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him You. Oct. zit—in his sermon for
. . Rev. Dr. Tonnage discusses a topic
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. his neck with thunder! He paveth
lull» valley and miciceth; he south on to
inset the armed men. He said: among the
mm he. lid! and lwsmelleth the hat
tie afar oil, the thunder of the captains,
. tend the shooting." W
. We have recently had long columns of
intelligence from them course and mul-
. Citadel! flocked to the watering places to
witness equine competition, and there is
‘ lively discussion in all households about
_. the right and wrong of such exhibitions of
. mettle andepecd, and when there is a her—
”! bread that the cultivation of a horse’s
flecks is an iniquity instead of a com-
mendable virtue—at such a time a sermon
is demanded of every minister who would
[like to defend public morals on the one
hand and who is not willing to see an un-
msnton the other. .In this discussion I
follow no serumnic precedent, but
' will give independently what I consider
' “the Christian and common sense view of
‘fihls potent, all absorbing and agitating
daemon of the turf.
l .' A Noble Benet. _
frhcrc needs to be aredlstribution of
nets among the brute creation. For
the lion has been called the king of
rats. Iknock ofl its coronot and put
_ o.crown upon the horse, in every way
nobler, whether in shape or spirit or sa-
gacity in intelligence or affection or use-
fulness. He is semihumen, and knows
how to reason on a small scale. The cen-
tanr of olden times, part horse and part
man, seems to be a suggestion of the fact
that the horseis something more than a
beast. Job in my text sets forth his
strength, his beauty, hi . majesty. the pant-
ing of his nostril, the pawlng of his hoof
and his enthusiasm for the battle. What
» Rosa Bonhenr did for the cattle and what
. Landseer did- for the dog, Joli with
mightier pencil does for the horse. Eligbty-
eight times does the Bible speak of him.
He comes into every kingly procession and
into every great occasion and into every
triumph. It is very evident that Job and
David and Isaiah and Ezekiel and Jere-
miah and John were fond of the horse. He
comes into much of their imagery. A red
karma—that meant war. A black horse-—
that meant famine. A pale horse—that
meant death. A white horse-«that meant
Victory. Good Mordc ml mounts him while
Human holds the b d‘he church’s ad
venue in the Bible is compamd to a com-
pany of horses of Pharaoh’s chariot. Jore~
minh cries out, “How canst thou contend
with horses?” Isaiah says. “The horse's
hoofs shall be counted as dint.” Miriam
claps her cymbals and sings, “The horse
and the rider hath be thrown into the
sea.” St. John, describing Christ as com-
ing forth from conquest to conquest, repre-
sents him as seated on a white horse. In
the parade of heaven the Bible makes us
hear the clicking of heels on the golden
pavement as it says, “The armies which
were in heaven followed him on white
horses.” I should not wonder if the horse,
so banged and bruised and beaten and
outraged on earth, should have somoothcr
place where his wmngs shall he sighted.
I do not assert it, but Isny I should not
be surprised if, after all, St. John's de-
ecriptions of the horses in heaven turned
out not altogether to bo figurative, but
somewhat literal.
f Honored of (lad.
As the Bible makes a favorite of the
horse, the patriarch, and the prophet, and
the evangelist, and the apostle stmking
his sleek hide and putting his rounded
neck and tenderly lifting his exquisitely
formed hoof and listening with a thrill to
the champ of his bit, so all great natures
in all ages have spoken of him in oncomi-
' astic terms. V lrgll in his (imrgics almost
seems to plagiarizo from this description
in the text, so much are the descriptions
alike—tho description of Virgil and the
dworiptlon of Job. The Duke of Welling-
ton would not allow any one irreverent-1y
to touch his old wnr borsc (Jopenlmgcn. on
whom he had ridden 15 hours without dis-
mountlng at Waterloo, and when old Go-
penhagen died, his master ordered a miliv
tary salute fired over his grave. John
Howard showed that he did not exhaust
all his sympailiies in pltying the human
race, for when sick he writes homo, ”Has
my old chaise horse become sick or‘
lied?" There is hardly any passage of
rich literature more pathetic than the
lamentatlon over the death of the war
charger, hlamhrlray. Walter Hoott has so
much admiration for this divinely honored
creature of God tlmt in "St. licnnn’s
Well" he orderslho girth slackonod and
the blanket ibrown over the sumklng
flanks. Edmund iiurlgc, walking in the
park at Boammsllcld, musing over the
past. throws his arms around the worm
out horse of his dead son Richard, and
weeps upon the horse's neck, the horse
seeming to sympathize in the memories.
