Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-12-28

| ride ur and down the centuries Clear
/ back III time Osylnandyas led 20, 600
/ mounted troops in Baetriana. Josephus
! says taat V hen the Israelites escaped
from Egypt so, 600 cavalrymen rode
| through the parted Red sea. Three hun
! dred and seventy exc years before Christ
| Epaminondas headed his troops at full
gaIlop.s Alexander, on horse that no
other man could ride, led his mounted
troops. Seven thousand horsemen de-
cided the struggle at Arbela.
Although saddles were not invented
until the time Of Constantine, and stir
rups were unknown until about $50
years after Christ, you hear the neigh
ing and snorting Of war chargers in the
greatest battles Of the ages. Austerlitz
and Marengo and Solferino were decid
ed by the cavalry. The mounted Cos
sacks re-enforced the Russian snow
storms il the obliteration Of the French
army. Napoleon said if he had only
had sufficient cavalry at BautZen and
Lutzen his wars would have trium-
phantly 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 We'll
lington wore bracelet of Copenhagen
hair. Not one drop of my blood but tin
giles as I look at the arched neck and
paving hoof and painting nostril of
Job s cavalry horse. Hast thou clothed
his neck with thunder? He pawefh in
the valley; he goetl1 on to meet the
armed men. The culver rattleth against
him, the glittering spear and the shield.
He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha!
and he smelleth the battle afar off, the
thunder of the captains and the shout
ing"
The Bold Dash.
7 think it is the cavalry of the Chris
tian hosts, the grand men and women
who, with bold dash and holy reckless
ness and spurred on energies, are to take
the world for God. To this army of
Christian service belong the evangelists
It ought to be the business Of the regu-
lar churches to multiply them, to sup
port them, to cheer them, to clear the
way for them. Some of them you like;
some of them you do not like. You say
some are too sensational, and some of
them are not enough learned, and some
of them are erratic, and some of them
are too vehement, and some of them
pray too loud Oh, fold up your criti-
cism and let them do that which we,
the pastors, can never do.
like all the eyangelists I have ever
seen or heard. They are busy now they
are busy every day of the week. While
we, the pastors, serve God by holding
the fortress of right eousness and drilling
the Christian goldiery and by marshal
ing anthems and sermons and ordinances
on the right side. they are out fighting
the forces Of darkness chip and thigh,
with great slaughter. - All success to
them! The faster they gallop the better
[ Ike It. The kecrer the larces they
fins the mere I admire them. We care
not what conventionality they infract
if they only gain the victory. Moody
and Chapman and Mills and Jones and
Harrison and Munhall and Major Cole
and Crittenden and a hundred others
are now making the cavalry charge, and
they are this moment taking New York
and Philadelphia and Cincinnati for
God, and I wish they might take our
nations capital Hear the tremendous
facts There are now in this country
nearly 100, 900 church congregations,
with nearly 81, GOO, 600 commandments
and seating capacity in church for more
than As, 600, 900 people-in other words,
room in the churches for three-fourths
Of the population Of this country, and
about one third Of the population of this
country already Christian. In other
words, we Will have only to average
bringing two souls TO God during til
next three years and our country is re-
deemed. Who cannot. under the power
of the Holy Ghost, bring two souls to
God in three years? As SO many will
bring hundreds and thousands to God,
most Of you have to bring only one soul
to God and the gospel campaign for this
continent Will be ended. IF you cannot
bring one soul to God, or two souls or
three souls, in three years, you are no
Christian and deserve yourself to be
shut out Of heaven The religious pes
sinists Of this country are all the time
depicting the obstacles as so great and
our forces as so small that we half Of
the time feel that we are attempting al
impossibiii6y.
Take out Of your prayers and preach
ing some of your stufing of groans and
put in something of reclamation and
triumph, ard the United States will be ,
gospeIized, and if the United States be
gospelized America will be gospelized,
and, America gospelized, we will take
Asia from the Pacific beach and Europe
from the Atlantic beach, and not far
from now the lost star we live on will
take it's place among the consultations
that never fell. Let the more than 81
900, 900 commandments, as they lift tho
sacramental cup to their lips, take oath
that they will not rest until the other
40, 000 900 are saved. The opportunities
are ali saddled and bridled Where are
the men and women to guide them? 81
will deliver thee 1000 horses If thou be
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