The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-01

DE VIII IALAAeE- says: You have
not 1900 men who can manage horses.
Produce 1000 eavalrymen, and l will
give you a present of 1000 cavalry
horses You have not in all your be-
sieged City of Jerusalem 1900 men
who can mount, and by bit and bride,
control a horse" Rab-shakeh realized
that it is easier to find horses than
skillful riders, and hence he makes the
challenge of the text, Il will deliver
the 1000 horses, if thou be able to set
riders upon them-p
Rab-shakeh. like many another bad
man, said very suggestive thing. The
world is full of great opportunities,
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 artillery, and plenty of solid
columns of brave, Christian solidery,
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 argumen-
tation. or ~ regular unlim boring of
great theological guns from the port
holes Of the churches, but by gallop of
sudden assault and rush of holy energy
that will astouud and throw into
panic the long lines OF drilled opposi-
ton armed 10 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. 20 work in
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 y o'clock at noon, we will come
upon them at - o'clock at night The
opportunities for this assault are great
and numerous. but where are the men?
Il will deliver thee .. 900 horses, if 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
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
umu after column? Such work was
formerly confined to tract distribution
and religious journalism. Now the
morning and evening newspapers. by
-
print all religious intelligence and
print most awakening discourses-
Never since the world has stood has
such force been offered TO all engaged
in the worlds evangelizatiOn. OF the
more than $1,000 newspapers on this
do not know one that is
not alert to catch and distribute all
matters of religious information. Oh,
now l see a mighty suggestiveuess in
the fact that the first book of any i'm
portanee that was ever published,
after Johann Gutenberg invented the
art of printing, was the Bible. Well
might that poor man toll on. polishing
stones and manufacturing looking
glasses, and making experiments that
brought upon him the charge of in
sanity, and borrowing money. now
from Martin Brother and now from
Johann Faust, until he set on foot
the mightiest power for the evangel-
ization of the world. The statue
in bronze which Thorwaldsen erected
for Gutenberg in 1887, and the statue
him by David DAN
gers in 1910, and unveiled amid all the
pomp that military professions and
German bands of best music could give
the occasion, were insignificant COM
pared with the fact, to be demonstrated
before all earth and all heaven, that
Johann Gutenberg, under God, inaugu-
rated forces which viii yet accomplish
the worlds redemption. The newspa-
per press will report Christ's sermons
yet to be delivered, and describe his
appearance, if, as some think, |
ne shall come again to reign on earth |
The newspaper press may yet publish |
Christ's proclamation of the worlds |
from sin and sorrow and |
ieath. Tens OF thousands of good men |
n this and other lands have been or |
iained by the laying on of hands to
preach the Gospel, but it seems to me
hat just now. by the laying on of the
lands of the Lord God Almighty, the /
newspaper presses are being ordained /
or preaching the Gospel with wider
weep and mightier resound than we
lave ever yet imagined. The iron
lorses of the printing press are all
eady for the battle, but where are the
men good enough and strong enough
o mount them and guide them? Il
will deliver thee 1000 horses, if thou
Re able to set riders upon them"
think it is the cavalry of the Chris
ian hosts, the grand men and women
Who, with bold dash and holy reckless
less and spurred-on energies, are to
axe the world for God. To this army
# Christian service belong the evange- !