The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-09-13
SOUL THIRST.
ranuaGE's SUNDAY SERMON
|,e Longing and Ycarning Of oui
immortal Nature for the Living
Good.

God."-Psalm, xiii. l.
navid who must sometime have seen
.or hunt points us here to hunted stag
ating for the water. The fascinating
r;n,af called in my text the hart, is the
ma animal that in sacred and profane
Iterature is called the stag, the roebuck, the
I;rd the pazelle the reindeer. In Central
n rri, in Bible times there were whole pasture
ksds OF them, rs Solomon suggests when he
we, ~ charge you by the kinds of the
keidn Their antlers jutted from the long
y,ass as thoy lay down. No hunter
no has been long in John Browns
lack will wonder that in the Bible they
ere classed among clean animals. for the
laws. the showers the lakes washed them rs
Iean as tho sky. When Jacob the patriarch.
bncnd for venison, Esau shot and
kronrht home n roebuck Isaiah COM
kores the sprightlness OF the restored
Eipple Of mllennial time TO the long
hi quick jump OF the stag, SAYING;
IThe lame shall leap as the hart" Solo
non expressed his disgust at hunter
Eho having shot a deer is too lazy,
cook Il, saving: "The slothful
ian roasteth not that which he took in
kuntingn But one day David, while far
rom the home from which he had been
Iriyen. and sitting near the door of n lonely
ave where he had lodged, and on the banks
II pond or river, hears pack of hounds in
nyift pursuit. Because Of the previous silence
N the forest the clangor startles him. and he
Avs 20 himself. "I wonder what those dogs
r. aftcr.n Then there is cracking
the brushwood, and tho loud breath.
bR of some rushing wonder of the woods,
In tho anters of n deer rend the leaves
q the thicket, and by an instinct
khich all hunters recognize, plungcs into n
kond or lake or river To cool its thirst, and
d the same time by its caTacity for swifter
nd longer swimming, to get away from the
[oaming harriers. David says tO himself:
j'Ahn. that is myself. Saul after me, Alb
Snlom after me, enemies without number
Rfter me- am chased, their bloody muZLles
ID my heels, barking at my good name.
barking after my body, barking after nv
boul. Oh the hounds the hounds But
ook there says David, that reindeer
bns splashed into the water. 1t puts its hot
)ps aud nostrils into the cool wave that
washes the lathered ilanks and IL swins away
Prom the fiery CANNES. and it is free at last
oh. that might find in the deep, wide lake
bf Gods mercy and consolation escape from
tny pursusrsl Oh, for the waters OF life and
fescuel As the hart panteth after the water
brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, o
BOD
Ihavc just come from the Adrondacks and
Ehc breath of the balsam and spruce aud
pine is still on mo. The Adirondacks are
bow opulous with hunters and the deer are
being slain by the score Talking few days
bgo with hunter thought would like to
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