West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-09-20

each promise a 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 che green
banks, and the same David describes them,
and they seem so near together that in three
Inherent places he speaks Of them as as n
CONTINUOUS river saying: There is a river
tho stream whereof shall make glad the CITY
o. God" Thou shalt make them drink OF
the rivers OF thy pleasures 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 trouble
and you are soured with your circumstances.
ana you are fighting society, and you are
nghtlng a pursuing world, and troubles i'm
sesad OF driving you into tho cool lake of
turn round and lower your head. and it Is
SIMPLY antler against tooth i do
not blame you. Probably under
.he same circumstances / would
nave done worse. But you are all wrong
1ou need to do as the reindeer does In Feb
ruary and March-it sheds its horns The
haobiuical writer's allude TO this resignation
OF antlers by the stag when they say OF a
man VINO ventures his money in risky enter
prlses, he has hung IL on the stays horns; and
a proyerb In the far East tells man who has
iooishly lost his fortune 20 90 and find whore
the deer shed her horns. My brother, quit
the ahtagonism OF your circums tances, quit
mlsanthrOpy, quit complaint, quit pitching
INTO Your pursuers; be as wise as, next
spring will be all the reindeer of the Adiron-
dacks. Shed your horns.
but very nasy of you who are wronged OF
the world-and IL in any assembly between
Sandy Hook, New York, and Golden Gate.
San Francisco, 10 were asked that all those
thnt had been sometimes badly treated
should raise both their hands and
full response should DO made, there would
oe twice as many hands lifted as per-
sons present. say many OF you would
declare: I'VE have always done tho best wo
could and tried to be useful and why we
should become tho victims OF maliRnment.
or invalidism, or misbap, is inscrutable.n
Why do you not know that the finer a deer
and the more elegant its proportions, ard the
more beautiful its bearing, the more anxious
the hunters and the hounds are to capture r.
Had that roebuck ragged fur and broken
hoo's and an obliterated eye and a limping
gait the hunters would have said: "Pshawi
don't let us waste our ammunition on a sick
deer" And the hounds would have given n
lew sniits OF the track and darted Off in an
other direction for better game. But when
they see deer with antlers lifted in
mighty challenge 10 earth and sky, and
the sleek hide looks as il it had been SIN oothed
by Invisible hands, and the rat sides enclose
tho richest pasture that could be nibbled
from the bank OF rills so clear they seem 10
nave dropped out of heaven, aud the stamp
OF It's foots defies the jack-shooting lantern
ana the rifle, the horn and the
Mound, that deer they will have il thew
nusI neeuS break their neck in the rapids
80 II there were no noble stuff in your make
up IL you were bifurcated nothing, IL YOU
were forforn failure, you would be allowed
TO 20 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 running for You with its best
Maynard breech-loader. Highest compli-
menu Lleno IL ~ 70 your talent, or your virtue, or
your usefulness. Yon will DO assailed i'm
proportion to your great achievements The
best and the mightiest being that the world
ever saw, had set after him all the
hounds, terrestrial and diabolic, and
they Tapped his blood after the Cal
Yarean massacre. The world paid moth
ing TO its Redeemer but branble and a
cross Many who have done their best To
make the world better have had such a rough
time of it that all their pleasure is in antici
patton or the next world, and they would
express their own feelings in the words