The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-04-14

| lnRS, on Une Tolls OF Wnlcn were Ine
names of the most eminent Senators
and Representatives who then con-
trolled the destinies of this Republic
the one Congressional prayer meeting
in 1857 and the other in 1866 The rec
ord is in the handwriting of the phi
lanthrOpist, William e. Dodge, then a
member of Congress. There are now
more Christian men in the National
Legislature than ever before. Why will
they not band together in a religious
movement which before the Inaugural
ton of the next President shall en-
throne Christ in the hearts of this Ma
ton? They have the brains, they have
the eloquence, they have the influence.
God grant them the grace sufficient!
| Who in Congressional circles will es-
tablish the capitoline prayer meeting
in 1897? Let the evening of the last
decade of this century be irradiated
with such religious splendor. There
are the opportunities for a National and
international charge, all bridled and
saddled. Where are the riders to
mount them?
Oh, will it not be grand when from
the windows and doors of the house of
many mansions" we look out and see
passing along the golden boulevards of
heaven the white horse cavalry that
st. John describes in Revelation? John
Wesley said he thought horses had
souls, but take the story in Revelation
as figurative or literal, you must admit
that none but cavalry horses are men,
toned as being in heaven. John xix:
IA, "Ihe armies which were in heaven
followed Him upon white horses"
You see, they are mounted troops.
Their leader is in deep crimson attire.
His vesture, we are told, is clipped in
blood" not blood of human slaughter,
as many other conquerors have their
attire, but His own blood, blood of cru
cifiXiOn agony, the blood by which He
redeemed you and me. That deep red
of garment is in vivid contrast with
the snowy white charger on which our
Lord is seated. And no saved sinner
can gaze on that red and that white
sins were once red like crimson they
have become whittier than snow. Oh,
those celestial cavalcades whom our
COnquerOr in scarlet shall lead on
through the streets of heavenl Wide
streets, hundreds of mounted troopers
abreast, long streets, thousands in
sight followed by coming thousands
through the long day of heaven which
hath no setting sun. Mind you, only
the cavalry are in that shining process
sion, those who did work outside the
forts, those who dared all things for
God, those who had in them the spirit
of holy dash. We who did easy work
may look at that procession, but will
not be part of it. There they pass,
the equestrians and equestriennes of
heaven, regiments of evangelists, of
tract distributors, of street preachers,
of salvation armies, of once half
starved home missionaries of the from
tiers, of those who did inconspicuous
service for Christ and never had their
names in the newspapers but once,
and that in the notice of their own OBJ
sequies-a notice not accompanied by
the request, Send no flowers" for
there was no danger that there would
be a profusion of flowers.
AS from the windows and doors of
the "house of many mansions we look
on the passing spectacle, some of us
will wish that on earth we had had less
salary and more hardship, less com
fort and more exposure, less caution |
and more courage, less shelter and |
more storm, less smooth sailing and |
more cyclone, and that we had dared |
all at the front instead of taking good |
care of ourselves in the rear. Forward |
mounted troops! Favorites of heaven |
Cavalrymen and cavalrywOmen of the |
Lord God Almighty. No chargers of |
heaven too white or too arched of neck |
or too prancing of gait for those seated
on them. If Jobs war horse, while the
battle was going on, said ''Ha, har'
shall not these chargers, now that the
day is won, utter a more jubilant "Ha,
hap Forward, under arches of tri-
umph, by fountains rainbowed of eter-
nal joy and amid gardens abloOm with
unfading effiorescence, and along pal
aces where, after they have dismount-
ed, these souls shall reign forever and
ever, they march, they brandish their
with which they gained blood
less victory, and they rise in stirrups
of gold to greet all the rest of heaven
gazing upon them from the amethyst Il
inc balconies. A glorious heaven it will
be for all of us who anywhere and any
how served the Lord, but an especial
heaven, a mounted heaven, a process
sional heaven for those who have done
outside work, exposed work, and be-
lOnged to the Lords cavalry. 1.-THE
armies which were in heaven followed
Him upon white horses"
Then, let the creaking door of the
closing year go shut. When that closes
better doors will open. The worlds
brightest and happiest years are yet to
come. Toward them we speed on in
the swiftest stirrup. Cavalry charge
1T Inkerman was not so rapid. At
asst the equestrians equal the chargers.
At last the riders are as many as the ,