The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-09-20

huhluS Nhpo pbdF Wu5u you
ought TO have been sailing around Cape
Good Hope. Do not turn back, but go
ahead The deer will accomplish more
with Its swift feet than with its horns.
saw whole chains Of lakes in the
Adirondacks, and from one height you
can see thirty, and there are said to be
over eight hundred in the great Wilder
ness. So near are they to each other
carries the boat from lake To lake, the
small distance between them fo4 that
reason being called "carry." And the
realm Of Gods word is one long chain
OF bright, refreshing lakes; each prom.
ise a 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, and they
seem so near together that in three differ
ent places he speaks Of them as cOntins
uOus river, saying:
"There is q river the streams whereof
shall make glad the city OF God;" "Thou
shalt make them drink Of the rivers Of
Thy pleasures;" "Thou greatly eurichest
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 their circum.
stances, and you are fighting society, and
you are fighting n 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, and il 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 Maroh-it sheds its horns.
The rabbinical writer's allude to this
resignation Of antlers by the stag, when
they say Of mau who ventures his money
in risky enterprises, he has hung 1t on
the stag's horns; and a proveTb in the
far East tells man who has foolishly
lost his fortune to go and find where the
deer shed her horns. My brother, quit
the antagonlsm OF your circumstances,
quit misanthropy, quit complaint, quit
pitching into your pursuers; 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 world-and II Ii any assembly be.
tween Sandy Hook, New York, and Col
den Gate, San Francisco, it were asked
that all those that had been sometime
badly treated should raise both their
hands and full response should be made,
there would be twice as many lifted as
persons present. say many Of you would
declare: 1--WE have always done the best
We could and tr led to be useful, and why
we should become the victims of malign-
ment, or ipvalidism, or mishap is in
scrutable."
Why, do you 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 it Had that roebuok a
ragged fur and broken hoots, and an
obliterated eye and a limping gait the
hunters would have said: "Pshaw! don't
let US waste our ammunition on sick
dear"
SO if there were no noble stuff in your
makeup, II you were a bifurcated nothing,
if you were a forlorn failure, you would
be allowed to go undisturbed; but the
fact that the 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 head. 1"
Therefore the world goes cunning for you
with its best Maynard breech-loader.
your virtue. or your usefulness. You will
be assailed in proportion to your great
achievements. The best and the mightiest
being the world ever saw, had set after
Him all the hounds terrestrial and dia-
bolic, and they Tapped His blood after the
Calvareau massacre. The world paid
nothing to its Redeemer but a bramble
and 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 anticipation OF thu next
world, and they could express their own
feelings in the words Of the Baroness OF
Narn at the close of her long life:
Would you be young sgaini
So would not /;
One tear OF memory given,
Onward I'll HE.
Lies dark wave forded o'er,
All but at rest on shore,
Say, would you plunge once more,
With home so nigh?
If you might, would you now
Retrace your way?
Wander through stormy wuds,
Faint and astrayf
Nights gloomy watches fed,
Morning all beaming red,
Hopes smile around US shed.
Heayenward, awayl
Yes, for some peole 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 Stafford's hounds aLd Earl Of Var
borough's hounds and the Duke OF Rut-
lands hounds, and Queen Victoria pays
IS, 500 per year to her master of buck
hounds. But all Of them put together do
not equal In mum Der, or speed, or power
to hunt down, the great kennel of hounds
of which Sin and Trouble are owner and
master.
But what is q relief for all those pur-
suits of trouble and annoyance, and pain,
and bereavement My te1t gives it to you
in a word of three letters, but each letter
is a chariot If you would triumph, or a
throne if you want to be crowned, or
lake il you would slake your thirst: yea,
a chain of three letters-G-o-d, the one
for whom David longed and the one whom
David found. You might es we'll meet
stag which, after its sixth mile of running
at the topmost speed through thicket and
gorge, and with the breath OF the dogs on
its heels, has come in full sight OF Scroon
lake and tried to cool its projecting and
biistered tongue with a drop OF dew from
a blade of grass, as to attempt to satisfy
an immortal soul. when flying from
trouble and sin, with any thing less deep,
and high, and broad, and immense. and
infinite, and eternal than God His com.
fort why 1t embosoms all distress. His
arm, 1t wrenches of all bondage. His
hand, 1t wipes away all tears. His Christly
atonement, it makes us all right with the
past and all right with the future, and all
right with God, aud all right with man.
and all right forever.
Lamartine tells us that King Nimrod
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