Milford chronicle., 1893-12-01
MUNTERs OF No WORLD.

young.
HUNTERS or 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 a hound after a 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 ard 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 worshipers Of the
harlequin, and the Merry Andrew, and the
butfOOn, and the jester Life was to them
foam and bubble 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 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 a 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
60 or 20 years Of age as appreciative Of all
innocent mirth as they ever We're, 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 OF THE DOLLAR
Then there are others who started out
FOR financial success. They see how timber
ihe rim of mans hat is when he bows
iOwn before some one transpicuous. They
elt they would like to see how the world
ooked from the window Of a s4 600 turn
,ut. They thought they would like to
lave the morning sunlight tangled in the {
leadgear Of dashing span. They wanted {
he bridges in the park to resound under
he rataplan of their swift hOofs They (
wanted gilded baldric, and so they start
d on the dollar hunt. They chased it up
ne street and chased it down another. I
hey followed it when it burrowed in the /
ellar. They treed it in the roof
Wherever dollar was expected to be, s
hey were. They chased it across the ocean. Q
hey chased it across the land They e
topped not for the night. Hearing that a
ollar, even in the darkness, thrilled them S
S an Adirondack sportsman is thrilled at c
lidnight by looms laugh. They chased Fl
nat dollar to the money vault. They chased p
to the government treasury. They routed n
from under the counter. All the hounds q
ere out-all the pointers and the settlers. n
hey leaped the hedges for that dollar, and f.
ley cried: "Hark away A dollar! 4 dol 6
ri" And when at last they came upon it
nd had actually captured it their excite &
tent was like that of a faleoner who has v
flung his first hawk. "a
In the morning of their life, oh, how they al
svoured the preyl But there came bet
r time to their soul. They found out that
I immortal nature cannot live on bank sc
md, and there was a hole in it through A
hich they could look into the uncertainty q
all earthly treasures. They saw some tC
alston, living at the rate of $3.50 a
onth, leaping from San Francisco wharf sc
cause he could not continue to live at the Ii
me ratio. They saw the wien and para b,
tic bankers who had changed their souls ii
to molten gold stamped with the image VI
the earthly, earthly. They saw some great f'
uls by avarice turned into homunculi, "a
d they said to themselves, Il viii seek ra
ter higher treasure" W
DEyoURED BY THE WORLD.
From that time they didnot care whether I'll
ey walked or rode if Christ walked with th
EN-; nor whether they lived in mansion al
in hut if they dwelt under the shadow ds
the Almighty; nor whether they were an
bed in French brOadcloth or in homespus ST
they had the robe Of the Saviour's right m
lsness; nor if they were sandalled with lii
rocco or calfskin if they were shod with
, preparation of the Gospel Now you fri
peace on their cOuntenance. Now that "
IN says: what a fool ! was to be en- th
lnted with this world. Why, I have tn
re satisfaction in five minutes in the serv- sti
Of God than I had in all the first years tn
my life whifs / was gaingetting like on
S evening Of my day a great deal better tn
IN did the morning. In the morning cla
edily devoured the prey, but now it is all
ming, and / am gloriously dividing the
H." sp,
ly friends, this world is poor thing to pa
lt. It is healthful to 90 out in tAo 1913 , l