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THE WEEKLY LEDGER; GAEFTrEY, S. C., OCTOBER 24, 1805. \ AN ATKOeiOl'S EVIL nLV. DR. 1 AIM AGE CN 8ACE C0UR3E Dlooii' A t *0 A 3, A 8crnio!i V.' iif!i r -'.i v.s I.<» I’rrrrfloni. An Apo.'*t-*»j; , i«; t*.» n X()b*<* Ai^mnl—^'1 J'.e Qaeation s t ice t l—An 11>’ Kvil. ujcrcy ho demanded and achieved for this king of beasts. A man who owned 4,000 horses, and rume say 40,000, wrote in the B b'e, “A ri'diteons n:.’.n icgard- eth the 1 . • of hi.s lx;ust. ” t-Or Henry Lawicnee'.; care of the horse was beau tifully Chri tian. H<> says: “lexiieet wo shall lose Com ad. t .ut.yh 1 have taken so mrch cave ot him that ho may 3ome in cool. I always walk him the Yokk, (Lt. Z0.—In his sermon *>.» today Rev. Dr. TaImage discusses a topic which for months past has been a familiar one in the daily press—viz, “The Dissipations of the Race Course. ” His text was Job xvx x, 19, 21, 25: “Hast thou given tl • horse strength? Hast then clothed his neck with thun der? He paweth in the valley, and re- joiceth; he poeth on to meet the armed men. Ho saiij/s among the trumpets, ha, ha! and^^melleth the battle afar off, the Unundcr of the captains, and the slujTatiug. ” We have recently had long columns of intelligence from the race course, and multitudes 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 motile and speed, ami when there is a heresy abroad that the cultivation of a horse’s fleet ness is uu iniquity instead of a commendable vir tue—at such a time a sern on is dc- mauded of every minister wl o would like to defend public morals on the one hand, and who is not willing to see an unrighteous abridgment of innocent amusement cn the other. In this discus sion I shall follow uo se.inouic prece dent, hut will give independently what I consider the Christian and common sense view of this potent, all absorbing and agitating question of the turf. There needs to bo a redistribution of coronets among the brute oication. For ages the lion has been called the king of beasts. I knock elf it; coronet ai d put the crown upon the horse, in every way nobler, whether in shape, or spirit, or sagacity, or iuiell yciice, or ulTeetion, or usefulness. He is semihuman, and knows how to reason on a small scale. The centaur of olden times, part horse and part man, seems to be a suggestion of the fact that tlio horse is something more than a beast. Job in my text sets forth his strength, hi.s b auty, bis maj esty, the panting of bis nostril, the pawing of Ins hoof and his enthusiasm for the battle. What Ro-a Bonh'.ur did for the cattle and wh t Landseer did for the dog Job with nrghtior pencil does for the horse. Eighty-eight times does the Bible speak of him. He comes into every kingly procession and into every great occasion and into every tri umph. It i ; very evident that Job and David and 1 aiah and Ez'l.iol and Jere miah and Jehu weie fond of the horse. He comes into much of their imagery. A red her e—that meant war. A black horse—that meant famine. A pale horse —that meant death. A white horse— that meant victory. Good Mordecai mounts him while Hainan holds the hit. The church’s advance in the Bible is compared to a company of horses of Pharaoh's chariot. Jeremiah cries out, “Howcau.-t thou contend with hoises?” Isaiah says, “The horse’;; hoofs shall bo counted as Hint.’’ Miriam claps her cymbals and sings, “Iho horse and the rider hath h* thrown into the sea.” St. John, deserib ng Christ as coming forth Item ccnqmst to eouqne.t, represents mn as scati I on a white horse. In the parade of heaven the Bible makes us hear the clicking of hoofs on the golden pavement as it says, “The armies which were in heaven followed him on white horses.” 1 should not wonder if the horse, so hang it, and Liu'.. 1, d beaf- en and outraged on earth, sin mid have some other place where his wri ngs shall be righted. 1 do not assert it, but 1 say I should not he surprised if after all St. John’s descriptions of the horses m heaven turn* d out not altogether to be figurative, but somewhat literal. <>» Hit! Ilortu*. As the Bible makes a favorite of the horse, the patriarch, and the prophet, and the evangelist, and the apostle stroking his slei k hide and patting his rounded neck, and temluly lifting his exquisitely formed hoof, and lis.ening with a tluill to the champ of his hit, so all great natures in ullages have spoken of him in encomiastic terms. Virgil in his Georgia 1 almost seems to plagiarize from this description in the text, so much are tl.o descriptions alike—the description of Virgil and the description of Job. The Duke of Wellington would not allow any one irreverently to touch his old warhorse Copenhagen, on whom ho had ridden 15 hours without dis mounting at Waterloo, and when old Copenhagen died his