St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-01-30
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Human Life Likened Unto a Great
Charge Of Cavalry.
Uofies Of the Christian Soldier Portrayed
Armed Booted, SPurred aud
Mounted Sweeping Away
tho H0oto Of SIN.

Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage delivered
the following sermon before his WASH
angton congregation, taking for his
text:
will deliver thee two Thousand horses, IL
ehoa art able on thy part to set ricers upon
thcm.-IL Kings. xviii. 2a
Up by the water works, the upper
reservoir of Jerusalem. the general of
the besicging army and the generals
of besieged Jerusalem are in consulta-
tion. Though Gen. Rab-shakeh had
been largely paid to stop the siege. he
kept the money and continued the
siege-the military miscreantl Rab-
shaken derides the capacity of the
city to defend itself, and practically
says: You have not 1000 men who
can manage horses Produce 1000
cavalrymen. and l will give you q
present of 1000 cavalry horses. You
have not in all your hesieged city Of
Jerusalem 1000 men who can mount,
and by bit and bride control horse. !"
Rab-shakeh realized that it is easier
to find horses than skillful riders, and
hence he makes the challenge of tn e
text: 4 will deliver thee Z, 2,OOO horses
II thou be able to set riders upon
them"
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
riders! The fact is that in the church
of God we have plenty of fortresses
well manned, and plenty of heavy ar
tillery, 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. II Washing
ton, If New York, If London are ever
taken for God, it will not be by slow
bombardment Of augmentation, or
by regular unlimbering of great theo-
logical 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
Ean not understand. They will be
overcome by flank movement 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
a2 o'cock at noon, we will come upon
them at IL o'clock at night. The OPP
portunitics for this assault are great
and numerous, but where are the
men? Il will deliver thee 1900
horses, il thou be able to set riders
upon them."
The opportunities Of saving America
and saving the entire planet were
never SO many, never so urgent, never
20 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 and thousands of copies.
print all religious intelligence and
print most awakening discourseA
Never since the world has stood has
such . force been offered to all en-
ragged in the worlds evangelization.
OF the more than Il. .OOO newspapers on
this continent, do not know one
that Is not alert to catch and distrib-
ute all matters of religious inf0rma-
tion. Oh, now l sec . mighty sugges-
tiveness in the fact that the first book
OF any importance that was ever
after Johann Gutenberg
Invented the art Of printing. was
the Bible. Well might the poor man
toll on, polishing stones, and manu-
featuring looking-glasses. and max
ing experiments that brought upon
him tho charge of insanity, and bor-
rowing money. now from Martin
Brother and now from Johan 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 1897, and the statue ecomEaemorating
him by David Dangers in lSaO, and
amid all the pomp that miii-
tary professions and German bands OF
best music could give the occasion.
were insignificant compared with the
tact, to be demonstrated before all
earth and all Heaven, that Johann
under God. inauRurated
forces which will yet accomplish the
worlds redemption. The newspaper
press will report Christ's sermons yet
TO be delivered. and describe
His personal appearance. II. as
some think, He shall come again
10 reign on earth. The newspapers
press may yet publish Christ's procla-
nation Of the worlds emancipation |
from sin and sorrow and death. Tens
of thousands Of good men In this and
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 ana
mightier resound than We have ever
vet imagined. The iron horses OF the
printing press are Ill ready for tho
battle, but where are the men good
enough and strong enough to mount
them and guide them9 II will deliver
thee 1000 horses, II thou be able toset
rideFs upon them"
Go ont to the soldiers' homo and
talk with the men who have been IN
the wars, and they will give You right
Of what Is me impor-
tance Of the cavalry service In battle.
You hear the clatter Of the hoofs and
the whirr Of the arrows and the clash