The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-31

gift to me, and have been led to send it to
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
ticed how kind and sympathetic all the sec
ular newspapers have been, and OF course
all the religious newspapers, with two or
three nasty exceptions? You say that news
papers sometimes get things wrong. Yes,
but which of US does not sometimes get
things wrong If you want to find a 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 of the Brooklyn
and New York printing press, if you never
report anything else that / say, please to re
port that Yes, see you are getting it all
down.
As 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 in the autumn re-
sumo our lay college. We will fill all the
rooms Of this magnificent pile with work
for God and suffering 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 Tabernaclel "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 soonH 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 ar tambOurine' Miriaml You
do well 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 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 the way and maBy battles to fight
and last of all the muddy Jordan to cross
Miriam l have no objections to the tam
BOURNE, but donot jingle its bells or thump
its frightened parchment until you are all
through.
Al, my friends, Miriam was right. II
we never shouted victory till we got clear
through the struggles OF this life, we would
never shout at all. Copy the habit Of Mir
lam and Noes. The moment you get a
TO hold a jubilee for the safe crossing of
the Red sea il on its beach and before you
leave it. IL is awful, the delayed hosan-
mas, the belated halleluias, the postponed
doxologies, the trains of thanksgiving com
ing 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 today, for tomorrow You might lose
it 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 a
church's deliveranCe, because there might
be disasters yet to come. Oh, let us have
nelnore adjourned gratitudel The time to
thank God for rescue from temptation is
themoment you have broken the wine flask
The time to thank God for your salvation
is 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 the mausoleum of
Lazarus The time for Miriam's tambour-
inc To sound its most jubilant note is the
moment the last lsraeiite puts his foot on
the sand of tie parted inland ocean. Alasl
that when Gods mercies have such swift
wings. our praises should have such leaden
feet.
CAVALRY CHARGE.
Notice that Miriam's song in my text had
for its burden the Overthrown cavalry. 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 horse
back-the mounted troopsl The horse
and his rider hath he thrown into the sea"
There is something terrible in cavalry
charge You see it is not like a soldier
af00t, thrusting a bayOnet or striking with
a sword, using nothing but the strength of
his own muscle and sinew, for the cavalry
man adds to the strength of his own arm
the awful plunge of a steed at full gallop.
Tremendous arm of war is the cavalry
.Josephus says that in that host that
crossed the Red sea there were $1,000 caval-
rvmen. Epaminondas rode into battle with
5000 cavalrymen and Alexander with 600
Marlborough depended on his cavalry for
the triumph at Blenhein. 1t was not alone
the snow that despoiled the French armies
in retreat from Moscow, but the mounted
Cossacks Cavalrymen decided the battles
Of Leuthen and Leipsic and Winchester
and Hanover Courthouse and Five Forks
.some of you may have been in the relentless
raids led on by Forrest or Chalmers or Nor
gan 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
stirrups are the cavalrymen.
No wonder that Miriam was chiefly CRATE
full that the Egyptian cavalrymen, pursu-
ing 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 must fear. The little trou-
bles 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 dis
Rsters. the bereavements, the bankruptcies.
the prosecutions, the appalling sicknesses
that charge upon US. as it were, with up
lifted battleax or consuming thunderbclt
of power There are those among my hear
ers or readers who have had a whole regi-
ment Of mounted disasters charging upon
them But fear not The smallest horse
passing between the crystal palisades of
the upheaved Red sea, was not more easily
drowned by the falling waters than the
| 10000 helmeted and plumed riders on the
backs Of the $1,000 neighing and capari-
soned war chargers.
| And have to tell YOU oh child of God,