The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-09-13

than gotless man with two lungs. Some
OF you have been for a 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
accomplish moro with its swift feet than
with its horns.
saw whole chains Of lakes in the Adron-
dacks, 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 callel carry"
And the realm of Gods word is
one long chain of bright refreshing lakes;
eacn promise lake, 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 the green
banks, and the same David describes them,
aud they seem so near together that in three
different places he speaks OF them as as n
continuous river, saying: There Is n river
the stream whereof shall make glad the city
OF God !" "Thou shalt make them drink of
the rivers of thy pleasures" "Thou greatly
enrichest 1t 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,
aud you are fighting society, and you are
lighting "a pursuing world, and troubles in
stead of driving you into the cool lake Of
heavenly comfort, have made you stop and
turn round and lower your head, and IL is
SIMPLY antler against tooth. i do
not blame you. Probably under
the same circumstances would
have done worse. But you are all wrong.
You nced TO do as the reindeer does in Feb
ruary and March-it sheds its horns. The
Rnbbnical writers allude to this resignation
of nntlers by the stag when they say of n
man who ventures his money in risky enter
prises, lie has hung 10 on the stays horns: and
proverb In the tar East tells man who has
foolishly lost his fortune TO go and find where
the deer shed her horns. My brother, quit
the antagonism of your circumstances quit
mi. nthropy, quit complaint, quit pitching
into your pursuprs; be as wise ns, next
spring, will bo all the reindeer of the Adiron-
dacks Shed your horns.
but very many of you who are wrongcd OF
the world-and If in any assembly between
Sandy Hook, New York and Golden Gate,
san Francisco. IL were asked that all those
that had been sometimes badly treated
should raise both their hands, and
full response should bc made there would
bo twice rs many hands lifted as per-
sons 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 invaldIsm, or mishap, is inscrutabe.n -
Why do you not know that the finer deer,
and the more elegant its proportions, and the
more beautiful its bearing, the more anxious
the hunters and the hounds are to capture il.
Had that roebuck ragged fur and broken
hoo!s and an obliteratcd eye and limping
gait the hunters would have said: "Pshaw I!
don't let us wasto our ammunition on n sicl;
deer And the hounds would have given
few snills of the track and dartc1 oil IN an
other direction for better game. But when
they see deer with anters lifted In
mighty challenge to earth and sky, and
the sleek hide looks as IL it had been SIN oothed
oy invisible hands, and the fat sides enclose
the richest pasture that could be nibblcd
from the bank of rills so clear they seem TO
have dropped out OF heaven, aud tho stamp
of it, foots dciies the iack.shooting lantern
and the rifle, the horn, and the
hound, that deer they will have if they
must needs break their neck i'm the rapids
SO IL there were no noble stuff in your make
up, If you were bturcated nothing, il you
were IA 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 compi-
ment Is IL TO your talent, or your virtue, or
your usefulness. Eou will be assailed in
proportion TO your great achievements. The
best and the miShtiest being that the world
ever saw, had set after him all the
they Tapped his blood after the Cal
varean massacre. The world paid moth
ing to its Redeemer but bramble and
cross Many who have done their best t.
make the world better have had such n rough
rime of IL that all their pleasure is in antici.
patton of the next world AMI they would
express their own feelings in the words
OF the baroness of Nalrn at TIE close of her
long life:
"woull you be yourg again?
so would not I;
one tear Of memory given
onward III hie:
Llfcs dark wave fordcd DER,
MI but at rest on shore,
Say, wou,d You plGngs once more,
win home 50 n gn'
"lf yon might, would you now
Rrtrgcc your way?
Wander through stormy wiids,
Faint aud astray3
Nights gloomy watches fed,
Morning ull bcamiug red.
Hopes smile around Us shed,
ncANcnward, away
Yes; for some people in this world there
seems no let up. They are pursued from
youth To- manhood. and from manhood into
Old age. Very distinguished are Lord
Stairords hounds, aud Queen Victoria pays
eight Thousand, five hundred dollars per year
to her Master of Buckhounds. But all of
them put together do not equal in number,
or speed, or power to hunt down, the great
kennel of hounds of which Sin and Trouble
are owner aud master
But what is Il relief for all those pursuits
of trouble, and annoyance, and pain, and be,
rcavement My text gives IL to you in Il
word ot three letters, but each letter is "A char
lot II you would triumph, or throne il you
want 10 be crowned, or Il lake If YOU would
sake your thirst yea IA chain of three letters
--G-o-d, the One for whom David longed, and
the One whom David found You might rs
well meet "A stag which, after its sixth mile
Of running at the topmost snCed through
thcke, aud gorge and with the breath OF
JHC H"s,, ~ t.e's hr, c-.,- !, f"u 1i-bt oi
Scroon Lake aud tried to cool its projecting
and blist'rcd tongue with a drop of dew from
h.0do of grass, as 10 attempt to satisfy
an immortal soul, when flying from troubl,
and SIN, with anything less deep. and
| high and broad, and immense, and infinite
aud eternal than God His comfort, why il
cmhoSsoms all distress. His arm. it wrenrhes
OIL all bondage. His hand, 1t wipes away all
tears. His Christly atonemcut, II makes Us
all right with the past aud all right with tho
future, and all right with Goi all right with
man and all right forever. Lam lrtine
tells Us that King Nimrud said
q his three sons: Here are three vases and
one is Of clay, another Of amber. auotuer of
| gold. Choose now which YOU will have. "
| The eldest son, having th' first choice, ChoSe
the vase of god, on which was written the
word empire and when opened 1t was