Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-12-28
A QUICK ROUT OF SIN.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE FAvoRs A SUDDEN
ASSAULT.

hortation Tor - Revival.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 97.-This sermon
of DR.. Talmage in behalf of sudden
movement to capture the world for
righteousness strikes 2 chord that will
vibrate through Ckristendcm. The text
is II Kings xviii, %, 81 will deliver
thee 1000 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
the capacity of the city to defend itself
and practically says: "You have not
1900 men who can manage horses
Produce 2, 900 cavalrymen, and will
give you a present of 2,0O0 cavalry
horses. You have not in all your be-
sieged city Of Jerusalem 1000 men who
can mount them, and by bit and bride
control horse. - Rab-shakeh realized
that it is easier to find horses than skill
full riders, and hence he makes the chal-
Ienge of the text, ST will deliver thee
2,000 horses if thou be able to set riders
upon them.
Rab-shakeh. like many another bad
man, said very suggestive thing. The
world is full Of great energies and great
opportunities, but few know how to
bride them and mount them and man.
age them. More spirited horses than
competent ridersl The fact is that in
the church Of God we have plenty Of
fortress we'll manned and plenty of
heavy =, ,illery and plenty Of solid col
umns CT brave Christian soldiery, but
what we most need is cavalry-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 bonn
bardment Of augmentation or by regu-
lar Numbering of great theological
guns from the p0rtholes Of the churches,
but by gallcp 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. Moth
ing so scare3 the forces of sin as a re-
.viYal that cores they know not whence,
to do that which they cannot tell, to
work in way that they cannot under
stand They will be overcome by flank
movement. The church Of God must
double up their right o. left wing. If
they expect 7s from the north, we will
take them from the south. If they ex-
pect US at 10 O'Clock at noon, we will
come upon them at IL o'clock at night.
The opportunities for this assault are
great and numerous. but where are the
men? ''I will deliver thee 1000 horses
if thou be ablo to set riders upon them"
Praise For tho Press.
The opportunities cf saving America
and saving the entire planet were never
so many, never so urgent, never SO tre-
mendous as low. Have you not noticed
the Willingness Of the printing press of
the country to give the subject of evan
gelism 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 disoourses.
Never since the world has stood has
such q force been offered to all engaged
in the worlds evangelization. Of the
more than Is, 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
a mighty uggestiveness in the fact that
the first book CT any Importance that
was ever published after Johann Guten-
berg invented the art of printing was
the Bible. Well might that poor man
toll ON, polishing stones and manufac-
turing looking glasses and making ex-
periments that brought upon him the
charge Of insanity and borrowing money,
now from Martin Brother and now from
Johann Faust, until ne set on foot the
mightiest power fer the evangelization
of the world. The statue in bronze
which Thorwaldsen erected for Guten-
berg in 1887 and the statue commemo-
rating him by David dangers in 1910
and unveiled amid all the pomp that
military professions 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, inaugurated forces which
will yet accomplish the world s redemp-
ton.
The newspaper press will yet an
nounce nations born in a day. The
newspaper press viii 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 Christ's proclamation of the
world's 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