The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-06-01

Tor It's burden the overthrown cavalry. II
was not 80 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 troops. "The horse and
his rider hath He thrown into the sea-" Ire =
mendous arm OF war is the cavalry Josephus
says that In that host that crossed the Red
sea there were sc, 900 cavarymen. Epamin-
ondas rode into battle with 5000 cavalrymen
and Alexander with 1000. Marlborough de-
pended on his cavalry for the triumph at
Blenheim. IL was not alone the snow that
despoiled the French armies In retreat from
Moscow. but the mounted Cossacks. Cav
alrymen 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 cav
alrymen.
No wonder that Miriam was chiefly grateful
that the Egyptian cavalrymen, pursuing the
Israelites down to midway the Red sea, we're
unsaddled. unstirruped, unhorsed.
And have to tell you, . 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. oil
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 IL "a
sure M you sit there and stand here. and
the tune you will yet play on IL. whether
standing on beach OF timo or beach OF etern-
ity. will be the tune that Miriam played when
she cried Sing ye to the Lord. for Ho hath
triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider
hath He thrown into the sea"
expect TO have IA good laugh with you in
g. . L.. n II n.
chapter. twenty-nrst verse. blessed ara W.
that weep now. for ye shall laugh" We
shall not spend all eternity psalm singing,
but sometimes in review OF the past, ~
Christ says. we shall laugh. There is
nothing wrong in laughter. II nll depends
on whnt you laugh at, and when you laugh.
Nothing IL seems will more thoroughly
klndle our heavenly hilarities after we have
got inside the pearly gate than 20 see how in
this world we got scared n. things which
ought not to have frightened us at all.
How often we work ourselves up into 4
great stew about nothing The Red sea be.
fore may be deep, and the Egyptian cavalry
behind us may be we'll 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 IL will be- all right
with you II you have God on your side and
all the angelic. cherubic. seraphic and arch
angelic Kingdoms. IF God he for you, who
can be against your"
But let me criticise Miriam little for the
instrument Of music she employed in the di-
vine service on the sandy beach. Why not
take some other instrument? The harp was
a sacred instrument. Why did she not take
that2 The cymbal was q sacred instrument.
Why did she not take that? The trumpet
was sacred instrument. Why did she not
take that2 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 nations
rescue. first through the retreat OF the waves
Of the Red seq, and then through the clap
ping OF the hands OF their destruction. SO
withdraw my criticism OF Miriam. Let every
one take her or his best mode OF divine wor-
ship and celebration. My idea OF heaven IL
that II IA n place where we can do as we
course we will do nothing wrong and want
nothing harmful.
How much OF the material aud 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
Norwegian performer his violin, and Miriam
| her timbrel. and IA l cannot make music on
| any Of them | 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 II will be when we stand on
| the beach OF heaven and look back on the
| Red sea of this worlds sin and trouble and
| celebrate the fact that We have got through
and got over and got up. our sins and our
| troubles attempting to follow gone clear down
| under the waves.
oh. crimson floods roll over them and
| drown them, and drown them forever In
! this world we have so little tmo for that.
| am looking forward 10 eternal socialities.
| To be with God and never sin against Him.
| To be with Christ and forever feel His love. To
| walk together in robes of white with those with
| whom on earth 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
| oil heaven be looking on.
A mine In Scotland caved in and caught
| amid the rocks "a young man who in a few
| days was to have been united in holy mar
| rage. No one could get heart to tell his
| affiunced OF the death OF her beloved but
| some one made her believe that he had
| changed his mind about the marriage and
willfully disappeared. Fiftyyears passed on.
| when one day the miners delying in the
earth suddenly came ON the body Of that
| young man. which had all those years been
| kept from the air and looked Just as II was
| the day of the calamity. Strong, manly,
| noble youth. he sat there looking as on the
day he died. But no one recognized the
silent form.
After awhile they called the Oldest inhab-
| itnnts to come and see IL any one could rec
ognize him. A woman with bent form and
her hair snowy white with years came last.
and looking upon the silent form that had
been so completely preserved gave bitter
cry and fell into a long swoon. II was the
one 10 whom hall century before she was
to have been welded, looking then just As
when in the days of their youth their atfec-
tions had comminged. But the emotion OF
her soul was too great for mortal endurance,
and two days afte- those who fifty years be-
fore were to have joined hands In wedlock
were at last married in the tomb, and side by
side thoy wait for the resurrection.
My friends, we shall come at last upon
those OF our loved ones who long ago halted
in the journey OF life. They will be as fair
and beautlful-yea, fairer and more beauti-
full than when we parted from them.
see them now-the gloriiled- assembled