The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-01-08

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to stop the siege, he kept the money
and continued the siege-thes mlntaiy
miscreant! Rab-shakeh derldes the
capacity OF the city to defend itself, ana
practically says, "You have not t"o
thousand men who can manage horses.
Produce two thousand cavalrymen, anu
I will give you a present OF two thou-
sand cavalry horses. You nave not III
all your besieged city of Jerusalem Two
thousand men who can mount them,
and by bit and bride control a morse.
Rab-shakeh realized that it is easier 10
lind horses than skilful riders, anu
hence he makes the challenge OF the
text, II will deliver thee two thousand
horses, if thou be able to set riders
upon them"
R~ab-shakeh, like many another pad
man, said a very suggestive thing. The
world is full of great energies and great
opportunities, but few know how to
bride them and mount them and man
age them. More spirited horses than
competent rioers! The fact is that in
the church of God we have plenty OF
fortresses we'll manned, and plenty OF
heavy artillery, and plenty of solid
columns of brave, Christian soldiery,
but what we most need is cavalry
mounted troops of God - for sudden
charge that seems almost desperate.
If Washington, if New York, if Lon
don are ever taken for God, it will not
be by slow bombardment Of argu-
mentatiOn, or by regular Numbering
of great theological guns from the port
holes of the churches, but by gallop of
sudden assault and rush of holy energy
that will astound and throw into panic
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 overcome by flank move
ment. 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 expect
us at twelve o'clock at noon, we will
come upon them at twelve o'clock at
night. The opportunities for this as
sault are great and numerous, but
where are the men?" 81 will deliver
thee two thousand horses, if thou be
able to set riders upon them"
The opportunities of saving America
n saving the entire planet were never
so many, never so urgent, never so ire
mendous 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 con-
lined to tract distribution: and religious
journalism. Now the ,morning and
evening newspapers, by hundreds. and
thousands of copies, print ali religious
Intelligence and print most awakening
discourses. Never since the world has
stood has such a force been offered to
all engaged in the worlds evangelical
ton. Of the more than fifteen thou
sand newspapers on this continent, !
do not know n that, is, not alert. to
catch and distribute all matters of. re-
ligious information. Oh, now I see a
mighty suggestiveness in the fact that
the first book of any Importance that
was ever published, after Johann Gut
enberg invented the art of printing,
was the Bible Well might that poor
man toll on, polishing stones and man
ufacturing looking-glasses, and max
ing experiments that brought upon him
the charge of insanity, and borrowing