The Globe-republican., 1893-06-02

striking with q sword. using notninS
but the strength of his own muscie
and sinew, for the cavalryman adds|
to the strength of his own arm the
awful plunge of steed at full gallop.
Tremendous arm Of war is the cavalry!
Josephus says that in that host that
crossed the Red sea there were 5o,0Oo
cavalrymen. Epaminondas rode into
battle with 5000 cavalrymen and Alex
ander with I, 900. Marlborough depended
on his cavalry for the triumph at Blen-
helm. It 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, and Leipsic, and Winches-
ter, and Hanover court house. and Five
Forks. Some of you may have been In
the relentless raids led on by Forrest, or
Chalmers, or Stuart of the southern
side, or Pleasanton, or Wilson, or Kill
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 Israelites down to midway
the Red sea, were unsaddled. unstir-
ruped, unhorsed. Miriam struck the
center of the tambourine with the full
force of her right hand when she came
TO that bar of the music, The horse
and his rider hath he thrown into the
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 were, with uplifted battleax
or consuming thunderbolt of power.
There are those among my hearers or
readers who have had whole regi-
ment of mounted disasters charging
upon them. But fear not. The small.
/ est horsefiy 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 so, 600 helmeted
and plumed riders on the backs of the
$4,000 neighing and caparisoned war
chargers.
And 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 l 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 I 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 ye to the
Lord. for He hath triumphed glorious
iy; the horse and His rider hath He
thrown into the sea-"
Iexpect to have a good laugh with
you in Heaven, for the Bible says in
Luke, sixth chapter, twenty-first 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, and
how you laugh. Nothing, it seems,
will more thoroughly kindle our heav-
enly 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-
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 rolled
our garments to the knee and barefoot
crossed the meadow brook on the old
homestead. The odds may seem to be
ell against you, but l guess it will be
all right with you if you have God on
your side and all the angelic, cherubic,
seraphic and archangelic kingdoms III
God be for you, who can be agains,
you?"
Lay hold of the Lord in prayer, and
, you will go free, as did Richard Ceci
. with EGO of missionary money in hi:
. saddlebags, and the highwaymen grab
: bed his horse by the bride and told hin
to deliver, and he prayed to God fol
safety, and suddenly one of the robbers
J said: "Mr. Cecil, l once heard yor
: preach. Boys, let the gentleman go. ;"
But let me criticise Miriam a LITTLE
, for the instrument of music she EN-
} ployed in the divine service on tn
sandy beach. Why not take some 9th
: er instrument? The harp was sacre'
instrument. Why did she not TAX
r that? The cymbal was sacred instru
: ment. Why did she not take that
!. The trumpet was a sacred instrument
1 Why did she not take that? Amid tina
7 great host there must have been mu
t sical instruments more used in religl
l Gus service. No She took tina
q which she liked the best and on whic
e she could best express her gratulatio
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