New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-09-19
NATURAL HISTORY.
sDr. Talmage on the Deer Hunt in his
First Post Vacation
Sermon
a Wide, Deep and Glorious Lake Of nj.
vine Solace and Rescue Whittier
all May Flee.

Panteth after hewater brooks, SO pantetb nv
soul after Thee, o God" DR.. Talmage said:
David who must some time have saan O.
deer hunt, points us here to q, hunted STAG
making for the water The fascinating an
maj called in my text the hart, is the same
animal that IN sacred and profane literature
Is called The stag, the 7oebuck, the hind the
gazelle, the reindeer. In Central SYRIA. in
Bible time, there were whole pasture fields of
0heln, as Solomon suggests when he saws
charge you by the kinds of the field .
lhelr antlers jutted from the long grass as
Ihey lay down. No hunter who has been
.9SlS u Joln Browns track" will wonder
"a lat IN the Bible they were classed among
clean animals, for the dews, the showers,
the lities, washed them as clean as the sky.
When Jacoa, The patriarch, longed for veni-
son, Esau shot AID brought home a roebuck
Isaiah compares the eDrightlness of the re-
#Tored cripple of millennsal times to the long
sfnd quick jump of the stage, saying: ssThe
lame shall leap as the heart" Solomon ex-
pressed his disgust at a hunter who Having.
shot a deer is too lazy to cook it, saving
line slothful man roasteth not that which
he took in hunting" But one day David
y while lar from the home from which he had
oeen driven, and sitting near the door of O.
lonely cave where he had lodged, and on the
panks OF pond or river hears a pack of
hounds in swift pursuit Because of the pre-
Vlous silence of the forest the clangor start
les him, and he says to himself: II wonder
what those dogs are after" Then there is a
cracking IN the brushWood, and the loud
breathing Of some rushing wonder of the
Eoods, and the antlers OF deer rend the
tteaves of the thicket, and by an instinct
which all hunters recognize, plunges into q
pond or lake or river to cool it's thirst, and
at the same time by it's capacity for swifter
and longer swimming, to get away from
the foaming barriers. David says to HIM
self: Aha, that is myself Saul after
81 me, Absalom after me, enemies without
number after me, Il am chased, their bloody
muzzes at my heels, barking at my good
name, barking after my body, barking after
my soul. Oh, the hounds, the houndsI But
look there, says David, ''that reindeer has
splashed into the water 1t puts it's hot
lips and nostrils into the cool wave that
washes the lathered TANKS, and it sWims
SWAY from the fiery CANNES, and it is free at
Fkst 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 rescued AS the hart panteth after
the water brooks, so panteth my soul after
Thee, 0 Cod
have just come from the Adriondacks and
the breath of the balsam and spruce and
pine is still on me. The Adirondacks are
now populous with hunters, and the deer are
days ago with q hunter thought | would
like to see whether my text was accurate in
its illusions, and as | heard the dogs baying
little way off and supposed they were on
the track of q reindeer, | said to the hunter
in rough corduroy: 'Do the deer always
make for the water when they are pursued?'
He said 80, yes, mister you see they are
hot and thirsty animal, and they know where
bhe water is, and when they hear danger in
,&he distance they lift their antlers and snuff
Che breeze and start fort the Racquet, or Loon
or Saranac; and we get into our cedar shell
boat or stand by the runway with rife
loaded ready to blaze away" My friends,
that is one reason why 1 like the Bible so
much-lts illusions are so true to nature.
It's parUridges real cartridges, it's os-
triches, and it's reindeer real reindeer. do
not wonder that this antlered glory of the
text makes the 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 it's flesh delicious,
its skin turned into human apparel, it's
sineWs fashioned into bowstrings, it's antlers
putting handles on cutlery, and the shavings
of its horns used as a restorative
taken from the name of the hart
and called hartshorn But put
& ting aside it's usefulness, this enchanting crea-
%sFSure seems made out of gracefulness and elias
ITCHY. What an eye, what liquid bright
ness, as if gathered up from a hundred lakes
of sunset! The horns, a coronal branching
into every possible curve, and after it seems
done, advancing into other projections of
exquisiteness, q tree of polished bone, up
lifted in pride, or swung down for awful com
bat 1t is velocity embodied. Tmidity i'm
personated. The enchantment of the woods
Eye lustrous in life and pathetic in DEATH
The splendid animal complete rhythm of
muscle, and bone, and color, and attitude
and locomotion, whether couched in the
grass among the shadows, or g. living bolt
shot through the forest, or turning at bay
to attack the hounds, or rearing for it's last
fall under the buckshot of the trapper 1t is
splendid appearance that the painters pen
Gil fails to sketch, and only a hunters dream
on pillow of hemlock at the foot of St. Re-
sAsis is able to picture. When, 20 miles from
any settlement it comes down at eventide to
the lakes edge to drink among the lily pads,
and with it's sharp-edged hoof skaters the
crystal of Long LakeSit is very picturesque
But only when,: after miles of pursuit, with
heaving sides and lolling tongue, and eyes
swimming in death, the stag leaps from the
cliff into. upperSaranaac can you realize how
much Dayid.had suffered from his troubles,
and how much he wanted God when he ex-
pressed himself in the words of the text: Gas
the hart panteth after the water brooks, so
pantethmy soul after Thee, o God"
Well, now, let all thosewho have coming
safter them the lean hounds poverty, or the
BLACK hounds oftpresecutlon, or the spotted
ihounds of vicissitude, or the pale hounds of
death or,who are in any wise pursued, fly to
the wide, deep, glorious lake of divine solace
and rescue. The most ofthe men and wom-
,enWhomtIhappen oknoW at different times.
. jifnotnow, have hadttrouble after them, sharp
= -nuzzled troubles, swift troubles, all-devour-
4g troubles. Many Of you have made the
Sylistake of trying to fight them. Somebody
tneanly attacked You, and you attacked
them; they deprecated you. and you depre
.eiated them;or they oyerreaehed you in a
bargain, andgou tried, in Wall streetpar-
lance, ~ get a,eorner on them; or you have
had bereavement, and Instead of being sub
gnissiye, you are fighting that bereavement;
gon charge on the doctors who failed to eff
feot cure; or you charge on the carelessness
of the railroad company Through which the
accident occurred; or you are chronic in
valid, and you fret and worry and scold, and
wonder wing you caRnot be well like other
people and you angTily charge on the neu-
ralgiao or the laryngitis, or the ague, or the
sick headache The fact is you are a deer at
bay. Instead drumming to the waters of
divine consolation, and shaking your thirst
and cooling your body and soul ia the good
cheer OF the gospel, and Swimming away in