The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-21

physical disorders, the worst strychnine |
you can take is fretfulness, and the best |
medicine is religion. know people who |
were only a 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 a |
goddess man with two lungs.
Some Of you have been for long time |
sailing around Cape Fear when you
ought to have been sailing around Cape |
Good Hope. Do not turn back, but go
ahead The deer will accomplish more
wi tn its swift feet than with its horns.
1 saw whole chains of lakes in the
Adlrondacks, 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
that y our mountain guide picks up and
carries the boat from lake to lake, the
small distance between them for that
reason being called & "carry." Aud the
realm of Gods word is one long chain
Of bright, refreshing lakes; each prom
Use a lake, a 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 u dNlu QGSGI1B6S LuGLlT anu Ll5y
seem so near together that in three differ
ent places he speaks of them as a contin-
uous river, saying:
"There is a river the streams whereof
shall make glad the city of Cod" 'ThOu
shalt make them drink of the rivers of
Thy pleasures;" "Thou greatly enrichest
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 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 it is simply antler against
tooth. I do not blame you. Probably
under the same circums tances I would
have done worse. But you are all wrong.
You need to do as the reindeer does in
February and March-it sheds it's horns.
The rabbinicaI writer's allude to this
resignation Of antlers by the stag, when
they say of amau who ventures his money
in risky enterprises, he has hung it on
the stag's horns; and a prOverb 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 antagonism of your circums tanCes,
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 if ia any assembly be-
tween Sandy Hook, New York, and Col
den Gate, San Fran cisco, 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
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declare: eve have always done the best
we could and tried to be useful, and why
we should become the victims of malign-
ment, or invalidism, 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 roebuck a
ragged fur and broken hoofs, and an
obliterated eve and a limping gait, the
hunters would have said: "PshawI don't
let US waste our ammunition on sick
dear" ..-.
And the hounds would have given
| few shifts of the track, and then darted
| off in another direction for better game.
But when they see a deer with antlers
| lifted in mighty challenge to earth and
| sky, and the sleek hide looks as If it b ad
! been smOothed by invisible hands, and
| the fat sides inClose the richest pasture
| that could be nibbled from the banks or
rills so clear they seem to have dropped
/ out OF Heaven, and the stamp Of its foot
! defies the jack shooting lantern and the
rifle, the horn and the hound, that deer
they will have il they must needs break
i their necks in the rapids.
| So If there we're no noble stuff in your
| makeup, if you were q bifurcated nothing,
i if you were a fOrlorn failure you would
/ be allowed to 60 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 'hnest head. "
Therefore the world goes cunning for you
| with its best Maynard breech-lOader.
! Highest compliment is it your talent or
! your virtue, or your usefulness. You viii l
be assailed in proportion to your great
| achievements. The best and the mightie t
being the world ever saw, had set after
! Him all the hounds terrestrial and dia-
bolic, and they Tapped His blood after the
| Calvarean massacre. The world paid
nothing to its Redeemer but a 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 could express their own
| feelings in the words of the Baroness of
Would you be young againH
So would not 1;
| One tear OF memory given,
Onward I'll HE.
| Lies dark wave forded Ger,
All but at rest on shore,
| Say, would you plunge once more,
| With home so nigh?
II 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 poole 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 Earl of Var
borough's hounds and the Duke Of Rut-
lands hounds, and Queen Victoria pays
$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-
g suits of trouble and annoyance, aud pain
and bereavemeutY My text gives it to yoU
in Word of three letters, but each letter
? is a chariot if you would triumph, or
= throne If you want to be crowned, or
{ lake if you would slake your thirst; yea
= a chain of three letters-G-o -d, the on,
- for whom David longel and the one whom
Q David found. You might es we'll meet 9
!. | stag which, after its sixth mile of running
u at the topmost speed through thicket and
u gorge, and with the breath of the dogs OF
d its heels, has come in full sight of ScrooI
II lake and tried TO cool its projecting auC