The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-01-01

back in time O,ymandyas led 20, 900
mounted troops in Bactriaua Jorephus
says that when the Israelites escaped
from Epypt $4,000 cavalrymen rode
through the parted Red sea. Three hun
dred and seventy OF e years before Christ
Epaminondas healed his troops at full
gallop. Alexander, on a horse that no
other man could ride, led his mounted
troops. Seven thousand horsemen de-
cided the struggle at Arbela
Although saddles were not invented
rups were unknown until about 400
years after Christ, you hear the neigh
ing and snorting Of war chargers in the
greatest battles of the ages. Austerlitz
and Marengo and Solferino were decid-
ed by the cavalry. The mounted Co.'S
sacks re-enforced the Russian SNOW
storms in the obliteration of the French
army. Napoleon said if he had only
had sufficient cavalry at Bautzen and
Lutzen his wars would have trium-
phantly ended. do not wonder that the
Duke of Wellington had his old war
horse Copenhagen turned out in best
pasture, and that the Duchess of We'll
lington wore bracelet of Copenhagen g
hair. Not one drop of my blood but tin
giles as L look at the arched neck and
paving hoof and painting nostril of
Jobs cavalry horse. Hast thou clothed
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 trumpets, Ha, hal
and he smelleth the battle afar off, the
thunder of the captains and the shout
ing"
The Bold Dash.
l 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.
1t 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
Bulls dIb IOO sGIlEuUIOuuly anu SOLuO VI
them are not enough learned, and some
of them are erratic, 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.
l 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 'Fhip and thigh,
with great slaughter - All success to
them The faster they gallop the better
like it, The keener the lances they
fling the more I 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 tax ing New York
and Philadelphia and Cincinnati for
God and 1 wish they might take our
nations capital. Hear the tremendous
facts; There are now in this country
nearly 100, 900 church congregations
with nearly $1,000, 900 communicates
and seating capacity i'll church for more
than 43, 600, 600 people-in other words,
-, ~, oh Gov fh,po- 20, he
of the population of this country, and
about 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 stuffing Of groans and
put in something of reclamation 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 consultations
that never fell. Let the more than 81
900, 900 communicates, as they lift the
cup to their lips, take oath
that they will not rest until the other
40, 900, 900 are saved. The opportunities
are all saddled and bridled. Where are
the men and women TO guide them? 81
will deliver thee 900 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
thistle, the national emblem of Scot
land The other took a hive of bees