ma-ter ordered a military salute fired over his grave. John Howard showed that lie did not exhaust all his sympathies in pitying the human race, for when sick he writes home, “Has my old chaise horse 1 ecomo sick or spoiled?" There is hardly any passage of French literature more pa thetic than the lamentation over the death of the war charger Marchegay. Walter Scott has so much admiration for this divinely honored creature of God that in “St. Hunan's Well” he or ders the girth slackened and the blanket thrown over the sux king flanks. Ed mund Burke, walking in the park at Beaconslield, musing over the past, throws his arms around the woruout horse of his dead sou Richard, aud weeps upon the horse’s neck, the horse seeming to svmpathizc in the memories. Rowland Hi ), the great English pieach- er, was caricatured because in his fam ily prayers he supplicated for the recov ery of a H!ok horse, hut when the horse got well, contrary to all the propbecier of the fun inis, the prayer did uot seem quite so much of an absurdity. Cruelty to the liorite. But what shall I say of the maltreat ment of th s beautiful and wonderful creature of (InU? If Thomas Chalmers in his day felt cubed upon to preach a sermon against cruelty to animals, how mneb more in tins day is there a need of reprehensivc discourse! All Inn r to the memory of Professor Bergh, theoh af t§MMi fc«r lit* luuut urututiu, fur urn last four or five miles, and as I walk myself the first h nr, it is only in the middle of the journey we get over the ground.” The Ettrick i hopherd in his matchless “Ambrosial Nights” speaks of the maltreatment if the horse as a prac tical blasphemy. I do not believe in the transmigration of sou's, but I cannot very severely denounce the idea, for when I so‘o men who cut and bruise aud whack and welt and str ke and maul and outrage and insult the horre, that beautiful servant of the human race, ' who carries our burdens and pulls our j plows and turns our thrashers and our ! mills and runs for < nr di ctors—w hen I j see nu u thus boating and abusing and ] outraging that creature, it seems to m9 i that it would he only fair that the doc- | trine of transmigration of souls should : prove true, cud that for their punish- ! ment they should pass over into some j poor miserable brute and be beaten and j whacked and cruelly treated and frozen aud heated and overdriven—into an ev- I erlasting stage horse, an eternal traveler cn a towpath, or tied toan eternal post, in an rtirnal winter, simt cn with eter nal epizootics! Oh, is it not a shame that the brute creation, which had the fast jm-.session of our world, should bo so maltreated by the race that can e in last—the fowl and the fish created on the fifth day, the horse and the cattle created ou the morning of the sixth day and the hu man race not created until the evening of the sixth day? It ought to bo that if any man overdrives a horse, or feeds him when he is hot, or recklessly drives a nail into the quick of his hoof, or rowels him to see him prance, or so shuts him that hi.s fetlocks drop blood, or puts a collar on a raw neck, or un- neccs arily clutches hi.s tongue with a twisted hit, or cuts off his hair until he has mi defense against the cold, or uu- nicrcifnlly abbreviates the natural de fense against insectile annoyance—that such a man as that himself ought to be made to pull aud lit his horse ride! Kiniliit sa to llrtitett. Bi t not only do our humanity and our Christian principle and the dictates of God demand that we kindly treat the brute creation, and especially the horse, hut I go further and say that whatever can he done for the develop ment of his flco'ness, and his strength, and his majesty ought to be done. We need to study his anatomy and his adap tations. 1 am glad that large books have 1 t en wri teu to show h w he can he best managed, and how his ailments can ho cured, and what hi.s usefulness is, and what his capacities are. It would he a shame if in tnis age of the world, when the florist has turned the thin flower of the wood into a gorgi ous rose, and tin* pomologist has changed the acrid and gnarled fruit of the un- cii nts into the very poetry of pear and pcui-Jr aud plum and grape and apple, and the snarling cur of the orient has become the great rnastilT, and the mis erable creature of the olden lilacs barn yard has become the Devomuire, and the Alderney, and the Shorthorn, that tlie horse, grander than them all, should get no advantage from our science, or our civilization, or our Christianity. Groomed to the last point of soft bril- liatice, hi.s flowing mane a billow of beauty, his arched neck in utmost rhythm of curve, let him be harnessed in grai i fel trappings and then driven to the iui tliest goal of excellence, and thi n fed at luxuriant