News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-20
SUNDAYS SERMON.
ONE OF RFv. DIR. TALMAGES
STERLING DISCOURSES.
Subject-Thc Deer Hunt.

fields of them, as Solomon suggests W hen h
says: II charge you by the binds of tn
field" Their antlers jutted from the lon
grass as they lay down. No hunte
who has been long in John Brown
track win wonder that in the Bible the,
were claSsed among clean animals. for tn
dews, the showers, the lakes washed them a
clean as the sky When Jacob, the patriarch
longed for venison, Esau shot anC
brought home a roebuck Isaiah com
pareS the sprightliness of the restored
cripple of millennial time to the long
and quick jump of the stag, saying
Tho lame shall leap as the hart" Solo
mon expressed his disgust at a hunter
who having shot a deer is too lazy
to cook it, SAYING: 1.-The slothfu
man rOasteth not that which he took in
hunting" But one day David, while far
from the nome from which he had been
driven. and sitting near the door of a lonely
rave where he had lodged, and on the banks
OF a pond or river, hears pack of hounds in
swift pursuit Because of the previous silence
Of the forest the clangor starteS him. and he
kayS to himself: - wonder what those dogs
are after" Then there is a cracking
in the brushwood, aud the loud breath
ing of 'ome rushing wonder of the woods,
and the ant'erS of a deer rend the leaves
of the thicket, and by an instinct
which all hunters recognize, plunges into
pond o. lake or river to cool its thirst, and
at the same time by its car acity for swifter
sAA1 -pAhECA W StG away lIOll ilio
foaming harriers. David says to himself:
AHA, shat is myself! Saul after me, Alb
SALON. after me, enemies without number
after me, @m chased their bloody muzzleS
at my heels, barking at my good name
barking after my body. barking 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 nOstrilS into the cool wave that
washes the lataered TANKS and it swiIns away
from the fiery CANNES, and it is free at last.
Oh, that might find in the deep, wide lake
OF Gods mercy and consolation escape from
my pursuersl oh, for the waters of life and
rescued As the hart panteth after the water
brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee. o
God"
Ihave just come from the Adirondacks 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
being slain by the score Talking a few days
ago with a hunter thought l would like to
see whether my text was accurate in its al
fusion, and as heard the dogs baying little
way off and supposed they were on the track
of a reindeer, | said to the hunter in rough
corduroy: do the deer always
make for the water when they are
pursued" He said: 20, yes, Mister you
see they are a hot and thirsty animal. and
they know where the water is, and when they
hear danger in the distance they lift their
antlers and snuff the breeze and start for the
Racquet, or Loon or Saranac; and we get
into our cedar sh-ll boat or stand by the
runway with rifle loaded ready to blaze
away" My friends, that is one reason why
like the Bible so much--its illusions
are so true to nature. Its partridges
are real partridgeS, its oStriches
real Ostriches, and its reindeer real
reindeer. l do not wonder that this ant cred
glory of the text makes the hunters eve
sparkle and his cheek glow and his respira-
TIO0 Quicken To nothing of re 11SafI11-
ness, although it is the most useful of all
game, Its flesh delicious, its skin turned into
human apparel its Sinews fashioned into bow
strings, its antlers putting handles on cut
lery, and the shavings OF its horns, used as a
restorative. taken from the name of the hart
and called hartshOrn. But putting aside its
usefulness, this enchanting creature seems
made out of gracefulness and elasticity.
What an eye, with a liquid brightness as if
gathered up from hundred lakes of sunset
The horns, a coronal branching into every
possible curve. and after it seems done, adj
vancing into other projections of exquisite
ness, tree of polished bone, uplifted in pride
or swung down for awful combat. 1t is veloci-
ty embodied. Timidity impersonated. The en-
chantment of the woods. Eve lustrous in life
ana pathetic IN death. The splendid animal
a complete rhythm of muscle and bone and
color. and attitude and lOcomotion. whether
coucbei IN the grass among the shadows or
a living bot shot through the forest or
turning at bay t. attack the hounds, or rear
ing FOR its last fall under the buckshot of the
trapper. IL is splendid appearance that
the ma u. eT's pencil fails to sketch and ONLY
a hunters dream on n pillow of hem
lock at the foot of St Regis is
able TO picture When twenty miles from
any settlement it comes down at eventide to
the lakes edge to drink among the lily pods,
and, with its sharp-edge1 hoof, skaters the
crystal OF Ong l axe, it is very picturesque
But only when. after miles of pursuit, with
leaving sides and lolling tongue, and eyes
IN death the stag leaps from the
'liH la,O Upper SaTanac, can you realize
how much David had suffered from his
troub eS and how mu h he wanted God when
be expressed himself in the words OF the text:
- As the hart panteth after tine water brooks,
so panteth my soul after Thee, o God.''