Rowland Hill, the meat English preacher,
was caricatumd lumause in his family pray-
or: he suppllcafcd for the rmovory of a sick
- horse, but when the horse get well, con-
trary to all the pmphoelcs of the farricre,
the prayer did not seem quite so much of
an absurdity.
The Abuse of the Horse.
But what shall i' say of the maltreat-
ment of this beautiful and wcudhrful crea-
ture of God? if Thomas Chalmers in his
day felt called upon to preach a sermon
against cruelty to animals, how much
more in this day is there a need of repre-
hensive discourse. All honor to the meta-
cry of Professor Burgh, the chief apostle
for the brute creation, for the mercy he
demanded and achieved for this king of
beasts. A man who owned 4,000 horses,
and some say 40,000, wrote in the Bible,
“Arluhteccs man regardeth the life of his
bust.” Sir Henry bawrence's care of the
horse was beautifully Christian. He says:
“I expect We shall lose Conrad, though I
hm taken so much care of him that he
‘ may some in cool. i always wail: him the
hat four or five miles. and as I walk my-
self theflrst hour, it is only in the middle of
' we get over thematic." The
hard in his matehless ”Am-
“tum In» listen
was, a a not ashame that the a...
- righteous alfrldgmcnt of innocent amuse.
trestle and from and heated and our»
driven-vicious everlasting-lose henna-ea
eternal troveier on a towpath. or tied to an
eternal post, in an eternal winter, smitten
tb eternal episoetlesl
erection. which had. the first possession of
our world, should be so maltreated by the
'rsce'that came in last—the fowl and the
Ileb created on the fifth day, the horse and
thecattic created on the morning of the
sixth day, and the hnnmn race net created»
until the evenlngof the sixth day? It
ought to be tha‘t‘it any man overdrive! a
horse. or feeds him when he isrbot, or rock-
lessly drives a nail into the quick of his
hoof. or rowels him to see him prance, or
soshocs him that his fetlccks drop blood,
or puts a collar on a raw neck, or unneces-
sarily clutches his tongue with a twisted
bit, or cuts off his hair until he has no de-
fense against the cold,” or unmercifully ah—
hrevlates lilo natural defense against in-
doctilo annoyance—that such a man as
that himself ought to be made to pull and
let his horse ride!
A Question of Speed.
But not only do our immunity and our
Christian principle and thcdlctatcs of God
demand that we kindly treat the brute
emotion and (specially the horse. but I go
farther and say that whatever can be done
for the development of his floetness and
his strength and his majcsty ought to be
done. We need to study his anatomy and
his adaptations. ‘I am glad that large
books have been written to show how he
can he'best managed and how his ailments
can be cured and what his usefulnessis
and what his i’illpfwitlufl are. it would be a
shame if in this agent the world, when
the florist has turned the thin flower of
the Wood into a gorgeous rose and the
pcmologist has changed the act-id and
gnarled fruit of the ancients into the very
poetry of pear and peach and plum and
grape and apple and the snarling cure!
