Milford chronicle., 1893-06-02
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1898.

ElLl 10 me- NtelA ANN " 0EAAAA AZ -
you, i" writes a mother in Rhode Island.
A blind octOgenarian invalid in York
Pa, sends his mite and his prayer. Thank
to all the newspaper press. Have you no
ticed how kind and sympathetic all the sec
ular newspapers have been, and Of coursl
all the religious newspapers, with two o.
three nasty exceptions? You say that news
papers sometimes get things wrong. Yes
but which of us does not sometimes gel
things wrong. If you want to find mar
who has never made a mistake, do moi
waste your time by looking in this pulpit
Thanks to the editors and reporters anc
publishers Gentlemen Of the Brooklyn
and New York printing press if you nevei
report anything else that 1 say, please to re
port that. Yes, 1 see you are getting it al
down.
As church we from this day make new
departure. We viii 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 ye 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
Z
do well to have the tambOurine ready, but
wait a little before you play it. You are
not vet 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
pents in the way and many battles to fight,
and last of all the muddy Jordan to cross.
Miriaml / have no objections to the tam
BOURNE, but donot jingle its bells or thump
its frightened parchment until you are all
through.
All, my friends, Miriam was right. If
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 Noses The moment you get a
victory celebrate it. The time and place
to hold a jubilee for the safe crossing of
the Red sea is on its beach and ulNfore you
leave it. It is awful, the delay. hosan-
mas, the belated halleluias, the POI 'poned
doxologies, the trains of thanksgivt Som-
ing in so long after they are due. 1t is Nd,
do not rejoice over revival too soon 19r
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
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
is the moment after the first fash Of par
don. The time to be grateful for the COM
fort of your bereft soul is the first moment
of Christ's appearance Mt the mausoleum of
Lazarus The time for Miridms tambOur-
inc to sound its most jubilant note is the
moment the last Israelite puts his foot on
the sand of the parted inland ocean. Alasi
that when Gods mercies have such swift
wings, our praises should have such leaden
feet
A CAVALRY CHARGE.
Notice that Miriam's song in my text had
for its burden the overthrown cavalry. It
was not so much the infantry or the men
on foot over whose defeat che 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"
MI I. ii II.
charge. You see it is not like a soldier
afoot, 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 cavalryl
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 1000
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, 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, OF 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 cayalrymen, pursu-
ing the Israelites down to midway the Red
sea, were unsaddled, unstirruped, unhorsed.
Miriam struck the center of the tambourine
with the full. force of her right hand when
The came to that bar Of the music, "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
asters, the bereavements, the bankruptcies,
the prosecutions, the appalling sicknesses
that charge upon us, as it were, W up
lifted battleax or consuming thuuG bolt
Of power. There are those among my hear
lrs or readers who have had a whole regi-
ment of mounted disasters charging upon
them. But fear not. The smallest horse
hy 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 waters than the
$4,000 helmeted and plumed riders on the
backs Of the $4,000 neighing and capari-
soned war chargers.
And have to tell you, oh, 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 light
nings, all time and all eternity. Come, /
look me in the face while 1 utter the word