The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-09-13


antlers lifted in mighty challenge to
earth and sky, and the sleek hide looks
as if it had been slnoothed by invisible
hands, and the fat sides inclose the
richest pasture that could be nibbled
from the bank of rills so clear they
seem to have dropped out of heaven.
and the stamp Of its foot defes
the jack shooting lantern and the rifle,
the horn and the hound, that deer they
will have if they must needs break their
neck in the rapids. So If there were no
noble stuff in your make up if you were
a bifurcated nothing, if you were a for
lofn failure, you would be allowed to go
undisturbed; but the fact that the whole
pack Is in full cry after you is proof pos
tive that you are splendid game and
worth capturing. Therefore sarcasm
draws on you It's "fnest bead" There
fore the world goes cunning for you with
its best Maynard breech loader. Highest
compliment is it TO your talent, or your
virtue, or your usefulness. You, will
be assailed in proportion to your
great achievements. The best and
the mightiest being the world ever
saw, had set after him all the hounds,
terrestrial and diabolic. and they Tapped
bis blood after the Calvarean massacre.
The world paid nothing to it's Redeemer
bat bramble and cross. Many who
have done their best to make the world
better have had such rough time of it
that all their pleasure is in anticipation
of the next world, and they could ex-
press their own feelings in the words of
the Baroness of Nairn at the close Of her
long life:
ts Would you be young again
So wonld not I;
One teM Of memory given,
| Onward I'll HE;
Lies dark wave forJled oeR,
All but at rest on shore;
Say, would you plunge once more,
| With home SO nigh?
# you might, would you new
| Retrace your way?
| Wander through stormy wilds,
Faint aud aStray?
| Nights gloomy watches Ted,
| Morning all beamng red,
| Hopes smile around us shed,
| Heavenward, awayl
| Yes; for some people 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
Yarbofough's hounds, and the Duke of
Rutland's hounds, and Queen Victoria
buckhounds But all of them put to-
gether do not equal in number, or speed,
or power to huntsdown, the great ken
mel of hounds of which sin and trouble
are owner and master.
But what is a relief for all those pur-
suits of trouble, and annoyance, and
pain, and bereavement My text gives
it to you in word Of three letters, but
each letter is a chariot if you would
triumph, or throne il you want to be
crowned, or a lake If you would slake
! your thirst-yea, chain of three letters
God, the one for whom David
longed, and the one whom David found.
You might as well meet a stag which,
after its sixth mile of running at the top
most 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 a blade of grass as to attempt to
satisfy an immortal 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 Christly
atonement, it makes us all right with the
past, and all right with the future, and all
right with God, all right with man, and
oil right forever. Lamartine tells us
| hot inr To HI
''Here are three vases, and one is of
clay, another of amber, and another 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 'tenpire," and when
opened it was found to contain human
blood. The second son, making the next
cnoice, chose the vase of amber, in
scribed 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 courtiers which vase
they thought weighed the most. The
avaricious men of his court said the vase
of gold. The poets said the one of am
ber. But the wisest men said the empty
vase, because one letter of the name of
God outweighed universe.
For him 1 thirst; for his grace beg;
on his promise l build my all. Without
him cannot be happy. have tried the
world, and it does well enough as far as
it goes, but it is too uncertain a world,
too evanescent a world. I am not a
preiudiced witness. | have nothing
against this world. I have been one OF
the most fortunate, or, to use
a more Christian word, one OF
the most blessed of men, blessed
in my parents, blessed in the
place of my nativity, blessed in my
health blessed in my field of work,
blessed in my natural temperament,
blessed in my family, blessed in my
opportunities, blessed in a comfortable
livelihood, blessed in the hope that my
soul will go to Heaven through the par
doning mercy of God, and my body, un
less it be lost at sea or cremated in some
confagration, will lie down in the gar.
dens of Greenwood among my kindred
and friends, some already gone and Others
to come after me. Life to many has
been a disappointment, but to me it has
been pleasant surprise, and yet de
clare that if did not feel that God was
now my friend and ever present help
, should be wretched and terror struck
But l want more Of him. l have
thought over this text and preached
this sermon to myself until with all til.
, aroused energies of my body, mind ant
soul, and l can cry out: GAS the har
| panteth after the water brooks, SO pantetl
, my soul after thee, O God" Through
, Jesus Christ make this God your God ant
, you can withstand anything and every
, thing, and that which affrights other
will inspire you. AS in time of eartl
| quake when an old Christian woma,
! was asked whether she was scared, an
! swered: ''No, l am glad that l have
/ God who can shake the world" or, as il
, financial panic, when Christian mer
, chant was asked if he did not fear h
+ would break, answered: ''Yes, l shal
, break when the fifteenth Psalm break