The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-04-14
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Up by the waterworks, the upper res
ervoir of Jerusalem, the general of the
beSieging army and the generals OF
besieged Jerusalem are in consultation
Though General RabShakeh had been
largely paid to stop the siege, he kept
the money and continued the siege
military miscreant. Rab-shakeh de.
rides the capacity of the city to de-
fend itself, and practically says: "You
have not 1000 men who can manage
borseS. Produce 1000 cavalrymen,and
will give you present of 1000 cav
airy horses. You have not in all your
besieged city of Jerusalem 2000 men
who can moGnt them, and by bit and
bride control a horse" Rab-shekeh
realized that it is easier to find horses
than skillful riders, and hence he
makes the challenge of the text 81
will deliver thee 1000 horses if thou
be able to set riders upon them"
Rab-shekeh like many another bad
man, said "a very suggestive thing
The world is full of great energies and
great opportunities, but few know how
to bride them and mount them and
manage them. More spirited horses
than competent riders! The fact is
that in the church of God we have
plenty of fOrtreSseS well manned and
plenty of heavy artillery and plenty of
gOIiH nnlnO1nc Of hra vn (Nhricti1n cn1
diery, but what we most need is cav
alry-mounted troops of GOd-for sud
den charge that seems almost despe
rate. If Washington, if New York,
if London, are ever taken for Cod it
will not be by slow bombardment of
augmentation or by regular unlimber.
ing of great theological guns, but by
gallop of sudden assault and rush of
holy energy that will astOund and
throw into panic the long lines of
drilled opposition armed to the teeth.
Nothing so ScareS the forces of sin as a
revival that comes they know not
whence, to do that which they cannot
tell, to work in a way that they can
not understand. They will be over
come by flank movement. The church
of God must double up their right or
left wing. If they suspect us from the
North, we will take them from the
South. If they expect us at II O'Clock
noon, we will come upon them at l.
O'Clock midnight. The opportunities
for this assault are great and numer-
Gus, but where are the men? 81 will
deliver thee 1000 horses if thou be able
to set riders upon them"
The opportunities for saving Amer
lea and saving the entire planet were
never so many, never so urgent, never
so tremendous as now. Have you not
noticed the willingness of the printing
press of the country to give the subject
of evangelism full swing in column
after column? Such work was for
merly confined to tract distribution
and religious journalism. Now the
morning and evening newspapers, by
hundreds of thousands of copies, print
all religious intelligence and print
most awakening discourSes. Never
since the world has stood has such a
force been offered to all engaged in the
worlds evangelization. OF the more
than $4,000 newspapers on this CONT
nent do not know one that is not alert
to catch and distribute all matters of
religious information. oh, now l see
mighty suggestiveness in the fact
THAT the first book of any Importance
that was ever published after Johann
Gutenberg invented the art of printing
was the Bible. Well might that poor
man toll on, polishing stones and man
ufacturing looking glasses and making
experiments that brought upon him
the charge of insanity and borrowing
money, now from Martin Luther 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 Gutenberg in 1887 and the |
statue commemorative 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 demon
stTated before all earth and all hea-
ven, that Johann Gutenberg. under |
God, inaugurated forces which will |
yet accomplish the worlds redemp- |
tion.
Although saddles were not invented
until the time Of Constantine, and stir
rups were unknown until about $50
years after Christ, you hear the neigh
ing and snorting of war chargers in |
the greatest battles of the ages. Aus
terlitz and Marengo and Solferino were
decided by the cavalry. The mounted
Cossacks REINFORCED the Russian |
snowstorms in the obliteration of the
French army. Napoleon said if he had
only sufficient cavalry at Bautzen and
Lutzen his wars would have trium-
phantly ended. do not wonder that |
the Duke of Wellington had his old
war horse Copenhagen turned out in
best pasture, and that the Duchess of
Wellington wore a BRACELET of Copen-
hagen's hair. Not one drop of my blood
but tingles as look at the arched neck
and na wing hoOf and nantinO nostri1 |