St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Great Preacher Back in His Pulpit
at Brooklyn.
GREETED BY A BIG CROWD.
His Text One of the Psalms earning
for Everlas Ing
Life.
Special to the Globe.

CpeCldl 10 Tie OlODe.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Sept. 9.-The Or
gan, improved and enlarged, rolled out
with new power the long metre doX-
ology at the opening of the service in
the Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day. The
| great auditorium was thronged
| and overlooking. The Rev
| T. De Witt Talmage has returned from
his summer vacation, during which he
has spoken in many parts of the 'coun-
| try, and shaken hands, he says, with
about hundred thousand peo-
pie. He closed his tour by visit
to the wilderness in upper New
York state, and spending some time
among the hunters. This morning he
eXpounded passages illustrative of Sol
onions acquaintance with natural his
tory. His text was Psalm xiii, l:
las the hart panteth after the
water brooks, so panteth my soul after
Thee, o God" The great preacher
said: David, who must some time have
seen deer hunt, points us here to a
hunted stag making for the water. The
fascinating animal called in my text
THE HART,
is the same animal that in sacred and
profane literature is called the stag, the
roebuck, the hind, the gazelle, the rein
deer. In Central Syria in Bible
times there were whole pasture
fields of them, as Solomon sug-
gests when he says: Il charge
you by the binds of the field" Their
antlerS jutted from the long grass as
they lay down. No hunter who has
been long in John Browns track"
will wonder that in the Bible they were
classed among clean animals, for
the dews, the showers, the lakes
When Jacob, the patriarch, longed for
venison, Esau shot and brought home
roebuck. Isaiah compares the sprightli-
ness of the restored cripple of millen-
NAL times to the long and quick
jump of the stag, saying: 1.-The
lame shall leap as the hart"
Solomon expressed his disgust at hum
ter, who, having shot deer, is too lazy
to cook it, saying; 1.-THE slOthful man
roasteth not that which he took in hunt
ing" But one day David while
far from the home from which
he had been driven, and sitting
near the door of a lonely cave where he
had lodged, and on the banks of pond
or river hears pack of hounds in swift
pursuit. Because of the previous 81
lence of the forest the clangor
startles him, and he says to him
dogs are after" Then there is a crack
ling in the brushwOod. and the loud
breathing of some rushing wonder of
the woods and the anters of deer
rend the leaves of the thicket, and, by
an instinct which all hunters recOg-
nize, plungeS into pond or lake or
river to
TO COOL ITS THIRST,
and at the same time by its capacity for
swifter and longer swimming, to get
away from the foaming barriers.
David said to himself: Aha that is
myself! Saul after me, Absaloin after
me, enemies without number after me,
am chased, their bloody muzzles at my
heels, barking at my good name, bark
ing after my body, barking after my
But look there" says David, ''that rein
deer has splashed into the water. 1t
puts its hot lips and nOstrils into
the cool wave that washes the
lathered TANKS, and it swims away from
the fiery CANNES, and it is free at last.
Oh, that l might find III the deep, wide
lake of Gods mercy and consolation eS-
cape from my pursuers! Oh, for the
waters OF life and rescue! AS the hart
panteth after the water brooks, so pant
eth my soul after Thee, Oh God"
For some PEG pie in this world there
seems no let-up. They are pursued
from youth to manhood, and from man
hood into old age. Very distinguished
are Lord StaffOrd's hounds, and Earl
of Yarborough's hounds and the Duke
nf Pt1fI dc
Victoria pays $500 per year to her
master of buckhOundS. But all of them
do not equal in number. or speed, or
power to hunt down the great kennel of
hounds of which Sin and Trouble are
owner and master. But what is relief
for all those pursuits of trouble, and an
nOyance, and
PAIN AND BEREAVEMENT?
Ny text gives it to you in a word of !
three letters, but each letter is char
lot if you would triumph. OF a throne if !
you want to be crowned, or lake |
if you would slake your thirst
yea, a chain of three letters
God, the One for whom David |
You might as well meet stag which, |
after its sixth mile of running at the |
topmost speed through thicket and |
gorge, and with the breath of the
dogs on its heels, has come in
full sight of ScrOon lake and
tried to cool its projecting and blistered
tongue with drop of dew from blade
of grass, as to attempt to satisfy an i'm |
mortal soul when flying from
trouble and sin, with anything |
less deep, and high, and broad, |
and immense, and infinite, and |
eternal than God. His comfort, why it |
embosoms all distress. His arm, it |
wrenches off all bondage. His hand, it |
wipes away all tears. His Cbristly atone
ment, it makes us all right with the past |
and all right with the future, and all |
right With God, all right with man, and |
all right forever. Lamartine tells us |
that King Nimrod said to his three |
sons: Here are three vases, and one |
is of clay, another OF amber and an
other of gold. Choose now which |
you will have" The eldest son. |
having the first choice. chose the vase of |
gold, on which was written the word |
Empire" and when opened it was
found to contain human blood. The
second son making the next choice,
chose the vase of amber, Inscribed with |
the word ''Glory," and when opened it
contained the ashes of those who were
once called great. The third son took
THE VASE OF CLAY,
and opening it found it empty. but on |
the bottom of it was inscribed the name
of God. King Nimrod asked his court
iers which vase they thought weighed
the most. The avaricious men of |
his court said the vase of gold.
The poets said the one of
amber. But the wisest men said the
amDtV vase because one letter of the |