oatbins and hlank- cti il in comfortable stall. The long tie d and faithful servant of the human nice deserves all kindness, all care, till re ward, all succulent forage and soft lit ter and purudasuical pasture field. Those farms in Kentucky and in different parts of the north, where the horse is trained to perfection in fleetness and in beauty and in majesty, are well set apart. Thi re is no more virtue in driv ing slow than in driving fast any more than a freight train going 10 miles the hour is la.ttcr than an express train go ing 50. There is a delusion abroad in the world that a thing must bo necessarily good and Christian if it is slow and dull and plodding. There are very few good people who seem to imagine it is humbly pious to drive a spavined, pall ed, glandered, spring halted, blind stag gered jade. There is not so much virtue iu a Rosiimnto as in a Bucephalus. Wo want swifter horses, and swifter men, and swifter enterprises, and the church of God needs to get off its jog trot. Quick tempi sts, quick lightnings, quick streams; why not quick horses? In the time of war thecavalry service does the most execution, and as the battles of the world arc probably not all past, our Christian patriotism demands that wo bo interested in oquinal velocity. Wo might as well have poorer gnus in our arsenals and clumsier ships in our navy yards than other nations as to have under our cavalry saddles and before our parks of artillery slower horses. From the battle of Granicus, where the Persian horses drove the Macedonian infantry into the river, clear down to tho horses on which Philip Bheridan and Stonewall Jackson rode into the fray, this arm of the military service has been recognized. Hamilcar, Hanni bal, Unstuvus Adolphus, Marshal Ncy were cavalrymen. Iu tb s arm of tho service Charles Martel at the battle of Poitiers beat back the Arab invasion. The Carthaginian cavalry, with tho loss of only 700 men, overthrew tho Roman army with tho loss of 70,000. In the same way the ISpanibh chivalry drove back tho Moorish hordes. The best way to keep peace in this country and iu all countries is lo ho prepared for war, uiid there is no succors in such a contest un less there he plenty of light footed chargers. Cur Chriaiiau patriotism and our instruction from the word of God do. uimjJ krst of vm Meat (he horse, and then after that, that we develop his fleetness aud his giundeur and his majesty and his strength. An IiiKtrniiirnt rf E\il. But what shall I say of tho effort being made In this day on a 1 :rgo scale to make thi> spleud.d cicaturo of God, this di\inelj honored being, an instru ment if atrudou.i evil: 1 make no in discriminate assault against the turf. 1 believe in the turf if it can bo conduct ed on right principles and with no bet ting. There is no more harm in offering a prize for the swiftest racer than there is harm at an agricultural fair iu offer ing a prize to the farmer who has the best wheat, or to tho fruit grower who has the hugest pear, or to the machinist who pros' ll.s the host corn thrasher, or in a school offering a prize of a copy of Ssbakespearc to the best reader, or iu a household giving a lump of sugar to the best behaved youngster. Prizes by all means, rcwaids by all means. That is the way God doveb ps the race. Re- I wards for all kinds of welld ling. Heav en itself is called a prize, “tho prize | of the high calling of God in Christ Je sus.” bo what is right in one direction is right in anotlu r direction. Andwith- out the prizes tho hone’s fleetness and b auty and strength will never be fully developed. If it cost £1 ,t/00 or Co.OOO or bio,000 and the result be achieved, j it is cheap. But the sin begins where i the I ettiugbegins, for that isgambling, ; < r thi' effort to get that for which you ! give no equivalent, and gamlbing, | whether on a large scale or a small scale, i ought to he denounced of men as it will j he accun i d i f God. If you have won DO cents or §5,000 as a wager, you had bet- } ter get rid of it. Get rid of it right ; away. Give it to some one who lost iu | a bet, or give it to some gieat reforma tory institution, or if you do not like that, go down to the river and pitch it off tbodccks. You cannot afford to keep it. It will burn a In.le in your purse, it w ill burn a hole in your e; late, and you will lose all that, perhaps 1,000 times mom—perhaps you w ill lose all. Gam bling bl;:. ts a lin n or it blasts his chil dren, generally both and all. “iiixikmu: ina*” What a spectacle winu at Saratoga, or at Long Branch, or at Brighton Bci’ch, or at Sheepslu ad B: y, the horses start, and in a flash §50,000 or §100,000 change hands! Multitudes ruined by losing the bt t, o;hi is worse ruined by ga n.ng the bet; for if a man lose in a bet at a hors'i race, he may he discour