Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1895-11-01

THE NGrED DIyINE,s SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
subject: .sThe Designations of the
Race Course"


Trxr 1HAst thou eiveuthe horse strength |
Haaf then slothed his neck with thunder? |
he paKsth IN the valley, and reioiceth; he |
gceih On 70 mest the Grmed men. he saith !
tr,,l.rle tbs trufnpets I'm, shai and he smelIeth |
ia hattie afar OF, the thunder Of the CAD
fkfns, and the shouting. JOB xxx. 10,
Ne have recently had long columns Of IN |
ss1Isgenee Il Ju1 the ruce course, and multi |
fudes fccked to the watering places to wit
ness equine competition, and there is lively
discussion in all households about the right
ard wrong Of such exhibitions Of mestle and |
gpeed. and when there Is a heresy abroad
that the cultivation Of horses deetness is
an fuiduity instead OF a eommenable virtue
--..t snch q tlrne q sermon Is demanded OF
every minister who would like to defend
public rorals on the one hand, and who is
not willing 10 see an unrighteous Rbridg-
rnent Of innocent amusement on the other.
In THIS discussion shall follow no sermonic
precedent. but win give independently what
consider the Christian and common sense
view of this potent. all absorbing aud agitat-
ing question OF the turf.
There needs 70 be redistribution Of cor
onets among the brute creation. For ages
the lion has been called the king of beasts.
knock off lis coronet and put the crown
uponfhe horse, In every way nobIer, whether
IN shape, or spirit; or sagacity, or intelli-
gence, or affection, or usefulness. He is
ssmihuman, and known how to reason on
small scale The centRur of olden times,
part horse and part man. seems to be sug-
Testion Of the fact that the horse Is some
thing more than q beast. Job In nv text
sets forth his strength, his beauty, his mai
esfy. the painting OF his nostril, the paving
Of bis hoof and his enthusiasm for the bat
de. What Rosa Bonheur did for the cattle
ana What Landseer did for the dog Job with
mightier pencil does for tho horse. Eighty
eight times does the Bible speak OF him. He
comes into every kngly possession and into
every great occasion and into every triumph.
II Il very evident that Job and David and
isaiah and Ezekiel and jeremiah and John
were fond Of the horse. He comes intom
OF their imagery. red horse-that meant
war A black horse-thst meant famine. A
pale horse that meant death. A white
horse-that meant victory. Good Mordecai
months him while Hannah holds the bit. The
churrh's advance In the Bible is compared
70 company Of horses OF Pharaoh's chariot.
Jeremiah cries ont, "How canst thou con-
tend with horses?" Isaiah says, 'The horses
ho0fs shall be counted ~ flint" Miriam
elaps her eymbals and sings, ''The horse and
the rider hath he thrown into the sea-" st.
John describing Christ az coming forth from
conquest to conquest. represents Him az
seated on white horse. In the parade Of
heaven the Bible makes US hear the clicking
efhoofs on the golden pavement as Il says,
'sThe armies which werein heaven followed
Him on white horses" 1should,not wonder
II the horse, SO banged, and bruised. and
beaten and outraged on earth, should have
some other place where his wrongs shall be
righted. / do not assert It, but say I
should not be surprised IL after all st. Johns
description of the horses in heaven turned
out notaltogether 20 be figuratiye bat some
what literal.
AS the Bible makes favorite OF the horse,
the patriarch, and the prophet, and the evan
gelisf, and the apostle stFoking his sleek hide
and patting his rounded neck. and tenderly
lifting his exQuisiieiy formed hoof, and
listening with thrill to the champ OF his
bit, 80 al great natures in all ages have
spoken OF him In encomiastic terms. Virgil
in his Georges almost seems to plagiarize
from this description in the text, so much
are the descriptions alike-the description
OF Virgil and the description OF Job. The
Duke of Wellington would not allow any one
trreverentiy TO touch his old warhorse Cop
enhagen, on whom he hal ridden fifteen
hours without dismo1nting at Waterloo,
and when old Copenhagen died his master
ordered n military salute fired over his
grave John Howard showed that he did
not exhaust all his sympathies in plying the
human race, for when sick no writes home,
"Has my old chaise horse become sick OF
spoiied2" There IL hardly any passage oil
French literature more pathetic than the
lSmentaiion over the death Of tho war charg-
or Harchegay. Waiter Scott had 50 much
admiration for this divinely honored crea-
ture OF God that in ''St. Romans Welf' be
orders the girth slackened and the blanket
thrcwn over. the smoking tanks. EdEunt
Burke. walking In the park at Beaconsfleld
musiag over the past. throws his arms
around the wornout horse Of his dead sor
Richard, and weeps upon the horses neck
ths horse seeming to sympathize In the mem
cries ROWLAND Hill, the rgrest English
preacher, ms caricatured because In his
,.iiy PIE he suRpiis:ssd for 70. the here rscoU U
veil, contf4ryto all the prophecies of thu
fauien, che prayer did not seem quite 81
much Of m shsnrdity.
But WHIT sh4lf1 say OF the maltreatmen
81 this beautiful and wonderful creaturs o
Hodf II Thomas Chalmers In his Gay Eel
sailed upon TO preach sermon against cru
slty to animals, how much more in this da,
b there q need Of reprehensive discourse
All honor to the memory of Professor Bergh
the chief apostle for the brute creation, 10
The mercy he demanded and achieved for thi
eD1ANA1o
horses md sor1e say 1000, wrote in tn
bsela "a nghtvo1s man regardeth tho hf
OF bis beast" Sir Henry Lawrence's care o
the horse was beautifully Christian "H
says: sI expect We shall lose Conrad, though
Ihave taken 90 much care Of him that b
may come in cool 1 always walk him tn
last four or i've miles, and Is walk mysel
the first hour, II II only In the middle Of tn
Journey ne get over the ground" The Eft
nrH In MI
Nights" speaks OF the maltreatment OF tn
horse as a practical blssphemy. do no
believe in the TRANSPORTATION OF souls. but
cannot very severely denounce the idea. 10
when / see men who cut and brutS9 an
whack and welt and strike and maui and out
rage and insult the horse, that beautiful
servant OF the human race. who carries on
burdens and pulls our plows and turns on
thrashers and our mills and runs for on
doctors-when / see men thus beating an
abusing ard out-aging that creature, Il seem
20 me that IL would be only fair that tn
doctrine of transmigration of souls shoul
prove true, and that for their punishment
they should pass over into some poor misel
able bruts and be beaten and whacked an
cruelty treated and frozen and heated an
overridden-into an everlasting stage hors'
an eternal traveller on towpsth, or tied {
an eternal post, In an eternsi winter, smii
ten with eternal epizooticsi
There Is n delusion abroad I'm the worl
that . thing must be necessarily good an
Christian II Il Is slow and dull and ploddinG
Thereare very few good people who seem {
imagine II - humbly pious to drive
spawned. CALLED, glandered, spring halteC
blind staggered Jade. There il not 50 niue
virtue In Rosinante rs IN Bucephslu
We want svifter horses, and swiiter mel
and swifter enterprises, and the church {
God needs to got on its Jog trot. Quick ten