the orient has become the great mastifl,
and the miserable crmlurc of the olden
times barnyard has become the Devon-
shire, and the .Aldorney, and the Short-
horn, that the horse, grander than them
all, should get no advantage from our sci-
ence or our civilization or our Christian-
ity. Groomcd to the last point of soft bril-
liance, his flowing mane n blliow of beau-
ty, his arched neck in utmost rhythm of
curve, let him be .arncsscd in graceful
trappingsand llwn driven to the farilwt
goal of excellence and then fed at luxuri-
ant oat bins and blanketed in comfortable
stall. The long tried and faithful servant
of the human race dosol‘vcs all kindness,
all care, all reward, all succulent forage
and soft liner and parzulisnlcai pasture
field, Those farms in lx’mtucky and ill
different parts of the curl . where the
horse is tritium to perfection in {lectures
and in beauty and in majesty, are well set
apart. There is no moi-v virtue in driving
slnv: than in driving fast, any more than
a freight train going id miles the hour is
better than an express train going 50.
Thorn is n delusion abroad in the World
that a thing must be ul-cossarily good and
Christian if it is slow and dull and plod-
ding. There are very few grand people who
sown to imagine it is humbly plans to
drive a spaviucd, gelled, plundered, spring
halted, blind staggered jade.‘ There is not
so llllli‘ll virtue in a Rosinanto as in a Bit»
cuplmlus. We want swlficr horses and
swiftrr men and swiftor enterprises, and
the church of (ind needs to got off its jog
trot. Quick tompests. quirk lightnings,
qulclgpgtreams; whv not quick horses? In
the mic of war i so cavalry service does
the most execution, and as the battles of
the World are probably not nu past, our
Christian patriotism demands that we be
interested in equine! velocity. We might
as Woll have [mortar guns in our arm'nals
and clmusirr ships in our navy yards than
other nulions. as to have undcrour cavalry
saddles and bolero our parks of in, ‘llery
slnwol‘llbrscs. From the battle of \ “an
lens, \vhorollu- Persian borscsdmvu be
Macedonian infantry into the river, ch 1'
down in the horses on which l’hilip Sher.
den and Stonewall Jackson rode into the
fray, this arm of the military service has
been m-ognlzml. llnmilmr, Hannibal,
i-lnsiavus Adolphus Marshal Key, Wore
cavalrymou.
Charles Muriel at the battle of i’olllcrs
twat back the Arab invasion. 'i‘bo (,‘ar-
ihagiulan cavalry, with the loss of only
700 men, overthrow the Roman army with
the loss of 7b,!)ll0. In lbo same way the
Spanish chivalry drove bark the Moorish
hordes. ’l‘bo best way to keep peace in
this country and in all coimtrlus is to he
prepared for war, and there is no success
in such a coolest unless vhoro be plenty of
light i‘oolod «burnt-rs. (lur Christian pal-rl'
otlsin and our lusirurilon from lln‘Word
of God dmuaud that first of all we kindly
treat. the horse, and then after that, that
We develop his lll'l‘llll'r’fl, and his grandeur,
and his majesty. and his strength.
An Atroclous Evil.
llul. wllnl shall I say of the effort helm:
made in this day on a large scale to make
this splendid ormuurcof Hod. iblsdivlnely
honored being, an instrument of atrocious
evil? i make no lmllmzrimluato ussmilt
against tho turf. l lwllevo inilm iurf if ll.
can be conducted on right principles and
with no betting. There is no more harm
in ollurlnunprlzo for tho swll’icsl racer
than ihrrc ls harm at an ngrimllinml fair
In offeringa prim to tho farmer who has
the best wheat, or in the fruit grower who
has the largest poor, or tolho machinist
who presents the bout corn ilmmhcr, or in
a scbrrcl offering a prize of a copy 'of
thkospcam lo the best rl‘lilllii',1)i' in a
household ulvlnua lump of sugar to the
best behaved youngster. Prizes by all
means, rcwmds by all inoans. That is the
way (ind develops the race. Rewards for
all lzlnds of well doing. iiouvcn itself is
called a prize, “'l‘he prize of the high call-
ing of (lad in Christ Jesus.” Ho what is
rightln one dlmctlon is right in another
illl‘iKlllilll. And without the prizes the
horse’s llcotness and lmauty and stmnglh
will mwur be fully developed. if it [lost
none or 85,090 or stance. and the result
he achieved, it. is cheap. But the sin be-
gins where the hinting imgins, for that is
gambling, or the effort to get that for
which you give no mmivaimu, and gum-
bling, whether on a large main or a small
scale. ought to be dcnnunmi of men as it
will be lk‘ifill‘fli‘li of God If you have won
50 cents or some as a wager, you had bet-
ter first rid of it. (let rid of it. right away.
