The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-01-01
A QUICK ROUT OF SIN.
REV. DIR. TALMAGE FAVORS A SUDDEN
ASSAULT.

He Thinks the Earth Can Be Captured
For Righteousness by the Cavalry of
the Christian Hosts-An Eloquent Ex-
hortation For q Revival.
WASHINGTON, Dec 27.-This sermon
of DR.. Talmage in behalf Of sudden
movement to capture the world for
righteousness strikes a chord that will
vibrate through Christendom. The text
is II Kings xviii, 80, 81 will deliver
thee 2, 900 horses if thou be able on thy
part to set riders upon them"
Up by the waterworks, the upper
reservoir of Jerusalem, the general of
the besieging army and the generals OF
besieged Jerusalem are in consultation.
Though General Rab. shaken had been
largely paid to stop the siege, he kept
the money and continued the siege-the
military miscreantl Rab-shakeh derides
the capacity of the city to defend itself
and practically says: "You have not
2,000 men who can manage horses.
Produce 1900 cavalrymen, and l will
give you present of 1000 cavalry
horses. You have not in all your be-
sieged city of Jerusalem 2, 900 men who
can mount them, and by bit and bride
control horse. Rab-shakeh realized
that it is easier to find horses than skill
full riders, and hence he makes the chal-
lenge Of the text, IT will deliver thee
2,000 horses if thou be able to set riders
upon them.
Rab-shakeh, like many another bad
man, said very suggestive thing. The
world is full of great energies and great
opportunities, but few know how to
bride them and mount them and man
age them. More spirited horses than
competent riders The fact is that in
the church of God we have plenty of
fortresses we'll manned and plenty of
heavy artillery and plenty of solid col
umns Of brave Christian soldiery, but
what we most need is cavalry-mounted
troops of God-for sudden charge that
seems almost desperate. If Washington,
if New York, if London, are ever taken
for God, it will not he by slow bonn
bardment of augmentation or by regu-
lar Numbering of great theological
guns from the portfolios of the churches,
but by gallop of sudden assault and rush
of holy energy that will astound and
Dtbrow into panic the long lines of drill
ed 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 cannon tell, to
=. work in way that they cannot under
s5and. They will be overcome by flank
NJ, Op EAl
double up their right or left wing. If |
they expect us from the north, we will
take them from the south. If they ex-
pect us at 10 O'Clock at noon, we will |
come upon them at 10 o'clock at night.
The opportunities for this assault are
great and numerous, but where are the
men? II will deliver thee 1900 horses
if thou be able to set riders upon them"
= Praise For the Press.
The opportunities of saving America
and saving the entire planet were never
so many, never SO urgent, never so ire
mendous as LOW. Have you not noticed
the Willingness of the printing press of |
the country to give the subject of evan
geism full swing in column after coll /
umn? Such work was formerly confined |
to tract distribution and religious jour
nalism. Now the morning and evening
newspapers, by hundreds and thousands
of copies, print all religious intelligence
and print most awakening discOurses.
Never since the world has stood has
such force been offered to all engaged F.
in the worlds evangelization. OF the |
more than Is, 600 newspapers ON this |
continent I do not know one that is not
alert to catch and distrib ute all matters
of religious information. Oh, now see
a mighty suggestiveness in the fact that |
the first book of any Importance that
was ever published after Johann Guten-
berg invented the art of printing was
the Bible. Well might that poor man
toll on, polishing stones and manufac-
turing looking glasses and making ex-
periments that brought upon him the |
charge of insanity and borrowing money, |
now from Martin Brother and now from |
Johann Faust, until he set on foot the !
mightiest power for the evangelization |
of the world. The statue in bronze |
which Thorwaldsen erected for Guten-
berg in 1887 and the statue commemo-
rating him by David dangers 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 demonstrated before all earth |
and all heaven, that Johann Gutenberg, (
under God, inaugurated forces which .
will yet accomplish the world redemp- /
ton.
The newspaper press will yet an
nounce nations born in day. The
newspaper press will report Christ's
sermons yet to be delivered and describe
his personal 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 sor-
row 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 mightier resound than we