The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-11-21
MODERN RACE TRACKS.
Or. Talmage Talks of the Evils of the
Ring Betting.
The Nsughtiness of the Hosssmen Of To-
Day-An ELOQUENT P,ra for the Noble
Horsc, and strong Decentralization D.:
e Of Ills MaltrcaImant. " %5@ -:

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the daily press, viz: THE Dissipation,
Of the Race Course" His text was Jot
xxxix 10, Fl, 25: Hast Thou given the
horse strength? Hast Thou clothed
his neck with thunder? He paweth in
the valley, and rejoiceth; he goeth on
TO meet the armed men. He saith
among the trumpets, ha, hal and he
smelleth the battle afar off, the thun.
der of the captains, and the shout.
ing" -~" = r.. .. ,".s. ...'
We have recently had long columns
OF intelligence from the race course,
and multitudes flocked to the watering
places to witness equine competition,
md there Is lively discuss ION in all
households about the right and wrong
Of such exhibitions of mettle and
speed, and when there is a heresy abroad
that the cultivation of !. horses feet
ness IL an iniquity instead of a com
mendable yirtue-at such time a SER
mon is demanded of every minister
who would like TO defend public morals
on the one hand, and who is not will
ing to see an unrighteous abridgement
of innocent amusement on the other
40 NANS NSoASh \ ohdlA 1OAlo" no SER
monte precedent, but will give indie
pendently what I consider the Chris
tian and common-sense view of this
potent, all-absorbing and agitating
question of the turf.
There needs to be q redistribution of
coronets among the brute creation.
For ages the lion has been called the
king of beasts. ! knock off its coronet
and put the crown upon the horse; in
every way nobler, whether in shape or
spirit or sagacity or intelligence, or af-
man and knows how to reason on a
small scale. The centaur of olden
times, part horse and part man, seems
to be suggestion OF the fact that the
horse is something more than a beast.
Job in my text sets forth his strength,
his beauty, his ma jesty, the painting of
his nostril, the paving of his hoof and
his enthusiasm for the battle
What Rosa Bonheur did for
the cattle, and what Landseer
did for the dog, job with mightier
times does the Bible speak OF him. lie
comes into every kingly procession,
and into every great occasion, and into
every triumph. 1t is very evident
that job and David and Isaiah and
Ezekiel and jeremiah and John were
fond of the horse. lie comes into much
of their imagery. a red horse-that
meant war. A black horse-that
famine. A pale horse-that
death. A white horse-that
victory. Good Mordecai mounts
church's advance in the Bible is COM
pared to a company Of horses of Pha-
roah's chariot Jeremiah cries out:
How canst thou contend with horses?"
Isaiah says: The horses hoof shall be
counted as flint" Miriam claps her
cymbals and sings: The horse and
the rider hath he thrown into the
sea-" St. John, describing Christ as
coming forth from conquest to con-
quest, represents him as seated on
white horse.
In the parade of Heaven the Bible
makes us hear the clicking of hoofs on
the gold pavement rs it says, The
armies which were in Heaven followed
him on white horses" / should not
If the horse, so banged and
bruised and beaten and outraged on
earth, should have some other place
where his wrongs shall be righted.
10 not assert it, but ] say shoald not
be surprised il, after all, ST. Johns de-
of the horses in Heaven
surned out not altogether TO be fgura-
i've, but somewhat literal.
As the Bible makes a favorite of the
morse, the patriarch and the prophet
md the evangelist and the apostle
strolsing his sleek hide and patting his
rounded neck and tenderly lifting his
formed hoof and listen
ng with a thrill to the champ
IL his bit SO all great natures in all
ages have spoken of him in encomi-
lstic terms Virgil, in his Georges,
almost seems TO plagiarize from this |
In the text, so much are |
The descriptions aliketl 8 description |
81 Virgil and the description Of Job. |
The duke OF Wellington would not al.
ow any one irrevcrently 10 touch his
I'D war horse Copenhagen, on whom
ne had ridden fifteen hours without |
at Waterloo, and when
I'D Copenhagen died his master or
Tered military salute fred over his
grave, John Howard showed that
le did not exhaust all his sympathies
n plying the human race, for when
lick he writes home: "Has my old
.haise horse become sick or
poiled? There is hardly any passage
N x.tlnssx
han the lamentation over the death of
he war charger, Marchegay. Walter
scott has SO much admiration for this