Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-16


attack the hounds, or rearing for its las
fall under the buckshot Of the trapper
Is is a splendid appearance that tho
Painters pencil fails 10 sketch and only
a hunters dreaL ON a pillow Of hemlocl
al the foot Of st. Regis is aLle 10 pict.
ure. When, twenty miles from any
settlement, it comes down at cyenIide {
the lakes edge 10 drink among the lily
pols, and, with its sharp edged hoof,
skaters the crystal Of Long lake, il is
very picturesque. But only when, after
miles Of pursuit, with heaving sides and
lolling tongue and eyes swimming in
death the stag leaps from the cliff into
Upper Saranac, can you realize how
much David had suffered from his
troubles and how much he wanted God
when he expressed himself in the words
Of the text: ''As the hart panteth after
the water brooks, 50 panteth my soul
after thee, o Cod
Well now, Let all those who have COM
ing after them the lean hounds Of pow
erty or the black hounds Of persecution
or the spotted hounds of vicissitude or
the pale hounds Of death or who are in
any wise pursued, fly to the wide,
deep, glorious lake Of divine solace
and rescue. The most Of the
meh and women whom | happen to
know at different times. if not now have
had trouble after them, sharp muzzled
troubles, swift troubles, all devouring
troubles. Many Of you have made the
mistake of trying to fight them. Some
body meanly attacked you. and you at.
tackled them; they deprecated you, you
deprecated them; or they overrcached
you in bargain, and you tried. in Wall
street parlance, to get corner on them;
or you have had bereavement. and in
stead Of being submissive, you are fighting
that bereavement; You charge on the
doctors who failed 10 effect q cure; or
you charge on the carelessness of the
railroad company through which the ac-
cident occurred; or you are a chronic
invalid, and you fret and worry and
scold and wonder why you can
not be well like other people,
and you angrily charge on the neuralgia
or the laryngitis or the ague or the sick
headache. The fact is you are a deer at
bay. Instead of running to the waters
Of divine consolation. and shaking your
thirst and cooling your body and soul in
the good cheer Of the Gospel, and swim
ming away into the mighty deeps of God 5
love, you are fighting whole Kennel of
barriers. A few days ago saw in the
Adirondacks dog lying across the road.
and he seemed unable 10 get up, and /
said TO some hunters near bv: "What is
the ngatter with that dog" They an
swered: "A deer hurt him. And saw
he he'd great swollen paw and bat.
tered head. showing where the antlers
struck him. And the probability is that
some Of you might give a mighty clip TO
your pursuers, You might damage their
business, You night worry them INTO i'll
health, you might hurt them as much
as they have hurt you, but, after all, il
is not worth while. You only have hurt
hound. Better he off for the Upper
Saranac, into which the mountains Of
Gods eternal strength look down and
moor their shadows. As for your physi-
cal disorders. the worst strychnine you
can take is frctfulness, and the best med.
iciue Is religion. know people who
were only a little disordared, set have
frcttcd themselves into complete valetu.
diuariauiSm, while others put their trust
in God and came up from the very
shadow Of death, and have lived COM
forably twenty-five wears with only one
lung. 4 man with one lung, but God
with him. is better of than a goddess
man with two lungs Some of you lave
been fer q long time sai!iG- around Cape
Fear when you ought to have been sail
ing around Cape Good Hope Do not
turn back, but - ahead. The deer will
accomplish more with its swift feet than
with its horns,
saw whole chains # lakes in the
Adirondacks, ami from one height you
can see thirty. and there are said 10 be
over eight hundred in the great wilder
ness. So near are they to each other
that your mountain guide picLs up and
carries tho boat from lake 10 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, vury short carry be-
tween 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 de-
scribes them, and they seem so near 10.
gether that in three different places he
speaks Of them as a continuous river,
sewing: There is a river the streams
whereof shall make glad the city Of God; !
Thou shalt make them drink Of tn,
rivers Of thy pleasures "Thou greatly
enrichest it with the river OF God which
is full Of water"
But many Of you have turned you
back on that supply, and confront you
trouble, and you are soured with you
circumstances, and you are fighting SO
cicty, and you are fighting a pursuin
world. and troubles instead Of driyin
you into the cool lake of heavenly com
fort have made you stop and turn roun
and lower your head, and 1t Is simpl
antler against tooth. lido mot blame you
Probably under the same circumstance
! would have done worse. But you ar
all wrong. You need TO do as tho rein
/ deer does in Februar, and March,
sheds is horns. The Rabbinical writer
allulc TO this resignation Of antlers b,
the stag whn they say Of a man VIII
ventures his money in risky enterprises
he has hung It on the stag's horns and
proyrrb IN the far cast tells a man VIII
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