The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-10
TALMAGE's SERMON.
An Allegorical Discourse On "The
Return From the Chase.

The Hunt For the World and It's Pleas.
ures in tho Morning OF Life-The
Peace of God the Only Result
Worth Returning 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 for his text:
In the morning he shall devour the prey,
and at night he shall divide the spoil
FGenesis Xix. q.
DIR. Talmage said: There is in this chap
ter such an affiuence of smile and ale
CORY, such mingling of metaphors, that
there are thousand thoughts in it not on
the surface. Old Jacob, dying, is telling
the fortunes of his children. He prophe-
sizes the devouring propensities 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
uiEUIIDutC uAc kSAiOs bAAAA SAAo oSASc - SoAASJ
and another rabbit and another roe.
In the morning he shall devour the prey,
and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Or, it may be reference to the habits Of
wild beasts that slay their prey, and then
drag it back to the cave or lair and divide
1t among the young.
There is nothing more fascinating than
he Ifn nf . hxpfor I'm a corka in dav IN
all England you can hear the crack of the
sportsman's gun because grouse hunting
has begun; and every man that can afford
the time and ammunition and can draw a
bead starts for the fields. On the Goth of
October our woods and forests will re-
sound with the shock of firearms, and viii
be tracked with pointers and settlers be-
cause the quail will then be lawful prize
for the sportsman. Xenophon grew elo-
quent in regard to the art of hunting. In
the far East people, elephant. mounted.
chase the tiger. The American Indian darts
his arrow at the buffalo until the fright
ened herd tumble over the rocks. Europe
an 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
q man after lion.
In the morning he shah devour the prey,
and at night he shall divide the spoil.
e.s
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
were after the world as intensely as a
hound after hare or as . falcon swoops
upon gazelle. They wanted the worlds
plaudits and the worlds gains. They felt
that if 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
loudest 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
and bubble. and cachinna ton, and royster.
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
dolorous 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 q death il
the house. OF every green thing then
soul was exfoliated. They found out that
life was more than q joke. From the
heart Of God there blazed into their SOU
an earnestness they had never felt before
They awoke. to their sinfulnass and i'm.
mortality, and here they sit to-day al
sixty or seventy years Of age, as appre-
ciative Of all innocent mirth as they evel
were. but they are bent on style Of salts.
faction which in early life they nevel
hunted; the evening Of their days brighter
than the morning. In the morning they
devoured the prey, but at night they are
dividing the spoil.
Then there are others who started GU,
for financial success. They see how Timber
mans hat is when be bows down before
some one transpicuous. They felt they
would like to see how the world looked
from the window OF $1,000 turnout
They thought they would like to hav,
the morning sunlight tangled in the head
gear of dashing span. They wanted
the bridges in the park to resound unde
the rataplan OF their swift hoofs. They
wanted a gilded baldrick, and so the,
started on the dollar hunt. They chaset
it up one street and chased it down an
mother. They followed it when burrowe,
in the cellar. They freed it in the root
Wherever dollar was expected to b
they were. They chased it across th
ocean. They chased it across th,
land. They stopped not for the night
Hearing that dollar even in the dark.
ness thrilled them as an Adirondack
=