Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-11-01

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aud hlanketei in comfortable stall. The
long tried and faithful servant Of the human
+ race deserves an kindness. all care. all r.
ward all sueculaut forage and soft litter and
naraiisaical nasture field. Those farms in
Kentucky and Ia different parts Of the North.
where the horse Is trained To perfection IN
feetness aud Ga beauty and in majesty, ara
wall set apart. There Is no more virtue In
driving slow than in driving fast any more
than freight train going ten miles the
hour IS better than an express train going
nftv.
There is a delusion abroad in the world
that thing must be necessarily good and
Christian IL IL is slow and duh and plodding.
fhereare very Few good people who seem 70
imagine IL is humby pious to drive a
spawned. CALLED. glanierel. spring halted
blind staggered jade. There is not so much
virtue in Rosinante a IN Bucephalus
We want swifter horses. and swifter men,
and swifter enterprises. AMI the church Of
God needs 10 get on its Jog trOt. Quick tenn
pests. quick lightniugs. quick steams; why
not QUick horses In the time Of war the
cavalry service does the most execution, aud
rs the battles Of the world are probably not
all past. our Christian patriotism demands
that We be interested in equinal velocity
We might as well have poorer guns in our
arsenals and clumsier ships in our navy
yards than other Nations rs to have under
our cavalry saddles and before our parks Of
artillery slower horses. From the battle Of
Granicus, where the Persian horses drove
the Macedonian infantry into the river.
clear down to the horses on which Philip
Sheridan and StOnewall Jackson rode into
the fray. this arm Of the military service
has been recognized. Hamilrar Hanni-
bal. Gustavus Adolphus, Marshal Ney were
cavalrymen. In this arm Of the service
Charles Martel At the battle of Poitiers beat
back the Arab invasion. The Carthaginian
cavalry. with the loss OF only 100 men, over
threw the Roman army with the loss OF TO-
600. In the same way the Spanish chiyalry
drove back the Moorish hordes. The best
way to keep peace in this country and in all
countries is 10 he prepared for war.anl there
Is no success in such n contest unless there
Ne plenty Of light footed chargers. Our
Christian patriotism AMI our instruction
from the word of God demand that first Of
all we kindly treat the horse, aud then after
that, that we develop his ieetnrss and his
grandeur and his majesty and his strength
But what shall | say Of the effort being
made in this day on large scale to make
this splendid creature OF God, this divinely
hOuored being. an instrument OF atrociOuS
evil? / make NO iudsrriminate assault
against the turf, believe in the turf if it
can he conducted on right principles and
with no betting. There Is no more harm in
Offering prize for the swlftest racer than
there is harm at an agricultural fair in offer
ING q prize to the farmer who has the best
wheat. or to the fruit grower who has the
largest pear. or 10 the machini~t who pre-
sents the hast corn thrasher, or In a school
offering p prize Of q copy OF Shakcspea to
the best reader. or in a household giving
lump of sugar 20 the best behaved voung~ter
Prizes by all means. rewards by all means.
That is the way God develops the race. r.
L. .t1i e. L. of Al l,fV
itself is called a prize. "the prize OF
the high calling Of God in Christ Je-
sus.' So what is right in one direction is
right in another direction. And wlthOuttho
prizes the horses iieetuess and beauty and
strength will never be fully developed. lit
cost $1,000 or 5000 or 7l0. 0Oj and the result
be achieved, il is cheap. But the sin begins
where the betting begins. for that is gam
bling. or the effort to get that for which you
give no equivalent, and gambling, whether
On a large scale or small scale, ought to be
denounced OF men rs Il will be acCursed OF
God. II YOU have won fifty cents or 5000
/ rs Il wager, you had better get rid Of il. Get
rid Of it right away. Give il 10 some one
who lost in a bet, or give it to some great
retOrmatOry institution, or II you do not like
that, go down 70 the river and pitch it of
the docks. You cannot afford to keep il. 1t
will burn q hole in your purse, il will burn a
hole in your estate, and you Will lose all that,
/ perhaps 1000 times more-pernaps you will
lose ali. Gambling blasts man or il blasts
his children, generally both and all.
| What spectacle when at Saratoga, or at
Long Branch, or at Brighton Beach. or at
Sheepshead Bay, the horses start, and In
/ flash $4,000 or 800, 900 change hands!
| Multitudes ruined by losing the bet. Others
| worse ruined by gaining the bet; for II a man
| lose a bet at a horse race, he may be dis
couraged and quit, but il he win the bet he
is very apt to 90 straight on to hell!
An intimate friend, II journalist, who in
the line Of his profession Investigated this
/ evil. tells me that there are three different
/ kinds of betting at horse races, and they ars
| about equally leprous-by auction pools"
! by French muuals." by what is called
/ '.Dookmaking,-a gambling, all bad, all
! rotten with iniquity. There IS one word
/ that needs to be written on the brow OF every
/ bookseller as he sits deductiug his three or
/ live per cent, and syly ringing up more
/ tickets than were sold on the winning horse
IA word to be written also on the brow
OF every bOOkkeeper who at extra in
/ duccment scratches horse off OF the race,
/ and on the brow II every Jockey who slack
| ems pace that, according to agreement, an
| other may win, and writing over every
/ judges stand, and writing on every board OF
/ the surrounding fences. That word is
/ "swlndler,' Yet thousands bet. Lawyers
/ bet. Judges OF courts bet. Members OF the
/ Legislature bet. Members Of Congress bet.
! Professors of religion bet. Teachers and SUI
perntendents OF Sunday-SrhOOls. l am told.
! DG'. Ladies bet. not directly, but through
/ agents. Yesterday and every day they bet,
they gain they lose; and this summer, while
the parasols swing, and the hands clap, and
| the huzzas deafen, there will be a muititudp
| OF people cajoled and deceived ana cheated,
/ who will at the races go mack and neck, neck
and neck to perditiOn.
Cultivate the horse by all means drive
him as fast az you desire, provided YOU do
not injure him or endanger yourself or
/ Others, bat be careful and do not harness tho
/ horse to the chariot of sin. Do not throw
/ your jewels OfmOrality under the living hoO'.
! Do not under the prcteXt of improving the
| horse destroy a man. Do not have your mama
! put down in the ever increasing catalogue
Of those who are ruined for both worlds
| by the designations of the American race
| course. They say that m honest race course
is a 'straight" track, and that a dishonest
race course is a"crOoked" trlck-that is
the parlance abroad--but tell YOU that every
race track surrounded by betting men and
betting women and betting customs is 4
| straight track-I mean straight down. Christ
! asked in one OF His gospels, SIS not man
better than a sheep?' l say. yes. and he is
better than all the steeis that with tathered
TANKS ever shot around the ring at a race
course. That is n very poor job by which Il
man in order to get a horse to come out
full length ahead of some other racer so
lanes his own morals that he comes out n
whole length behind in the race set before
him.
Do you not realize the fact that there is a
mighty effort on alt sides to-day to get
money without earning it? That is the curse
of all the cities; it is the curse of America
the effort to get money without earning it
and as other forms of stealing are not re-
spectacle, they go into these gambling prac-
tees. preach this sermon on square old
fashioned honesty. L have said nothing
against the hcrse, | have said nothin:
IA bayn soid