Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-10
AS ASTHEHARTPANTETH
so THE SOUL OF THBCHRIsrIAN LONGS poR
GOD.
DIR. falnagss Eloquent Sermon Ysstsrday-rhs
Deer Hut-Our Bible a Natural Bible
Christian Trials and Christian
Triumph.

! Special Telegram to the Register.
, BROOKLYN, N. Y, September 9Th
great organ, improved and enlarged, role
, out with new power the long metre do1ol
oy at the opening Of the service in th
/ Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day. The grea
: auditorium was thronged and overhowinp
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, D. D., hs
returned from his summer vacation, dur
ing which be has spoken in many parts O
: the country, and shaken hands, he says
with about q hundred thousand people
He closed his tour by visit to the wilder
ness in upper New York State, and spend
ing some time among the hupts ,llustra-
morning he expoundahntance with nat
tive of Solon"-'
urasText was: Psalm xiii. l. "As the
hart panteth after the water brooks, 30
panteth my soul after Thee, o God" The
great preacher said:
have Just come from the Adirondscks
and the breath of the balsam aud spruce
and pine is still on me. The Adirondacks
are now populous with hunters, and the
deer are being slain by the score. Talking
few days ago with hunter, / thought
would like to see whether my text was ae-
curate in its allusion, and as 1 heard the
dogs baying little way of and supposed
they were on the track of q reindeer,
said to the hunter in rough corduroy: ''Do
the deer always make for the water when
they are pursued?" He said: 20, yes,
Mister, you see they are hot and thirsty
animal, and they know where the water
is, and when they hear danger in the dis
tancs they lift their antlers and snuff the
breeze and start for the Racquet, or Loon
or Saranac; and we get into our cedar
shell boat or stand by the runway with
rife loaded ready to blaze away" My
friends, that ia one reason why l like the
Bible 50 much-its illusions are 80 true to
nature. Its psrtridges are real partridges,
its ostriches real ostriches, and its reindeer
real reindeer. do not wonder that this
antlered glory OF the text makes the hunt.
er's eye sparkle and his cheek glow and
his respiration quicken.
But only when,
| AFTER MILES OF PURSUIT,
with heaving sides and lolling tongue and
eyes swimming in death the stag leap:
fcom the cliff into Upper Ssranac, can you
realizs how much David had suffered from
his troubles, and how much he wanted God
when he expressed himself in the words oi
the text: CAS- the hart panteth after the
water brooks, so panteth my soul after
Thee, o God"
Well now, let all those who have coming
after them the lean hounds of poverty, oI
the black hounds of persecution, or the
spotted hounds Of vicissitude, or the pale
bounds of death, or who are in any wise
pursued, fly to the wide, deep, glorious
lake of divine solace and rescue. The
tnoet of the men and women whom hap
pen to know at different times, if not now
have had trouble after them, sharp m uz
zled troubles, swift troubles, all-devour
ing troubles Many of you have
made the mistake of trying to figh
them. Somebody meanly attached
you, aud you attacked them; they depre
ciatei You, you deprecated them; or they
overreached you in a bargain, and you tried,
in Wall street parlsnce, to get corner
on them; or you have had o bereavement
and instead of being submissive, you are
fighting that bereavement; you charge or
the doctors who failed TO effect cure; oi
you charge on the carelessness of the rail
road company through which the acciden,
occurred; or you are chronic invalid
and you fret and worry and scold ant
wonder why you cannot be we'll like othel
people, and you angrily charge on the
neuralgia or the lsryngitis or the sgue Of
the sick headache. The fact is you are {
deer at bay. Instead of running to the
waters of divine consolation, and shaking
your thirst and cooling your body ant
and soul in the good cheer Of the Gospel
and swimming away into the
MIGHTY DEEP OF cons LOVE,
you are fighting whole kennel of barriers
A few days ago / saw in the Adirondack
a dog lying across the road, and he seemed
unable to get up, and said to some hunt
ers near by: "Wnst is the matter will
that dog?" They answered: "a dee
hurt him." And / saw that he bad {
great swollen paw and u battered head,
showing where the antlers struck him
And the probability is that some Of yot
might give a mighty clip to your pursur
ers you might damage their business, yor
might worry them into illhealth, yor
might hurt them as much as they have
hurt you, but, after sll, it is not worth
while. You only have hurt hound
Better be off for the Upper Saranac, int
which the mountains Of Gods eterna
strength look down and moor their shsd
ows. As for your physical disorders, th'
worst strychine you can take is fretful
ness, and the best medicine is religion
know people who were only little disor
dered, yet have fretted themselves into com
plete valetudinarianism, while others pu
their trust in God and come up from tn
very shadow of death, and have livet
comfortably twenty-five years with only
one lung A man with one lung, but Cox
with him, is better off than q goddess mai
with two lungs. Some of you have beel
for long time sailing around Cape Fear
when you ought to have been sailinl
around Cape Good Hope. Do not turr
back, bat 90 ahead. The dear will &C
complish more with is swift feet thai
with its horns.
CHRISTIAN SUFFERING.
But very many Of you who are wronget
of the world-and if In any assembly be
tween Sandy Hook, New York and Colder
Gate, San Francisco, it were asked that al
those that had been sometimes badl,
treated should raise both their hands, snt
full respore should be made, there would
be twice as many hands lifted as person.
present-I say many Of you would de
clare: 1--WE have always done the best vi
could and tried to be useful, and why vi
should become the victims Of maligament
or invalidism, or mishsp. is inscrutable.
Why do you not know that the finer
deer, and the more elegant Its proportions
! and the more beautiful its bearing. tn
, more anxious the hunters and the hound
are to capture it. Had that roebuck
ragged fur and broken hoofs and an oblit
Grated eye and limping gait the hunter
, would have said: ''Pshaw! don't let q
waste our ammunition on Q sick deer.
And the hounds would have given fe'
3 shifts of the track, and darted Of in IN
- a;-oot;on for hatkar ORmA Ru