Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-06-17

such swift wings CUR praises should have
such Ieaien feet. /
Notice ths. .nuian's song IN my text had
PR IL burden the overthrown cavalry. II
was not SO much the infantry or the men an ,
foot over whose defeat she rejoiced with
ringing tfnbrel, bot over the men on horse
baek-the mountedtrccpsl 'fThe horse and
HIS rider hath He thrown Into the sea-" Ire .
mcndous arm OF war is the cavalry Josephus
saws mat n mat host that crossed the Red |
Sea there were SO, 200 cavalrynen. Epanin-
ondas rode into battle with 5000 cayalrynen
aud Alexander with 1000. Marlborough de-
pended en- his cavalry for the triumph at
Blehhein2- It waa not alone the snow that
despoiIed the French armies ID retreat f,nu
Mo-cow, out rne mounted Cossacks. Cav
alrymeu decided the battles Of Leuthen and
Le4psic and Winchester, and Hanover Court
House and Five Forks. Some OF you may
Eave 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
alryme1-
No wonder mat Miriam was chiefly grateful
that the Egyptian cavalrymeu, pursuing the
Israelite. down 10 midway the Red sea, were
~unsaddled, unstirruped, endorsed
And 1 have to tell you, o child Of God, that
the Lord, VINO Is on your side now and Tor
ever, has at His disposal and under His COM
f. lil1A iii NdkfI-. al H3lItAS III GA
time and all eternity. Come, look me- in tho
face while ] utter tina word God aonmands
me 10 speek to you, NO weapon formed
against you shall prosper" Don't throw
away your taubourlne. You will want II "a
SURF as you sit there and l stand here. and
the tune you will yet play on 1t, whether
standing on beach of time or beach OF etern-
ity. will be the tune that Miriam played when
she cried Sing re to the Lord. for He hath
triuInrf,d ClOriously the horse and his rider
hath He thrown into the sea.
expect to have a good laugh with you In
heaven. for the Bible says Ii Luke, sixth
chapter, twenty-tirst verse. blessed are ya
that Weep now, for We shall laugh We
shall not spend ali eternity psalm slnglng,
but sometimes il review Of the past, as
Christ says. we shall laugh. There IS
nothing wrong in laughter. 1t all depends
on what you laugh at. AMI when you lau-l-
Nothing. it seems, will more thoroughly
klndle our heavenly hiIarities after We have
rot inside tho pearIs gate than to SEQ how ii
ttle world Wc cot scared at <thiE-S which
tli4l1 not to nave frightened tIs ut al.
i{uE often We work ourselves mp INTO I
great stow about nothing, The BED So. ~
for" may lie deep. and II" Egyptian cavalry
behind IL. nay te we'll mounted, Int II wd
trust the Lort W. will 90 through no moro
hurt ~ the water than when IN ~tpyhooi We
Police cur garments to the knee and bare
foot crossed the meadow brook IN the old
homestead. The odds may seem to he All
against YOU, hut ! guess it will 80 all right
with YOU if YOU hay" Gol on your sid" and
angelic Kingdoms. If God be for you, who
can be against vou?'
Eut let ms ~criticisa Miriam a little for the
instrument Of music she employed III the Ii
Viz" service on the sandy beach. Why not
take some other instrument? The harp was
a sacred instrument. Why did she not take
rnar: III" cymnaI was a sacred instrument.
Why did she not take that? The trumpet
Wa 2 sacred instrument. Why did she not
tax 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 Ovt- a nations
rescue. first through the retreat of the waves
Of the Red sea, and then through the clap
ping Of tho hands Of their destruction. SO /
withdraw my criticism of Miriam. Let every
one take her or his best mode of divine wor-
snip and celebration. My idea of heaven is
that it is Il place whore we can do as we
please ana have everything we want. OF
course we will do nothing wrong and want
nothing harmful.
How much Of the material and physical
viii finally make up the heavenly world |
know not. but think Gabriel viii 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 as | cannot make music on
any Of them [ think l 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 a day it 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
uD1cr the waves.
Ioh. crimson floods roll over them and
gown them, and drown them foreveri In
his world We have SO little time for that.
am looking forward to eternal socialities.
To ic with God and never sin against Him.
To he with Christ and forever feel HislOve. To
walk together In robes of white with those with
whom on earth we walked together In black
ralrnent OF mourning. To gather up the
members of our scattered families and en-
brace them with no embarrassment. though
all heaven be looking on.
\ mine in Scotland caved in and caught
amid the rocks a young man who in q few
days was TO have been united in holy mar
ria-". No ono could get heart to tell his
atfianced of the death OF her beloved, but
some one made her believe that he had
changed his mind about the marriage and
wlllfully 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
, A. = jhoi4i Sh' Ia ali Itphft JlSI as II was
tn" day Of the calamity. Strong. manly.
: nohl" youth. be sat there looking as on the
| day h. died. But no one recognized the
, silent form.
After awhile they called the Oldest inhab-
> itants to como and see If any one could rec
r ognize him. 4 woman with bent form and
t. her hair snowy white with years came last
and looking upon the silent form that had
I been SO completely preserved gave q bitter
cry and fell into a long swoon. It was the
nrsl "a " ON n i "a ~ IE---
q t. have been welded. looking then Just as
1 when IN the days Of their youth their afrec-
: lions had commingled. But the emotion OF
I her soul was too great for mortal endurance
. anu two days after those who fifty years be-
/, fore were TO have Joined hands IN wedlccl
!. were at last married in the tomb. and side by
sid they wait for the resurrection
II II. friends. we shall come at last upor
those ~ our loved ones who long ago ha.tee
mthe Journey OF life. They will he rs TAI,
AMI teautiful-yea, fairer AMI NOR. heauti-
: Iol than when We parted from them.
= | - them nOW-the itipi-aSSa ia.