Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-04-28
GOOD GAME WASTED.
DeDLoRABLe RESULTS OF INCIDENCE
PORTRAYED BY DR.. TALMAGE.

SoIomon's Satire and Denunciation of the
Sluggard-Some Are Born Lazy, some
Achieve Laziness and Some Have Laxi.
ness Forced ON Them.
BROOKLYN, April PA visitor TO the
Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning would
have no difficulty in understanding the Sc
eret of the attraction which fills the vast
building Sunday after Sunday with throngs
of eager listeners. Avoiding abstruse the
illogical subjects, DIR. Talmage preached a
sermon on practical topic, giving shrewd
common sense lessons of inestimable value
to his hearers, especially to the young peo-
pie, who make up large part Of his con-
gregation. His text was Proverbs xii, %,
1.-THE slothful man roasteth not that which
he took in hunting"
David and jeremiah and Ezekiel and
Micah and Solomon of the text showed
that some time they had been out on a
hunting expedition. Spears, lances,
swords and nets We're employed in this
service. A deep pitfall would be digged
In the center of it there was some raised
ground with pole on which lamb, would
be fastened, and the wild beast not seeing
the ptfall, but only seeing the lamb would
plunge for its prey and dash down, itself
captured. Birds were caught in gins or
pierced with arrows. The hunters in olden
time had two missions-one to clear the
land of ferocious beasts, and the other to
obtain meat for themselves and their fam
lilies. The occupation and habit of hunters
are favorite Bible smile. David said he
was hunted by his enemy like a partridge
upon the mountain My text is a hunting
scene.
THE IMPRovIDENT HUNTER.
A sportsman arrayed in garb appropri-
ate to the wild chase lets slip the blood.
thirsty hounds from their kennels. and
mounting his fleet horse. with halloo and
the yell of a greyhound pack they are of
and away, through brake and dell, over
marsh and moor, across chasms where a
misstep would hurl horse and rider to
death, plunging into mire up to the
launches or into swift streams up to the
bit, till the game is tracked by dripping
foam and blood, and the antlers crack on
the rocks, and the hunter has just time TO
be in at the death Yet, after all the haste
and peril of the chase, my text represents
this sportsman as being too indolent to
dress the game and prepare it for food He
lets il lie in the dooryard of his home and
bSIOnlS pOittbl ipI anu DtfthS Oh
prey. Thus by one master stroke Solomon
gives picture of laziness, when he says, !
1.-The slothful man roasteth not that which |
he took in hunting" The most of hunters |
have the game they shot or entrapped |
cooked the same evening or the next day, |
but not so with this laggard of the text. |
Too lazy to rip off the hide. Too lazy to |
kindle the fire and put the gridiron on the
Goals.
The first picture | ever bought was an |
engraving of Thorwaldsen's Autumn"
The clusters of grapes are ripe on the vine
of the homestead, and the returned hounds,
painting from the chase. are lying on the
doorsill and the hunter is unshouldering
the game while the housewife is about to
take portion of it and prepare it for the
evening meal. Unlike the person of the
text, she was enough industrious to roast
that which had been taken in hunting.
But the world has had many a specimen
since SolomOn's time of those whose lassi-
tude and improyidence and absurdity were
depicted in my text The most of those
who have made dead failure of life can
look back and see time when a great Oh.
portunity opened, but they did not know il.
They were not as wise as George Stephen
son, 1.-THE father Of railways" who, when
at sixteen years of age he received an ap-
pontment TO work at pumping engine
for twelve shillings a week cried ont
"Now, | am a maze man for ifen God
gives to most men Mt least one good oppor-
tunity. A great Grecian general was met
by group Of beggars, and he said to them:
IF you want beasts to pillow your land
will lend you some. If You want land |
will give you some. II you want seed TO
SOW your land, ! will see that You get II. ,
But | will encourage none in idleness." .
So God gives to most people an oppor-
tunity Of extrcation from depressed cir.
As If TO create in us a hatred
for Incidence, God has made those animals
which are sluggish to appear loathsome in
our eyes, while those which are fleet aud !
active he has clothed with attractiveness. !
The tortoise the sloth, the snail, the
crocodile repel us, while the deer and the /
gazelle are rs pleasing as they are fleet, y
and from the swift wings of innumerable /
birds God has spared no purple or gold or c
jet or crimson or snowy whiteness Besides d
all this, the Bible is constantly assaulting /
the vice of laziness. Solomon seems to or e
der the idler out of his sight as being be- 5
yond all human instruction when he saws, +
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider c
ltT ways anu DE wise. ana Edul seems | 4
% drive him up from his dining table be- G
lore he gets through with the first course a
If food with the assertion, IF any will not
work, neither shall he eat" a
CAUSES or LAZINEss. N
Now, what are the causes of laziness and n
what are its evil results; | knew a man o
who was never up to time 1t seemed i'm II
possible for him to meet an engagement O
When he was 10 be married he missed the q
rain. His watch seemed to take on the +
habits of its owner, and was always too b
low. He had a constitutional Iethargy II
or which he did not seem responsible So Il
Incidence often arises from the natural a
temperament. do not know but there is al
constitutional tendency to this vice in
very man. However active you may gen 81
rally be, have you not on some warm n
priBg day felt touch Of this feeling on q,
ou, although you may have shaken it off y,
5 you would a reptile, But some are so I,
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