Well, now, let all those who have coming
after them the lean hounds of poverty, or the
black hounds of persecution, or the spotted
hounds OF v.ciSSltude, Cr the pale hounds of
death, or who are in any wise pursued. fiv to
the vide, deep, glorious lake of divine solace
and rescue The most of the men and women
whom l happen to know at different times, if
not now, have had trouble after them, sharp
muzzled troubles, swift troubles, all
devour.ng troubles. Many of You have
made the mistake of trying to fight
them. Somebody meanlY attacked YOU,
and you attacked them; they deprecated
you, you GePreclateI them; or they over
reached you in a bargain, sn1 you tried, in
Wan street plr.ance, to g ,.n~r on them;
or yon have ha be. eaye -. IL. an instead
of being subniss We, you are igati1g that
bereavement; you charge on the doctors who
lessness OF the railroad company through
which the accident occurred: or Won are a
chronic invalid, and you fret and
worry and scO'd and wonder why
you cannot be we'll like others,
and you angrily charge on the neuralgia or
Al
ache. 1 be fact Is you are a deer at bay. In
stead Of running t. the waters of divine con-
ISOLATION, and stalking your thirst and cooling
your body an1 soul in the good cheer of the
Gospel, and swimming away into mighty
deeps of God S love. you are fighting whole
kennel OF haIrierS A few days ago
l saw in the AdirOndaclIs a dog ly-
ing across the rod, and he seemed I'M
able t. get up and said to soma
hunters near by: "What is the matter with
that dog" They answered: "a deer hurt
him. And | saw that he had great swollen
paw and battered head, showing where the
antlers struck him. And the probability is
that some OF you might give a mighty clip to
your pursuers, you might damage their bust
ness, You N GIT worry them into ill-health,
you might hurt them as much as they have
hurt you, but, after all, it is not worth
While. You only have hurt a hound.
Better be eff for the Upper Saranac,
ntO which the mountains of Gods eternal
strength look down and moor Their shadows
As for your physical disorders, the worst
trychnine you can take is fretfuinesS, ard the
est medicine is religion. | know people who
we're only a little disordered, yet have fretted
hamselves into complete valetudinarnism.
While Others put their trust in God and
anne uD from the very shadow of
cath, and have lived comfortably twenty
i've years with only one lung. A man with
ne lung, but Col with him, is better Off
NtrrC
# you have been for a long time sailing
round Cape Fear when you ought to have
zen sailing around Cape Good Hope Do
lot turn back but go ahead. The deer will
ccOmplish more with its swift feet than
With its horns.
1 saw whole chains of lakes in the Adiron-
acks. and from one height you can see
hirty and there are said to be over eight
uadred in the great wilderness. So near
re they to each other that your mountain
uide picks up and carries the boat from
axe to lake, the small distance between them
or that reason being cIlel a carry"
md the realm of Cots word IS
ne long chain of bright refreshing lakes;
ach promise a lake, very short carry
etween them, and though for ages
be pursued have been drinking out of them,
hey are full up to the top of the green
anks, and the same David describes them,
nd they seem so near together that in three
lfferent places he speaks of them as as a
ontinuous river, saying: There is a river
he stream whereof shall make glad the city
God !" ''ThoU shalt make them drink of
he rivers of thy pleasures" Thou greatly
nrichest 1t with the river Of God which is
all of water.
But many of you have turned your back
n that supply, and confront your trouble,
nd you are sourGd with your circumstances,
nd you are fighting society, and you ara
ghting pursuing world and troubles in
cad of driving you into the cool laze Of
eavenly comfort, have made you stop AMI
Irn round and lower your head, and it is