Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-11-30
st THE TABERNACLE.
"A HUNTING SCENE" THE SUBJECT oe
DR.. TALMAoE's SERMON.

He Who Hunts the Worlds Pleasures In
the Msrning OF Life May Never Divide
the Christian Spoil In the Evenlng-Put-
ting or Repentance.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 26.-In the forenoon
service at the Tabernacle today. Rev. DIR.
Talmage took for his subject y most sea.
sonable one, "a Hunting Scene" the text
being Genesis Xix, -, "In the morning he
shall devour the prey, and ut night he
shall divide the spoil"
A few nights ago 300 men encamped
along the Long Island railroad so rs to be
ready for the next morning, which was the
first "open day" for deer hunting. Be-
tween sunrise and 2 o'clock In the after
noon OF that day 10 deer were shot. On the
10th 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 lawful prize for thesports-
man.
On 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-
tion and can draw bead starts for the
fields Xenophon grew eloquent In regard
to the art Of hunting. In the far east peo-
pie, elephant mounted, chase the 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 I,was called the father
Of hunting. Moses declares Of Nimrod,
HE was a mighty hunter before the Lord. F"
Therefore, in all ages Of the world, the
imagery ofmy text ought to be suggestive,
whether it means a wolf after fox or q
man after lion.
Old Jacob, dying, is telling the fortunes
of his children. He prophesies the devour-
ing 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 coney, and another
rabbit, and another 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
slay their prey and then drag it back to
the cave or lair and divide it among the
young.
HUNTERS OF THE WORLD.
/ 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 hunt
ing the world, but afterward, by the grace
of God, in the evening of their life divide
among themselves the spoils of Christian
character There are 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 hound after hare, or as a
falcon swoops upon gazelle. They want
ed 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
repartee and conundrum and burlesque
and madrigSl.
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 worshipers of the
harlequin, and the Merry Andrew, and the
buffoon, and the jester. Life was to them
foam and bubble and cachinnation and
registering and Rrimace. 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 burial because there was something so
dolorous 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 Under
their late hours their health gave way or
there was death in the house. OF every
green thing their soul was exfoliated. They
found out that life was more than 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
go or 10 years of age as appreciative of all
innocent 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 spoils.
THE CHASE IF THE DOLLAR.
lHeH UueT6 are ObueTS WuO SUdTtcu Out
for financial success. They see how timber
the rim Of 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 $4,000 turn
out. They thought they would like to
have the morning sunlight tangled in the
headgear of a 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 start
ed on the dollar hunt. They chased it up
one street and chased it down another.
They followed it when it burrowed in the
cellar. They treed it in the roof.
Wherever a 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. Hearing that
dollar, even in the darkness, thrilled them
as an Adirondack sportsman is thrilled at
midnight by looms laugh. They chased
that dollar to the money vault. They chased
it to the government 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 awayl A dollarl A dol
larl" And when at last they came upon il
and had actually captured it their excite
ment was like that of a falconer who has
successfully flung his first hawk.
In the morning of their life, oh, how they
devoured the preyl But there came bet
ter time to their soul. They found out that
an immortal nature cannot live on bank
stock. They took up Northern Pacific
bond. and there was hole in it through
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