Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-28
SERMON.
I,.aor,oal Discourse On "rhe
: ,+,,rn From the Chase.
ror World and Its Pleas.
:, the Morning of Life-The
.o If God the Only Result
worth Returning With.

worth Returning With.
n Dewitt Talmage preached an
.;ao, sermon at the Brooklyn Taber-
Prscently, the subject of which he n
os "Return From the Chase"
I for his text:
No morning he shall devour the prey,
nioht he shall divide the spoil
Isis Xix. q. .M
rolmage said: There is in this chap
,h an %afluence of smile and alle-
such a mingling of metaphors, that
are a thousand thoughts in it not on
[,rface. Old Jacob, dying, is telling
(o,tunes of his children. He prophe-
line devouring propensities of Benja-
and his descendants. With his dim
ives he looks off and sees the hunters
| out to the fields, ranging them all
and at night-fall coming home, the
he slung over the shoulder: and reach
3the door of the tent the hunters begin to
ribute the game, and one takes a coney
another a rabbit and another a roe.
the morning he shall devour the prey,
at night he shall divide the spoil.
t. It may be a reference to the habits of
A beasts that slay their prey, and then
u it back to the cave or lair and divide
|mong the young.
here is nothing more fascinating than
life of a hunter. On a certain day in
England you can hear the crack of the
Irtsman's gun because grouse hunting
begun; and every man that can afford
time and ammunition and can draw a
ID starts for the fields. On the Goth of
tober our woods and forests will re-
md with the shock of firearms, and will
tracked with pointers and settlers be-
use the quail will then be a lawful prize
the sportsman. Xenophon grew elo-
snt in regard to the art Of hunting. In
far East people, elephant. mounted.
Use the tiger. The American Indian darts
arrow at the buffalo until the fright
ID herd tumble over the rocks. Europe
mobiles are often found in the fox chase
4 at the stag hunt. Francis l. was
led the father of hunting. Moses de-
res of Nimrod:
e was a mighty hunter before che Lord.
in all ages of the world the
agery Of my text ought to be suggest
whether it means a wolf after a fox or
IAN after a lion.
n the morning he shall devour the prey,
at night he shall divide the spoll.
take my text, in the first place, as de-
iptive of those people who, in the morn
of their life, give themselves up to
the world, but afterward, by the
see of God, in the evening of their life
ride among themselves the spoils of
character. There are aged
ristian men and women in this house
10, if they gave testimony, would tell
tthat in the morning of their life they
as after the world as intensely as a
md after a hare OF as a falcon swoops
on a gazelle. They wanted the worlds
'udits and the worlds gains. They felt
if they could get this world they
uld have every thing. Some of them
rted out for the pleasures of the world.
thought that the man who laughed
dest was happiest. They tried repair
and conrndrum, and burlesque, and
drigal. They thought they would like
De Tom Hoods OF Charles Lambs or Ed
A. Poes. They mingled wine and
and the spectacular. They were
of the harlequin, and the
Try Andrew, and the bufoon, and
jester. Life was to them foam,
bubble, and cachinnation, and royster-
and grimace. They were so full Of
: they could hardly repress their mirth,
n on solemn occasions, and they came
r bursting out hilariously wen at the
because there was something SO
III the tone or countenance of the
'ertaker. After awhile misfortune
lex them hard on the back. They
there was something they could not
at. Under their late hours their
ith gave way OF there was a death in
mouse. OF every green thing their
was exfoliated. They found out that
was more than a joke. From the
OF God there blazed into their soul
earnestness they had never felt before.
y awoke to their sinfulness and i'm.
tailty, and here they sit to-day at
y or seventy years of age, as appre-
I've OF all innocent mirth as they ever
e, but they r bent on a style of salts
ION which in early life they never
tea; the evening of their days brighter
the morning. In the morning they
cured the prey, but at night they are
ding the spoil.
len there are others who started out
financial success. They see how Timber
ans hat is when he bows down before
e n transpicuous. They felt they
lla like to see how the world looked
n the window of a $1,000 turnout.
y thought they would like to have
morning sunlight tangled in the head
: OF a dashing span. They wanted
in the park to resound under
'ataplan of their swift hoofs. They
l'ea a gilded baldrick, and so they
'eo on the dollar hunt. They chased
p one street and chased it down an
lef' They followed it when burrowed
'ne cellar. They freed it in the roof.
erever a dollar was expected to be
: We're. They chased it across the
,h' They chased it across the
L. They stopped not for the night.
ring that dollar even in the dark
thrilled them as an Adirondack
.'sman is thrilled by a looms laugh.
y chased that dollar to the money
IT, They chased it to the government
sufy. They routed it from under
counter. All the hounds were
al the pointers and settlers. They
the hedges for that dollar,
lUeY cried HHa,E owayi a dol1arl