Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-12-02
THE ART OF HUNTING
REV. DR.. TALMAGE AGAIN DISCUSSES
a sEAsoNABLE TOPIC.

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IL A SEAsoNABLE TOPIC.
IssThe Crack of Tho sportsman's Gun-Hunt-
ing the Gains of tho world-Religion Is
|ss Dividing tho spoll-A Resting Place.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 2e.-In the forenoon
service at the Tabernacle today Rev. DR..
tTalmage took for his subject a most sea-
:sonable one, "a Hunting Scene" the
Ete1t being Genesis xix, 81, I'm 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 80 as to
ISbe: ready for the next morning, which
was the first "open day" for deer hunt
sing Between sunrise and 2 o'clock in
the afternoon Of that day Is deer were
SHOT. On the Goth of October our woods
and Forests resound with shock of fire.
lsasansgand are tracked of pointers and
settlers, because the quail are then
awful prize for the sportsman.
On 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.
InAhe far east people, elephant mount
edychase the tiger. The American In
dian darts his arrow at the buffalo until
thes frightened herd tumble over the
rocks. European mobiles are often found
insthe fox chase and at the stag hunt.
Francis was called the father Of hunt
ing. Moses declares of Nimrod, "He
was:a 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
ora man after a lion.
Old Jacob, dying, is telling the for
tunes of his children. He prophesies the
dsYouring propensities of Benjamin and
hisdescendants. With his dim old eyes
helooks of and sees the hunters going
out to the fields, ranging them all day,
andsat 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
coney, and another rabbit, and another
a ree.s: .sIn the morning he shall devour
the prey, and at night he she'll 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, woRLD's GAIN.
take mytext, in the first place, as de-
scriptiYeof those people who 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
slifeSdi9ide among themselves the spoil
of Christian character. There are aged
Christian men and women in this house
who;sn theySgave testimony would tell
you hat;in the morning of their life they
were after. the world as intense as
houndafter hare, or as falcon swoops
upsa .gazelle. They wanted the worlds
! piauSaaisss anidl the world Ngains 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 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-
BILE and exclamation 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
trous in the tone or countenance Of the
undertaken.
After awhile misfortune struck them
hard on the back. They found there was
something they could notlaugh at. On
der their late hours their health gave
way, or there was death in the house.
OF every green thing their soul was ex-
fonated. 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 go OF
10 years of age as appreciatiye 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 mans hat is when he
bows down before some one transpicu-
GUS. They felt they>would like to see
how the world looked from the window
of q Sd, 900 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 freed 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
eminent trao e,1rv Grhov routed IL from