The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-01-09

mandyas 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
seveuty-one years before Christ, Epa-
minondas headed his troops at full gal
lop. Alexander, on q horse that no
other man could ride, led his mounted
troops Seven thousand horsemen do
cided the struggle at Arbela. Al
though saddles were not invented un'
til 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 battle of the ages. Aus
terlitz, and Marengo, and Solferino
were decided by the cavalry. The
mounted Cossachs REINFORCED the Rus
sian snow storms in the obliteration OF
the French army. Napoleon said II
he had only had sufficient cavalry at
Bautzen and Lutzen his wars would
have triumphantly ended. l 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 q
bracelet of Copenhagen's hair. Not
one drop of my blood but tingles as l
look at the arched neck and paving
hoof and painting nostril of Jobs cav
airy horse: Hast thou clothed his
his neck with thunder? He paweth in
the valley; he goeth on to meet the
armed men. The culver rattleth
against him, the glittering spear and
the shield. He saith among the trum-
pets, Ia. ha; and he smelleth the bat
tie afar off, the thunder Of the cap
tains, and the shouting"
| 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 evangel-
lists. II ought to be the business of
the regular churches to multiply
them, to support them, 10 cheer them,
to clear the way for them. Some of
them you will like, some Of them you
do not like. You say some are too
sensational, and some of them are not
Al
| erratic, and some of them are too
vehement, and some of them pray too
loud! Oh, fold up your criticism and
let them do that which we, the pas
tors, can never do. like all the
evangelists 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 marshal
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 them! The faster they
gallop, the better l like it The keener
the lances they fling, the more ad-
mire them. We care not what conven-
tionality they infract if they only gain
the victory. Moody, and Chapman,
and. Mills, and Jones, and Harrison,
and Munhall, and Maj. Cole, and Crit
tenden, and hundred others are now
making the cavalry charge, and they
are this moment taking New York and
Philadelphia aud Cincinnati for God,
and l wish they might take our ma
tons capital.
Hear the tremendous facts: There
are now in this country nearly loo, 0oI
church congregations with nearly 2l,-
600, 900 communicates and seating ca
pacity in church for more than 40, o0o.-
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 the
next three years and our country is
redeemed. Who can not, under the
power of the Holy Ghost, bring two
souls 10 God in three years? Ard SO
many will bring hundreds and thou
sands To God, most of you have 10
bring only one soul TO God and the
Gospel campaign for this continent
will be ended. II you can not bring
one soul 10 God, or two souls, or three
souls, in three years, you are no Chris
tian, and deserve yourself to be shut
out o. 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 attempt
ing an impossibility. Take out of your
prayers and preaching some Of your
stufiing OF groans and put in some
thing of reclamation and triumph, and
the United States will be gospel
lied, and If the United States be
gospclized America will be gospelized.
and America gospelized, we will take
Asia from the Pacific beach, and Eu.
rope FROM the Atlantic beach, and not
far from now the lost star we live on
will take its place among the constel-
lations that never fell. Let the more
than 2l.no0, 0oo communicates, as they
lift the sacramento cup to their lips,
take oath that they will not rest until
the other lO.ooO,0O0 are saved. The
opportunities are all saddled and bri-
died. Where are the men and women
toguide them? II will deliver thee .. 900
horses, il thou be able to set riders
upon them" What two men can do for
good or evil is impressed upon me BY
the fact that two Scotchmen, going
to California, each took something tina,
would remind him of his native coun-
try. Then one took a thistle, the ma