The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-09-27

zach promise a lake, 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 David describes them,
and they seem so near together that in three
different places he speaks of them as as a
continuous river, saying: There Is river
the stream whereof shall make glad the city
OF God; !" Thou shalt make them drink of
the rivers Of thy pleasures;" "Thou greatly
enrichest 1t with the river of God which Is
full of water.n
But many Of you have turned your back
on that supply, and confront your trouble,
and you are soured with your circumstances,
and you are fignting society, and you are
fighting pursuing world, and troubles IN
stead OF driving you into the cool 10 80 OF
comfort, have made you stop and
turn round and lower your head, and 1t Is
simply antler against tooth. do
not blame YOU Probably under
the same circumstances would
have done worse But you are all wrong.
on need to do as the reinIeer does in Eco
ruary and March-it sheds its no, ms. The
Rabbnical writers allude to this resignation
of antlers by the stag when they say of a
man who ventures his money in risky enter
prises, he has hung it on the stag's horns; and
a proverb in the tar 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 circumstances, quit
mis- ntnropy, quit complaint, quit pitching
into your pursuers; be as wise as, next
spring, will be all the reindeer of the Adiron-
dacks. Shed your horns.
but very masy of you who are wronged Of
the world-and 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 es many hands lifted as per-
sons present. say many of you would
declare: I'VE have always done the best we
could and tried to be useful, and why we
should become tine victims of malignment,
or invalidism, or mishap, is inscrutabIe."
Why do you not know that the finer a deer,
and the more elegantits proportions, and the
more beautiful its bearing, the more anxious
the hunters and the hounds are t Sapture it.
Had that roebuck ragged fur Hnd broken
hoois and an obliterated eye and limping
gait the hunters would have said: "Pshawl
don't let us waste our ammunition on a sick
deer" And the hounds would have given a
few shifts of the track and darted off in an
other 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 sm oothed
ey invisible hands, and the fat sides enclose
the richest pasture that could be nibbled
from the bank OF rills so clear they seem to
have dropped out OF heaven, and the stamp
of its foots defies the jack shooting lantern
hound, that deer they will have if they
must needs break their neck in the rapids
So il there were no noble stuff in your make
up, if you were bifurcated nothing, il you
were 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
ou oa ou Is nss nsdsfSe Thspes c,aSs tSs
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
hounds, terrestrial and diabolic, and
they Tapped his blood after the Cal
varean massacre The world paid moth
ing to its Redeemer but a brambe 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, and they would
express their own feelings in the wnrda
u Che baroness of Nairn at the close of her
long life:
'Would you be young again?
So would not /;
One tear Of memory given;
Onward III HE;
Llfe's dark wave forded DER,
All but at rest on shore,
Say, would you plunge once more,
With home SO nign!
"If you might would you now
Retrace your way?
Wander through stormy wilds,
Faint and asray?
Nights gloomy watches fled,
Morning all beaming red.
Hopes s2lile arou 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
cd age Very distinguished are Lord
Staffords hounds, AMI Queen Victoria pays
eight Thousand, five hundred dollars per year
to her Master of Buckhounds But all at
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
reavementl My text gives it to you in q
word OF three letters, but each letter is a char
lot if you would triumph, or throne if you
want TO be crowned, or a lake if you would
slake your thirst-yea, chain of three letters
-G-o-d, the One for whom David longed, and
the One whom David found. You might as
well meet stag which, after its sixth mile
of running at the topmost speed through
thicket and gorge, and with the breath OF
tine dogs On its heels, has come t- full s.Eht OF
Scrcon Lake and tried to cool its projecting
and blstered tongue with 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 US
all right with the past, aud all right with the
future, and all right with God, all right with
man and all right forever. Lamartlne
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
with the word glory and when
opened it contained the ashes of those whe
were once called great The third son took
the vase of clay, and opening it, found il
empty, but on the bottom of it was inscribed
the name of God. King Nimrod asked his
courtiers which vase they thought weighed
the most The avaric Gus men of his court
said the vase of gold. Ghe poets said the oae
OF amber But the wisest men said the empty
vase, because one letter of the name OF Goi
outweighed universe.
For Him thirst; for His grace beg; on
HIS promise | build my ALL Without Him
cannot be happy. l have tried the world,
and it does well enough as far as it goes, but
it is too uncertain world too evanescent 9
world. | am not a pre- judiced witness.
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 nv
health, blessed in .ny field of work, b'essed
in my natural temperament blessed in my
family, blessed in my opportunities, blessed
in a comfortable livelihood, blessed in the
hope that my soul will go to Heaven through
the pardoaing mercy of God, and nv
body, unless it be lost at sea or crematei in
some confiagration will lie down in the gar,
dsns 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 /: has been a
pleasant surprise, and yet declare that il
did not feel that God was NV friend and ever
present help, l should be wretched and ter
ror struck. But | wait more Of Him.
have thought over this text and preached |
this sermon to myself until with all the
aroused energies of my body. mini and