The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-11-02
TALMAGE's SERMON.
Tho Groat Preacher Makes an Flo
quent Plea for the Horse,
And. Incidentally, Tells of Race Track
Evils-1he Wicked Ways OF Book
nekers-Tho Horse In
War and peaco.

noh prepared Tor publication this week
discusses "rhe Designations of the Race
Course" basing his words on the text;
Hast thou given the horse strength hast
thou clothsd his neck with thunders He paw
eth n the valley, and rejoiceth: he goeth on e
ineot the armed men, He saith among the
trumpets, ha. la! ana he smelleth the battle
afar or, the thunder OF tho captE-as and the
shoating.-Job xxxix., 10, 81, IS.
We have recently had long columns
OF intelligence from the race course,
and multitudes floclled to the water
lag places to witness equine compete
ton, and there is lively discussion in
all households about the right and
wrong of such exhibitions of mettle
and speed, and when there is q heresy
abroad that the cultivation of a horses
tlcctncss is an iniquity instead OF Il
commenduble virtue-at such Il time u
sermon is demanded of every minister
who would like to defend public
morals on the one hand. and who is
not willing to see an unrighteous
abrdgement OF innocent amusement
on the other. In this discussion !
shall follow no sermonic precedent,
but will give independently what |
consider the Christian and common
sense view OF this potent, ail-absorb-
ing and agitating question of the turf
There needs To be IA redistribution OF
coronets among the brute creation.
For ages the lion has been called the
king of beasts. knock off its cororet
and put the crown upon the horse, in
every way noblcr, whether in shape,
or spirit, or sagacity, or intelligence,
| or Affection, or usefulness. lie is semi
human, and knows how to reason on
Il small scale. The centaur of oldcn
times, part horse and part man, seems
TO be suggestion of the fact that the
! horse is something more than beast.
Job in my text sets forth his strength,
! his beauty, his majesty, the painting OF
| his nostril, the paving of his hoof, and
| his enthusiasm for the battle. What
! Rosa Bonhcur did for the cattle, and
| what Landseer did for the dog,
Job with mightcr pencil does
| for the horse. lightweight times
| does the Bible speak of hin.
| lie comes into every kingly pro-
cession, and into every great occasion,
and into every triumph. 1t is very
! evident that Job, aad David, and
! isaiah, and Ezekiel, aud Jeremiah and
! John were fond of the horse. lie
| comes into much of their imagery. A
! red hoIse--that meant war. a black
| horse--that meant famine. A pale
/ horse-that meant death. A white
! horse--that meant victory. Good
| Mordecai mounts him while Hannah
holds the bit. The church's advance
| i. l. =, al 20.
! OF horses of Pharaoh's chariot. Jere-
miah cries ont: "Ilow canst thou con-
tend with horses?' Isaiah saws:
"The horses hcofs shall be
counted as flint" Miriam claps
her cymbals and sings: 1.-THE horse and
the rider hath lie thrown into the
sea-" st. John describing Christ as
coming forth from conquest to con-
| quest represents Him as seated on u
white horse. In the parade of Heaven
| the Bible makes us hear the clicking
OF hoofs on the golden pavement as it
says: 1.-The armies which were in
Heaven followed Him on white horses"
j should not wander il the horse, SO
banged, and bruised, and beaten, and
outraged on earth; should have some
other place where his wrongs shall be
righted. do not assert 1T, but say
! should not be surprised If. after all,
| st. Johns descriptions of the horses
| in Heaven turned out not altogether
to be figurative, but somewhat literal.
As the Bible makes favorite of the
horse. the patriarch, and the prophet.
and the evangelist, and the apostle
stroking his sleek hide and patting
his rounded neck, and tenderly
lifting his exquisitely formed hoof,
and listening will, thrill to the
champ of his bit, so all great natures
in all ages have spoken of him in en-
comiastic terms. Virgil in his Geor-
GIGS almost seems TO plagiarize from
this description in the text, so much
are the descriptions alilse-the de-
scription of Virgil and the description
of Job. The duke of Wellington WOULD
not allow any one irreverently to
touch his old war horse Copen-
hagen, on whom he had ridden
fifteen hours without dismounting
at Waterloo, and when old Copenha.
gen died his master ordered military
salute fired over his grave. John
Howard showed that he did not ex.
haust all his sympathies in plying
the human race, for when sick he
writes home: "IIas my old chaise
horse become sick or spoilcd?" There
is hardly any passage of French litera
ture more pathetic than the lamenta
ton over the death Of the war charger
, Maj hegay. Walter Scott has sc
much admiration for this divinely
honored creature of God that t.
"St. Romans Well" he order,
the girth slackened and the
blanket thrown over the smols
ing TANKS. Edmund Burke, walk
), ing in the park at Beaconsfeld, mus
Ing over the past, throws his arm
: around the worn-out horse of his deat
a son, Richard, and weeps upon tn,
horses neck, the horse seems to sym
n pathize in the memories. Rowlan,
Hill. the great English preacher, wa
G caricatured because in his family pray
n ers he duplicated for the recovery o
Y O sick horse, but when the horse go
we'll, contrary tn all the prophecies o
I, The farriers, tho prayer did not seen
). quite so much OF an absurdity.
t But what shall / say Of the maltrca'