Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-12-31
A CAVALRY CHARGE.
REV. DR.. TALMAeE ON THE NECESSITY
OF REVEALS.

ment 10 capture the world for righteous
ness strikes a chord that will vibrate
through Christendom. The text is II Kings
xviii, 23, 81 will deliyer thee 1000 horses
II thou be able on thy part to set riders
upon them"
Up by the waterworks, the upper reser-
voir of Jerusalem, the general of the be-
sieging 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 mis-
creantl Rab-shakeh derides the capacity
Of the city TO defend itself and practically
says: "You have not 2,000 men who can
manage horses. Produce 1000, cavalry
men, and will give you present of 1000
cavalry horses. You have not in all your
besieged city of Jerusalem 2, 600 men who
can mount them and by bit and bride con-
troll horse" Rab-shakeh realized that 1t
is easier to find horses than skillful riders,
and hence he makes the challenge of the
text, "I will deliver thee 1900 horses If
thou be able to set riders upon them"
A Sudden Assault.
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 manage them.
More spirited horses than competent rid
ers. 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 SOL
diers, but what we most need is cavalry
mounted troops of God-for sudden charge
that seems almost desperate. II Washing
ton, IL New York, If London; are ever TAX
en- for God, 1t will not be by slow bonn
bardment of augmentation, or by regular
unlimbering of great theological guns
from the portfolios of the churches, but by
gallop of sudden assault and rush of holy
energy that will astound and throw into
pauio the long lines of drilled opposition
armed to the teeth. Nothing SO scares the
forces 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 over
come 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
CAp6CU dU 10 " ClUCh uOOuf We w Ia
come upon them at 10 o'clock at night
Tho opportunities for this assault are great
and numerous, but where are the menf
"I will deliver thee 1900 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
tribution and religious journalism. 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 evan
gelization. OF the more than fifteen thou
sand newspapers on this continent I do
not know one that is not alert to catch and
distribute all matters of religious informa-
tion.
Oh, now see mighty suggestiveness
in the fact that the first book Of any i'm
portance that was ever published after
Johann Gutenberg invented the art Of
printing was the Bible. Well might that
poor man toll on, polishing stones and
manufacturing looking glasses and making
experiments 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 Gutenberg in 1887
and the statue commemorating him by
David d 'Angers 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 Guten-
berg, under God. inaugurated forces which
will yet accomplish the worlds redemp.
ton. The newspaper press will yet an.
nounce nations born in day. The news.
paper press win report Christ's sermons
yet to be delivered and describe his per
sonal appearance, II, as some think, be
shall come again to reign on earth. The
newspaper press may yet publish Christ's
proclama ion 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 fol
preaching the gospel with wider sweep and
mightier resound than we have ever yet
imagined. The iron horses of the printing
praco ro n II roodv for tho ho tklo h,It III ore
are the men good enough and strong
enough to mount them and guide themi
~ will deliver thee 1900 horses if thou bt
able to set riders upon them"
The Force of the Onslaught.
Go out to the Soldiers home and tall
with the men who have been in the war
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 ant
down the centuries. Clear back il
time, Osymandyas led 10000 mounted
troops in Bactriana. Josephus says thai
when the Israelites escaped from Egypt
$4,000 cavalrymen rode, through tht
| pdr6eu heu sea. IDre6 0unQreu duC
seventy -one years before Christ Epaminon
das headed his troops at full gallop. Alex
ander, on horse that no other man coulG
ride, led his mounted troops Seven thou
sand horsemen decided the struggle al
Arbela. Although saddles were not in
vented until the time of Constantine, anG
stirrups were unknown until about foul
hundred and fifty years after Christ, yor
hear the neighing and snorting of wal
chargers in the greatest battles of the ages
Austerlitz and Marengo and Solferint
were decided by the cavalry. The mount
ed Cossacks re-enforoed the Russian snow
storms in thu obliteration of the French
army. Napoleon said If he had only hai
sufficient cavalry at Bautzen and Lutzer
his wars would have triumphantly ended
/ do NOT vvondar that the Tn1ka of Woltfno