Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-06-09

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Notice that Miriams song in my text had
for its burden the overthrow cavalry. Il
was not so much the infantry or the men on
! foot over whose defeat she reoiced with
! ringing timbrel, but over the men on horse
back-the mounted troops 1.-The horse and
| his rider hath He thrown into the sea-" Tre-
! mendousarm OF war is the cavalry Josephus
says that in that host that crossed the Red
! sea there were $4,000 cavalrymen. Epamin-
Ondas rode into battle with 5000 cavalrymen
and Alexander with 1000 Marlborough de-
pended on his cavalry for the triumph at
| Blenheim. II was not alone the snow that
: despoiled the French armies In retreat from
Moscow, but the mounted Cossscks. Cav
! alrymen decided the battles OF Leuthen and
J 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 cav
slySmen.
| No wonder that Miriam was chiefly grateful
that the Egyptian cavalrymen, pursuing the
lsraelites down to midway the Red sea, were
unsaddled, unstirruped, unhorsed.
And have to tell you, o child OF God, that
the Lord, who is on your side now and for
| ever has at His disposal and under His COM
mand all waters, all winds, all lightnings, all
! time and all eternity. Come, look me In tho
face while utter the word God commands
me to speak to you, mo weapon formed
against you shall prosper" Don't throw
away your tambourine. You will want 1t as
! sure AS you sit there and stand here, and
the tune you will yet play on 1t, whether
standing on beach OF time or beach OF etern-
! fly, will be the tune that Miriam played when
she cried "Sing ye to the Lord, for He hath
triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider
hath He thrown into the sea-"
/ expect to have q good laugh with you in
heaven, for the Bible says In Luke, sixth
chapter, twenty-hrst verse, blessed are We
, that weep now, for ye shall laugh" We
shall not spend all eternity psalm singing,
! but sometimes in review OF the past, as
Christ says, we shall laugh. There is
nothing wrong In laughter 1t all depends
! on what you laugh at, and when you laugh.
Nothing, II seems, will more thoroughly
kindle our heavenly hilarities after we have
got inside the pearly gate than to see how In
this world we got scared at things which
ought not to have frightened US at all.
How often wa work ourselves up into
great stew about nothing! The Red sea be-
! fore may be deep, and the Egyptian cavalry
| behind us may be well mounted. but II we
trust the Lord we will go through no more
| hurt by the water than when in boyhood We
rolled our garments TO the knee and bare
| foot crossed the meadow brook on the old
| homestead The odds may seem to be all
against you, but / guess 1t will be ali right
! with you If you have God on your side and
all the angelic, cherubc. seraphic and Arch
, angelic kingdoms. If God be for you, who
| can be against you?"
! But let me criticise Miriam a little for the
instrument Of music she employed In the d.
vine service on the sandy beach. Why not
take some other instrument? The harp was
! 81 tnaf r1ttr ant Whu a oh Af tolyA
| Nhy did she not take that? The trumpet
was a sacred instrument. Why did she not
! take TINT? Amid that great host there must
! have been musical instruments more used In
religious service. No. She took that which
she liked the best and on which she could
| best express her graduation over a nations
! rescue, first through the retreat of the waves
of the Red sea, and then through the clap
| ping Of the hands of their destruction. So l
withdraw my criticism Of Miriam. Let every
| one take her or his best mode Of divine wor-
ship and celebration My idea of heaven Is
that 1t is a place where we can do as We
please and have everything we want. or
| course we will do nothing wrong and want
nothing harmful.
How much OF the material and physical
, will finally make up the heavenly world
know not, but think Gabriel will have his
trumpet, and David his harp, and Handel his
organ. and ThalberG his piano, and the great
In
her timhrel and as cannot make music ON
anv ofthem think | will move around
among all of them and listen. But there are
our friends Of the scotch Covenanter church
who do not like musical instruments at all in
divine worship. and they need not have
them.
What day it will be when we stand on
,bc beach of'haavnn and loot hact ON the
I Pa1 saa ~ this IrorId's sin and trouble and
aalahrato ,ba 1,o, tbat wa hoya GOT through
and cot over and GOT nm. our sins and our
,,n,i'Iea ottamnting to follow GONE clear down
nnder the waves.
Db crimaon eoods roll over them and
aro.h tbano and drown then, forsyerI In
this world we have 50 little timo for that I
om l"oting forward 70 eternal socialities
To he with God and never sin against Him.
10 be with Christ and forever feel His love To
aalk together in rohes of white with those with
whom on anrtb we walked together in black
raiment OF mourning To gather up the
members OF our scattered families and en-
brace them with no embarrassment, though
all heaven he looking on.
mine In Scotland cayed In and caught
amid the rocks u young man who In few
days was to have been united In holy mar
riage. No one could get heart to tell his
affianced Of the death OF her beloved, but
some one made her believe that he had
, changed his mind about the marriage ana
WuiluiiS uIsaPPcnioN' my P'N y,
D when one day the miners delving In the
0 earth suddenly came on the body OF that
young man, which had all those years been
! kept from the air and looked Just as 1t was
! the day OF the calamity; strong, many,
D noble youth, he sat there looking as on the
day he died. But no one recognized the
silent form:
Alter awhlle they calieo the OLDEST lhnao-
her hair snowy whlte win years caue iast
anu looking upon 're osa.,,a, oa.o b,tta,