Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-12-14
life, oh, how they devoured the preyI

eaf nature cannot live on bank STOCK
They took up northern Pacific bond
and there was hole in it through
which they could look into the uncer.
tainty of all earthly treasures. They
saw some Ralston. living at the rate of
Twenty-Five thousand dollars a month,
ieaping from San Francisco wharf be-
cause be cOnld not continue to live a,
the same ratio. They saw the wien
and paralytic bankers who had changed
their souls into molten gold stamped
with the image of the earth, earthly
They saw some great souls by avarice
turned into homunculi and they said
to themselves: 81 will seek after high
er treasure
From that time they did not care
whether they walked or rode, il Christ
walked with them; nor whether they
lived in mansion or in a hut, if they
dwelt under the shadow of the Al
mighty; nor whether they were robed
in French broadcloth or in homespun,
II they had the robe of the Saviour's
righteousness; nor if they were san.
tailed with morocco or calf-skiu, II
they were shod with the preparation OF
the gospel. Now you see peace on their
eountenance. Now that man says:
WHAT a fool / was to be enchanted
with this world. Why | have more
salts alton in five minutes in the sefv-
ice of God than | had in all the first
years of my life while was gain get
ting. like this evening of my day
treat deal better than did the morn.
ing. In the morning gseeliiy le.
vo red the prey lat now it is evening.
and am gloriously dividing the spols.
My friends, this world is poor thing
TO hunt. 1t is hsalthful to go out into
the woods and hunt. II rekindles the
luster of the eye. II strikes the brown
Of the autumnal leaf into the check.
II gives to the rheumatic limbs the
.trength to leap like roe. Ch~isto.
pher North's pet gun. the maells
mould Meg, going off in the summer in
the forests, had Its echo in the winter
time in the eloquence that rang through
the university halls of Edinburg. 1t IS
healthy to go hunting in the fields: but
tell you that 1t is belittling and be-
iwarfing and belaning for a man L !
hunt this world. The hammer comes |
Town on the gun-cap, and the barrel
explodes and kills you instead Of that |
which you are pursuing. When yhu
urn out to hunt the world the world |
turns out to hunt you; and as many
sportsman aimiag his gun at a pan
sher's heart has gone down under the
striped claws, so. while you have been
attempting TO devour this world the
world has been devouring You. SO II
was with Lord Byron So it was with
1oleridge. So it was with Catherine Of
Russia. Henry III. went out hunting
for this world. and its lances struck
his heart. Francis T. aimed at
the world but the assassin's dagger
put an end to his ambition and his life
with one stroke. Mary Queen OF Scots
wrote on the window of her castle.
From the top OF all my trust
AIishap hath laid me in the dust
The Queen Dowager of Navarro was
offered for her wedding day cost
y and beautiful pair of gloves, and she
put them on; but they were poisoned
gloves, and they took her life Better
/ bare hand of cold privation than
warm and poisoned glove OF ruinous
success. 90" says some young man
n the audinee. II believe what you
ire preaching. am going to do that
'ery thing. In the morning OF my life
am going to devour the prey. and
n the evening shall divide the spoils
Il Christian character ! only want
title while to SOW my Wild oats. and
hen will be good" Young man. did '
-ou ever take the census of all the old 1
,eople? How many old people are
here in your house? One. two. or !
lone? How many in a vast assemblage
ike this? Only here and there gray '
Iead, like the patches of snow here
nd there in the fields on late April {
ay. The fact is. that the tides of the I
ears are 50 strong, that men go down /
nder them before they get to be sixty.
'efore they get to be fifty. before they I
ct TO be forty. before they get 10 be '
hirty; and II you. my young brother,
esolve that you will spend the morn '
ny of your days in devouring the prey /
he probability is that You viii never d
iNlut Tic SpOiiS Ia TIC CRCnAHk muir
lie who postpones until old age the re e
gion of Jesus Christ. postpones it I'M n
L forever. Where are the men who o
hirty years ago, resolved to become c
hristians in old age, putting IL off for '
certain number of years? They never
OF to be old. The railroad collision. .
r the steamboat explosion. or the slip !.
n the ice. or the falling ladder, or the !.
ndden cold put an end to their oppor- :
anities They have never had an OPP :
ortunity since. and never will have y
n opportunity again They locked ;,
ne door of Heaven against their soul. :
nd they threw away the keys. They >
hased the world. and they died in the
base. The wounded tiger turned on
ZEN. They failed to take the game
lev pursued. Mounted on swift
Durser, they leaped the hedge, 1.-THE
,urser fell on them and crushed them
roposing to barter their soul for the