Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-10-25
RACE COURSE EVILS.
REV. Or. TALMAeE DISCUSSES THE
SUBJECT or TURF GAMBLING.

She Christian and Common Sense View o.
Trials Of Speed by the Horse-sin Be
gins with BettinG-The Way to Drive q
Horse.
NEW YORK. Oct sO.-In his sermon for
today Rev. Or, Taimage discusses q topic
which for months past has bocna familiar
one In the daily pross-yiz, "Thc Dissi-
pations Of the Race Course" His text
was job xxx, 10, q, %: HAST thou
given tho horse strength? Hast thou
clothed his neck with thunderf He pawetli
in the valley and rejolceth; he goeth on to
meet the armed men. He saith among the
trumpets, ha, hal and he smelleth the bat
tie afar of, the thunder Of the captains,
and the shouting.
We have recently had long columns Of
Intelligence from the race course and null
titudes locked to the Watering places to
witness equine competition, and there is
lively discussion In all households about
the right and wrong Of such exhibitions Of
mettlo and speed and when there is a her
esy abroad that tho cultivation Of q horse's
tloetness is an iniquity instead Of q COM
mendablo virtue-at such time a 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 I'M
righteous abridginent of innocent Gmuse-
ment on the other. In this discussion l
shall follow no sermonic precedent, but
will give independently what l consider
the Christian and common sense view Of
this potent, all absorbing and agitating
question Of the turf,
A Noble Beast.
There needs be a redistribution Of
ooronots among the brute creation. For
ages tho lion has been called the king OF
beasts. l knock off its ooronet and puU
the crown upon the horse, in every way
nobler whether in shape or spirit or sa-
gacity or Intelligence or affection or use
fulneSs. He is scmihuman, and knows
how to reason on a small scale. The cen
taur Of olden times, part horse and part
man, seems to be a suggestion Of the fact
that the horse is something more than
beast. Job in my text sets forth his
strength, his beauty, h majesty tho pant=
ing 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
mightierpncil does for the horse, Eighty
eight times docs the Bible speak Of him.
He 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 Jere-
miah and John were fond of the horse He
comes into much of their imagery. A red
horse--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 adj
vance in the Bible is compared to COM
pany of horses of Pharoah 8 chariot, ,Ieres
miah cries out, elbow canst thou contend
with hOrsos2" Isaiah says, 1.-The horse s
hoofs shall be counted as flint" Miriam
Chaps her cyiubals and sings, 1.-The horse
and tho rider hath he thrown into the
sea-" st. John, describing Christ as COM
ing forth from conquest to conquest, repre-
sents 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, "The armies which
We're in heaven followed him on white
horses. I should not wonder if the horse,
SO banged and bruised and beaten and
on earth, should have some other
place where bis wrongs shall be righted.
do not assert it, but I say I should not
be surprised if, after all, ST. Johns de-
of the horses in heaven turned
out not altogether to be flgurative, but
literal.