The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-04
GOOD GAME WASTED.
DEPLoRABLE RESULTS OF INCIDENCE
PORTRAYED BY DR.. TALMAGE.

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Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning would
have no difficulty in understanding the Sc
cret Of the attraction which fills the vast
building Sunday after Sunday with throngs
of eager listeners. Avoiding abstruse the
illogical subjects, DR.. 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, %.
The slothful man roasteth not that which
he took in hunting"
David and jeremiah and Ezekiel and
Micah and Solomon Of the text showed
tha5 some time they had been out on a
hunting expedition. Spears. lances,
swords and nets were employed in this
service. A deep pitfall would be digged.
In the center Of il there was some raised
ground with pole on which lamb, would
be fastened, and the wild beast not seeing
the pitfall. 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 10
obtain meat for themselves and their fam
lies. The occu patton and habit Of hunters
are q favorite Bible simile. David said he
was hunted BY his enemy ike partridge
upon the mountain. NY text is a hunting
scene.
THE IMPR0vIDENT HUNTER
A sportsman arrayed in a 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
misstep would hurl horse and rider to
death, plahgiDg into mire up to the
launches or into swift streams up to the
bit till the game Is tracked by dripping
foam aud blood. and the antlers crack on
the rocks, aud 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 INDECENT 10
dress the game and prepare it for food. He
lets il lie in the dooryard Of his home and
become a portion for yermin and beaks Of
prey. Thus by one master stroke Solomon
gives "A picture of laZiuess, when he says,
"The slotEful man rOasteth not that which
he took in hunting" The most of hunters
have the game they shot OF entrapped
cooked tie same evening or the next day.
hut not 50 with this laggard Of the text
Too lazy To rip oil the hide. Too lazy TO
kindle the fire ana 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
do0rsill 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 specimen
since SoIornon's time Of those whose LASH
tude and iuprovideuce and absurdity were
depicted IL my text. The most OF those
who have made a dead failure of life can
look back and see time when "a great op-
porunity opened, bat they did not know it.
They were not as wise as George Stephen
son. the father Of Sailways," who, when
at sixteen years OF age he received an up
pointment 10 work at a pumping engine
for twelve shillings a week, cried ont,
Now. I am a made man for life" God
gives 10 most men Mt least one good oppor-
tunity 4 great Greciau general was met
by a group Of beggars, and be said to them:
III You want beasts 10 pillow your land /
viii lend vou some. If you want land /
will give YOU some. If you want seed 10
SOW your land, viii see that you get it,
But ] viii encourage none in idleness."
So God gives 10 most people an oppor-
tunity II extrication from depressed cir
cum-r - As IL 20 create in US a hatred
for iuC nee God has made those animals
which are sluggish TO appear lOathsome in
our eyes, while those which are fleet and
active he has clothed with attractiveness.
The tortoise the sloth, the snail. the
crocodile repel Us, while the deer and the
gazelle are as pleasing as they are fleet,
and from the swift wings Of innumerable
birds God has spared no purple or gold or
Jet or crimson or snowy whiteness. Besides
all this. the Bible is constantly assaUlting
the vice Of laziness. Solomon seems to or
der the idler ont of his sight as being be-
yond al human instruction when he says,
Go 70 the ant, thou sluggard; consider
her ways and be wise" And Paul seems
to drive him up from his dining table be-
fore he gets through with the first course
OF food with the assertion, IF any will not
work. neither shall he eat"
Now, what are the causes Of laziness and
what are It's evil resultsY / knew a man
who was never up To time. IL seemed inn
possible for him to meet an engagement.
When lie was 10 b- married he missed the
train His watch seemed TO take on the
habits Of its owner, and was always too
slow. He had a constitutional lethargy
for which he did not seem responsible. So
Incidence often arises from the natural
temperament. do not know but there is
a constitutional tendency 70 this vice in
every man. However active you may gen
orally be- have you not on some warm
spring day felt touch Of this feeling on
you. although you may have shaken it off
as you would a reptile' But some are 50
powerfully tempted 70 this by their bodily
constitution that all the work Of their life
has been accomplished with this lethargy
hanging on their back or treading on their
heels.
You sometimes behold il in childhood.
The child mOping and longing within
doors while his brothers and sisters are at
play, or if he Join them he is behind in
every race and beaten IN every game. His
nerves his muscles, his bones are smitten
with this palsy. lie vegetables rather than
lives creeps rather than walks, yawns
rather than breathes. The animal in his
nature is stronger than the intellectual.
He is generally great eater and active
only when he cannot digest what he has
eaten. II requires as much effort for him
70 walk a. for others TO run. Languor and
drowsiness are bis natural inheritance. He
is built for a slow sailing vessel, heavy
hulk and an insufficient cutWater Place
an active man in such a bodily structure
and the latter would be shaken to pieces in
one day. Every law Of physiology demands