The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-05-27
TALMAGES SERMON.
An Anegorical Discourse On 'srlle
Return From the Chase.
The Hunt For the world and Its Pleas.
ures IN the MorninG OF Efe-Ths
Peace Of God tho Only Result
Worth Returning with.

Worth Rs.arni.g with.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage preached an
allegorical sermon at the BROOKLYN Taber.
nacle, recently, the subject of which he an
nounced as "Return From the Chase"
taking Tor bis text: o 1EoIL
In the morning he shall devour the prey,
and at night he shall divide the spoil
Genesis xix. 81.
DR.. Talmage said: There 10 In this chap
ter such an afiuence of simils and ale.
CORY, such mingling OF metaphors, that
there are u thousand thoughts In II not On
the surface. Old Jacob, dying, Is telling
the fortunes Of his children. He prophe.
sies the devouring propens;ties of Benja.
min and his descendants. With his dim
old eyes he looks of and sees the hunters
going out to the fields, ranging them all
day and at night-fall coming home, the
game slung over the shoulder: and reach
ing the door Of the tent the hunters begin to
dissr'1utA the game. and one takes coney
and another q rsbbit aud another roe.
In the morning he shan devour the prey,
and at night he shall divide the spoil. Z
Or, it may be . reference to the habit, of
wild beasts that slay their prey, and then
drag II back to the cave or lair and divide
it among the young.
There is nothing more fascinating than
the life Of hunter. On . certain day In
al England you can hear the crack of the
sportsmsn's gun because grouse hunting
has begun; and every man that can afford
the tune and ammunition and can draw q
bead starts for the fields. On the Goth Of
O tober our woods and forests will re-
sound with the shock of firearms, and will
be tracked with pointers and settlers be.
cause the quail will then be lawful prise
for the sportsman. Xenophon grew elo.
quent in regard to the art Of bunting. In
the far East people, elephant. mounted,
chase the tiger. The American Indian darts
his arrow at the buffalo until the fri CHIT
ened herd tumble over the rocks. Europe.
or mobiles are often found in the fox chase
and at the stag hunt. Francis |. was
called the father Of hunting. Moses de.
clares of NimrOd
He was mighty hunter before the Lord
Therefore in all ages of the world the
imagery Of my text ought to be suggest.
i've whether it means wolf after fox or
4 man after q lion.
In the morning he shall devour the prey,
an at night he shall divide the spoil.
I take my text, in the first place, as de-
scriptive of those people who, in the morn
ing of their life, give themselves up to
hunting the world, but afterward, by the
grace of God, in the evening of their life
divide among themselves the spoils of
Christian character. There are aged
Christian men and women in this house
who. il they gave testimony, would tell
you that in the morning Of their life they
we're after the world 80 intensely as a
hound after hare or as falcon swoops
uoon gaEelle. They wanted the worlds
piaudits and the worlds gains. They felt
that il they could get this world they
would have every thing. Some of them
started out for the pleasures of the world.
They thought that the man who laughed
Ioudest was happiest They tried repair
tee. and conundrum, and burlesque, and
madrigal. They thought they would like
to be Tom Hoods or Charles Lambs or Ed
gar A. Poes. They mingled wine and
music and the spectacular. They were
worshipers Of the harlequin, and the
Merry Andrew, and the buffoon, and
the jester. Life was to them foam,
.nA huh vI an al; cv = k;ov IL
ing, and grimace. They were so full of
glee they could hardly repress their mirth,
even on solemn occasions, and they came
near bursting out hilariously even at the
burial, because there was something so
dolorcus In the tone or countenance of the
undertaken. After awhile misfortune
struck them hard ON the back. They
found there was something they could not
laugh at. Under their late hours their
health gave way or there was . death In
tae house. OF every green thing their
soul was exfoliated. They found out that
life was moro than joke. From the
heart Of God there blazed into their soul
On earnestness they had never felt before.
They awoke to their sinfulness and i'm.
mortality, and here they sit to-day at
sixty or seventy years Of age, as appre.
ciative Of all innocent mirth as they ever
were, but they are bent on style Of salts.
faction which in early life they never
hunted; heevening of their days brighter
than the morning. In the morning they
devoured the prey, but at night they are
dividing the spoil. ~
Then there arc others who started out
for financial success. They see how timber
mans hat ia whom he bows down before
some one transpicuous. They felt they
would like to see how the world looked
from the window Of . 5000 turnout.
They thought they would like. to have
the morning sunlight tangled In the head
gear Of a dashing span. They wanted
the bridges in the park to resound under
The rataplan Of their swift hoofs. They
wanted a gilded bsldrick, and so they
started on the dollar hunt. They chased
It up one street and chased it down an.
mother. They followed it when burrowed
in the cellar. They freed 1t in the roof
Wherever dollar was expected to b
they were. They chased It across th,
ocean. They chased it across the
land. They stopped not for the night
Hearing thai dollar even in the dark.
ness thrilled them a. an Adirondack
sportsman /, thrilled by looms laugh
They chasel that dollar to the money
vault. They CHASED it to the government
treasury, They routed it from undel
the couater. All the hounds vert
out--au the pointers and settlers. They
leaned the hedges for that dollar
and they cried: "Hsrk away! dollar
q dotlar" And when at last they cam