Kansas City daily journal., 1895-10-21
SIN ON The RACECOURSE.
DIR. TALMAuH DtsCoURsEs UPON The
EVILS OF TBt SPEED RING.
lie Says Nothing Against the Turf Nor
Against the Horse, but De-
nounces the Prostitu-
tion of sport.

tion of sport.
New York. oct. 2o-In his sermon for
| which for months past has been tamil ar
one, In the daily pres, VIZ: The Dissipa-
job xNixI9-2l.25, Hast thou given the
horse Strength hast thou clothed his neck
with thunder2 lie paweth in the valley
ana rejOiceth; he goeth on to meet the
armed men. lie satin among the trumpets.
ma, ha! and he smelleth the battle afar
on, the thunder OF the captains. and the
W. have recently had long columns of
Intelligence from the racecourse, and null
! utudes Hooked TO the watering places to
I Witness equine competition, and there is
! NNelN discussion IN all households about
! m"ttle and speed. and when there is hereey
| abroad that the cultivation of a horse S
| heetness Is an iniquity Instead OF n com
/ incndable Nirtue--at such u time n sermon
| Is demanded OF every minister who would
Ike to defend public morals on the one
| hand, and who is not willing to see an un-
amusement on the other. In this
monic precedent but will give independ-
| ehtly what ] consider the Christian and
eorning and agitating question or the turf.
There needs to be redistribution OF cor
| onets among the brute creation. For aree
| knock off its coronet and put the crown
| upon the horse, in every way nobler,
! SdEaN.tN,
or intellisence. or affection, or usefulness.
ne rs Semi-humani and knows how 10
reason Ic3son on a small scale The centaur OF
olden umes, part horse and part man,
! seems to be suEgts stion OF the fact that
ths horse is something more than beast,
| y9b in my text. sets forth his streng tn,
! his beauty his majesty, the painting OF
! MS nostrl, the paving Of his hoof, and
MS enthqstasm for the battle.
! What Rosa Bonheur did for the cattle
and what Laudseer did for the dog: job
With mlghtier pencil does for the horse
OF him. He comes into every kinsly pro pro.
oession: and into, every great occasion
Ezekiel and jeremiah, and j6Rn, i'''' We're 'tS
their imageiy red horse"that "tiE t'r9a meaHt nj
war A black horse-that meant famine, A
saa, ~Gaq5 2stoy de%5 GOOD orGads sf
! mounts him while Haman holds the bit
! chariot. Jeremiah cries out How canst
'19n Sa e9nsas Sols. Sdo} Tt9 Isaiah says
fint." Miriam claps her cymbais and
sings, The tn, horse and the rider, hath he
| Christ as coming forth from conquest to
conquest represents him as seated on a
Bible makes us hear the clicking Of hoofs
| ON the golden pavement as 1t says "The
on white horses should e'' not tI'WWnd Wonder r' If
the horse, so banged, and bruised, and
her fq pace where e s wrGnr s4Gqd
he righted ! do not assert it. but say
ob,} f9qgld not be surprised If after all ST
turned out not altogether to be figurative
but somewhat, literal.
the evangelist, and the apostle stroking
neck, and tenderly lifting his exquisiteiv
formed hoof and listening with a thrill
1 lures in all ages have spoken OF him in
encomiasuc terms. Virgil in his Georgics
atmost adni9s,o seems to pagiarze from this de-
descriptions alike-the description OF Virgil
The Duke of Wellington would not allow
any one lrreverently 10 touch his old war
. horse Copenhagen on whom he had ridden
fifteen hours without dismounting at Wat
erloo, and when old Copenhagen died his
his grave John Howard showed that he
Ing the human race for when sick he
writes home, Has my old chaise horse
become sick or snoled?" There is hardly
any passage of French literature more pa
thetic than the iamentation over the death
Of the war eharger' MiarGghegay. Waiter
dainyneIy I hq9orGd T,T,! creature Of God that IN
slackened and the blankets thrown over
the smoking TANKS. Edmund Burke, walk
ing In the park at Beaccnstield, musins
over the past throws his arms around the
and weeps upon the horses neck, the horse
seeming to symuathize with the memories.
p
was caricatured because in his family
prayers he supplicated for the recovery Of
contrary to all the prophecies OF the far
rlers, the prayer di1 not seem quite so
much OF. an apsmriity
ment of this beautiful and " nderful Great
ure of God? II Thomas Chalmers in his
day felt called upon to, preach a sermon
I'm this day is there need of reprehensiVe
discourse. All honor TO the memory on
brute creation, for the mercy he demanded
and achieved for this, king Of beasts;
m9H Il Wn9 wrote 9Tmea in tbd t Bbe qH
man ma regardeth the life of his beast" Sir
Henry Lawrenr's,s care Of the horse xHao was
We y.' shan lose Conrad, though have taken
so much care Of him, that he may come In
four or five mills, and as ! walk myself the
first hour. it is only in the middle OF the
The Ettrlck Shepherd in his. matchless
"Ambrosal Nights" speaks of the NAL
treatment Of the horse as a practical bias
grafton Of souls but ! cannot very severely
denounce the idea, for when ! see see ai, men
and strike and maui and outrage and In
suit the horse, that beautiful servant OF the
pulls our plows, and turns our threshers
and our mills, and runs for our doctors
and Outraging that creature, IT seems 10
me that IL would be only fair that the doc,
trlne OF franSmlgrdtl0n OF sous snould
prove true, and that for their punishment
they should pass over into some poor mis-,
erable brute and he beaten and whacked
and cruelty treated, and frozen and heated
and oVerdriven; into an everlasting stage
horse an eternal traveller on towpath, oil
tied 10 an eternal post, In an eternal win
ter, smitten with eternal epizootics!
oh, Is 1t not a shame that the brute crea'
tion, which had the first possession of the
world, should be so maltreated by the race
that came at last-the fowl and the fst
created on the fifth day, the horse and the
cattle created on the morning OF the sixth
day and the human race not created unit
the evening OF the sixth day? 1t ought &c
be that If any man oyerdrives a horse, OF
feeds him when he Is hot, or recklessly
drives a nail into the quick OF his hoof oil
rowels him to see him pranCe, or SO shoes
him that his fetlocks drop blood, puts
a collar on a raw neck, or unnecessarily
clutches his tongue with twisted bit
or cuts on his hair until he has no de-
! Tense against the cold or unmercfully alb,
breViates the natural defense against In,
| sectile annoyance-that such a man as
that himself ought to be made to pull and
| let his horse ride.
But not only do our humanity and oul
| Christian principle and the dictates of Co
demand that We kindly treat the brute ere
alton, and especially the horse but ] gc
further, and say that whatever can be don'
for the development of his 1eetness and hi
| strength and his majesty ought TO he done
| We need to study his anatomy and his
adaptations ! am glad that large books