The Russellville Democrat., 1888-09-20

stead or running 70 the WhteEs ol DifAno consolation and slaking your thirst and cooling your body and soul in the goo cheer of the Gospel, and swimming away into the mighty deeps of Gods love, you are fighting q whole kennnel of harriers.
 A few days ago saw in the Adiron- dacks a dog lying across the road, and he seemed unable to get up, and I said to some hunters near by;
 What is tho matter with that dogf" They answered: "A deer hurt him." And saw he had a great swollen paw and battered head, showing where the animal struck him. And the probability is that some of you might give mighty clip to your pursuers, you might damage their business, you might worry them into ill-health, you might hurt them as they have hurt you, but after all, 1t is not worth while. You only have hurt a hound. Better be of for the Upper Sarauac, into which the mountains of Gods eternal strength look down and moor their shadows. As for your physical disorders. the worst strychnine you can take is fretfulness, and the best medicine is religion. know people who were only little disor dered, yet have fretted themselves into com plete valetudinarianism. while others put their trust in God and came up from the very shadow of death, and have glved comfortably twenty five years with only ono lung. A man with one lung, but God with him, is better of than lodless man with two lungs.
 Some of you have been for a long time sailing around Cape Fear when you ought to have been sailing around Cape Good Hope. Do not turn back, but go ahead. The deer will accomplish more with it's swift feet than with it's horns. l saw whole chains of lakes in the Adirondacks, and from ono 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 being called q "carry." And the realm of Gods word is one long chain of bright, refreshing lakes; each prom ise lake, very short carry between 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 describes them, and they seem so near together that in three differ | ont places he speaks of them as a contin- uous river, saying: "There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God;" Thou shalt make them drink of the rivers of | Thy pleasures .Thou greatly enrichest | it with the river of God which is full of | water.o l.....e1 But many of you have turned your back on that supply and confront your trouble, and you are soured with their oircum- | stances, and you are fighting society, and | Ruh Vtrro | troubles, instead of driving you into the cool lake of Heavenly comfort, have made | you stop and turn round and lower your head, and it is simply antler against | tooth. I do not blame you. Probably under the same circumstances l would | have done worse But you are all wrong. | You need to do as the reindeer does in | February and March--it sheds it's horns. | The rabbinical writers allude to this l resign ation of antlers by the stag, when | they say of . mau who ventures his money | in risky enterprises, he has hung 1t on the stag's 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 l the antagonism of your circumstances, | quit misanthropy, quit complaint quit l pitching into your pursuers; be as wise as, next spring, will be all the reindeer of the Adirondacks. Shed your horns. | But very many of you who are wronged of the world-and if iu any assembly be- tween Sandy Hook, New York, and Col den Gate, San Francisco, 1t were asked that all those that had been sometime badly treated should raise both their hands and full response should be made, | there would be twice as many lifted as | nf fxvTt axut | declare: "We have always done the best we could and tried to be useful, and why we should become the victims of malign- ment or invalidism, or mishap is in- | scrutable." . | Why, do you know that the finer deer | and the more elegant its proportions, | and the more beautiful it's bearing, the | more anxious the hunters and the hounds are to capture 1t. Had that roebuck a ragged fur and broken hoofs, and an | obliterated eye and limping gait tho hunters would have said: "Pshaw! don't | lot us waste our ammunition on sick | dear"
 So if there were no noble stuff in your makeup, if you were a bifurcated nothing, if you were a forlorn failure, you would be allowed to go undisturbed but the fact that the pack is in full cry after you | is proof positive that you are splendid game and worth capturing. Therefore
 sarcasm draws on you it's finest head"
 Therefore the world goes gunning for you with it's best Maynard breech- loader. Highest compliment is it your talent or your virtue. or your usefulness. You vii
 be assailed in proportion to your great | achievements. The best and the mightiest
 being the world ever saw, had set after | Al. l. al 1 1fn-
 bolic, and they Tapped His blood after the Calvarean massacre. The world paid
 nothing to its Redeemer but bremble
 and cross. Many who have done their
 best to make the world better have had
 such rough time of 1t that all their
 pleasure is in anticipation of the next
 world, and they could express their own feelings in the words of the Baroness of
 Nairn at the close of her long life:
 Would you be young againf
 | So would not l;
 One tear of memory given,
 Onward I'll hie
 Lies dark wave forded OCT,
 All but at rest shore,
 Say, would you plunge once more, With home 80 nighf
 If you might would you now
 Retrace your wayf
 | Wander through stormy wilds,
 | Faint and astrayi
 | Nights gloomy watches fled,
 Morning all beaming red,
 | Hopes smile around us shed.
 Heavenward, awayl Al
 Yes, for some poole iu this world there
 seems no let-up. They are pursued iron
 youth to manhood and from manhood
 into old age. Very distinguished ar,
 Lord Stafford's hounds and Earl of Var
 borough's hounds and the Duke of Rot
 lands hounds, and Queen Victoria pay
 $500 per year to her master of buck
 hounds. But all of them put together dc
 not equal in mum Der. or speed, or powe
 to hunt down, the great kennel of hound
 of which Sin and Trouble are owner an,
 master. 1 Rnt what Ia A rAliAf for nlI thoaA nnr