Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-21

-. Sis WHO 1alled to effect a cure.
~ yea charge on the carelessness of the
e n;daos company through which the ac-
;n,ei:, occurred; or you are chronic
and wonder why you cannot he we'll lie
other people, and you angrily charge on
.ne neuralgia or the laryng gifts or the /
ague or the sick headache. The fact 10
you are a deer at bay. Instead of run /
hl1s to the waters of divine ons olation.
ana shaking your thirst and cooling
Noar body and soul in the good cheer Of |
the Gospel, and swimming away into the |
mighty deeps of Gods love, YOU are
nghtlng a whole kennel of barriers. A
Few days agoI saw in the Adirondacks
cog lying across the road, and he seemed
unable to get up, and l said to some
hunters near by: What is the matter
With that dog?' They answered: "A
deer hurt him. And 1 saw he had
great swollen paw and a battered head,
showing where the antlers struck him
ana the probability is that some of you
might give mighty clip to your pur-
suers, you might damage their business,
you might worry them into i'll health,
you might hurt them as much as they
nave hurt you, but, after all, it is not
worth while. You only have hurt
hound. Better be off for the Upper
Saranac, into which the mountains of
Gods eternal strength look down and
moor their shadows. AS for your physi-
cal disorders, the worst strychnine you
can take is fretfulness, and the best med
icine is religion. 1 know people who
were only little disordered, yet have
fretted themselves into complete valetu-
in God and came up from the very
shadow of death, and have lived COM
fortably twenty five years with only one
lung. man with one lung, but God
with him. is better off than goddess
man with two lungs. Some of you have
been for long time sailing around Cape
Fear when you ought to have been sail
ing around Cape Good Hope. Do not
turn back. but go ahead. The deer will
accomplish more with is swift feet than
with its horns.
/ saw the whole chain of lakes in the
Adirondacks. and from one height you
can see thirty. and there are said to be
over eight hundred in the great wilder
ness. SO near are they to each other
that your mountain guide picks up and
carries the boat from lake to lake, the
small distance between them for that
reason called ''carry." And the realm
of Gods word is one long chain of
bright, refreshing lakes; each promise
a lake, very short carry be-
tween them, and though for ages
the pursued have been drinking out Of
them, they are full up to the top of the
green banks, and the same David de-
scribes them, and they seem SO near to.
gether that in three different places he
speaks of them as continuous river,
saying: There is river the streams
whereof shall make glad the city of God;
Thou shalt make them drink of the
rivers of thy pleasure. Thou greatly
enrichest it with the river of God which
is full of water"
But many of you have turned your
back on that supply, and confront your
trouble, and you are soured with your
circumstances, and you are fighting So
ciety, and you are fighting pursuing
world. and troubles instead of driving
YOU into the cool lake of heavenly com
fort, have made you stop and turn round
and lower your head, and it is simply
antler against tooth. lido not blame you.
Probably under the same circumstances
I would have done worse. But you are
all wrong. You need to do as the REIN
deer does in February and March-it
sheds it's horns. The Rabbinical writers
allude to this resignation of antlers by
the stag when they say of man whe
ventures his money in risky enterprises,
he has hung it on the stays horns; and a
proverb in the far east tells man who
has foolishly lost his fortune to go and
find where the deer shed her horns. My
brother, quit the antagonism of your
circumstances, quit misanthrophy, quit
complaint, quit pitching into your pur-
suers, be as wise as. next spring, will be
. nil the reindeer of the Adirondacks.
Shed YOUR horns.
. But very many of you are wronged OF
the world-and if in any assembly be.
tween Sandy Hook, New York, and
Golden Gate, San Francisco, it were
asked that all those that had been some
times badly treated should raise both
; their hands. and full response be made
a there would be twice as many hands
' lifted as persons present soy many OF
= done the best we could and tried to be
: useful, and why we should become the
victims of malignment. or invalidism OF
= mishap is inscrutable. Why do yor
, not know that the finer a deer, and the
3 more elegant it's proportions, and the
% more beautiful its bearing, the more
anxious the hunters and the hounds are
!. to CAPTURE it. Had that roebuck .
: ragged fur and broken hoofs ant
= an obliterated eye and a limping gate
). the hunters would have said: Pshaw
!, don't let us waste our ammunition on
= sick deer" And the hounds would have
9 given few shifts Of the track and ther
9 darted off in another direction for bette
. game. But when they see a deer Will
= antlers lifted in mighty challenge t.
earth and sky, and the sleek hide look
: as if it had been smoothed by invisible
a hands, and the fat sides inclose tn
! richest pasture that could be nibblet
= from the bank of rills 80 clear the.
j seem to have dropped out OF heaven
q and the stamp Of it's foot detle
q the Jack shooting lantern aud the rifle
= the horn and the hound, that deer the,
3 will have if they must needs break thel
: neck in the rapids. So ifthere were ne
= noble stuff in your make up, if you wer'
4 a bifurcated nothing, if you were TOR
= lorn failure, you would be allowed to g
. undisturbed; but the fact that the whole
g pack is in full cry after you is proof pos
Il tive that you are splendid game AM
:, worth capturing. Therefore sarcasm
: draws on you its finest bead" There
u fore the world goes cunning for you witt
. it's best MAYNARD breech loader. Hlghes
:, compliment is it to your talent, or you u