Connecticut western news., 1893-11-30
THE ART OF HUNTING
REV. DR. TALMAGE AGAIN DISCUSSES
 A REASONABLE TOPIC.

REV. DR. TALMAGE AGAIN DISCUSSES
 A REASONABLE TOPIC.
 The Crack of the Spontaneous Gun-Hunt- ], ing the Gains of the World-Religion Is
 Dividing the spoil-A Resting Place. J BROOKLYN, Nov. 26.-In the forenoon service at the Tabernacle today Rev. Dr. Talmage took for his subject a most sea- sonable one, "A Hunting Scene" the text being Genesis xix, 27, ''In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil"
 A few nights ago 800 men encamped along the Long Island railroad so as to be ready for the next morning, which was the first "open day" for deer hunt ing. Between sunrise and 9 o'clock in the afternoon of that day 15 deer were shot. On the 20th of October our woods and forests resound with shock of fire arms and are tracked of pointers and settlers, because the quail are then a lawful prize for the sportsman.
 On 8 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 ammunition and can draw bead starts for the fields. Xenophon grew eloquent in regard to the art of hunting. In the far east people, elephant mount ed, chase the tiger. The American In dian darts his arrow at the buffalo until the frightened herd tumble over the rocks. European nobles are often found in the fox chase and at the stag hunt. Francis was called the father of hunt ing. Moses declares of Ninrod, "He was mighty hunter before the Lord" Therefore, in all ages of the world, the imagery of my text ought to be suggest i've, whether it means wolf after fox or man after lion.
 Old Jacob, dying, is telling the for tunes of his children. He prophecies the devouring propensities of Benjamin and his descendants. With his dim old eyes he looks off and sees the hunters going out to the fields, ranging them all day, and at nightfall 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 rabbit, and another a roe. ''In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil" Or it may be 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.
 THE WORLDS GAIN.
 take my text, in the first place, as de- scriptive of those people whe in the morning of their life give themselves up to hunting the world, but afterward, by the grace of God. in the evening of their life divide among themselves the spoil 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 a gazelle. They wanted the worlds plaudits and the worlds gains. They 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 repaTtee and conundrum and bur lesque and madrigal.
 They thought they would like to be Tom Hoods or Charles Lambs or Ed gar A. Poes. They mingled wine and music and the spectacular. They were worshipers of the harlequin, and the Merry Andrew, and the buffoon, and the jester. Life was to them foam and bub- ble and cachinnation and registering and grimace. They were so full of glee they could hardly repress their mirth even on solemn occasions, and they came near bursting out hilariously even at the bur ial because there was something so dol orous in the tone or countenance of the undertaken.
 After awhile misfortune struck them hard on the back. They found there was something they could not laugh at. Un- der their late hours their health gave way, or there was death in the house. Of every green thing their soul was ex- foliated. They found out that life was more than a joke. From the heart of God there blazed into their soul an ear nestness they had never felt before. They awoke to their sinfulness and their immortality, and here they sit at 50 or 70 years of age as appreciative of all in- nocent mirth as they ever were, but they are bent on style of satisfaction 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 spoil.
 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 transpicu- ous. They felt they would like to see how the world looked from the window of LOGO turnout. They thought they would like to have the morning sunlight tangled in the headgear of dashing span. They wanted the bridges in the park to resound under the rataplan of their swift hoofs. They wanted gilded baldric, and so they started on the dol lar hunt. They chased it up one street and chased it down another. They fol- lowed it when it burrowed in the cellar. They treed it in the roof.
 Wherever dollar was expected to be, they were. 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 looms laugh. They chased that dollar to the money vault. They chased it to the gov ernment treasury. They routed it from under the counter. All the hounds were out-all the pointers and the settlers. They leaped the hedges for that dollar, and they cried: "Hark awayi A dollarl A dollarr' And when at last they came upon it and had actually captured it their excitement was like that of 8 fal- coner who has successfully flung his first hawk.
 In the morning of their life, oh, how they devoured the prey! But there came better time to their soul. They found out that an immortal nature cannot live TTJI-- RT-