Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-16

"As the Hart Panteth After the Water
Brooks, So Paateth MY Soul After rhee,
CODA Sermon Suggested by Visit
to the Adirondack.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 9.-The great organ,
improved and enlarged. rolled out with
new power the long meter doxology at
the opening of the service in the Brook
lyn Tabernacle today. The great audi
torium was thronged and ovcrflowing.
The Rev, 4. De Witt Talmage. DID,. has
returned from his summer vacation. dur.
ing which he has spoken in many parts
of the country, and shaken hands, lac
says, with about a hundred thousand
people. He closed his tour by visit To
the wilderness in upper New York state,
and spending some time among the
hunters. This morning he expoutded
passages illustrative Of Solomon's ac.
quaintance with natural history.
His text was Psalm xiii, /: -, The
hart panteth after the water brsSks, so
panteIh my soul after thee, o CID. "
The great preacher said:
David, who must sometime have seen
deer hunt, points Us here to a hunted
stag making for the water. The hsci
mating animal called in tny text the lart,
is the same animal that in sacred and
lroiane literature IS called the STAG the
roeOuck, the hind, tie gazelle therein.
deer In central Syria in Bible lines
there were whole pasture fields of hem,
as Solomon suggests when he says: Il
charge you by the kinds Of the teld. I"
Their antlcrs jutted from the longgrass
rs they lay down. No hunter VIII, has
been long in John Browns tack"
will wonder that in the Bible they
were classed among clean ANNALS,
for the dews, the showers, the lakes
washed them as clean as the sky.
When Jacob, the patriarch, longd for
venison, Esau shot and brought lone a
roebuck. Isaiah compares the spightli-
ness Of the restored cripple Of milennial
times 10 the long and quick jumI of the
stag, saying: The lame shall lap as
hart Solomon expressed his di,gust at
a hunter who, having shot deG, is too
lazy TO cook il, saying: "The slothful
man roasteth not that which he took in
hunting" But one day Davi., while
far from the home from whicl he had
been driven, and sitting rear the
door Of a lonely cave where he
had lodged, and on the oanks Of
a pond or river, hears a pack # hounds
in swift pursuit. Because of the pre-
| viouS silence Of the forest the clangor
startles him. AMI he says TO hmself: II
wonder what those dogs are afjer." Then
there is cracking in the lrushwood,
and the loud breathing of sone rushing
wonder If the woods, and tie antlers of
n deer rend the leaves of the hicket, and
by an instinct which all huiters rccog-
nize, pluuges into a pond or AXE or river
! 10 cool il, thirst, and at the anne time by
its capacity for swifter and bnger swim
ming, 70 get away from the canning har-
riers. David says TO himself: "Aha,
that is myself Saul after me, Absal0m
after me, enemies without number after
me, ] am chased, their blody muzzles
at my heels, barking at m; good name,
barking after my body, barring after my
soul. oh, the hounds, the hounds! But
look there, says David. that reindeer
has splashod into the water. Il puts its
hot lips and nosirils into the cool wave
that washes the lgthercd TANKS, and il
swims away from the fiery CANNES, and
it is free &C last. Oh, th.t | might find
in the deep, wide lake Of Cod's mercy and
consolation escape from NY puTsuers!
Oh, Tor the waters Of lie and rescue.
IA the heart panteth otter the wGtcr
brooks, So panteth my soul after thee,
! o Cod
have Just come from the Adiron-
dacks and the breath Of the balsam and
spruce and pine is still on me. The
Adiroudacks are now populous with
hunters, and the deer are being slain 10y
the score. Talking feS days ago with
hunter | thought / would like
to see whether my text was accurate
in its allusion, and as | heard the dogs
baying q little way of md supposed they
were on the track If ; reindeer, and /
said to the hunter in rough corduroy,
''Do the deer always make for the water
when they are pursuely' 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 distance they lift their antlers and
snuff the breeze and start for the Rae
quet, or Loon, or Stranac, and we get
into our cedar shell boat OF stand by the
runaway with rifle loaded ready 10
blaze away My friends, this is one
reason why / like the Bible so much
It's illusions are 30 true 10 nature. It's
partridges arc real partridges, Its
ostriches, real ostriches, and its reindeer,
real reindeer. do not wonder that this
antlored glory Of the text makes the hun.
tcr's eye sparkle and his check glow and
his respiration quicken. To say nothing
Of its useful1css, although il is the most
useful OF all game, it, flesh delicious, its
skin turned into human apparel, It's
sinews fashioned into bow strings, its an
tiers putting handles on cutlery, and the
shayings Of lis horns used ~ rcstora-
tive. taken from the name uf the hart
and called hurtshon. But putting aside
its usefulness this enchanting creature
seems made ont Of glucefulncss and elias.
ticiy. What All eye, with - liquid
! '.i hlncls rs Il gathered mp from a hun
dred lakes uf sunset The horns, @
coronal branching into cycry possible
curve, and aiiur II seems done
advancing INTO other prol l.cti0ns OF
cxqu- -Itcnc-s. tree ol polished bone
upliarl Ia pride, or swung down iol
awful comblL ltis velocity embodied
Tmidity impcrsonaIcd, The cncbant
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