The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-11

be off for the upper Saranac, into which the
mountains of Gods eternal strength look down
and moor their shadows. AS for your phys
ical disorders, the worst strychnine you can
take is fretfulness, and the best medi-
cine is religion. | know people who
were only little disordered, yet
have fretted themselves into COM
plete Observation-Disclosures while others put their
trust in God and came up from the very
shadow of death, and have lived comfortably
twenty-five years with only one lung. A man
with one lung, but God with him, is better off
than goddess man with two lungs. Some of
you have been for long time sailing around
Cape Fear when you ought to have been sail
ing 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 Adiron-
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 called "carry."
And the realm of Gods word is one long chain
of bright. refreshing lakes; each promise a
lake, very short carry between them, and
though for ages the pursued have been drink
ing out of them, they are full up to the top of
the green banks, and the same David de-
scribes them, and they seem so near together
that in three different places he speaks of
them. as continuous river, saying: There
the city of Cod" "Thou shalt make them
drink of the rivers of thy pleasures; !" ''Thou
greatly enTichest 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 troubles, and
you are soured with your circumstances and
you are fighting society, and you are fighting
a pursuing world, and troubles instead of driv-
ing you into the cool lake of heavenly COM
fort. have made you stop and turn
round and lower your head, and it is
simply antler against tooth. 1 do not blame
you. Probably under the same circumstances
l would have done worse Bnt you are all
wrong. You need do as the reindeer does in
February and March--it sheds its horns. The
Rabinical writers allude to this resignation of
antlers by the stag when they say of q man who
ventures his money in risky enterprises, he has
hung it on the stag's horns; and a proyerb in
the far east tells man who has foolishly lost
his fortune, to 90 and find where the deer shed
her horns. My brother, quit the antagonism
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 Andirondacks. Shed your horns.
But very many of you who are wronged of
the woodland if in any assembly between
Sandy Hook, New York, and Golden Gate,
San Francisco, it were asked that all those
that had been sometimes badly treated should
raise both their hands, and full response should
be made, there would be twice as many hands
lifted as persons PRESENT. say many of you
would declare: 1--WE have always done the
best we could and tried to be useful, and why
we should become the victims of malignment,
or lnvaiidism, or mishap, is inscrutable."
Why, do you not know that the finer a 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 roebuck a ragged fur and broken
hoofs and an obliterated eye and limping
gait the hunters would have said: 'Pshaw!
don't let Us waste our ammunition on sick
deer" And the hounds would have given
few sniifs of the track and then darted off in
another direction for better game
But when they see deer with antlers
lifted in mighty challenge to earth and sky,
and the sleek hide looks as if it had been
smoothed by invisible hands, and the fat sides
enclose the richest pasture that could be nib
bled from the bank of rils so clear they seem
to have dropped out of heaven, and the stamp
of its foot deties the jack-shooting lantern and
the rifle, the horn and the hound, that deer
they will have if they must needs break their
necks in the rapids. So if there were no noble
stuff in your makeup, if you were bifurcated
nothing, if you were forlorn 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 captur-
ing. Therefore sarcasm draws on you its
Finest bead" Therefore the world goes
cunning for you with its best Maynard breech-
loader. Highest compliment is it to your
talent, or 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 diabolic and
they Tapped his blood after the Calvarean mas
sacre. The world paid nothing to its Re-
deemer but bramble and a 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 the next world,
and they would could express their own feel,
ings i'll tho words of the Baroness of Marin at
the close of her long life:
"Would you lie young again?
So would not l.
One tear of memory given,
Onward I'll HE;
Lies dark wave forded DER,
AL but at rest on the shore,
Say, would you plunge once more
With home SO nigh?
'If you might would you now
Retrace your way?
Wander through stormy Wilds,
Faint and astray?
Nights gloomy watches fed,
Morning all beaming red,
Hopes smile around us 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 old age,
Very distinguished are Lord Stafford's hounds,
and the Earl of Yarborough's hounds, and the
Duke of Rutland's hounds, and Queen Victo-
ria 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, but each letter is chariot if
You would triumph, Or throne if you want to
be crowned, or lake if you would slake your
thirSt-yea n chain of three letters-God, the
one'for whom David longed, and the one
whom David found You might as we'll meet a
stag which, after its sixth mile of running at
the topmost speed through thicket and
heels, has come in full sight Of Scroon lake,
and tried to cool its projecting and blistered
tongue with drop Of dew from a blade of
grass, as to attempt to satisfy an immortal