The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-11-09
Calrnaqe
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt TalmaGe. d. D.

aerous recognition of the rights of
4ers is clearly set forth and is shown
be one of the chief essentials of a
bIe character. The text is Matthew V,
"Whosoever shall compel theesto go
III him one mile go with him twain"
What Sir Walter Scott was to the
DORIS and glens of old Scotland, ro-
mite with their legends and folklore,
"a what Charles Dickens was to the
laint vernacular of the London
reefs, and what Fenimore Cooper
as to the North American Indian,
tn his wigwam and his campfires,
3 hates and his loves, Frederic Rem
gton, the great American figure and
animal painter, has been to the habits
and customs, the comedies and TRACE
lies of the western cowboy, now al
most a relic of the past Future stu
dents of our past history reading Theo-
core Roosevelt's winning Of the
est win gain clearer idea of the
&. eles and the people there described if
Lose four volumes are illustrated with
Remington's famous pictures - "The
Last Stand" THE Crooked TRAIL"
The Frontier Sketches" and "a Dash
For the Timber" But above all the
pictures that Frederic Remington has
sketched | do not believe there are any
more powerful than those in which he
depicts the daring exploits of the mes
sengers of the pony expresses. Now
the east and the west have been married
by the wedding ring of the iron rail
and the swift locomotive dashes across
The continent. but in former times the
gold fields of California would have
been cut off from communication with
he busy east if it had not been for the
Eseful system Of the pony relays.
Every thirty or forty miles there was
station This chain of stations
retched clear across the continent.
then between these stations every day
4 cowboy would ride. Alone upon his
aorse he rode forth with the mail and
with his saddlebags often loaded down
With gold and precious stones. He
rode straight out into the deserts and
over the prairies; he rode forth in de-
lance of Indian murderer and white
kinned highwaymen and ferocious
wild beast; he rode with his life de-
pending not so much upon the sureness
If his aim and the steadiness of his
Gun as upon the swiftness of the four
poted beast he bestrode There in
5me of Frederic Remington's From
Ter Sketches you can see the messen-
-er of the pony express riding with
score of red skinned savages on his
i~..il. You can almost hear the pant
rs of his exhausted horse and the
v-hizzing of the rife balls as they fly
asst the cowboys ears. There he is
digging in the spurs in his race with
cath, or, rather, in his race for life.
.Iow, in order to get clear grasp OF
nv text we should take some of Rem
agton's Frontier Sketches" in refer
nee to the pony express and give
lem an oriental coloring and put them
among the Palestine hills of 1000
re. of over 2,O00-years ago.
Albert Barnes tells us that the word
s3npel' Of my text is of Persian orr
in. 1t comes from the royal court OF
rus the Great, who died in 529 b. q.
here was no postal system in that
Cay. King Cyrus planned system OF
fsony expresses all over his empire
,1,.sus by a system of relays of horses,
-aen the king wished to send royal
80 No of
s provinces, his message could be
lded from courier to courier with
rs greatest expedition. AS these cou-
.ers had to go through wild regions,
Ike those travelled by the messengers
Il the pony express during the fifties
md the sixties, they had right to
compel any man they met to go with
hem and protect them as the county
acriff today has right to compel you
me to help him arrest an offender
glinst the law.
simple Illustration.
This extensive system of pony ex-
presses not only spread throughout
e.sia. but in Christ's time spread
rough all the Roman empire and
sesar's provinces. Thus Jesus, in or
ar to show how his disciples should
willing to sacrifice for any right au-
lority, used a very simple and COM
;lsn Illustration. He says, IF any
oI.rier shall compel thee to go with
iii one mile, go with him twain"
hat means when an authority asks
81 to do certain amount of work
gu should be willing to do twice what
? asks. Can we not today make this
Dplication of sublime gospel conces-
on to the home and to our relations
nth employers, our churches and the
reat world at large as well as to Gaze
ar's couriers?
Christ's command of cheerful sub
iission applies to the home. AS in the
nitad States government the execu-
I've. legislative and judicial depart
ats have their place and their sepa-
functions, so in the home there
co-o-,iinate powers, each with Its
a1d it's rights. The husband
~. the parents and children, all
er this divine injunction of
.ial ..cessien and in fulfilling 1t
promote domestic happiness. If
one IN the home has need OF
ice it should be cheerfully rendered