The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-05-21
TALMAGKS SERMON.
An AIlegorical Discourse On The
Return From the Chase.

Return From the Chase.
The Hsnt Fer Ne Ws,la saA Its Pleas.
ures IN the Morning Of Lifs-Ths
Psses q God TIE Only Result
WsrtA RsturnisS With.
Rsv. T. Dewitt Talmags preached IN
allegofical sermon ct the Brooklyn Tabsr-
nacle, recently, the subject Of which he an.
nouncsd ~ "Rstmn From the Chase -
taking for his taxi:
In the morning he shall devour the prey,
and 1t night he shall divide the spoil
iGenesis xix. q.
DR.. Talmage said: There 10 In this chap.
ter such an afluence Of simils and ale.
CORY, such . mingling Of metaphors, that
there are thousand thoughts In Il not on
the surface. Old Jacob, dying, Is telling
the fortunes Of his children. He prophe-
sizes the devouring propensitiss 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
distribute the game. and one takes coney
and another . rabbit and another roe.
In the morning he shall devour the prey.
and at night he shall divide the spoil
Or, 1t may be . reference to the habits of
wild beasts that slay their prey, and then
drag Il 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
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 q
bead starts for the fields. On the Goth Of
October 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 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.
sned herd tumble over the rocks. Europe.
an mobiles are often found in the fox chase
and at the stag hunt. Francis l. 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 il means wolf after fox or
n man after n linn
In the morning he shall devour the prey,
and 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
were after the world as intensely as q
hound after hare or as falcon swoops
upon gazelle. They wanted the worlds
p!audits 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
xu-nrshinors ~ $hA har mi, and he
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
iolorous in the tone or countenance of the
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 in
The house. OF every green thing their
soul was exfoliated. They found out that
life was more than q joke. From the
heart of God there blaxed into their soul
al earnestness they had never felt before.
They awoks to their sinfulness and i'm.
and here they sit to-day at
,ixty or seventy years of age, as appre.
ciative of all innocent mirth As they ever
we're. but they are bent on style Of salts.
faction which in early life they never
hunted; theevening Of their days brighter
han the morning. In the morning they
asvoured the prey, but at night they are
the spoil.
Then there are others who started ont
Ior financial success. They see how timber
} mans hat is when he bows down before
Iome one transpicuous. They felt they
would like to SEQ how the world looked
from the window Of . 5000 turnout.
They thought they would like to have
he morning sunlight tangled In the head
gear of dashing span. They wanted
he rataplan Of their swift hoofs. They
wanted . gilded baldrick, and % they
Dtarted on the dollar hunt. They chased
Il up one street and chased Il down a..
mother. They followed It when burrowed
IN the cellar. They freed II In the roof.
Wherever . dollar was expected to be
hey were. They chased Il across the
ocean. They chased Il across the
and. They stopped not for the night.
Hearing that dollar even in the dark.
ness thrilled them ~ an Adirondack
sportsman is thrilled by looms laugh.
They chased that dollar to the money
1ault. They chased it to the government
treasury. They routed it from under
The counter. All the hounds were
the pointers and settlers. They
capped the hedges for that dollar,
md they cried: "Hark away! dollar!
/ dollarw And when at last they came
"A L. L. a ii.