The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-14

airy charge, You see it is not like .
soldie- afoot, thrusting baycaot OF
strikin, with a sword, using notSfng
but the strength of his own mus %
and sinew, for the cavalryman adds
to the strength of his own arm tho
awful plunge of a steed at full Sallop.
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 ut Blen-
helm. 1t was not alone the snow that
despoiled the French armies in retreat
from Moscow, but the mounted Cos
sacks, Cavalrymen decided the battles
of Leuthen, ana Leipsic, and Winches-
ter, and Hanover court house, and Five
Forks. Some Of you may have been iii
the relentless raids led on by Forrest, or
Chalmers, or Stuart of the southern
side, or Pleasanton, Of Wilson, or Xii.
patrick, 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 lsraelites down to midway
the Red sea, We're unsaddled unstir.
ruped, endorsed. Miriam struck the
center of the tambourine with thd full
force of her right hand when she eame
to that bar of the music, 1.-The hopse
and his rider hath he thrown into tie
sea-" All, my friends, it is 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 comparison
or the remarks that snub.
The annoyances and veXations on
foot we can conquer, but alas for the
mounted disasters, the bereavements,
the bankruptcies, the prosecutions the
appalling sicknesses that charge upon
us, as it We're, with uplifted battleax
There are those among my hearers OF
readers who have had whole regi.
ment of mounted disasters charging
upon them. But fear not. The small.
est horsefy on the neck of Pharaoh's
war charger, passing between the crys.
tai palisades of the upheaved Red sea,
was not more easily drowned by the
falling waters than the $4,000 helmeted
and plumed riders on the backs of the
$4,000 neighing and caparisoned war
chargers.
And l have to tell you, o child of God,
that the Lord, who is on your side now
and forever, has at his disposal and un.
der his command all waters, all winds,
all lightnings, all time and all eternity
Come, look me in the face while utter
the word God commands me to speak
to you, "No weapon formed against you
shall prosper" Don't throw away your
tambourine. You will want it as sure
as you sit there and | stand here, and
the tune you will yet play on itwhether
standing on beach of time or beach Of
eternity, will be the tune that Miriam
played when she cried, "Sing We to the
Lord, for He hath triumphed glorious
ly; the horse and His rider hath He
thrown into the sea-"
expect to have good laugh with
you in Heaven, for the Bible says in
Luke, sixth chapter, twenty-tirst verse,
blessed are We that weep now, for We
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, and
how you laugh. Nothing, it seems,
will more thoroughly kindle our heav-
emily 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 we work ourselves up into
a great stew about nothing! The Red
sea before us may be deep, and the Egyp'
tan cavalry behind us may be well
mounted but if 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 barefoo,
crossed the meadow brook on the ole
homestead. The odds may seem to be
all against you, but guess it will be
all right with you if you have God or
your side and all the angelic, cherubic
seraphic and archangelic kingdoms II
God be for you, who can be agains'
you?"
Lay hold of the Lord in prayer, ant
you will go free, as did Richard Ceci
with ego of missionary money in hi
saddlebags, and the highwaymcn grab
bed his horse by the bride and told hin
to deliver, and he prayed to God fo
safety, and suddenly one of the robber
said; Mr.. Cecil, l once heard YOU
preach. Boys, let the gentleman go. :"
But let me criticise Miriam a littl,
for the instrument of music she EN-
ployed in the divine service on tn,
sandy beach. Why not take some 9th
err instrument? The harp was sacre,
instrument. Why did she not talk
that? The cymbal was sacred instru
ment. Why did she not take that
The trumpet was a sacred instrument
Why did she not take that? Amid tina
great host there must have been mu
steal instruments more used in religi
Gus service. No. She took tina
which she liked the best and on whicl
she could best express her gratulatio
over nations rescue, first through tn
retreat of the waves of the Red sea