The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-06-03

-; o. "The Slothful Man Roasteth
r., RIA. Which He Took in Hunting"
n,vid and Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and
Micah. and solomon of the text showed
,hst some time they had been out on a
hunting expedition. Spears, lanccs,
'...ords and nets were employed in this
service. A deep pitfall would be digged
T. The centre of it there was some rails
"A ground with n pole on which lamb
,sonld be fastened, and the wild beast,
not seeing the pitfall, but only seeing
,he lamb, would plunge for its prey and
dash down itself, captured.
Rirds were caught in gins or pierced
nth arrows. The hunters in oldcn time
had two missions, one to clear the land
90 fcrocious beasts and the other To OBJ
tain meat for themselves and their fam
flies. The occupation and habit of
hunters are favorite Bible similc.
D,vid said he was hunted by his enemy
like a partridge upon the mountain. My
text is hunting scene.
A sportsman, arrayed in n garb ap-
nropriate to the wild chase, let's slip the
bloodthirsty hounds from hcirkcnncls,
and mounting his fleet horse, with n
halloo and the yell of the greyhound
nack. they are off and away, through
brake and dell, over marsh and moor,
across chasms where a misstcp would
hurl horse and rider TO death, plunging
into mirc 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 he in at the death. Yet, after all the
haste and peril of the chase my text
represents this sportsman as being
too indolcnt to~drcsS the game and pre-
pare il for food. He let's it lie in the
dooryard of his home and become n por-
ton for vermin and bcaks of prey.
Thus Ivy one master-Strolic solomon
gives picture of lnEincss when he says:
"'rhc slothful man roasteth not that
which he took in hunting" The most
of hunters have the game they shot or
entraprcd cooked the same evening or
the next day, but. not SO with this lag
gnrd OF the text. Too lazy To rip off the
hide. Too lazy to kindlc 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 ~
ing on the door sill and the hunter is
unshouldcring the game, while the
housewife is about 10 take portion of
ii 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
Solomous time Of those whose
lassitudc and improvidence and alb
surdity were depicted in my text.
The most Of those who have made
dead failure of life can look back and
see Il time when great opportunity
opened, but they did not know IT.
They were not as wise rs George
Stephenson, the father Of railways"
who, when sixteen years of age he re-
Cc'vcd an appointment Ia work ut a
pumping engine for twelve shillingS II
week. cried; Now, am made man
for life God gives To most men ut
least one good opportunity A great
Grccian general was met by group OF
bcggars, aud he said Ia them; "lf Won
want beasts to pillow your land Will
lend you some" ......
II You want land will give You some.
II you want seed 10 SOW your land. !
VIII see that You get it. But will en-
Courage none in idlencSs." SO. God
gives To most people an opportunity of
extraction from depressed circum-
stances AS II To create in MS a hatred
Tor Incidence. God has made those
animals which are sluggish To APP
pear loathsome in our eyes, while those
winch are fleet and active he has
clothed with attractivenc>S. The
tortoise, the sloth. the snail, the croci-
oue repcl ms, while the deer and the
gazeilc are rs pleasing as they are fleet.
anu from the swift wings of inDumer-
anle birds God has spared no purple, or
gold or Jet, or crimson, or snowy white
Ness. Besides all this the Bible Is con-
SANITY aSsaulting the vice Of lazincsS,
solomon seems To order the idlcr out of
MS sight rs being beyond all human in
srnction when he says: Go 10 the ant,
.hou sluggard; consider her ways and
DC wise" And Paul seems tn drive him
up from his dining table before he gets
through with its first course of food
win the assertion: III any will not
work, neither shall he eat
Now, what are the causes of laziness
ana what are its evil results? ! know a
man who was never up To time IL
seemed impossible for him to meet an
engagement. When he was to be mar
red, he missed the train. His watch