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

now from Onan FauSt, until he set
on foot the mightiest power for the
evangelization of the world. The statue
In bronze which Thorwaldsen erected
for Gutenberg in 1887, and the statue
concentrating 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
compared with the fact, to be lemon
strated before all earth and all heaven.
that Johann Gutenberg, under God, in
a%ugurated forces which will yet accom-
|.plish the worlds redemption. The
newspaper press will yet announce ma
lions born in a day. The newspaper
press will report Christ's sermons vet
to be delivered, and describe his per-
sonal appearance, if, as some think, he
shall*come again to reign on earth. The
newspaper press may yet publish
Christ's proclamation Of the worlds
emancipation from sin and sorrow and
death. Tens of thousands of good men
in this and other lands. have, been or
dained by the laying on of hands to
p1CdCIl luS 1OopSl, DuC II SSS11S W lie
that Just now. by +he laying on of the
hands of the Lord God Almighty, the
newspaper presses are being ordained
for preaching the Gospel with wider
sweep and mightier resound than we
have ever yet imagined. The iron
horses of the printing press are all
ready for the battle, but where are the
men good enough and strong enough to
mount and guide them? II will deliver
thee two thousand horses, if thou be
able to set riders upon them"
Go out to the Soldiers Home and
talk with the men who have been in
the wars, and they will give you right
appreciation of what is the 1mpor-
lance of the cavalry service IN BATTLE.
You hear the clatter of the hoofs and
the whirr of the arrows and the clash
of the shields and the bang of the
carbines as they ride up and down the
centuries. Clear back in time, Osy-
troops in Bactriana. Josephus says
that when the Israelites escaped from
Egypt, fifty thousand c%avalrymen rode
through the parted Red Sea. Three
hundred and seventy-one years before
Christ, Epaminondas headed his troops
at full gallop. Alexander, on a horse
that no other man could ride, led his
mounted troops. Seven thousand horse
men decided the struggle at ,Arbela.
Although saddles were not invented
until the time of Constantine,
and stirrups were unknown until about
four hundred and fifty years after
Christ, o hear the neighing and
snorting of war-chargers in the great
est battles of the ages. Austerlitz, and
Marengo, and Solferino were decided
by the cavalry. The mounted Cossacks
reinforced the Russian snow storms in
the obliteration of the French army
Napoleon said if he had only had suf.
ficient cavalry at Bautzen and Lutzen
his wars would have triumphantly end
ed. I do not wonder that the Duke Of
Wellington had his old war horse
Copenhagen, turned out in best pas
ture, and that the Duchess of yelling
ton wore a bracelet of Copenhagen's
hair. Not one. drop of my blood but
tingles as I 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 ratt1eth against
him, the glittering spear and. the
shield. He saith among the trumpets,
Ha, ha; and he 'snelleth the. battle afa1
off, the thunder: Of: the captains, and
the shouting -. ,s4s, ..r
w,N.
Standing as I do, in: this National
Capital, let me say that whatswe want