Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-05-29


Gle and sinew, for the cavalryman adds
to the strength. of his own arm the awful
plunge of a steed at full gallon Ire
mendous arm of war is the cavalryl
Josephus says that in that host that
crossed the Red sea there were 1000
cavalrymen. Epaminondas rode into
battle with 5000 .cavalrymen and Alex
ander with Z. 600. 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 Cossaclzs. Cav
alrynen 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, f'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 1T
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
sc, 900 helmeted and plumed riders on the
backs of the $4,000 neighing and capari-
soned war chargers.
And | have to tell you, 0 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,
all lghtnings, all time and all eternity.
Come, look me in the face while l 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 it as sure
as you sit there and stand here, and the
tune you will yet play on it. whether
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 gloriously:
the horse and his rider hath he throwH
into the sea-"
expect to have good laugh with you
in heaven, for the Bible says in Luke sixth
chapter, twenty-frst 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 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 fright
ened US at all.
How often we work ourselves up into
a great stew about nothing! The Red
sea before may be deep, and the Egyp-
tian 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 rol- I'd
our garments to the knee and barefoot
crossed the meadow brook on the old
homestead. The odds may seem to be
all against you, but [ guess it will be all
right with you If you have God on your
side and all the angelic, cherubic, Sc
raphic and archangelic kingdoms eff
God be for you, who can be against
your
Lay hold Of the Lord in prayer, and
you will go free, as did Richard Cecil
with $50 of missionary money in his sad
dlebags, and the highwaymen grabbed
his horse by the bride and told him to
deliver, and he prayed God for safety,
and suddenly one of the robbers said:
''Mr. Cecil, I once heard you preach.
Boys, let the gentleman CO."
AN IDEA OF HEAVEN.
But let me criticise Miriam a little for
the instrument Of music she employed
in the divine service on the sandy beach.
Why not take some other instrument?
The harp was a sacred instrument. Why
did she not take that? The cymbal was
a sacred instrument. Why did she not
take that? The trumpet was sacred in
strument. Why did she not take that?
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