Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-06-01

to all who have contributed by large gift or
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. If you could only read
with me 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-
fee has been. 81 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
gift to me, and have been led to send it to
YOU" writes n mother in Rhode Island
A blind uctogenarian 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
ulnr newspapers have been, and of course
I'll the religious newspapers, with two or
three nasty EXCEPTIONS 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 a mistake, do not
waste vour time by looking in this pulpit.
Thanks to the editors and reporters and
publishers. Gentlemen of the brooklyn
and New York printing press, if you never
report anything else that say, please to re-
! port that Yes, | see you are getting it all
| down.
Asa 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-
partmcnts We viii in the autumn re-
sumo our lay college, We will fill all the
rooms of this magnificent pile with work
- 1 a.. bttt,
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 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 rejoced too soon? Do
YOU not think she ought to have waited till
the lsraeitish host got clear over to Caa-
nan before she struck her knuclles against
the timbrel ortamhourine? Miriaml You
do well 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 yet have to
drink out of the bitter water of Marah, and
many of yopr 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
penis in the way and many battles to fight,
and last of I'LL the muddy Jordan to cross.
Miriam! | 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 Moses The moment you get a
victory celebrate it. The time and place
to hold u jubilee for the safe crossing Of
the Red sea is on its beach and before you
leave it. 1t is awful, the delayed hosan-
mas, the belated halleluias, the postponed
doxologics, the trains of thanksgiving com
ing in so long after they are due. 1t 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
it all and more. Do not be too grateful fol
your good health today, for tomorrow you
may get the grip. Do not he too glad about
your conversion, for you might fall from
grace. DO not rejoice too soon over
church's deliverance, because there might
no more adjourned gratitude! The time tC
thank Sod for rescue from temptation i,
the moment you have broken the wine flask
The time to thank God for your salvation
is the moment after the first flash of par
don. The time to be grateful for the com
fort of your bereft soul is the first moment
of Christs appearance at the mausoleum o
Lazarus. The time for Miriams tambOur
inc to sound its most jubilant note is tn,
moment the last Israelite puts his foot OF
the sand OF the parted inland ocean. Alas
that when Gods mercies have such swift
wings, our praises should have such leader
feet.
A CAVALRY CHARGE.
Notice that Miriam's song in my text hat
for its burden the overthrow cavalry
was not so much the infantry or the mel
on foot over whose defeat She reioiced Will
ringing timbrel, but over the men on horse
back-the mounted troops! The hors
and his rider hath he thrown into the sea
There is something terrible in a cavalr,
charge You see it is not like soldie
afoot, thrustinga bayonet or striking witt
Il sword, using nothing but the strength 0
| his own muscle and sinew, for the cavalry
man adQs to the strength of his own arm
! the awful plunge Of Il stced at full gallon
Tremendous arm Of war is the cavalry
= Josephus says that in that host tina
crossed the Red sea there were 10000 caval
rymen. Epamuondas rode into battle wit
5000 cavalrymen and Alexander with Z OW
, Marlborough depended on his cavalry fo
the triumph at Benheim 1t was not alon
the snow that despoiled the French armie
in retreat from Moscow, but the mounte,
} Cossacks. Cayalrymen decided the battle
of Leuthen and Leipsic and Wincheste
and Hanover Courthouse and Five Forks
. Some of you may have been in the RELENTLESS
raids led on by Forrest or Chalmers or Mon
gan or Stuart of the southern side or Plea,
anton, or Wilson - Fitzpatrick or Sherida
of the northern side. The army saddle
are the thrones Of battle. Hurricanes i
stirrups are the cavalrymen.
No wonder that Miriam was chiefly CRATE
full that the Egyptisl cayalrymen, pursl
ing the Israelites down TO midway the Re
sea, were unsaddled unstirruped, unhorseC
: Miriam struck thece of the tambourin
/ with the full force of her right hand whe
4 She came to that bar Of the music, 9Th
4 horse and his rider hath he thrown into tn