The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21
RELIEF FROM EVILS

RELIEF FROM EVILS
Good Advice Given to Mankind BY
Dr.. Talmage.
Nan Llkened Unto the Stag Fleeing fol
| SaSsty-The Lake OF Divine solaee-Rs-
lief From Trouble When the
Worlds Hunt b Over.
In q recent sermon upon Solomon's nc.
quaintance with natural history. DIR. Tai
mage took his text from Psalms Xiii. I:
'.As the hart panteth after the water
brooks, SO panteth my soul after Thee, @
God" He said:
David, who must some time have seen q
deer hunt, points Us here to hunted stag
making for the water. The fascinating
| animal called in my text the hart il the
Same animal that in sacred and profane
literature Is called the stag, the roebuck,
the hind, the gaxelle, the reindeer. In
Central Syria in Bible times there were
whole pasture fields Of them, Is Solomon
suggests when he says: ~ charge you by
the kinds Of the field" Their antlers jut-
ted from the long grass as they lay down.
No hunter who has long been in John
Browns track" will wonder that in the
Bibie they were classed among clean ami
inals, for the dews, the showers, the lakes
washed them as clean as the sky.
When Jacob, the patriarch, longed for
venison Esau shot and brought home q
roebuck. Isaiah compares the spr;ghtli-
ness OF the restored cripple Of millennial
times to the long and quick jump Of the
stag, saying: 1.-THE lame shall leap as tine
hart" Solomon expressed his disgust at
hunter who, having shot q deer, is too
lazy to cook it, saying: 1.-THE slothful man
roasteth not that which he took IN hunt
ing" But one day David, while far from
the home from which he had been driven,
AID sitting neas the door of a lonely cave
where he had lodged and on the banks Of
pond or river, hears q pack of hounds in
swift pursuit. Because Of the previous
silence Of the forest the clangor startles
him, and he says to himself: II wonder
what those dogs are after:" Then there is
Q cracking in the brushwood and the loud
breathing Of some rushing wonder Of the
woods and the antlers of . deer rend the
leaves Of the thicket, and, by an instinct
which all hunters recognizes, plunged into
q pond or lake or river to cool
its thirst, and at the same time, by its
capacity for swifter and longer swimming,
to get away from tho foaming barriers.
David says to himself: '.Aha, that is my.
self! Saul after me, Absalom after me,
enemies without number after me; l am
chased. their very muzzles ct nv heels,
barking at my good name, barking after
my body, barking after my soul. Oh, the
hounds, the houndsm
reindeer has splashed into the water. 1t
puts its hot lips and nostrils into the cool
wave that washes the lathered fauks and
It swims away from the sery CANNES, and
1t is free at last. Oh, that might find in
the deep, wide lake Of Gods mercy and
consolation escape from my pursuers! Oh,
for the waters OF life and rescue! As the
hart panteth after the water brooks, so
panteth my soul after Thee, o God"
have just come from the Adirondacks
and the breath Of the balsam and spruce
and pine is still on me. The Adirondacks
are nov populous with hunters and the
deer are being slain by the score. Talking
q few days ago with hunter, thought /
would like to see whether my text was ac-
curate in its A'lusion, and as heard the
dogs bayinG litt!s way of and supposed
they were on the trarir # a reindeer, said
to the hunter in rough CO. ,.rrov: ''Dn .ns
deer always make for the water ~nen they
are pursued:" de said: ooh, yes, mister,
you see they are . hot and thirsty animal,
aid 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 Racquet or Loon or Sar-
anac: and we get into our cedar shell boat
or stand by the runway with rife loaded
ready to blaze away" Ny friends, that
is one reason why like the Bible SO much
Its illusions are SO true to nature.
Its partridges are real pertridges, its
real ostricaes and its RENDERS
real RENDERS. do not wonder that this
antlered glory Of the taxi makes the hunt
sr's eve sparkle and his cheek glow and
his respiration quicken. To say nothing
Of its usefulness, although it is the most
useful Of all game, its flesh delicious, its
skin turned into human apparel. It's sinews
fashioned into bow strings, its antlers put.
ting handles on cutlery and the shayinSs
Of its horns, used as q restorative, taken
from the name of the hart and called harts-
horn.
But putting aside its usefulness, this en-
creature seems made out of grace
fulness and elasticity. What an eve.
With liquid brightness as if gathered up
from q hundred lakes of sunset! The
horns, q coronal branching into every pos
sibls curve, and after it seems done, ad.
vancing into other projections of exqui-
siteness, tree Of polished bone. uplifted
in pride or swung down for awful combat.
1t is velocity embodied; timidity imper.
,onated. The enchantnent of the woods.
Eye lustrous in life and pathetic in
1eath. The splendid animal q COM
plets rhythm Of muscle, and bone,
md color, and attitude, and loco
notion, whether couched in the grass
among the shadows or living bolt shot |
through the forest, or turning at bay to at |
!ack the hounds, or rearing for its last fall |
Under the buckshOt of the trapper. It is a |
splendid appearance that the painters |
,encii fails to sketch. and only q hunters |.
iream on a pillow Of hsmiock at the foot /.
II st. Regis is able to picture. When, |
.wenty miles from any settlement, it |
zones down at eventide to the lakes edge |
20 drink among the lily pads, and with its /
hsrp-edSed koofs skaters the crystal Of |
.ong lake, it is very picturesque. But
,nly when, after miles of pursuit, with
,eaving sides and iolling tongue, and eyes
in death the stag leaps from the
.lih into the upper Saranac, can you real
re how much David had suffered from his
roubles, and how much he wanted God
when he expressed himself in the words OF
he text: ''As the heart panteth after the
water brooks. 50 paateth my soul after
Thee. 0 God"