Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-06-03

Do not be too grateful for your good
health to-day, for tomorrow You may
get the grip. Do not be too glad about
your conversion, for you might faii
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 graf
itude!
The time to thank God for a rescue
from temptation is the moment after
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
comfort of your bereft soul is the first
moment of Christ's appearance Mt the
mausoleum of Lazarus. The time for
Miriam's tambourine to sound its most
iubilant note is the moment the last
Israelite puts his foot on the sand on
the parted inland ocean. Alas, that
when Gods mercies have such swift
wings our praises should have such
leaden feet.
Notice that Miriam's song in my text
had for its burden tae overthrown cav
airy. 1t was not so much the infantry
or the men on foot over whose defeat
she rejoiced with ringing timbrel,
but over the men on horseback-the
mounted troops. THE horse and his
rider hath he thrown into the sea-"
There is something terrible in cav
airy charge. You see it is not like a
soldier afoot, thrusting bayonet or
striking with sword, using nothing
but the strength of his own muscle
and sinew, for the cavalryman adds
to the strength of his own arm the
awful plunge of stecd ut full gallop.
Tremendous arm of war is the cavalry!
Josephus says that in that host that
crossed the Red sea there were $4,000
cavalrymen. Epaminondas rode into
battle with 5000 cavalrymen and Alex
ander with 1000. Marlborough depended
on his cavalry for the triumph at Blen-
helm. 1t was not alone the snow that
dospoiled the French armies in retreat
from Moscow. but the mounted Cos
sacks. Cavalrymen decided the battles
of Leuthen. and Leipsic, and Winches.
ter, and Hanover court house, and Five
Forks. Some of you may have been in
the relentless raids led on by Forrest, or
Chalmers. or Stuart of the southern
side. or Pleasanton, or Wilson, or Kill
patrick. 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
grateful that the Egyptian cavalrymen,
pursuing the Israelites down to midway
the Red sea, were unsaddled, unstir-
ruped, endorsed. Miriam struck the
center of the tambourine With the full
force of her right hand when she came
to that bar of the music, The horse
and his rider hath he thrown into the
sea" All, my friends. it is mounted
troubles that we most fear. The little
troubles 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 annoyance and veXations on
foot we can conquer, but alas for the
mounted disasters. the bereavements,
the bankruptcies. the prosecutions, the
sickneses that charge upon
us, as it were, with uplifted battleaX
or consuming thunderbolt of power.
There are those among my hearers or
readers who have had n whole regi-
ment of mounted disasters charging
upon them. But fear not. The small
est horsefiy on the neck of Pharaoh's
war charger, passing between the crys-
tai palisades Of the upheaved Red sea,
was not more easily drowned by the
falling waters than the $1,000 helmeted
and plumed riders on the backs OF the
so, 900 neighing and caparisoned war
chargers.
And have to tell you, o child OF God,
that the Lord, who is on your side now
and forever, has at his disposal and I'M
der his command all waters, all winds,
all lightnings, all time and all eternity.
Come. look me in the face while utter
the word God commands me to speak
to you, mo weapon formed against you
shall prosper Don't throw away your
tambourine. You will want it as sure
as you sit there and l stand here, and
the tune you will yet play on it.whether
standing on beach of time or beach of
eternity, will be the tune that Miriam
played when she cried, Sing We to the
Lord. for He hath triumphed glorious
w; the horse and His rider hath He
thrown into tho sea-"
Iexpect to have good laugh with
You in Heaven, for the Bible says in
Luke, sixth chapter, twenty-first verse,
blessed are We that weep now, for We
shall laugh" We shall not spend all
eternity psalm singing, but sometimes
in review of the past, as Christ says, we
shall laugh. There is nothing wrong
in laughter. 1t all depends on what
You laugh ut, and when you laugh, and
bo,v Won lauph. Nothing, it seems.