Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-12-31
NOT ENOUGH RIDERS
For the Cavalry Charges of Heaven in
Their Assault on Sin.
Opportunities Wait An, ssddied and Bri-
died. Needing Only the Hand TO Guide
Them Into Achievement-Iute
ting sermon by Rev. Dr. Talmagr.


H. Kings, xviii, %: Il will deliver
thee 2,COO horses, il thou he able on
thy part TO set riders upon them"
Up by the water works. the upper
reservoir OF Jerusalem, the general of
the besieging army and the generals
of besieged Jerusalem are in consulta-
ton. Though Gen. Gab-shakeh had
been largely paid to stop the siege, he
kept the money and continued the
siege-the military miscreant! Rab-
shekeh derides the capacity of the
city to defend itself, and practically
says: Won have not 1000 men who
can manage horses. Produce 1000
cavalrymen, and will give a present
of 1000 cavalry horses. Nou have NOT
in all your besieged city If Jerusalem
1900 men who can mount them. and
by bit and bridlc control a horse. e"
Rab-shakch realized that il is easier tn
find horses than skilled riders. and
hence he makes the challegr of the
text, Il will deliver thee :, GOJ horses.
IL thou be able TO set riders upon
them"
Rab-shakeh, like many another bad
man, said a very suggestive thing.
4 he 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 riders, The fact is
that in the church of God we have
plenty of fortresses well manned. and
plenty of heavy artillery. and plenty
~ z.anaA a..
soldiery, but what we need most is
cavalry-mounted troops of Cod for
sudden charge that seems almost dcs-
perate. IL Washington. il New York.
il London are ever taken for God. it
will not be by slow DO IN hardmcnt of
augmentation or by regular unlimher-
ing of great theological guns from the
portfolios Of the churches, hut a gallon
of sudden assault and rush of holy
energy that will astound and throw
into panic the long lines of drilled op-
position 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 understand.
They will be overcome by flank move
ment The Church of God must double
up their right OF left wing. II they ex-
pect us from the north we will take
them from the south. IL they expect
MS at IL o'clock at noon we will come
upon them at IL o'clock at night The
opportunitieSfo for this assault are great
and numerous, sai where are the men?
II will deliver thee ., 900 horses il thou
be able TO set riders upon them
The opportunities of saving America
and saving the entire planet were new
er so many, never SO urgent, never so
tremendous as now. Have you not no.
ticed the willingness of the printing
press of the country to give the sub
Jet of evangelism full swing in column
after column? Such work was usually
confined TO tract distribution and re-
ligious sourhSls Now the morning
newspapers, b. hundreds and thou
sands of copies, .-sint all religious in
telligence and print most awak-
ening dfscourses Never since the
world has stood has such n force
been offered 10 all engaged in the
worlds evangelization. OF the more
than $4,000 newspapers on this conti-
nent. do not know one that is not
alert to catch and distribute all mat
tiers OF religious information. Oh. now
] see a mighty suggestiveness in the
fact that the first book of any impor-
tance that was ever published, after
Johann Gutenberg invrE,-i ihr art of
printing. was -. b.;'c l,-.i night
shat poor m=l ... s., ,.,.-tz-nd- zones
and manufactIriuR locking glasses
and making exp-r, mc-.,s chat brought
upon him the -hsrge of insanity,
and borrowing money, now from Mar
tin Brother and now from Johann
Faust, until he set on foot the might
est power for the evangelization of the
world. The statue in bronze which
Thorwaldsen erected for Gutenberg in
1887. and the statue concentrating
him by David Dangers in 1870, and
unveiled amid all the pomp that mill
tsry professions and German bands of
hest music could give the occasion,
were Insignificant compared with the
fact 20 be demonstrated before all
earth &pd<4n Heaven. that Johann
Gutenberg, under God, inaugurated
forces which will yet accomplish the
press will yet announce nations born
in day. The newspaper press will
report christ's sermons yet To be de-
hvered, and describe his personal APP
pearance, II, as some think, He shall
come again to reign on earth. The
newspaper press may yet publish
Christ's proclamation of the worlds
msacipatiou from sin and sorrow and
death Tens of thousands OF good
g1en 20 this and other lands have been
Ord- - ~ the laying on of hands to
preach he Gospel, but it seems TO me
.ust now hy the laying on of the hands
of --- Lord God Almighty, the news
pspST t.resscs are SS:ng ordained for
preac, 2 the Gospel with wider ss-een
and mightier resound than we have
ever yet imagined. The iron horses of
the printing press are all ready for the
hattie, but where are the men good
enough and strong enough to mount
them and guide them? Il will deliver
thee 6, 900 horses IL thou be able to set
riders upon them
60 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 chatter of the hoofs and the
whirr Of the arrows and the carbines
ss they ride upand down the centuries
Clear back in time. Osymandyas led
20, 900 mounted troops in Bactriana.
Josephus says that when the Israelites
escaped from Egypt, $4,000 cavalrymen
rode through the parted Red sea.
Three hundred and seventy-one
years before Christ Epaminondas
headed his troops at full gallop.
Alexander. on a horse that no other
man could ride. led his mounted troops.
Seven thousand horsenen decided the
struggle at Arbela Although saddles
were not invented until the time of
Constantine, and stirrups were I'M
known until about $50 years after
Christ, you hear the neighing and
snorting of war chargers in the great
est battles of the ages Austerlitz,
and Marengo, and Solferino were de-
cided by the cavalry. The mounted
Cossacks REINFORCED the Russian snow
storms in the obliteration of the
French army. Napoleon said IL he had
oaly had sufficiently cavalry at Bautzen