Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-31
QUICK ROUT OF SIN.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE FAvORS A
SUDDEN ASSAULT.
He Thinks the Earth Can Be Captured
for Righteousness by the Cavalry
of the Christian Hosts--An Eloquent
Elaboration for Revival.
Our Weekly Sermon.

| of sudden movement to capture the
world for righteousness strikes a chord
| that will yibrate through Christendom.
| The text is Ii. Kings xviii, %, II 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-shakeh had been
largely paid to stop the siege, he kept
| the money and continued the siege-the
| military miscreant! Rab-shakeh derides
| the capacity of the city to defend itself
and practically says: "Iou have not
1000 men who can manage horses. Pro-
duce 1000 cavalrymen, and | will give
| you q present of 1000 cavalry horses.
You have not in all your besieged city
of Jerusalem 1900 men who can mount
them, and by bit and bride control u
horse" Rab-shakeh realized that it is
easier to find horses than skillful riders
and hence he makes the challenge of the
| text, II will deliver thee 1000 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
bride them and mount them and manage
them. More spirited horses than COM
petent riders! The fact is that in the
church of God we have plenty of fort
| resses well manned and plenty of heavy
artillery and plenty of solid columns of
brave Christian soldiery, but what we
most need is cavalry-mounted troops of
God-for sudden charge that seems al
| most desperate If Washington, if New
York, if London, are ever taken for God,
it will not be by slow bombardment of ar
gumentatiOn or by regular Numbering
Of great theological guns from the port
holes of the church, but by gallop Of sud-
den 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 forces
of sin as Il revival that comes they know
not whence, to do that which they can
not tell, to work in Il way that they cam
not 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. 1t they expect
us at II o'clock at noon, we will come
upon them at II o'clock at night. The
opportunities for this assault are great
and numerous, but where are the men?
II will deliver thee 1000 horses if thou
| be able to set riders upon them"
Praise for the Press.
The opportunities of saving America
and saving the entire planet were never
SO many, never so urgent, never so tfe-
mendous as now. Have you not noticed
l,n will Of tho ff
| 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
nalsm. Now the morning and evening
newspapers, by hundreds and thousands
of copies, print all religious intelligence
and print most awakening discources.
Never since the world has stood has such
a force been offered to all engaged in the
worlds eyangelization. OF the more
than $4,000 newspapers on this continent
I do not know one that is not alert to
catch and distribute all matters of re-
| Hgious information.
| The newspaper press will yet announce
nations born in day. The newspaper
press will report Christ's sermons yet to
be delivered and describe his personal ap-
again to reign on earth. The newspaper
press may yet publish Christ's proclama-
ton Of the worlds emancipation from sin
and sorrow and death. Tens of thou
sands 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 AL
:r1A +bo hoiY
ordained for preaching the gospel with
wider sweep and mightier resound than
we have 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 them? 81 will deliver thee
1000 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 appreciation
of what is the Importance of the cavalry
service in battle You hear the clatter
of the hoofs and the whir of the arrows
and the clash of the shields and the bang
of the carbines as they ride up and down
the centuries. Clear back in time Osy
mandyas led 10000 mounted troops in
Bactriana. Josephus says that when
the Israelites escaped from Egypt 10000
cavalrymen rode through the parted Red
Sea. Three hundred and seventy-one
years before Christ Epaminondas headed
his troops at full gallop. Alexander, on
horse that no other man could ride, led
his mounted troops. Seven thousand
horsemen decided the struggle at Arbela.
Although saddles were not invented
until the time of Constantine, and STIR
rups were unknown until about 400 years
after Christ, you hear the neighing and
snorting of war chargers in the greatest
battles of the ages. Austerlitz and Mar
engo and Solferino were decided by the
cavalry. The mounted Cossacks re-en-
forced the Russian snow-storms in the
obliteration of the French army. Ma
poleon said if he had only had sufficient
cavalry at Bautzen and Lutzen his wars
would have triumphantly ended. / do
not wonder that the Duke of Wellington
had his old war horse Copenhagen turned
out in best pasture, and that the Duchess
of Wellington wore bracelet of Copen-
hagen's hair. Not one drop of my blood
but tingles as look at the arched neck