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


unable to get mp. and said to some
hunters near by: "What is the matter
with that dog!" They answered: "A
deer hurt him" And / saw he had q
great swollen paw and . battered head,
showing where the antlers had struck him.
And the probability is that some Of you
might give o mighty clip 70 your pursuers,
you might damage their business, you
might worry them into ill-health. You
might hurt them Is much as they have
hurt you, bat after all, it is not worth
while. You only have hurt hound.
Better be of for the upper Saranac. into
which the mountains of Gods eternal
strength look down and moor their shad.
ows. As for your physical disorders, the
worst strychnine you can take is fretful-
ness, and the best medicine is religion.
know people who were only little disor-
dsred, yet have frettsd themselves into
complete Observation-Disclosures; while others
put their trust in God and came up from
the very shadow Of death, and have lived
comfortably for twenty-five years with
only one lung. A man with enc lung. but
God with him, Is better OF than Goddess
man with two lungs. Some Of you have
been for long time sailing around Cape
Fear when you ought to have been sailing
around Cape Good Hope. Do not turn
back, but go ahead. The deer will accom-
plish more with its swift feet than with its
horns.
l saw whole chains of lakes in the Ad.
irondacks and from one height You can
see thirty, and there are said to be over
eight hundred in the great wilderness. So
near are they to each other that your
mountain guide picks up and carries the
boat from lake to lake, the small distance
between them for that reason being called
q ''cnrry." And the realm Of Gods word
is one long chain of bright. refreshing
lakes; each promise lake, n very short
carry between them, and though for ages
the pursued have been drinking ont 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 continuous river, saying: There is
river the streams whereof shall make
them drink Of the rivers Of thy plsasures;"
Thou greatly enrichest it with the river
Of God, which is full of water"
But many Of you have turned your back
on that supply and confront your troubles,
and you are soured' with your circum-
stances, and you are fighting society, and
you are fighting pursuing world, and
troubles instead of driving you into the
cool lake of heavenly comfort have made
you stop and turn round and lower your
head. end it is simply antler against tooth.
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
Msrch-it sheds its horns. The rub,nnical
writer's allude to this resignation Of antlers
by the stag when they say Of . man who
ventures his money in risky enterprises"
he has hung it on the stays horns; and
proverb in the Ear East tells of man who
has foo!ishly lost his fortune to 90 and find
whore the deer shed her horns. My
brother, quit the antagonism Of your cir
cumstances, quit misanthropy, quit COM
plant, quit pitching into your puHuers,
be as wise as next spring will be all the
reindeer Of the Adirondacks. Shed your
horns.
But very many Of you who are wronged
Of the woodland il in any assembly be-
tween Sandy Hook, New York and Golden
Gate, San Francisco, it were asked that all
those that had been sometimes badly
treated should raise both their hands, and
full response should be made, there would
be twice as many hands lifted as persons
present. say many of you would declare:
We have always done the best we could
and tried to be useful. and why we should
become the victims Of malignment, or in.
validism, 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, the more
anxious the hunters and the hounds are to
capturei it.
Had that roebuck q ragged fur and
limping gait the hunters would have said:
"Pshaw, don't let US waste our ammuni-
tion on sick deer" And the hounds
would have given few shifts of the track
and then darted OF in another direction |
for better game. But when they see q |
deer with antlers lifted in mighty chal- |
lenge to earth and sky, and the sleek hide |
looks as If it had been smoothed by invisi- |
bic hands, and the fat sides enclose the |
richest pastures that could be nibb!cd from |
the banks of rilis so clear they seem to |
have dropped out OF Heaven, and the |
stamp of its foot defies the jack-shootins |
lantern and the rife, the horn and the |
must needs break their necks in the rapids. |
So if there were no noble stuff in your make |
up, il you were bifurcated nothing, il |
you were a 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 bead"
Therefore the world goes cunning for you
with its lest Maynard breech loader.
Highest compliment to your talent or yJur
virtue or your usefulness. You will be
assaulted in proportion to your achieve
ments. The best and the mightiest being
the world ever saw had set after him all
the hounds, terrestrial and diabolic, aud
they Tapped his blood after the Calvar
massacre. The world paid nothing to its
Redeemer but bramble and q cross.
Iany who have done their best to make
the world better have had such q rough
lime Of it that al their pleasure is in an
.icipatio1 of the next world. and they
could express their own feelings in the
words Of the Sarouess Of Marin q: the close
II her long life:
Would you be young again!
So would not I:
One tear Of memory given,
Onward TIL HE.
Lies dark wave forded DER.
All but at rest IN Shore
Say. would you plunge once more,
With home 50 nigh:
IF you might, would you now
Ie,racc your way.
Wander through stormy wt.ds,
Faint and a-tray:
Nights gsoomv watches fed,
Horaing al beaming red.
Hopes safe around Us shed,