aged an 1 quit, but if ho win the bet he j is very apt to go straight on to hell! An im Mate friend, a journalist, who in the linenf his profes: ion investigated this evil, ti 11s me that there are three | different kinds of betting at horseraces, and they are about equally lepn us—ly "auctionpools,’ by “Fn uch mutuals,” by what is called “bookmakiug”—all gambling, all bad, all ro'.tcu with in iquity. Tin re is one wind that needs to be written on the brow of every poolsell- er as ho sits deducting his il or 5 per cent, and slyly “ringing up” more tick- ; cts than were sold cn the winning horse —a v.i rd to ho written al o on the ‘jrow 1 of every bookkeeper who at extra iu- duccniont scratches a horse off of tho race, 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 writ- tin on every’hoard of the suirounding fences. That word is “swindler!” Yet t bout ends bet. Lawyers Let. Judges of courts bet. Members of the legislature bet. Members of congress bet. Profess ors of religion bet. Teachers and su perintendents nf Sunday schools, I am told, bi t. Kid;cs bet, not diicctly, but through ag'-nts. Yesterday and every day they bet, they gain, they lose: and this summer, while the parasols swing, and the hands clap, and the huzzas deaf en, them will be n multitude of people cajoled and deceived and cheated, who w ill at the races go neck aud uec 1 neck and neck to perdition. Cultivate the horse by all menus, drive him as fast as you desire, provid ed you do not injure him or endanger yourself or others, but bo careful and do not harness tho horse to the chariot of sin. Do not throw your jewels of morality under tho flying hoof. Do not under tho pretext of improving tho horse destioy a man. Do nut have your name put down iu the ever increasing cata logue of those who are ruined for both worlds by the dissipations of the Amer ican race course. Tiny say that an hon est racecourse is a "straight” track, and that a dishonest race course is a “crook ed” track—that is the parlance abroad— but I tell you that every race track sur rounded by betting men aud betting women and betting customs is a straight track—I mean straight down! Christ asked in one of his gospels, “Is not n man better than a sheep?” I say, yes, aud he is better than all tho steeds that with la:hiud flunks ever shot around the ring at a lace course. That is a very poor job by which a man in order to get a horse to come out a lull leugth a In ad of some other raerr so lames his own morals that he comes out a whole leug.ta beiiintl in tho race set before him. A Current Evil. Do you not realize the fact that there is a mighty effort on all sides today to get money without earning it? That is the curso of all the cities; it is the curse of America—the eftort to get money without earuiug it—aud usothur forms of stealing are not respectable, they go into these gambling practices. 1 pleach this sermon on square old fash ioned honesty. I have said nothing against the horse, I have said nothing against the turf. 1 have said everything against their prostitution. Young men, yon go into straightforward industries, aud you will have belter livelihood and you will have larger permanent success than you cun ever get by a wager, but you gel iu with some of tho whisky, rum blotched crow which I see going down on the boulevards, tbough 1 never bet, I will risk this wager, §5.000,000 to nothing, you will be debuuubuii and dumuod. Cultivate the horse, own him if you can afford to own him, test all the speed he has, If be have any speed in biui, M bt tarettJ wfeiU) fw» drive. You cannot always tell w hat di rect ion a man is driving in by the way his horses head. In my boyhood we rode three miles every fcahbath morning to tho country church. We were drawn by two line horses. My father drove. He knew them, and they knew him. They were fr.cuds. Sometimes tiny loved to go rapidly, and ho did not interfere with their happiness. Ho had all of us in the w agon w ith him. He drove to the countiy church. The fact is that for 82 years ho drove in the Hamo direction. The rcau span that I speak of was long ago unhitched, and the driver put up his whip in tho wagon house never again to take it down, hut in those good old times I learned something that I never forgot—that a nan may admire a horse, and 1 ive a horse, aud he proud of a horse, and uot always he willing to take tho du.-t of tho preceding vehicle, and yet ho a Christian, an earnest Chris tian, an humble Christian, a consecrat ed Christian, useful until the last, so that at his death tho church of God cries out as Elisha exclaimed when Elijah went up with galloping horses of fire, “My father, my father, tho chariots of Israel and the hoisumeu thereof!” Impure Blood R, S. 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