St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-10
DIVIDING THE SPOILS.
DR.. Talmage breaches to His Tabernacle
Congregation on the Return
from the Chase.
Hunting the World in the Morning and
Dividing Christian Spells in
the Evening.
a Warming to Young Men Who Spend
Too Much Time in Sowing
Wild Oats.
Men Pass Into Gods Kingdom
Quicker Than Lightning
Zig-Zags the Sky.
DIR. Talmage's Sermon.

Zig the sky
DIR. Talmage's Sermon.
Special to the Globe.
BROOKLYN. n. j., May 9.-The subject
of DR.. Talmages sermon this morning was,
Return from the Chase The text was
from Genesis Xix, 81: ''ln the morning he
shall devour the prey; and at night he shall
divide the spoil" He said: There is in this
chapter such an influence of smile and al
legorY, such mingling of metaphors, that
there are a thousand thoughts III it not on
the surface. Old Jacob, dying, is telling
the fortunes of his children. He prophe-
cies the devouring propensities of Benja-
min and his descendants. With his dim
old eyes he looks off and sees the hunters
going out to the fields, ranging them all
day and at nightfall 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 a
rabbit and another roe. I'm the morning
he shall devour the prey, and at night he
shall divide the spoil" Or, it may be a
reference to the habits of wild beasts that
Stay their prey. and then drag it back to the
cave or lair and divide it among the young.
There is nothing more fascinating than the
life OF hunter. On a certain day in all
England you can hear the crack of the
sportsman's gun because grouse-hunting
has begun; and every man who can afford
the time and ammunition and can draw
bead starts for the fields. On the goth OF
October our woods and forests will sound
with the
SHOCK OF FIREARMS.
and will be tracked of pointers and settlers
because the quail will then be lawful
prize for the sportsman. Xenophon grew
eloquent 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
frightened herd tumble over the rocks.
European mobiles are often found in the fox
chase and at the stag hunt. Francis 1. was
called the father of hunting. Moses de-
clares of Nimrod: !'He was a mighty
hunter before the Lord Therefore in all
ages of the world the imagery of nv text
ought to be suggestive, whether it means a
wolf after fox or man after lion. ''In
the morning he shall devour the prey, and
at night he shall divide the spoil" L take
my text, in the first place, as descriptive
their life give themselves up to hunting the
world, butafterward, by the grace of God,
in the evening of their life divide among
themselves the spoils of Christian charac-
ter. There are aged Christian men and
women in this house who. if they gave tes-
timony. would tell you that in the morning
OF their life they were after the world as
intensely as hound after hare or as
falcon swoops upon a gaZelle. They
wanted the worlds plaudits and the worlds
gains. They felt that if they could get
this world they would have everything.
Some of them started out for the pleasures
of the world. They thought, that the man
who laughed loudest was happiest. They
tried repartee and = -
coNUNDRUM AS sfB}'1BHt RLEsoUE
and madrigal. They thought they would
like to be Tom Hoods, Charles Lambs or
or Edgar 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 lester.
Life was to them foam and bubble and
cachination and registering and grimace
They were so full of mirth 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 death in the house. Of every
green thing their soul was exfoliated.
They found out that life was more than
a Joke. From the heart of God there
INF hnI
had never felt before. They awoke to
their sinfulness and their immortality, and
there they sit to-day at 60 or 70 years of
age. as appreciative of all innocent mrth as
they ever were, but they are bent on a
style of satisfaction which in early life they
never hunted; the evening of their days
brighter than the morning. In the morn
ing they devoured the prey, but at night
they are dividing the spoil. Then there
are others who started out for
FINANCIAL SUCCESS.
They see how timber mans hat is when
he bows down before some one transpicious.
They felt they would like to see how the
world looked from the window of So, 600
turnout. They thought they would like to
have the morning sunlight tangled in the
headgear of a dashing span. They wanted
the bridges in the park to resound under
the rataplan of their swift hoofs. They
wanted a gilded baldrick. and so they
started on the dollar hunt They chased it
up one street. and chased it down another
They followed it when it burrowed in the
cellar. They freed it in the roof Wher-
ever dollar was expected to be, they were.
They chased it across the ocean. They
chased it across the land. They
stopped not for the night.
Hearing that dollar even in the darkness
thrilled them as an Adirondack sportsman
is thrilled by a looms laugh. They chased
that dollar to the money vault They
chased it to the government treasury. They
routed 1t from under the counter. All the
hounds were Out-all the pointers and set
tiers. They leaped the hedges for that dol
lar and they cried: ''Hark, away! dollar!
dollar!" and when at last they came upon
it and had actually captured it their excite
ment was like that of falconer who has
successfully flung his first hawk. In the
morning of their life, oh, how they de-
voured the prey. But there came better
time to their soul. They found out that an
immoral nature cannot live on government
bonds. They took up Northern Pacific
bond and there was hole in it through
which they could look into the
UNCERTAINTY OF ALL
earthly treasures. They saw some Ralston.
living at the rate of S25, 600 month, leap
ing from San Francisco wharf because he
could not continue to live at the same ratio.
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