News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-20

| of its fOotS defieS the jack-shOoting lantern
and the rifle, the horn, and tbs
| hound, that deer they will have if they
| must needs break their neck in the rapids,
| So if there We're no noble stuff in your make
| up, if you were a bifurcated nothing, if you
were a forforn failure, you would be allowed
to go 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
ment is it to your talent, or your virtue, or
your usefulness. Yon will be assailed in
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
varean massacre. The world paid moth
ing to its Releemer but bramble and
cross. Many who have done their best to
make the world better have had such rough
time of it 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 Marin at tie close of her
long life:
''Would you be young again?
So would not l;
One tear of memory given;
Onward I'll hie
Llfe's dark wave forded oer
All but at rest on shore,
Say, would you plunge once more,
With home so ngn?
''If you might, would you now
Retrace your way?
Wander through stormy wilds,
Faint and asjray?
Nights gloomy watches fed,
Morning all beaming red.
Hopes smile around rs shed,
Heavenward, away"
Yes; for some people in this world there
seems no let up. They are pursued from
youth to manhood, and from manhood into
cd age Very distinguished are Lord
Stafford's hounds, and 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 and master.
But what is a relief for all those pursuits
of trouble, and annoyance, and pain, and be-
reavement My text gives it to you in a
word of three letters, bat each letter is char
lot if you would triumph, or a throne if you
want to be crowned, or lake if you would
sake your thirSt-yea chain of three letters
God, the One for whom David longed, and
the One whom David found You might as
well meet a 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 fnll sight of
Scroon Lake and tried to cool its projecting
and blistered tongue with a drop of dew from
blade of grass, as to attempt to satisfy
an immortal soul, when flying from trouble
and sin, with anything less deep, and
high, and broad, and immense, and infinite,
and eternal than God. His comfort, why it
embossoms all distress. His arm. it wrenches
off all bondage. His hand, it wipes away all
tears. His Christly atonement, it makes Hs
all right with the past, and all right with the
future, and all right with Goa, all right with
man and all right forever: Lamartine9
tells us that King NimrOd said
to his three sons: Here are three vases, and
one is Of clay, another of amber, another of
gold. Choose now which you will have"
The eldest son, having the first choice, chose
the vase of god, on which was written the
word empire" and when opened it was
found to contain human blood. The
second son, making the next choice,
chose the vase of amber, inscribed
with the word glory and when
opened it contained the ashes of those who
were once called great. The third son took
empty, but on the bottom of it was inscribed
the name of God. King Nimrcd asked his
cOurtiers which vase they thought weighed
the most The avaric Gus men of his court
said the vase of gold. The poets said the one
of amber But the wisest men said the empty
vase, because one letter of the name of Col
outweighed a universe.
or Him thirst; for His grace | beg; on
His promise 1 build my all. Without Him
and it does we'll enough far it goes, but
IL is too uncertain world, too evanescent a
world am not a eiuiiced witness. L
have nothing against this world. lhave been
one of the most fortunate, or, to use a
more Christian word, one of the most
blessed of men, blessed in my parents, blessed
IN the place of my nativity, blessed in my
health, blessed in my field of work, blessed
in my natural temperament, blessed in my
family, blessed in my opportunities, blessed
IN comfortable livelihood. blessed in the
hope that my soul will go to Heaven through
the pardoning mercy of God, and my
body, unless it be lost at sea or cremated in
some confiagration, will lie down in the gar
dens of Greenwood among my kindred and
friends, some already gone and others to
come after me. Life to many has been a
disappointment, but to me it has been a
pleasant surprise, and yet declare that if l
did not feel that God was my friend and ever
present help, l should be wretched and ter
ror struck. But want more of Him.
have thought over this text and preached
this sermon to myself until with all the
aroused energies of my body, mind and
soul, | can cry out: ''As the hart panteth
after the water brooks, SO panteth my soul
after Thee, o God"
Through Jesus Christ make this God your
God and you can withstand anything and
everything, and that which affrights others
will inspire you. As in time of earthquake
whether she waa scared, answered:
mo, l am glad that l have a God
who can shake the world,n or as
in financial panic, when a Christian
merchant was asked if he did not fear he
would break, answered: Eyes, shall break
when the fiftieth Psalm breaks in the fiftieth
verse; Call upon Me in the day of trouble;
will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify
Me-" o Christian men and women, pursued
OF annoyances and exaSperations, remember
that this hunt, whether still hunt or hunt
IN full cry, VIII soon be over. If ever a
whelp looks ashamed and ready to stink out
or sight it is when in the Adirondacks a
deer by one long, tremendous plunge into |
Big Upper Lake gets away from him. The |
sappointed canine swims in a little way
eringes with Inundated yawn at
The feet of his master And how |
abashed and ashamed will all your earthly |
troubles be when you have dashed into the |
river from under the throne of God, and the |
heights and depths of heaven are between |
n Revelation, 22d and 18th: ''With- |
)ut are dogs" by which | conclude
here is whole kennel of hounds out
tide the gate of heaven, or, as when a
master goes in door, his dog lies on the
teps waiting for him to come out, so the
roubles of this life may follow us to the
Inning door, but they cannot get in. ''With-
nut are dogsm / have seen dogs, and owned
logs, that would not be chagrined to see in
he heavenly city Some of the grand old
he homes in solitary places and for years
ave been the only protection of wife and
hid; some of the shepherd dogs that drive
Jack the wolves and bark away the focks
rom going too near the precipice; and some
# the dogs whose neck and paw Land
eer, the painter, has made i'm
Mortal, would not find me shut
ing them out from the gate of shining
,earl. Some of those old st. Bernard dogs |
hat have lifted perishing traV ; out of |
he Alpine snow; the dog that ,cnn Brown,
he Scotch essayist, saw ready to spring at
he surgeon lest, in removing the cancer he
90 much hurt the poor woman whom the
log felt bound to protect; and dogs
hat we caressed in our childhood
lays or that in later time laid down on the
ug in apparent sympathy when our homes
we're desolated. | say, if some soul entering
leaven should happen to leave the gate aiar
nd these faithful creatures should quietly |
walk IN, it would not at all disturb my
eaven. But all those human or brutal
bounds that have chased and torn and LAGER
ted the world; yea, all that now bite or |
worry or tear to pieces, shall be
prohibited. without are dogs" No place
here for harsh critics or back biters or de.
poilers of the reputation of others. Down
With you to the kennels of darkness and de-
pair! The heart has reached the eternal
water brooks, and the painting of the long
base is quoted in still pastures, and "There
hall be nothing to hurt or destroy in all
iOds holy mount"
Oh, when some of you get there it will be