Give it to some one who lost in a bet, or
3qu it to some gram. mformatory institu-
tion, or if you do not like that. so down
to the river and pitch it all the docks.
You cannot adieu to keep it. it will burn
a hole in your one, it will burn a hole in
mono you will lose all that, per-
m 10,000 lilies Whom-ups you will d
has 7 . than
M
y.
hmt’ldnds of betting at horse races. and
deducting his 8 or
of congress bot.
bet. Tenuhorspnd superintendents of Sun-
day schools, I am told, hot.
not directly, but through agents. Yester-
day, and every day they bet, they gain,
they lose, and this summer, while the par-
usols swing and the hands clap and the
the ltallan war.
W by this tlme."- ,
, w , . ”was
seem sermon x mm . .m
columns he... lard-tinted
thins”. tells'mct ltheremthree on.
they are about equally leptons. by "coca
tine pools," by "French mutuals,” by
what is called “bookmakiauW—sdl gam-
bling. all bad. all rotten with iniquity.
, hone word that needs to bewritten
on the brow of every lseller as he sits
per cent and slyly
“ringing up" more tickets than were sold
on the winning horse—a word tube writ-
ten also on the brow of every bookkeeper
who at extra inducement scratches a-hcrse
eifcf theraoe and on the brow of every '
Jockey who slackens pace that, according
to agreement, another may win and writ
ten over every judges’ stand and written
on every board of the surrounding fences.
That word is ”swindle!” Yet thousands
bet. Lawyers bet. Judges of courts bet.
biennium of the legislature bet. Members
Professors of religion
Ladies, bot,
bums deafen, there will be a multitude
of people cajolcd and deceived and cheated,
who will at the races go neck and neck,
noel: and noel: to pcrdition.
Cultivate the horse, by all means, drive
him as fast as you desire, provided you do
not injure him or endanger yourself or
others, but. be careful and do not harness
the horse to the chariotof sin.
throw your jewels of morality under the
flying hoof. Do not under the pretext of
improving the horse destroy a man. Do
not have your union put down in the ever
increasing catalogue of those who are
ruined for both worlds by the dissipation
of the American new course. They say
that an honest race course is a "straight"
track, and that a dishonest race course is
a“crookod" track—that is the parlance
abroad—but I tell you that every race
track surrounded by betting men and bet-
ting women and betting customs, is a
straight track—J mean straight down!
Christ askedin one of his gospels, “is not
lemon butter lhauasbeep?”
and he is better than all the steeds that
with lathored llnnlzs over shot around the
ring at a race course.
job by which a man in order to get a horse
income out n. full length ahead of seine
other racer so lamest his own morals that
be coinos out nwholo length behind in the
nice set before him.
Do not
I say yes,
That is a Very poor
Equine Honesty.
fin you not realize the fnht that there is
a mighty cil'ort on all sides today to not
money without burning it?
curse of all the cities; it is the curse of
Amorica~lllu effort in get money without
earning li—~:md as other forms of stealing
No not respectable, they go into those
gambling pnu‘licvs.
on square old fashionmi honesty.
said nothing against the horse, I have said
noihlngagaiust iho turf, Iliuvc snldov-
erythlng against their pros! ll uiion. Young
men, you go lam straightforward indus’
lriosaud you will have better livelihood,
and you will have larger permanent suc-
cess than you can ever got by a wager, but
you get in with mine of the whisky, rum
blotched crew which i see going down on
the boulevards. though i illil‘lif' but, I will
risk this wagon $:.,ooc,mm (numbing, you
will be delmuvlu-d and demand.
