Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

ep'e" r.,, "A Living Dog Is Better
49,. , Dead Lion.'
:, snbiect of DR.. Talmage,s sermon
F.he Brooklyn Academy OF MUSIC, on
NAV morning, March ~ was Deaa
w. and his text, Eccles. ~ a \
;ag dog is better than a DEAD non.
living is a verbatim report OF the
MOI, ;ble is the strangest, the love-
phe bio n;chtiest. the weirdest, the
St .h TanEs. Written by Moses the
st Pl 1oshua the soldier, Samuel the
NVeE' Fra the builder, Job the poet,
DE Ike sbepherd, Daniel the prime
VI" AMOS the herdsman, Matthew
nis.o+ So house officer, Luke the doc
9 p@,,I the scholar, John the exile;
= complete harmony from the
d y, rerse of the Bible. which is the
Ge az ,,erse of the one hundred and
yn.. onth Psalm, both ways to the
md lower lids, and from the
Z. massage. which is the thirty
y arse of the eleventh chapter of
!, ~, 1.-The longest verse, which is the
~, v.rse of the eighth chapter of
ltA and vet not an imperfection in
~. ~. G93 words which it is COM
I'D If. 1t not only reaches over the
=. Inf over the future; has in it n
ca,boot. MS in the second Samuel; and
iscrsnh wire. as in job; and q rail-
y! +rYin as in Nahum: and introduces
~ a foundryman by the name of
,toi Cain, and 4 ship builder by the
w. of Noah. and an architect by the
.o Of Aholiab, and tells US how many
sIIss solomon hadto take care of his
rs4s, and how much he paid for those
rises. But few things in this versa
and comprehensive book interest
go much as its apothegms. those
o,t. terse. contentious. epigrammatic
y;nps. of which my text is one-"A
Fine dog is better than o dead lion"
Hare the lion stands for nobility and
. doa for You must know
. dog mentioned in the text is not one
onr American or European or Scottish
rs that. in our mind, is q synonym for
= beautiful, the graceful. the affec-
mate. the sagacious and the true. The
Bernard dog is q hero. and if you
ubt it. ask the of the Alps, out
which he picked the exhausted trav-
er. The shepherd dog is n poem, and
YOU doubt it, ask the Highlando of
otland. The Arctic dog is the rescue
explorers, and if you doubt it ask
kane's expedition. The watch dog
a living protection, and if you doubt
ask ten thousand homesteads over
lose safety he watched last night. But
lnnon, the author of my text. lived in
rusalem, and the dog he speaks OF in
text was a dog in Jerusalem.
Last December l passed days and
rhts within a stones throw Of where
lomon wrote this text, and from what
w of the CANNES of Jerusalem by
and heard of them by night. 1 can
erstand the slight appreciation my
puts upon the dog of Palestine. 1t
ear and snarly and disgusting, and
cted with parasites, and takes re-
ee or the human race by filling the
ut with clamor. All up and down
Bible, the most of which was written
Palestine Or Syria, or contiguous
DIS, the dog is used in contemptuous
lparison. Hazael said: rs thy serv-
dog, that. he should do this
Ee:' In self-abnegation the Syro-
hnician woman said: Even the
g eat of the crumbs which fall from
Masters table," Paul says, in Phil
Mas: Beware of dogs" and st. John,
asng of Heaven, says: Without are
Pa the other hand, the lion is healthy,
Cng, and loud voiced, and at its roar
forests echo and the mountains
mble. 1t is marvellous for strength,
when its hide is removed the mus
ar completeness is something wonder
and the knife of the d;ssector
tads back from the tendons. BY the
airing Oft of the forests of Palestine
the use Of firearms, of which the
MS particularly afraid, they have
appeared from places where once
ranged, but they were very bold in
ien times. They attacked an army Of
fIes while marching through Mace
Ma. lney were SO numerous that one
PIsand lions were slain in forty years
the amphitheater of Rome. The Bar
y non, the Cape lion, the Senegal
Z the Assyrian lion, make up a most
EoFoing and exciting chapter in
uFa! history. AS most of the Bible
written in regions lion haunted, this
azure appears in almost all parts of
b!ble as n smile.
payid understood its habits of night
p"!lls and day slumbering, as is seen
M his descriptions: The young lions
/. ai'er Their prey and seek their meat
Il uod. The sun ariseth, they gather
aiselves together, and lay them down
.he'f dens." And again be cries out,
y sou! is among lions" Moses knew
~ ana said. Judah is couched like a
u. Samson knew them, for he took
ny rom the carcass of a slain lion.
EoiLon knew them and says, The
y wrath is as the roar of a lion,"
AGAIN, The slothful man W.
ee is a lion in the way" Isaiah
~ shem, and says, in the millennium.
.s non shall eat straw like an OK"
sAie! Knew them, and says, The third
"s the face of q lion." Paul knew
II, and says, Il was delivered out OF
mouth of the lion" Peter knew
-, ana says. The devil as a roaring
: ""!keth about" st. John knew
w. ana says of Christ, Behold the
= VI the tribe of JUDAH"
" "nat does my text mea when it
I 1!vlng dog and q dead lion side
slle' and says the former is better
me latter? 1t means that small
les actively usedare of more value
s.ea' faculties unemployed. How
80 see 1t! Some man with limited
;I' vastly useful. He takes that
aoou has given him and says:
~,sHSa4 endowment is not large and
IN WV. would not rate me high for
j,"S g'tl3e;nce, and my vocabulary is
.", ana my education was defective.
.Sts goes what 1 have for God and
aVl ana the making of the world