The Progress., 1897-01-02

OIL eA1o po-At' oiid1 Military professions and
German bands of best music could give the
+ occasion were insignificant compared with
the TACT, to be demons trated before all
earth and all heaven, that Johann Guten-
berg, under God, tnaugurated forces which
Will yet accomplish the world redemp-
ton. The newspaper press will yet an
nounce nations born IN q day. The news
paper press Will report Christ;s sermons
yet 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 ordained by the laying on
OF hands to preach the gospel, 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
preaching the gospel with wider sweep and
m1ghtier resound than we have ever vet
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 them and guide them?
u will deliver thee 3. 900 horses if thou be
able to set riders upon them
The Force Of the Onslaught
Go out to the Soldiers home and: talk
with the men who have been in the war
and they will give you right appreciation
OF what is the Importance of the cavalry
service In battle. You hear the clatter of
the boots. and the whir 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, Osymandyas lad 10000 mounted
troops In Bactriaua Josephus says that
when the 1sraelites escaped from Egypt
80, 600 cavalrymen rode through the
parted Red sea. Three hundred and
seventy-one years before Christ Epaminon-
das beaded bis troops at full gallop. Alex
ander, on q horse that no other man could
ride, led hts mounted troopa Seven thou
sand horsemen decided the struggle at
Arbela. Although saddles were not IN
vented until the time Of Constantine, and
stirrups were unknown until about four
hundred and fifty years after Christ, you
hear the neighing and snorting Of war
chargers In the greatest battles of the aRes
Austerlitz and Marengo and Solferino
were decided by the cavalry. The mount
ed Cossacks 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 triumphantly ended.
do not wonder that the Duke of Yelling
ton had his old warhorse Copenhaeen
turned out IN best pasture, and that the
duchess OF Wellington wore q bracelet OF
blood but. tingies as l look at the arched
peck and paving hoof and painting nostrll
OF Jobs cavalry horse: HAST thon clothed
his neck with thunder He paweth in the !
valley. He goeth on to meet the armed
men, The quiver rattleth against him,
the glittering spear and the shield He
saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he |
s,nelleth the battle afar off, the thunder Of |
the captains, and the shouting
think 1t Is the cavalry of the Christian
hosts, the grand men and women who,
with bold dash opd holy recklessness and !
spurred on cpergies, ore to take the world |
for God. To this arn1y of Christian service |
belong the evangelists. 1t ought to be the !
business Of tho regular churches to multi |
ply them, to support them to cheer them, /
to clear the way for them. Some of them |
you like; some Of them you do not like. !
You say some are too sensational. and
some Of them are not enough learned, and I
some of them are erratac, and some of them |
are too vehement, and some of them pray
too loud. Oh, fold up your criticism and |
Jet them do that which we, the pastors, can |