That is the
I preach this sermon
I have
Cultivate the horse, own him if you can
allot-d to own him, test all the spwd he
law, if he have any spam] in him, but be
caroful “‘llll‘ll way you drive.
always tell what direction a man is driv-
ing in by the way his horses head. in my
boyhood, we rodo three. miles every Sab-
bath morning: in the Nuinlry church. We
were drawn by two line horses. My father
drove.
him. They were friends. Sonwllnu's they
loved to go rapidly. and he did not later-
fere with their happiness.
us in the wagon with him.
the colmiry church.
8:! yours he drove in lbw some direction.
You cannot
He know them, and they knew
in bad allot
He drove to
The fact is, that for
“he rdnn spun that I simak of was long
i. o uphill-bod, and the «irivrr put up his
\vllp in the wagon house never again to
1,, gm, arm “f the spy-yin", taki it down, but. in those good old times
I lom ‘l'd something that I never forgot,
that a
horse at, i be proud of a horse and not al—
ways he
preceding \ llll‘ll', aild yet be a Christian,
an wirnest (. risiian, a humble Christian,
acousecraied 'Zhrisllnn, useful until the
last, so illnl at . ‘suivnth tho cliurclmf God
cries out on hills}. ‘. volalnml when Elijah
went up Wllll flillk. ng lxorsmof ilrc. "My
father, my filllli‘l‘,\ p chariots of lsrnol
] and the horsemen ‘.li\\;i\yfl" -
fi ., ,.... ......._
um may admire a horse and love a
llllng iriuko (he dustnf the
The Rich buggers.
The rise of capitalism. in the middle
annals illusiraiml in the most striking
manner by l he story of the celebrates] fam-
ily of hunger of Augsburg. We am noon»
,tomod to think of iho political and social
power attained by ilmllmim'lal families of
our day as something peculiar to tho pros~
out (unitary. Yet the position of the liar-
ings or ilothschlids in the Eumpoof today
in more than paralleled by the splendor
mncbed in ilwilormnny of the nlxtwntb
century by Jacob hunger and his allocati-
sors. Jacob expanded the family business
to a point nnhoardof in uu-dhrvnl irmilng,
and his wool, silk and spinning luminous
soon bwnme sulmrdinato to mining and
banking occuwtlons. From iipnln to Ca-
rlnthia he lxnmht up lands rich in cm from
impecunious nobles and opened up mines.
lie first shipped wares dlrwt from the East
ladies by the new cape mute, and the
family acquired several feudal territories
by mortgages which fell in.
“in loud the Emperor Maximilian e
nobled Jacob and his brothers, and Leo
mnstltuiod him count palatlne and eques
aurmtus. in 160“ Jacob advances! Maxi-
milian 170,000 duvets toward the cost of
(in one occlmlon, when
he cntorlainml illlarlns V as a gated. in his
palace on the Wclumnrht, luAugsburg.
be burned the overdue accrptnlioee of the
euipcmr on a lame fire of cinnamon, at
that than one of the most costly of spices."
Jacob's two nephews Mare made heredi-
tary counts of the unwise, and the family
continued to flourish up to the Thirty
Years' war, in the [mlnp and snagnlficence
upon which rontmmmmry writers are nev-
er tired of thanoanilugs—«London Spectator.
Unhlnd.
Madam-Sometimes i think that i am
losing my mind.
ansioyw-llnw long have you been that
way!
“About a iacnth. ”
"You needn't worry. it you had begun
losing your mind that long 1: it would
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A Great Opportunity.
The (lament Cutler pimple who have
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are progressive people and their teachers
are doing nicely indeed.
No half-way work will satisfy them
and they spare no alas whatever to in-
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into remind the people of its value to
them, and. the comparatively large
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opportunities will multiply as you ad-
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