The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-01-09
TALMAGE's SERMON.
Human Life Likened Unto q Great
Charge OF Cavalry.
EiorI.s of the Christian soldier Portrayed
Armed, booted. SPARED aud
Mounted. sweeping Away
the Hosts Of San.

ington congregation, taking for his
Next:
will deliver thee two thousand horses, 1
thou art able on thy part 70 set riders upoi
shem.-IL Kings, XVIII, q
Up by the water works, the upper
reservoir Of Jerusalem, the general Of
the besieging army and the general.
of besieged Jerusalem arc in consulta
tiou. Though Gen. Rab-shakeh had
been largely paid to stop the siege, he
kept the money and continued the
siege-the military miscreantl Rao'
shaken derides the capacity OF the
city to defend itself, and practically
says: ~You have not 2OOO men who
car manage horsea Produce 1000
cavalrymen, and ] will give you a
present of 1000 cavalry horses You
have not in all your hesicged city of
Jerusalem 1000 men who can mount,
and by bit and bride control q horse. '
Rab-shakeh realized that it is easier
70 find horses than skillful riders, and
hence he makes the challenge of tn 9
text: II will deliver thee 1000 horses
II thou be able to set riders upon
them"
Rab-shakeh, like many another bad
man, said a very suggestive thing.
The world is full of great opportuni-
ties, but few know how TO bride them
and mount them and manage them.
More spirited horses than competent
ridersl The fact is that in the church
of God we have plenty of fortresses
well manned, and plenty of heavy ar
nd of 90 m mn q
of brave. Christian soldiery, but what
we most need is cavalry-mounted
troops of God-for sudden charge that
seems almost desperate. IL Washing
ton, IL New York, il London are ever
taken for God, it will not be by slow
Ibombardment of augmentation, or
by regular unlimbering Of great theo-
log ,cal guns from the portfolios of
the churches, but by gallop of sud
den assault and rush of holy en-
ergy that will astound and throw
into panic the long lines of drilled
opposition, armed to the teeth Moth
ing SO scares the forces of sin as re-
vival that comes, they know not
whence to do that which they can
not tell, to work in q way that they
can not understand. They will be
overcome by flank movement The
church Of God must double up their
right or left wing. II they expect us
from the north, we will take them
from the south. II they expect us at
~ o'cock at noon, we will come upon
them at IL o'clock at night. The OPP
portunities for this assault are great
and numerous, but where are the
men? Il will deliver thee 1900
horses, IL thou DO able TO set riders
upon them"
The opportunities OF saving America
and saving the entire planet were
never 50 many, never so urgent, never
SO tremendous as now. Have you not
noticed the Willingness of the printing
press of the country to give the sub
ject of evangelism full swing in col
umn after column? Such work was
formerly confined TO tract distribution
and religious journalism Now the
morning and evening newspapers, by
hundreds aud 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 en-
gagged in the worlds evangelization
OF the more than Is, 0O0 newspapers on
this continent, / do not know one
that Is not alert to catch and distrib-
ute all matters of religious informa-
tion. Oh, now l SEQ n mighty sugges-
tiveness in the fact that the trst book
OF any Importance that was ever
published, after Johann Gutten berg
Invented the art of printing, wa.
the Bible. Well might the poor man
toll on, polishing stones, and manu-
featuring looking-glasses, and MAX
ing experiments that brought upon
him the charge of insanity. and bor-
rowing money, now from Martin
Brother and now from JolIan Faust,
until he set on foot the mightlest
power for the evangelization of the
world. The statue in bronze which
Thorwaldsen erected for Gutenberg
in 1887, and the statue commemorative
him by David Dangers in 1910, and
unveiled amid all the pomp that mill
tnry professions and German bands Of
best music could give the occasion,
were insignificant compared with the
earth and all Heaven, that Johann
Gutenberg, under God, inaugurated
forces which will yet accomplish the
worlds redemption The newspaper
press will report Christ's sermons vet
to be delivered, and describe
His personal appearance, il. as
some think, He shall come again
to reign on earth The newspapers
press may yet publish Christs procla-
nation of the worlds emaucipa,i lion
from sin and sorrow and death. Tens
OF thousands of good men ia this aud
other lands have been ordained by the
laying on of hands to preach the Cos.
pei, 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 for preach
ing the Gospel with wider sweep and
nightier resound than We have ever
yet imagined. The iron horses of the
printing press are all ready for the
battle, bat where are tho men good
enough and strong enough To mount
them and guide them7 II will deliver
thee 2,OOO horses, II thou be able to set |
riders upon them"
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