The morning news., 1896-12-28
CAVALRY CHARGE FOR CHRIST.
4 BRILLIANT DASH TO RESCUE
MANKIND OUTLINED.

TaImagc Sounds BugIe Call In
tended 10 Vibrate Through Christ
cndonl-Rab-Shekhe Siege Of
Jerusalem and His Decision of the
City's Ability to Take Care of 1t
seIf-The Opportunities of saving
the Entire Planet Never So Numer-
Now.
Washington, Dec. 27.-This sermon of
Or. Talmage in behalf of sudden move-
Inent to capture the world for righteous
ness, strikes a chord that will vibrate
through Christendom. The text is, IL.
Kings; IS: 25: Il will deliver thee two
thousand horses. if thou be able on thy
part to set riders upon them"
Up by the waterworl1s. the upper reser-
voir of Jerusalem, the general of the be-
seiging army and the generals of beselged
Jerusalem are in consultation. Though
Gen Rab-shakeh had been largely paid
10 stop the seige, he kept the money and
continued the seige-the military miscre-
ant! Rab-shakeh derides the capacity of
the city to defend itself, and practically
says, you have not two thousand men
who can manage horses. Produce two
thousand cavalrymen and / will give you
a present of two thousand cavalry horses
You have not in all your beseiged city of
Jerusalem two thousand men who can
mount them. and by bit and bride con-
troll a horse" Rab-shakeh realized that
it is easier to find horses than skilful rid
ers, and hence he makes the challenge of
the text. II will deliver thee two thousand
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 bri-
die them and mount them and manage
them. More spirited horses than compet-
ent riders! The fact is that in the church
of God we have plenty of fortresses well
manned. and plenty of heavy artillery,
and plenty of solid columns of brave.
Christian soldiery, but what we most need
is cavary-mounted troops of God
for sudden charge that seems
almost desperate. If Washington,
if New York If Lonndon are
by slow bombardment of augmentation,
or by regular unlimbering of great theo-
logical guns from the portfolios 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
drilled opposition, armed to the teeth.
nothing so ScareS the 1OrceS OF sin as a
revival that comes. they know not whence,
to do that which they cannot tell, to work
in a way that they cannot understand.
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 expect us at IL o'clock at
noon, we will come upon them at Il O'Clock
at night. The opportunities for this
sault are great and numerous, but where
are the men? II will deliver thee two
thousand horses, if thou be able to set
riders upon them
The opportunities of saving America and
saving the entire planet were never so
many, never SO urgent, never so tremen-
dous as now. Have you not noticed the
Willingness of the printing press of the
country to give the subject of evangelism
full swing in column after column? Such
work was formerly confined to tract dis
tri1ution and religious journalism. Now
the morning and evening newspapers, by
hundreds and thousands of cop-es, 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 evan
gelization. OF the more than fifteen thou
sand newspapers on this continent, l do
not know one that is not alert to catch
and distribute all matters of religious in
formation. Oh, now / see mighty sug
gestiveness in the fact that the first book
OF any Importance that was ever publish
ed, after Johann Gutenberg invented the
art of printing was the Bible. Well
might that poor man toll on, polishing
stones Manufacturing lOOklTlR-RlaSSeS,
and making experiments that brought
upon him the charge of insanity and
borrowing money, now from Martin Bre-
ther and now from Johann Faust, until
the evangelization of the world The stat
ne in bronze which Thorwaldsen
erected for Gutenberg IN 1897, and
David Dangers in 1910, and
unveiled amid all the pomp that military
professions, and German bands of best
10 anf1I6 tnCip-
nihcant compared with the fact, to be
demonstrated before all earth and all
God, inaugurated forces which will yet
accomplish the worlds redemption. The
newspaper press will yet announce ma
tions born in day. The newspaper press
will report Christs sermons yet to be de-
lvered, and describe his personal appear
ance, if, as some think, he shall come
again 10 reign on earth; The newspaper
press may yet publish Christs proclama-
tion of the worlds emancipation from sin
and sorrow 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 mghtier 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
Anemf Il VIII denver Lnee TWO Thousand
horses, if thou be able to set riders upon
them -
Go out to the Soldiers home and talk
with the men who have been in the wars
and they will give you right appreciation
of what is the importance of the cavalry
service i'm battle. You hear the clatter OF
the hoofs and the whirr of the arrows ano
the clash OF the shields and the bang OF
the carbines as they ride up and down the
centuries. Gear back in time, Osymand.
vas led twenty thousand mounted troops
in Bactriana. Josephus says that wher
the Israelites escaped from Egypt, fifts
thousand cavalrymen rode through tnf
parted Red Sea- Three hundred anc
seventy-one years before Christ Epamin,
ondas headed his troops at full gallop. All
exander, on a horse that no other mar
could ride, led his mounted troops. Sever
thousand horsemen decided the struggi,
at Arbela. Although saddles were mo-
invented until the time of Constantine
and st.rrups were unknown until abou
four hundred and fifty years after Christ
you hear the neighing and snorting o.
war-chargers In the greatest battles OF Ia,
ages. Austerlitz and Marengo. and Sol
ferino were decided 10y the cavalry Tht
mounted Cossacks reinforced the Russian
snow storms in the obliteration of the
French army. Napoleon said IL he haf
only had sufficient cavalry at Bautzen ant
Lutzen his wars would have triumphantll
ended. i do not wonder that the Duke ol
wellington had his old war horse (.onop