Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-09-21
DISGUISED 10 THOUSANDS.
H. Welcome Home Infusss Hin With
Renewed Inspiration.

AFTER Exchanging Grip Of yVarmgh with
His Beloved Congrs CATION tbs Renowned
Talmage Ezpounds Passages that are
Drank IN With the U most Ezg -rness L,v
HIS Attentive Listsners-F'Js a Text the
DIVINE Takes the Ave Inspiring Vsrse: AS
the Hart Pantsth After tine Water Brooks.
So Pantsth EEv Sou After Thee. o Godg'
BRooKLYN, n. Y, September 0.-The great
organ, improved and enlarged, rolled out
with new power the long metre doxology at
tie opening OF lie service in the BROOKLYN
Tabernacle today. The great auditorium
was thronged aud Overlooking. The Rev. Z.
Dewitt Tahnage D. D., has returned from
his summer vacation, during which he has
spoken IN many parts of the country and
shaken hands, he says, with about d hundred
thousand people. He closed his tour by
visit 10 the wilderness in upper New York
State, and spending some time among the
hunters. This morning he expOuuded
passages ILLUSTRATIVE of SOlOmOn's acQuaint-
ance with natural history.
His text was: Psalm Il If. fsAs the hart
pauteth after the Water brooks, so panteth
nv soul after Thee, God" The great
preacher sad:
David, who must sometime have seen a
deer hunt, points US here 10 a hunted stag
making for the wafer The fascinating
animal called in my text the hare is the
same animal that IN sacred and pTUfaue
literature IS called the Stag, the rOebuck, the
hind, the gaelic. the reindeer In Central
Syria IN B!De times there were whole pasture
fields OF Them as solomon suggests when he
sa5 S: i charge YOU by the hnds OF the
Held" 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 cIassed
among clean animals, for the dcws,
the showers, The lakes washed them
as clean the Sky. When Jacob
the patr arch, lOuged for veuisOn
Esau shot and brought home rOebUcEs
Isaiah compares the Eprightllness Of the re-
stored cripple OF millenniai times TO the long
and quick jump of the stag, saving: The
lGene shall leap as the hart'' Solomon ex-
pressed his disgust at a hunter who having
shot deer IS too lazy 10 cook il, saying;
Tine slOuthtul man rOasteth rot that which
he look in hunting But one day David,
While lar 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 IL pond or RIVER, hears, a pack of
hounds in swift pursuit Because of the
previous silence OF the forest the clangOr
StartIes him, and he says to himself: 81
what those dogs are after" Then
there is 4 cTackIng in the brushWOOd aud
the loud breathing of some rushing wonder
wonder OF the woods, and tho antlers of q
deer rend the leaves of the Ih5cket, and BY
instinct WHICH all hunters IecOgu Ze, plunge
INTO a pond or lake or river TO cool lis thirst
and AT the same time By It's capacity for
sWliter and longer swimming, TO get away
from the fOaming barriers. David said to
himself: AHA, that is myself! Saul after
me, AbsOlOm after me, enemies
without number after me, am
chased, their bloody muzzIes at my
heels, barking at INV good name, barking
after nv body, bark NJ after my soul. Oh
the hounds, the hounds! But look there"
says David. THAT reindeer has splashed into
The water 1t puts its hot lips anu uOrtrils
into the cool wave that washes tbs lathered
1auks, and it sWims away from the fiery
CANNES, and is free at last On, that Imigut
ind in the deep, wide lake OF God S mercy
On, for the waters of life and rescued As
Tie hart panIeth after the water brooks,
so panteth my soul after Thee. 0 God"
have Just come from the AdlrOudacSs and
the Drea,h OF The Dalsam and spruce aud pine
is stil on me. The AdlrOndacks are now DOD-
ulOus with hunters, and the deer are being
slain by the score. Talking few days ago
with huuter, L thought ! would like to see
whether my text was accurate in its allusiOn,
and AS heard the dos Ja,ing little way
Oh auu supposed lheI were on The track OF q
reindeer, l said to The hunter in rough cOrdu
roy: DO the deer always make Tor the water
when they are pursued9" He said: 20, yes,
Mister. you see they are a hot aud thirsty
animal, and they know where the water is,
and when they hear danger in the distance
the} lift Their auJlers AMI snuff the breeze
and start Tor he Racquet, or Loon or Sara
nae; and we yet into our c5uar shell boat or
stand by the runway with rife loaded ready
10 blaze away" Ny friends, that is one rea-
sions are SO true to nature. us partridges
are real cartridges, its OsHjches real ostrich
es, and It's reindeer real reindeer ] do nE5
wonder that this uutered glory of the text
makes lie hunters eve Sparkle and his cheek
glow and his respiration quicken. TO say
nothing OF It's usefulness, although il is the
most useful of all game, its flesh delicious
It's skin turned Into human apparel, its sin
ews tashiOued into bow strings, its antlers
putting handles on cutlery and the shaVings
of its nOrns, used as IL restorative, taken from
"a mi NHarwF Had
But putting aside its usefulness, this euchant-
ing creature seems made out OF gracefulness
and elasticity. What an eye, with a liquid
brightness as II gathered Up from a hundred
lakes Of sunset Tie horns, Il corOual branch
Ing into every possible curve, aud after it
seems done, advancing into other projections
OF eEQuisIteuess, u tree of polished bone up
lifted IA pride, or swung down for awful com
bat. 1t Is velocity embodied. Iimjdity inn
persOnated The enchuntment OF the woods
Eye lusLrOus in life aud pathetic in death
The splendid animal a complete rytnm of
muscle, and bone, and color. and attitude
and lOcOmUtiOn, whether cOuched in the grass
among the shadows, or a living bolt shot
through the forest, or turning at bay to at
tack the hounds, or rearing for its last fall
under the buckshOt of the trapper. 1t is a
splendid appearance that the painters pencil
fails to sketch, and only hunters dream on
pillow OF hemiOck at the foot OF st. Regis
IS able to picture. When, twenty miles from
any settlement il comes down at eventide to
the lakes edge to drink among the lily pads
and with its sharp-edged hOOf, skaters the
or, stal Of Long Lake, il is very picturesque.
But only when, after miles of pursuit with
heaving sides aud lOlliHg tongue and eyes
swimming Ia death the stag leaps from the
cliff into Upper SaTanac, can you realize how
much David had suffered from his troubles.
aud how much he wanted God when he ey-
pressed himself in the words OF the text:
LAS the hart pauteth 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, or
the black hounds OF persecution. or the sDcf-
ted bounds Of Vicissitude, or the pale hounds
Of death, or who are in any wise pursued. fly
10 the de- deep glorious lake Of divine
sOiace and rescue. The most of the men and
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