The Yale expositor., 1897-01-01

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. 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 ;ooli 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, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar
off, the thunder of the captains, and
the shouting"
Standing as l do, in this National
! Capital. let me say that what we want
in the Senate and House of Represent
atives and the Supreme Court is pen
| tecostal blessing that will shake the
continent with divine mercy. There re-
Gently came into my hands the records
of two Congressional prayer-meetings,
on the rolls of which were the names of
the most eminent Senators and Repre-
Eentatives who then controlled the des-
| TIMES OF this republic-the one Con-
gressional prayer-meeting in 1857, and
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handwriting of the philanthropist,
William L. Dodge, then a member of
! Congress. There are now more Chris
tian men in the National Legislature
! than ever before. Why will they not
band together in a religious movement
which before the inauguration of the
next President, shall enthrone Christ
in the hearts of this nation? They have
the brain, they have the eloquence,
they have the influence. God grant
them the grace sufficient! Who in Con-
gressional circles will establish the
Capitoline prayer-meeting in 1897? Let
the evening Of the last decade of this
century be irradiated with such a re-
ligious splendor. There are the oppor-
tunities for national and information
al charge, all bridled and saddled.
Where are the riders to mount them?
Here also are opportunities all ready
for those who would enter the kingdom
of God. Christ said that the kingdom
of heaven was to be taken by violence.
By one flash you may enter. Quicker
than any equestrian ever dashed
through castle gate you may pass into
the pardon and hope of the Gospel.
AS quickly as you can think Yes" or
NO" as quickly as you can make a
choice, so quickly may you decide the
question of eternal destiny No one
was ever slowly converted. He may
have been thinking about It forty years,
but not one in n of progress did he make
until the moment of assent, the very
second in which he said II will" That
instant decided all. Bring out the
worst two thousand men in all the
earth. and here are two thousand op-
portunities of immediate and eternal
salvation. 81 will deliver thee two
thousand horses, If thou be able to set
riders upon them"
The cavalry suggests speed. When
once the reins are gathered into the
hands of the soldierly horseman, and
the spurs are struck into the flanks,
you hear the rataplan of the hoofs.
Velocity" is the word that describes
the movement - acceleration, momen-
tum-and what we want in getting into
the kingdom of God is celerity. You
see the years are so swift, and the
weeks are so rwift, and the days are
so swift, and the hours are so swift, and
the minutes are so swift. we need to be
swift. For lack of this appropriate
speed many do not get into heaven at
all. Here we are in the last Sabbath
of the year Did you ever know a
twelfth-month quicker to be gone? The
golden rod of one autumn speaks to the
golden rod of the next autumn, and
the crocus of one springtime to the
crocus of another springtime, and the
snowbanks of adjoining years almost
reach each other in unbroken curve.
We are in too much hurry about most
things. Business men in too much
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them and ruin others. People move
from place to place in too great haste
and they wear out their nerves, and
weaken the hearts action. But the
only thing in which they are afraid of
being too hasty is the matter of the
souls salvation. Yet did any one ever
get damaged by too quick repentance
or zoo quick pardon or too quick eman-
cIpation? The Bible recommends tardi-
ness, deliberation, and snail-like move
ment in some things, as when 1t en-
joins us to be slow to speak, and slow
to wrath, and slow to do evil, but IT
tells us, The Kings business requireth
haste" and that our days are as the
| fight of a weaver's shuttle. and ejacu-
lates, Escape for thy life. Look not
behind thee: neither stay thou in all
the plain" Other cavalry troops may
fall back. but mounted years never