Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-27
4 HUNTING SCENE
RzT. DR. GALMAGES TABEREAmE SERMON
YESTERDAY.
. Ssasonabls Subject noqssnlly Handled-A
Moral Lesson That VIII b
Appreciated By The Ez-
psria1cad.


BROOKLYN, N. Y, November 26.-In
she forenoon service in the Tabernacle
to-day, Rev. DR.. Talmage took for his
subject a most seasouable one: "a
Hunting Scene, the text being Gene
sis 40. q; IN the morning ne shall
devOUr the prey, and at night he shall
eivide the spoil.
A few nights ago eight hundred men
encamped along the Long Island
Railroad, so as 20 be ready the next
morning, which was the first ''opeu
day" for deer hunting, Between sun
rise and o'clock ia the afternoon OF
that day fifteen deer were shot On
she Goth of October our woods aud for
ests 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 eau hear the
crack Of the spOrtsman's gun, because
grouse hunting has begun; aud every
man that can afford the time and anu
milton and can draw bead starts for
she fields NenOphOn grew eloquent
in regard TO the art of hunting. In the
tar East people, eleDhant-mOunted,
chase the tiger The American Indian
darts hls arrow at the buffalo until the
frightened herd tumble over the rocks
European mobiles are often found ia the
fox chase and az the stag hunt. Francis
j. was called the father OF hunting.
Noses declares Of Nimrod: "He was a
l. mighty hunter before the Lord.
Wherefore, To all ages OF the world, the
Imagery for my text ought 20 be sug-
gestiye, whether 10 means a wolf after
q fox
OR A MAN AFTER A LION.
Old Jacob, dying. is telling the for
tunes OF his children. He prophesies
the devouring propensitieS Of Benjamin
and his descendants. With his dim
eyes he looks of and sees the hunters
going out to the fields, ranging them
an day, aud 40 nightiail coming home,
the game slung over the shoulder, aud
reaching the door OF the tent, the
hunters begin to distribute the game,
and one takes q cOney, aud another a
rabbit, aud another q roe. "In the
morning he snail devour the prey, and
az night he shall divide the spoil" Or
it may be a reference TO the habits of
wild beasts that Stay their prey, and
then drag it back 90 the cave or lair,
and divide 10 among the young.
i take my text, Ia the first place, as
descriptive OF those people who in the
morning OF their life give themselves
up TO hunting the world, but afterWard,
By tho grace Of God, 10 the evening OF
their life divide among themselves the
sDOils of Christian character. There
are aged Christian men in this house
who, II they gave testimony, would tel
you that In the morning of their life
. they were after the world as intense as
a hound after a hare. or as a falcon
sWOOps upon a gaZelie. They wanted
the worlds plaudits and the worlds
gains They felt that n they could get
this world they would have everything.
Some Of them started out for the pleas
ures OF the world. They thought the
man ,Hhs.aagbad IOudest was happiest.
III tf4sd repartee, and cOnundrum,
I'd burlesQue, 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 spectacular. They were wor-
shippers Of the harlequin, and the
Merry Andrew, and the buffOon, AID
the jester. Life was 20 them foam, aud
bubble and cachinatiOu, and rOySter-
ing, and grimace. They were 80 full
of gIee they could hardly repress their
uirth, even on solemn occasions, and
'ey came near bursting out hilarious
even at the burial, because there was
Qething so dOlOrOus in the tone Of
undertaken After awhile misfOr-
struck them hard on the back.
found there was something they
not laugh at. Under their late
their health gave way, or there
'eath In the house. or every
ing their soul was eXioIiGtsd
.ouud out that life was more than
Jde. From the heart OF God there
!. llazed into their soul an earaestness
D they had never felt before. They awOke
90 their sinfuiness and their immortali-
%, and here they SIT 40 sixty or seventy
wears OF age, as apprsciaJive Of all in
nocent mirth as they ever were, but
they are bent on o style OF satisfaction
which in early life they never hunted;
the evening of their days is brighter
than the morning In the morning
they dev0urcd the prey, but at night
they devided the spells.
Lueu kUtIe are OlAeIo WIZ eL4L -GA
out for financial success. They see how
timber the rim Of a mans hat is when
be bows down before some one transpic-
nous. They felt they would like TO see
how the world looked from the window
of q four thousand dollar turnout
They thought they would like TO have
7oining sunlight tangled 10 the
GEAR OF a dashing span. They
ed the bridges in the park to re-
sound under
THE RATAPLAN OF THEIR EWIFT HOOPS.
They wanted q gilded baldrick, and
90 they started on the dollar hunt.
They chased 10 uD one street and down
another. They followed 10 when 10 bur
rowed In the cellar. They freed it in
the roof. Wherever q dollar was eX-
Dected 70 be they were. They chased |
80 across the ocean They chased 10 |
across the land. They stopped not for
the night. Hearing that dollar, even |
I'm the darkness, thrilled them IS an |
Adirondack sportsman Is thrilled az /
midnight by a looms laugh. They /
chased that dollar so the money vault /
They chased 10 20 the Government /
Treasury. They routed it from under |
the counter AN the hounds were out /
AL the pointers and the settlers. They /
leaDed the hedges % that dollar /
and they cried: "Hark away! /
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