The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-27
LESSONS FROM THE HUNT.
Talmage breaches a Sermon Suitable
10 the Season.

The Propensity of Men to Hunt the
Pleasures of the World in the Morn
ing of Life-The Peace That Comes
Later in Life in the Search for Sal
walton.
Brooklyn, Nov. 26-In the forenoon
service at the tabernacle to-day, Rev. DR..
Talmaee took for his sfbject q most sea-
sonable one: "A Hunting Scene the
text being Genesis xix, %: In themorn-
ing he shall devour the prey, and at night
he shall divide the spoil"
A few nights ago eight hundred men
encamped along the Long Island rail
road. so as to be ready for the next morn
ing, which was the first "Open day. for
deer-hunting. Between sunrise and ?
O'Clock in the afternoon Of that day ff-
teen deer were shot. On the Goth of
October our woods and forests resound
with a shock of firearms, and are tracked
of pointers and settlers, because the quail
are then a lawful prize for the sportsman.
On a certain day in all England you can
hear the crack of the sportsman's gun,
because grouse hunting has begun; and
every man that can afford the time and
for the fields Xenophon grew eloquent
in regard to the art of hunting. In the far
east. people elephant-mOunted. chase the
tiger The American Indian darts his ar
row at the buffalo until the frightened herd
tumble over the rocks European mobiles
are often found in the fOx-chase and at
the stag-hunt. Francis ! was called the
father of hunting. Moses declares of
Nimrod: He was a mighty hunter be-
fore the Lord" Therefore in all ages of
the world, the imagery of my text ought
TO be suggestive, whether it means wolf
after fox, or man after lion. Old
Jacob, dying, is telling the fortunes of his
children. He prophesies the devouring
propenSities of Benjamin and his de-
scendants With his dim old eyes he looks
off and sees the hunters going out to the
fields, ranging them all day, and at night
fall coming home, the game slung over the
shoulder, and reaching the door of the
tent, the hunters begin TO distribute the
game, and one takes a coney, and another
a rabbit, and another a roe. "In the
morning he shall deVour the prey, and at
night he shall divide the spoils Or it
may be a reference to the habits of wild
beasts that slay their prey, and
then drag it back to the cave
or lair, and divide it among
the young.
take my text, in the first place, as de-
scriptive of those people who in the morn
ing of their life give themselves up to
hunting the world, but afterward, by the
grace of Goa, in the evening of their life
divide among themselves the spois of
Christian character There are aged
Christian men and women in this house
who, if they gave testimony, would tell
you that in the morning of their life they
were after the world as intense as a
hound after hare, or as falcon swoops
upon gaelic They wanted the worlds
v,1a inc
felt that if they could get this world they
would have everything. Some of them
started out for the pleasures of the
world. They thought that the man who
laughed loudest was happiest They
tried repartee and conuudrum, and bur
lesque, and madrigal They thought
they would like to be Tom Hoods, or
Charles Lambs, or Edgar A. Poes. They
mingled wine, and music. and the spec
tacular. They were worshippers of the
harlequin, and the Merry Andrew, and
butfoon, and the Jester. Life was
to them foam, and bubble, and cachin-
nation, and registering, and grimace
They were so full of glee they could hardly
repress their mirth, even on solemn occa-
slOns, and they came near bursting out
hilariOusly even at the burial, because
there was something so dOlorous in the
tone or cOuntenance of the undertaken
After awhile, misfortune struck them
AdLu bll Lllt UdCh ilOiN lOuIlu buGEe was
something they could not laugh at. Under
their late hours their health gave way, or
there was a death in the house OF every
green thing their soul was eXfoliated
They found out that life was more than a
joke. From the heart of God there blazed
into their soul an earneStneSS they had
never felt before. They awoke to their
sinfulness and their immortality, and here
they sit at 90 or 20 years of age, as appre-
ciative of all innocent mirth as they ever
We're, but they are bent on a style Of sat
lsfaction which, in early life, they never
hunted; the evening of their days brighter
than the morning. In the morning they
devoured the prey, but at night they
divided the spoils.
Then there are others who started out
for financial success They see how linn
Der the rim of a mans hat is when he
bows down before some one transpicuous
They felt they would like to see how the
world looked from the window of a "a 900
turnout. They thought they would like
TO have the morning sunlight tangled in
the head-gear of a dashing span They
wanted the bridges in the park to resound
under the rataplan of their swift hOofs
They wanted a gilded baldrick and so
they started on the dollar hunt. They
chased it up one street and chased it
down another. They followed it when il
burrowed in the cellar. They freed it in
the roof Wherever dollar was expected
to be, they We're. They chased it across
the ocean. They chased it across the land.
They stopped not for the night. Hear
ing that dollar, even in the darkness,
thrilled them as an Adirondack sports
man is thrilled at midnight by a loon
laugh. They chased that dollar to the
money-vault. They chased it to the gov
eminent treasury. They routed it from
under the counter. All the hounds We're
out-all the pointers and the settlers
They leaped the hedges for that dollar
and they cried "Hark away dollar! a
dollar" And when at last they came
upon it, and had actually captured it,
their excitement was like that of fall
coner who has successfully flung his first
hawk In the morning OF their life. oh,
how they devoured their prey But there
came better time to their soul. They
found out that an immortal nature cannot
live on bank stock. They took up a North
ern Pacific bond, and there was hole in
II through which they could look into the
uncertainty of all earthly treasures.
They saw some Ralston, living at the rate
OF twenty-five thousand dollars month.
leaping from San Francisco wharf be-
cause ne could not continue TO live at the
same ratio. They saw the wien and
par2lytic bankers who had changed their
souls into molten gold stamped with the