises should have such
leaden feet.
Notice that Miriam's song in my text
had for its burden the overthrow 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! 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 a sword, using
nothing but the strength of his own
muscle and sinew, for the cavalryman
adds to the strength of his own arm the
awful plunge OF a 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 fifty
thousand cavalrymen. Epaminondas rode
into battle with five thousand cavalry
men and Alexander with seven thousand.
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 Cossacls. Calvarymen 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
Chalmel or Morgan or Stuart of the south
ern side, or Pleasanton or Wilson
or Fitzpatrick or Sheridan of
the northern side The army
saddles are the thrones of battle. Hurri-
canes 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, I'M
horsed. Miriam struck the center of the
tambourine with the full force of her
right hand and when she came to that
bar of the music: The horse and his
rider hath he thrown into the sea" All.
Nuaaa A.