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

Drank III With the Utmost Eagsrness by
His Attentive Listeners-F5r a Text the
Divine Takes the Awe Inspiring Verse: "As
the Hart Panteth After the Water Brooks,
So Panteth L-v Sou! After Thee. o God!'
BRooKLYy, n. Y, September 9.-The great
organ. improved aud enlarged, rolled out
with new power the long metre doxology at
the opening OF the service in The Brooklyn
Tabernacle to-day. The great auditorium
was thronged aud over1owing The Rev. T.
Dewitt Taluage, D. D, has returned from
Ills summer vacation, during which he has
spoken in many parts OF the country, and
shaken hands, lie says, with about hundred
Thousand people. lie closed his cour by
visit 10 the wilderness in upper New York
State, and spending some time among the
hunters. This morning he expounded
passages Illustrative of SOlOmOn's acquaint-
ance with natural history.
His text was: Psalm xl If. Gas the hart
panteth after the water brooks, so panteth
my soul after Thee, y God" The great
preacher said:
David, who must sometime have seen a
deer hunt points us here 10 a hunted stag
making for the waller. The fascinating
animal called In my text the hart is the
same animal that in sacred aud prUfane
literature is called the stag the rOebuck, the
hind, the gaZelle. the reindeer In Central
syria IN Bible times there were whole pasture
fields Of Them, Solomon suggests when he
SAYS: Il charge you by the kinds of the
field" Their antlers iutted 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 classed
among clean animals Tor the deWs
the showers, the lakes washed them
as clean the Sky. When Jacob,
the patriarch, lOuged for venisOn,
Esau shot and brought home q rOebuck
Isaiah compares the gprghtliness of the re-
stored cripple of milleunial times to the long
and quick jump Of the stag, saving: The
lB1ne shall leap the harL'' Solomon ex-
pressed his disgust at a hunter who having
shot deer is too lazy to cook 1t, saying:
''Ine slOuthful man rOasteth not that when
he took in hunting" But one day David.
while lar from the home from which he had
been driven, and sitting near the door
OF lonely cave where he had lodged, and on
the banks of a pond or river, hears, pack of
MOUNDS IN swirl pursuit. because 81 the
previous silence OF the forest the clangor
startles him, and lie says to himself: II
what those dogs are after" Then
there is a cracking in the brushWood and
the loud breathing Of some rushing wonder
wonder OF the woods, and the antlers of q
deer rend the leaves of the lhiclet, and by
instinct which all hunters recognize plunge
into pond or lake or river TO cool its thirst
and at the same time by its capacity for
swiiter 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 muzzles at my
heels, barking at NV good name, barking
after my body, bark ny 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 and nOrtrils
into the cool wave that washes the lathered
TANKS, and it swims away from the fiery
CANNES, and is free at last. Oh, that might
lind Ia the deep wide lake OF God mercy
and consolation escape from my pursuers!
Oh, for the waters of life and rescued AS
the hart panteth after the water brooks,
so panteth my soul after Thee, o God. "
nave just come from the AdirOndacls and
the breath OF the balsam and spruce and pine
IS SUN on me. 1he AulrOnuacks are now pop
ulous with hunters, and the deer are being
slain by the score. Talking few DAYS ago
with hunter, 1 thought / would like to see
whether my text was accurate in its alusiOn,
and as heard the dogs baYiug Il little way
OIL and supposed they were on The track of a
reindeer, l said TO the hunter in rough cOrdu-
roy; do the deer always make for the water
when they are pursued4" He said: 20 yes.
Mister. you see they a hot and thirsty
animal, and they know where the water is
and when they hear danger in the distance
they lift their unJlers anu snuff the breeze
and start for the Racquet, or Loon or Sara
nae; aud we get into our cedar shell boat or
STAND uy The runway VITA rifle loaded ready
10 blaze away" My friends, that is one rea-
son why / like tho Bible so much-its ailu-
s!ons are so true to nature. Its partridges
are real partrldges, its Ostriches real ostrich
es and It's reindeer real reindeer / do nCS
wonder that this untlered glory of the text
makes he hunters eye 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,
rs skin turned into human apparel, its sin
ews fashioned into bow strings, its antlers
putting handles on cutlery and the shavings
of It's hOrus, used as restorative taken from
the name OF the hart and called hartshOrn.
But putting aside its usefulness, this euchaut-
ing creature seems made out OF gracefulness
and elasticity. What an eve, with a LIQUID
brightness us il gathered up from a hundred
lakes of sunset! The horns, cOrOnal branch
ing into every possible curve, and after it
seems done, advancing into other projections
OF eNQuslteneSS, "A tree of polished bone, uY-
lifted m pride, or swung down for awful COM
bat IL Is velocity embodied. TlmdlLy i'm
persOnated- The enchantment OF the woods
Bye lustrOus In life aud pathetic in death.
The splendid animal complete rythm of
muscle, and bone, and color, and attitude
and lOcOmUton, whether cOucLed in the grass
among the shadows, or a living bot shot
through the forest, or turning ut bay to a t.
tack the hounds, or rearing for its last fall
under the bCckshOt OF the trapper. 1t is a
splendid appearance that the painters Delcn
fails 10 sketch, ana only hunters dream on
a pillow OF AemIOck OF the foot OF st. Regis
is able TO picture. When, twenty miles from
any settlement iJ comes down at cventide to
the lakes edge to drink among the lily pads
and with its sharp-edged hOOf, skaters the
crystal of Long Lake, it is very picturesque
But only when, after miles of pursuit with
heaving sides and lo!ling tongue aud ewes
swimming ia death the stag leaps from the
clln INTO Upper SarGnac, can you realize how
much David had suffered from his trOu bles
and how much lie wanted God when he ex-
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 ali those who have coming
after them the lean hounds Of poverty. or
the black hounds of persecution, or the spot
ted hounds OF Vicissitude, or the pale hounds
of death, or who are IN any wise pursued, fy
TO the wide, deep glorious lake of divine
sOlace anC rescue. The most OF the men and
women whom / happen to know at different
times, if not now have had trouble after them.
sharp muzzIed troubles, swift troubles, an.
ueVOurlng troubles. Many OF
have made the mistake OF irving to
fright them. Somebody meanlY attacked
yOu and you attacked them; they depreciat-
ed you. you deprecated them; or they over