Connecticut western news., 1896-12-31

Jobs cavalry horse '.Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? He paweth in the valley; he goeth on to meet the armed men. The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, hal and be smelleth the battle afar of, the thunder of the captains and the shout- ing"
 The Bold Dash.
 I 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 cratic, 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 evangelists 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 righteousness and drilling the Christian soldiery and by marshall ing anthems and sermons and ordinances on the right side, they are out fighting the forces of darkness .'hip and thigh, with great slaughter. All success to theml The faster they gallop the better I like it The keener the lances they fling the more 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 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 160, 900 church congregations, with nearly 1000, 900 communicants and seating capacity in church for more than 43, 900, GOO 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 the 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 simists 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 an impossibility.
 Take out of your prayers and preach ing some of your stuff1ng of groans and put in something of exclamation and triumph, and the United States will be gospelized, 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 its place among the cancellations that never fell. Let the more than 21,- 900, 900 communicants, as they lift the sacramental cup to their lips, take oath that they will not rest until the other 40, ,000. 900 are saved. The opportunities are all saddled and bridled. Where are the men and women 10 guide them? ''I will deliver thee 3, ,O00 horses if thou be able to set riders upon them" What two men can do for good or evil is i'm pressed upon me by the fact that, two Scotchmen going to California, each took something that would remind him of his native country. The one took a thistle, the national emblem of Scot land. The other took hive of bees. Years went by, and the work of the two Scotohmen is widely seen. The curse of the Pacific slope is the thistle, and the blessing of the Pacific slope is the honey
  In your life are you responsible for honey or missiles. and if one man can do so much good and another so much evil, how much could be done for the ransom of this country by 21, 1000, 900 people all consecrated?
 Pull Up the Blinds.
 Get out of the way with your dolor- ous foreboding and change your dirges for what we have not done for the grand march of what we may do and will do. The woman at Sedan, in whose house Napoleon the last was waiting to make surrender of himself and his army, said to the overthrown French emperor, "What can do for you?" And the de- spairing ex-monarch replied, Nothing but draw down the blind so that I can- not be stared at" In this gospel oam- paign we have plenty to draw down the blinds In Gods name, say, pull up the blinds and let the morning sun of the coming victory shine upon us. What we want in this campaign for God is the self abnegation and courage of the men of Sir Colin Campbell, who, as Lord Bishop Cowie of New Zealand, once chaplain of his army, told me, said to the troops: "Men, no retreat from this place. Die right here." And they shout ed: "Yes, Sir Colin. We will do it. '" And they did!
 Temporary defeats ought not to dis hearten. What is Bunker Hill monu. ment? Monument of defeat. But from that bloody mount American independ. ence started for its grandest achieve ment, and all the defeats of the cause of God are incipient victory.
 Thy saints in all this glorious war Shall conquer, though they die. | They see the triumph from afar | And seize it with their eye.
 And now, standing as I do in this national capital, let me say that what
 we want in the senate and house of rep