The free press., 1893-06-15

foot over whose defeat she reJolced Wltf
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 80. 900 cavarymen. Epamln-
ondas rode into battle with 5000 cavalrymen
and Alexander with 1000. Marlborough de-
pended on his cavalry for the triumph at
Blenheim. 1t 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 oil
the southern side, or Pleasanton or wilson
or Kilpatrick 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
Israeites down to midway the Red sea- were
unsaddled, unstirruped, unhorsed.
And have to tell you, o 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, 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 tambourne. You Will want II az
sure as YOU sit there and L stand mere, anu
the tune you will yet play Oh IT, wnetnei
standing ON beach of time or beach OF etefh-
itv will be the tune that Miriam played when
she cried "Sing ye to the Lord, for he main
triumphed gloriously the horse ana MS rlaeI
hath He thrown into the sea.
expect to have good laugh with you IN
heaven. for the Bible says In Luke, slXth
chapter, twenty-frst verse, BLESSED are ye
that weep now. for ye shall laugh" We
shall not spend all eternity psalm singing
hnt sometimes in review OF the past, as
Christ says, we shall laugh. Ihere Is
nothing wrong in laughter. 1t all depends
on what you laugh at, and when you laugn.
Nothing, It seems, will more thorouSHy
kindle our heavenly hilar1tles after we nave
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 be-
fore NAV be deep, and the Egyptian cavalry
behind us NAV be we'll mounted, but II we
trust the Lord we will go through no more
hurt by the water than when IN poyhood 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 1t Will be all rlght
with vou if you have God on your SIDE ana
all the angelic. cherubic, seraphic and arch
angelic kingdoms. 'If God be Tor you, VINO
can be against you? ,,
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
that? The cymbal was sacred instrument.
Why did she not take that? The trumpet
was a sacred instrument. 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 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. Ny idea of heaven is
that it is a place where we can do as we
please and have everything we want. OF
course we will do nothing wrong and want
nothing harmful.
How much of the material and 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 tmbrel and as / cannot make music on
any of them l 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 it will be when we stand on
the beach of heaven and look back on the
Red sea of this world 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 time for that, l
am looking forward to eternal socialties.
70 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
all heaven be looking on.
A mine in Scotland cayed in and caught
amid the rocks "a young man who in a few
days was to have been united in holy mar
riage. No one could get heart to tell his
affianced of the death of her beloved, but
some one made her believe that he had
changed his mind about the marriage and
willfully disappeared. Fifty years passed on,
when one day the miners delving 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 it 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-
itants to come and see if any one could rec
ognize him. 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. 1t was the
one to whom half a century before she was
to have been welded, looking then just as
when in the days of their youth their affec-
tions had commingled. But the emotion OF
her soul was too great for mortal endurance,
and two days after those who fifty years be-
fore We're to have joined hands in wedlock
were at last married in the tomb, and side by
side they 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 beautiful-yea fairer and more beauti-
full than when we parted from them.
/ see them now-the glorified- assembled
for celebration mightier and more jubilant