Milford chronicle., 1905-11-10
Ca(n1aQe
sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee. DID.

sermon the virtue of self sacrifice an
generous recognition of the rights ,
others is clearly set forth and is show
to be one of the chief essentials Of
noble character. The text is Matthew
Al, "Whosoever shall compel thee to g
with him one mile, go with him twain.
What Sir Walter Scott was to til
moors and glens Of old Scotland. rc
mantle with their legends and folklore
and what Charles Dickens was to tn
quaint vernacular of the Londol
streets, and what Fenimore Cooper
was to the North American Indian
with his wigwam and his campfres
his hates and his loves, Frederic Rem.
ington, the great American figure and
animal painter, has been to the habits
and customs, the comedies and TRACE
dies Of The western cowboy, now al
most a relic of the past Future stu
dents Of our past history reading Theo-
dore Roosevelts Winning Of the
West" viii gain a clearer idea of the
scenes and the people there described If
those four volumes are illustrated with
Remngton's famous pictures IL "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 tine swift locomotive dashes across /
the continent, but in former times the /
gold fields of California would have /
been cut off from communication with
the busy east if it had not been for the
useful system Of the pony relays.
Every thirty or forty miles there was
a station. This chain of stations
stretched clear across the continent.
Then between these stations every day
a cowboy would ride, Alone upon his
horse 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-
hance of Indian murderer and white
skinned highWaymen and ferociOus !
wild beast; he rode with his life de- I
pending not so much upon the sureness i
of his aim and the steadness of his I
gun as upon the swiftness Of the four q
footed beast he besH0de. There in Y
some Of Frederic Remington's From I
tier Sketches you can see the messen- n
ger of the pony express" riding with n
score of red skinned savages on his n
trail You can almost hear the pant n
ings Of bis exhausted horse and the l.,
Of the rife balls as they dv i.
past the cowboys ears. There he is -
digging in the spurs in his race with ~
iehth, or rather, in his race for life. +,
Now, in order to get a clear grasp Of =
my text we should take some Of Rem =,
ngton's Frontier Sketches" in refer ~
snce to the pony express and give as
hem an oriental coloring and put them a.
-mong the Palestine hills Of 1000 ~
We, of over 2000-years ago. re
Albert Barnes tells us that the word nc
Of my text is of Persian ori-
i'm. Ii comes from the royal court Of WI
yrus the Great, who died in 500 B. G. fol
mere was no postal system in that tai
ay King Cyrus planned a system Of ag
ony expresses all over his empire. gel
hus by system Of relays of horses. Pa
hen the king wished to send a rovaI Hi
1mmand to one Of the governors of ov,
Is provinces, his message could be hel
lnded from courier to courier with gei
fagf
ers had to go through wild regions. as
Ie those travelled by the messengers she
the pony express during the ffties the
ID the sixties, they had a right to she
mpel any man they met to 90 with the
EN- and protect them as the county fee
erlf today has a right to compel YOU ano
me to help him arrest an offender "Ne
ainst the law. is ,
A simple Illustration. heai
This extensive system Of pony ex- wor
asses not only spread throughout in
rsia but in Christ's time spread she
oush all the Roman empire and won
esar's provinces Thus Jesus in or kno.
; TO show how his disciples should nev,
willing to sacrifice for any right au- has
rity, used a very simple and COM sbor
n illustration. He says, "If any opos
rler shall compel thee to 60 with trov
] one mile. go with him twain" Gov
It means when an authority asks ,oi,o
to do a certain amount of work
should be willing to do twice what
asks Can we not today make this On
lication Of sublime gospel conces- liieie
to the home and to our relations cry
employers, our churches and the OF o.
It world at large as well as to Cae- I'e 81
S couriers? IS
lrist's command of cheerful sub 70 M
zion applies to the home. As in the De
ed States government the execu- chanl
legislative and judicial depart custo
b have their place and their sepa- a ser
functions, so in the home there tist n
powers, each with its tigatl
IS and its rights. The husband al OF
wife, the parents and children, all ey al'
under this divine injunction Of what
al concession and in fulfilling it Is Yel
promote domestic happiness. If cess