The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-12-05
AT H TABERNACLE.
"a HUNTING SCENE" THE SUBJECT or
Or. TALMAGE'S SERMON.

Or. %TALMAGE'S SERMON.
He Who Hunts tho Worlds Pleasures In
tho Morning of Lifo May Never Divide
theC Christian Spoil In the E~voning-Put-
ting OF Repentance.
BRooKLyN, Nov. 25.-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, 81, I'm the morning he
shall devour the prey, and ut night he
shall divide the spoil"
A few nights ago 800 men encamped
along the Long Island railroad SO as to be
ready for tho next morning, which was the
first 'open day" for deer hunting. Be-
tween sunrise and Q o'clock in tho after
noon of that day Is deer were shot. o. the
Goth Of October our woods and forests re-
sound with the shock Of firearms and are
tracked Of pointers and settlers because the
quail are then n lawful prize for the sports
man.
On a certain day in all England you can
hear the crack Of the sportsman's gun, be-
cause grouse hunting has begun, and every
man that can afford the time and ammuni-
ton and can draw a bead starts for the
fields. Xenophon grew eloquent in regard
to the art of hunting. In the far east peo-
pie, elephant mounted, chase tho tiger.
The American Indian darts his arrow at
the buffalo until the frightened herd tum.
BILE 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 n mighty hunter before the Lord"
Therefore, in all ages Of the world, the
imagery of my text ought to be suggestive.
l-- -. .--lf r.
man after Il lion.
Old Jacob, dying, is telling the fortunes
of his children. He prophesies the devou
ing propensities of Benjamin and his de-
scendants. With his dim old eyes he looks
of and secs 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 II coney, and another
a rabbit, and another a roe. I'm the morn
ing he shall devour the prey, and at 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 to
the cave or lair and divide it among the
young.
I INTER OF THE
take m text, in the first place, as de-
scriptive of those people who in the morn.
ing of their life give themselves up TO hunt
ing the world, but nfterward, by the grace
of God, in the evening Of their life divide
among themselves the spells Of Christian
character. There nrc aged Christian men
and women in this house who, if they gave
testimony, would tell you that in the morn
Ing of their life they were after the world
as intense as n hound after Il hare, or as n
falcon swoops upon II gazelle. They want
ed the worlds plaudits and the worlds
gains. They felt that ii they could get this
world they would have everything. Some
of them started out for the pleasures Of the
world. They thought that the mar who
laughed loudest was happiest. They tried
repartee and conundrum and burlesque
and madrigai.
They thought they would like to be Tom
Hoods or Charles Lambs or EdgarA Poes.
They mingled wine and music and the
spectacular. They were worshipers of the
harlequin, and the Merry Andrew, and the
b%uffoon, and the jester. Life was to them
foam and bubble and cachinnation and
registering and grimacc. They were SO full
Of glee they could hardly rcpress their
mirth even ON solemn occasions, and they
came near bursting ont hilariously even at
the burial because there was something so
dolorous in the tone or countenance Of the
unde RITZ ker.
After awhile misfortune struck them
hard ON the back. They found there was
something they could not laugh ut. Under
their late hours their health gave way or
there was Il death in the house. or every
green thing their soul was exfoliated. They
found out that life was more than n joke.
From the heart of God there blazed into
their soul i'm earncstness they had never
felt before. They awokc to their sinfulness
and their immortality, and here they sit at
90 or 70 years of age as apprcciative Of all
innocent mirth as they ever were, but they
are bent ON n 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 spoils.
THE CHASE OF THR DOLLAR.
Then there are others who started out
for financial success. They see now timber
the rim Of n mans hat Is when he bows
Town before some one transpicuous. They
felt they would like to see how the world
looked from the window of a 1000 turn.
out. They thought they would like to
have the morning sunlight tangled i'm the
hepdgear Of a dashing span. They wanted
the bridges In the park TO resound under
the rataplan Of their swift hoofs. They
wanted a gilded baldric, and so they start
ed on the dollar hunt. They chased it up
one street and chased it down another.
hhSO tollo"Su ~ IL plIIoSSo III Iho
cellar. They freed IL I'm the roof.
Wherever IL dollRr was expected to be.
they were. They chased it across the ocean.
They chased 1t across the land. They
stopped not for the night. Hearing that
dollar, even in the darkness, thrilled them
rs an Adirondack sportsman is thrilled at
midnight by a looms laugh. They chased
thar dollar to the mOnryvDult. They chased
II to the government treasury They routed
1t 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 dollari a dol.
iart' And when at last they came upon it
and had actually captured 1t their excite
ment was like that of IL ~falconer who has
successfully flung his first hawk.
In the morning of their life, oh. how they
heyoureG the preyi But there came a bet.
fer tige 70 their soul. They found, out thn,