Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-09-28

great swollen paw and battered head show
ing where the antlers strCck him. And the
PROBABILITY Is That some n YOU might give
a mighty clip 10 your pSrsuers, you might
damage their business, you might worry them
into III health, you might hurt them as much
as they have hurt you, but after ali, it IS not
worth while. You only have hurt a hound.
Better be on for Upper Saranac, into which
the mountains Of Gods eternal strength look
down and moor their shadows. AS for your
physical disorders The worst strvchiue you
can take is freSfulness. and the best medicine
Is religion know people who
were Only little disOrdeFed, vet
Plete valetudin a:'~f.tiu, while others put
their trust IN Goo t-ld came up from the very
shadow OF death, and have lived cOmfOrta bly
twenty-five Tears with only one lung Aman
with one lung, but Col with him. is better
THAI a goddess man with two lungs Some
OF you have been for a long time sailing
around Cape Fear when you ought to have
been sailing arOuo4 Cape Good Hope. Do
not turn back bus 20 ahead The deer will
accomplish more with its swift feet than
with its horns.
saw whole chains Of lakes in the Adiron-
dacks, and from one height you can see thIr-
t. and there are said TO be over eight hun
dred In the great wilderness. So near are
they to each other that your mountain guide
picks up and carries the boat from lake 10
lake, the sm11 distance between them for
that reason called a carry" And the realm
OF Gods word Is one long chain OF bright,
refreshing lakes; each promise q lake, a 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
different places he speaks Of them as a con-
tinuOus river, saying; ''There is a river the
streams whereof shall make glad the city Of
Gods" Though shalt make them drink Of
the river OF thy pleasures" Thou greatly
enrlchest It with the river Of God which is
full of water"
But many OF you have turned your back on
nd
you are sOured with your circumstances, and
you are lighting society, and you are fighting
a pursuing world, and troubles instead Of
driving you into the cool lake OF heavenly
comfort, have made you stop aud turn
round and lower your head, and &c is
simply ntler against tooth. 1 do not blame
You. Probably under the same circumstances
would have done worse But YOU are all
wrong. You need TO do as the reindeer does
In February and March-it sheds its horns.
The RabDlnlcal writer's auude TO this resipna-
ton of antleTs by the stag when they saw OF
man who venture his money in risky en-
terDrises, he has hung 10 on the stag's horns:
and prOverb in the far East tells man who
has 1OoltshlY lost his fortune to go a26 find
where the deer shed her horns. Ny brother
quit the antagonlsm of your circumstances
quit mlsanthrOpY, quit complaint quit pitch
into your pursuers, be as wise next spring,
VIII be all the reindeer OF the AdirOndacks.
Shed your horns
But very many of you who are wrOnged Of
the WOrld-and il in any assembly between
San Francisco, it were asked that all those
that had been sometimes badly treated
should raise both their hands, and full re-
Spouse should be made, there would be twice
as many hands lifted as persons presen tt
say many of you would declare: 1--WE have al
ways done the best we could ana tried to be
useful, and why we should become the vic
Tins OF malignment or inValidism, or mishap
is inscrutable." Why do you not know that
the finer a deer, and the more elegant
its proportions, and the more beautiful its
bearing. nd
the hounds are to capture it Had that roe
buck a ragged fur and broken hoOfs and an
Obltterated eye and a limping gait the hunt
ers would have said: ''PshaWl don't let US
waste our ammunition on a sick deer" And
the hounds would have given q few
sniffs Of the track, and then darted
of in another direction for better
game. But when they see deer with antlers
lifted Ia mighty challenge TO earth and sky.
and the sleek hide looks as if it had been
suOOJned by Invisible hands, and the tat
sides enclose 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 dehes The jack.
shooting lantern and the rife. the horn, and
the hound, that deer they viii have if they
must needs break their neck in the rapids
SO II there were no noble stuff in YOUR make
up, If you were a bifurcated nothing, if you
were fOrlOrn failure, YOU would be allowed
to go undisturbed; but the fact that the
whole pack is in full cry after you is proof
positive that you are splendid game and
worth capturing Therefore sarcasm draws
on you its Finest head. . Therefore rbe
world goes cunning for You with its best
MAYNARD breech-lO loader. Highest cOmpli-
ment Is it to your talent, or your virtue, or
your usefulness. You will be assailed in nrO-
portion to your great achievements The
OesT aud the m.ghtlest being the world ever
saw, had set after him ali the hounds, ter
restrial and diabolic. and they Tapped his
blood after the Calvareau massacre The
world paid nothing TO its Redeemer but a
Dramble and cross. MaPV who have done
hat far huvy cd
such rough time of it. that all their pleasure
Is in anticipation Of the next world and they
would, could they express their own feelings
in the words OF the Baroness Of Nuirn at the
close OF her long life:
Would Won be young again?
one tear Of memory gIveni
Life's dark wave 'forded Ger
An but at rest at shore
With home so nigh?
'If You might would yea now
Wae aide. through stormy wIds,
Eight,s 9 02my watches fed,
Hoes smile around rs Shed.
Heavenward, away %
Yes; for some people in this world there
seems no let up They are pursued from
youth to manhood, and from manhood into
old age Very distinguished are Lord Stat
fOrd's hounds, and Earl of YarbOrOugh's
hounds, and the Duke of Rutland's hounds
and Queen Victoria pays eight thousand five
hundred dollars per year to her master of
buckhOunds. But all Of them put together
do not equal in number OF speed, or power to
hunt down, the great kennel of hounds of
which Sin and Trouble are owner and MASTER
But what is relief from all those pursuits
Of trouble and annoyance, and pain, and be-
reavement2 My text gives it to you in a word
of three letters, but each letter is q chariot if
you would triumph, or a throne If you want to
be crowned, or a lake if you would Stake your
thirst-Yea, a chain of three letters-G-O-d,
the One for whom David lOnged, aud the One
whom David found. You might as we'll meet
a stag which, after its sixth mile Of running
at the tOpmOst 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
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