Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-11-01

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. \ black
horse--that meant famine. a pale
horse-that meant death \ white
horse-that meant victory. Good Nor
decai mounts him while lIauan holds
the bit. The church's advance in the
Bible is compared to company of
horses of Pharoah's chariot. Jeremiah
cries our, "llow caust thou contend with
hOrses?" Isaiah says, "The horses
hoofs shall he counted as flint" Miriam
claps her cymbals and sings, "rhe horse
and the rider hath he thrown into the
sea" st. John describing Christ as
coming forth from conquest to conquest
represents him AS seated on white
horse. In the parade of heaven the
Bible makes US hear the clicking of
hOofs on the golden pavement as it says.
"Ihe armies which were in heaven fol
lowed him on white horses ! should
not wonder if the horse, so banged and
bruised and beaten aud outraged on
earth, should have some other place
where his wrongs shall be righted do
not assert it, but ! say | should not be
surprised if. after all, st. Johns de-
scriptions of the horses in heaven turned
out not altogether to be figurative, but
somewhat literal.
As the Bible makes a favorte of the
horse. tile patriarch and the prophet aud
the evangelist and the apostle strOking
his sleek hide and paIting his rounded
neck and tenderlv lifting his eXquisltelY
formed hOOf and listening with "A thrill
to the champ of his bit, so all great
natures in all ages have spoken of him
i'm encomiastic terms. Virgil in his
Georges almost seems to plagiarize from
this description i'm the text, so much are
the descriptions aile-the description of
Virgil and the description of job.
But what shall say of the maltrcat-
mcnt of this beautiful and wonderful
creature of God? If Thomas Chalmers
in his day felt called upon to preach Il
sermon against cruelty to animals, how
much more in this day is there II need Of
rpprehensive discourse? All honor to
the memory of Professor Bergh, the
chief apostle for the brute creation, for
the mercy he demanded and achieved for
this king of beasts. y man who owned
I 600 horses. and some say 10000 wrote
i'm the Bible "A righteous man regard
eth the life of his beast Sir Henry
LnWrence's care of the horse was bearF-
fully Christian. He says: IL expect
we shall lose Conrad. though | have
taken SO much care of him that he may
come in cool. always walk him the
last four or five miles. and rs | walk my
self the first hour. it i only IN the
middle OF the JOURNEYS we get over
the ground. The Ettrlck shepherd
in his matchleSS AmOruSlal Nights
speaks OF the maltreatment OF the morse
"a practical blasphemN do not
believe in the tran Smigration OF souls
but cannot very severely denounce the
idea, Tor when see men VINO eur anu
bruse ana whack ana welt ana strike ana
maui and outrage and insult the horse,
that beautiful servant of the human race,
who carries our burdens and pulls our
ploughs. and turns orr threshers ana
our mills, and runs for our doctors
when see men thus beating and ahuS-
ing and outraging that creature, 1t seems
10 me that it would be only fair that the
doctrine OF transmlgratlon OF souls
should prove true, and that Tor their
punishment they should pass over into
some poor miserable brute and he beaten
and whacked and cruelty treaIed' ana
frozen and heated ana oNer-drlVeh: lhto
an everlasting stage horse, an eternal
traveller on towpath, or tied TO AL
eternal post in an eternal winter
smitten with eternal eplzootlcs
But not only do our humanity ana our
Christian principle and the dictates OF
God demand that we kindly treat the
brute creation, and especially the horse
but go further and say that whatever
can be done for the development OF ms
tleetness and his strength ana ms males
~ ought to be done. We need to stud
his anatomy and his adaptations. AN
glad that large books have been writer
10 show how he can he best managed
and how his ailments can be cured, anc
what his usefulness Is. and what hi
capacities are. 1t would be "A shame ii
this age OF the world. when the tlori>l
has turned the thin Hover OF the wooc
into gorgeous rose and the pomologisi
has changed the acrid and gnarled trui
of the ancient into the very poetry OF
pear and peath ana plum and grape anC
apple. aud the snarling eur of the Orient
has become Il great maStill. and the mis-
cradle creature of the olden times barn
ward has become the Devonshire, ano