Connecticut western news., 1896-12-31
A QUICK ROUT OF SIN.
REV. pR. TALMAeE FAvoRs A SUDDEN
 ASSAULT


 ASSAULT
 He Thinks the Earth Can Be Captured For Righteousness by the Cavalry of hortation For . Revival.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-This sermon of Dr. Talmage in behalf of @ sudden movement to capture the world for righteousness strikes chord that will vibrate through Christendom. The text ia II Kings xviii. 2S, II will deliver thee 3, 900 horses if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
 Up by the waterworks, the upper reservoir of Jerusalem, the general of the besieging army and the generals of besieged Jerusalem are In consultation. Though General Rab- shaken had been largely paid to stop the siege, he kept the money and continued the siege-the military miscreantl Rab-shakeh derides and practically says: "You have not 5000 men who can manage horses. Produce 2,000 cavalrymen, and will give you present of 2,000 cavalry horses. You have not in all your be- sieged city of Jerusalem 3, 900 men who can mount them, and by bit and bride control a horse" Rab-shakeh realized that it is easier to find horses than skill ful riders, and hence he makes the chal- lenge of the text, 1T will deliver thee 5000 horses if thou be able to set riders upon them.
 Rab-shakeh. like many another bad man, said a very suggestive thing. The world is full of great energies and great opportunities. but few know how to bridle them and mount them and man. age them. More spirited horses than competent ridersi The fact is that in the church of God we have plenty of Actresses we'll manned and plenty of heavy artillery and plenty of solid col umns of brave Christian soldiery. but what we mostneed is oavalry-mounted troops of God-for sudden charge that seems almost desperate. If Washington. if New York, if London, are ever taken for God, it will not be by slow bom- bardment of augmentation or by regu- lar unlimbering of great theological guns from the portholes of the churches, but by gallop of sudden assault and rush of holy energy that will astound and throw into panic the long lines of drill ed opposition armed to the teeth. Noth- ing 90 scares the forces of sin as re- vival that comes they know not whence, to do that which they cannot tell, to work in a way that they cannot under stand. They will be overcome by flank movement. The church of God must double up their right or left wing If they expect us from the north, we will take them from the south. If they ex- pect us at 13 o'clock at noon, we will come upon them at 12 o'clock at night. The opportunities for this assault are great and numerous. but where are the men? 1T will deliver thee 2,000 horses if thou be able to set riders apon them. !"
 Praise For the Press.
 The opportunities of saving America and saving the entire planet were never Q many, never so urgent, never so tre- mendous as now. Have you not noticed the willingness of the printing press of the country to give the subject of evan aelism full swing in column after col umn? Such work was formerly confined to tract distribution and religious jour- nalism. Now the morning and evening newspapers, by hundreds and thousands of copies, print all religious intelligence and print most awakening discourses Never since the world has stood has such force been offered to all engaged in the worlds evangelization. Of the moro than 15, 900 newspapers on this continent do not know one that is not alert to catch and distribute all matters of religious information. Oh, now see . mighty suggestiveness in the fact that the first book of any importance that was ever published after Johann Guten- berg invented the art of printing was the Bible. We'll might that poor man toil on, polishing stones and manufac- turing looking glasses and making eI- periments that brought upon him the charge of insanity and borrowing money, now from Martin Brother and now from Johann Faust, until he set on foot the mightiest power for the evangelization of the world. The statue in bronze which Thorwaldsen erected for Guten- berg in 1887 and the statue commence rating him by David D'Angers in 1840 and unveiled amid all the pomp that military processions and German bands of best music could give the occasion were insignificant compared with the fact to be demonstrated before all earth and all heaven, that Johann Gutenberg, under God, inaugr rated forces which will yet accomplish the world 8 redemp- tion.
 The newspaper press will yet an- nounce nations born in day. The newspaper press will report Christ's sermons yet to be delivered and describe his personal appearance, if, as some think, he shall come again to reign on earth. The newspaper press may yet publish Ohrist's proclamation of the worlds emancipation from sin and sor- row and death. Tens of thousands of good men in this and other lands have been ordained by the laying on of hands to preach the gospel, but it seems to me that just now, by the laying on of the hands of the Lord God Almighty, the newspaper presses are being ordained for preaching the gospel with wider sweep and mightier resound than we have ever yet imagined. The iron horses of the printing press are all ready for the battle, but where are the men good enough and strong enough to mount them and guide themp 'I will deliver thee 3, 900 horses if thou be able to set riders upon them"
 Useful In Battle.
 Go out to the Soldiers home and talk with the men who have been in the wars, and they will give you right ap- preoiation of what is the importance of the cavalry service in battle. You hear the chatter of the hoofs and the whir of the arrows and the clash of the shields and the bang of the oarbines as the, ride up and down the centuries. Clea back in time Osymandyas led 20, 00t