The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, October 24, 1895, Image 5
THE WEEKLY LEDGER; GAEFTrEY, S. C., OCTOBER 24, 1805.
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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!”
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