Democratic messenger., 1893-06-03
citizen Of Brooklyn and propose to stay
here until join the population in the Silent
City out yonder, now all abloom with spring
flowers types of resurrection,

| flowers-sweet types of resurrection,
THAMES To GOD AND KIND FRIENDS
My thanks must he first to God and then
1 TO all who have contributed by large gift or
4 small TO this emancipation Thanks to the
/ men, women and children who have helped
and sometimes helped with self sacrifices
that know must have won the applause
of the heavens. II you could only read
/ with me Il few of the thousands of letters
that have come to my desk in The Chris
tian Herald Office, you would know how
| deep their sympathy, how large their sacri-
flee has been. II have sold my bicycle and
/ now send You the money!" is the language
of one noble young man who wrote to The
/ Christian Herald. This is my dead sons
| III to me- and have been led To send it to
you," writes mother in Rhode Island.
| y blind octogcnarian 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 exceptionsg You say that news
! papers sometimes get things wrong. Yes
but which of us does not sometimes get
things wrong. II you want to find man
who has never made mistake, do not
! Thanks To the editors and reporters and
publishers Gentlemen Of the Brooklyn
and New York printing press, il 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 Tabernacle. 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 soon. DO
you not think she ought To have waited till
the lsraelitish host got clear over to Caa-
nan before she struck her knuckles against
the timbrel or tambourinc? Miriam. You
do we'll 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 vet have to
drink ont of the bitter water Of Marah. and
many Of your army will cat so heartily Of
the fallen qua;ls that they will die of collie,
and you will. ut the foot of Sinai, be scared
with thunder. and there will he fiery SER
pents in the way and many battles to fight.
and last of all the muddy Jordan To cross
Miriam. | have no objections to the tam
BOURNE, butdo not jingle its bells or thump
its frightened parchment until you are all
through.
All, my friends, Miriam was right. III
we never shouted victory till we got clear
through the struggles Of this life, we would
never shout Mt all. Copy the habit of Mir
lam and Moses. The moment You get n
victory celebrate it, The time and place
TO hold n jubilee for the safe crossing Of
the Red sea is on its beach and before you
leave it. II is awful. the delayed hosan-
mas, the belatcd hallelnias. the postponed
doxologies. the trains Of Thanksgiving com
ing in 50 long after they are due. II 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
il all and more. Do not he too grateful for
your good health today. for tomorrow you
may get the grip. Do not betoo glad about
your conversion, for you might fall from
grace. Do not rejoice too soon over u
church's dclivcrancc, because there might
be disasters yet To come. Oh, let MS have
no more adjourned gratitude. The time to
thank God for rescue from temptation is
the moment you have broken the wine flask.
The time TO thank God for your salvation
IL the moment after the first flash of par
don. The time To he grateful for the com
fort OF your bercft 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 lsraelite puts his foot on
the sand of the parted inland ocean. Alas.
that when Gods mercies have such swift
wings our praises should have such leadcn
feet.
ACAvALRY CHARGE.
Notice that Miriam's song in nv text had
for its burden the overthrown cavalry. Ii
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 troops. The horse
and his rider hath he thrown into the sea-"
There is something terrible in a cavalry
charge. You see it is not like soldier
afoot, thristinga bayonet ar striking with
n sword, using nothing but the strength of
his own muscle and sncw. fo: the cavalry
man adds to the strength of his own arm
the awful plunge of Il steed ut full gallop.
Tremendous arm of war is the cavalry.
.Iosephus SAYS that in that host that
crossed the Red sea there were $1,000 caval-
rymen. Epaminondas rode into battle with
5000 c;lvalrymcn and Alexander with :. 600
Marlborough depended on his cavalry for
the triumph ut Blenheim. 1t was not alone
the snow that despoiled the French armies
in retreat from Moscow, hut the mounted
Cossacks Cavalrymen decided the battles
Of Leuthen and l.eipsic 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 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 lsraelites down To midway the Red
sea. were unsaddlcd, uns;irruped. unhorsed.
Miriam struck thcccnter of the tambourine
with the full force of "r right hand when
she came to that bar of the music. The
yea" All my friends, it is the mounted
troubles that we must fear. Tho little trou
bles we can endure. The cindcr 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 annoy:,nces and vexations ON foot we
can conquer. but alas for the mounted dis
asters. the bereavemcnts. the bankruptcies.
the prosecutions. the appalling si"' '-sScs
that charge upon us, as it Were. mp
lifted battleax or consuming thu; ut
of power. There are those among my hear.
ers or readers who have had whole resi
ment Of mounted disasters charging upon
tnem But fear not The smallest horse
fly on the neck of pharaoh's war charger,
passing between the crystal palisades Of
the upheaved Red sea. was not more easily
drowned by the falling water, than the
to.000 helmeted and piumed riders on the