Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-11-27
THE AR'f'ts7 HUNTING
REV. DR.. TALMAcG AGAIN DISCUSSES
/ A SEA5CNABLE TOPIC.

ing the Gains of the Hyorld-Religion Is
Dividing the SpoiI--a Resting Place.
BROOKLYN. Nov. 26.-In the forenoon
service at the Tabernacle today Rev. Dr..
,Talmage took for his subject 2 most sea-
sonable one, "a Hunting Scene" the
text being Genesis xix, 81, I'm tie
morning he shall devour the prey, and at
night he shall divide the spoil.
j A few nights ago 800 men encamped
along the Long Island railroad SO as to
be ready for the next morning. which
was the first "open day" for deer hunt
ing. Between sunrise and o'clock in
the afternoon of that day Is deer were
shot. On the Goth of October our woods
and forests resound with a shock of fire
arms and are tracked of pointers and
settlers, because the quail are then a
lawful prize for the sportsman.
/ On q certain day in all England you
Ican 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.
In the far east people, elephant mount
ed, chase the tiger. The American In
dian darts his arrow at the buffalo until
the frightened herd tumble over the
rocks. European mobiles are often found
i'm the fox chase and at the stag hunt.
Francis 7 was called the father Of hunt
ing. Moses declares of Nimrod, HE
was 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
Ior a man after q lion.
! Old Jacob, dying, is telling the for
tunes Of his children. He prophesies the
devouring propensities Of Benjamin and
his descendants. With his dim old eyes
he looks off and sees the hunters going
out to the fields, ranging them all day,
land at 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 a
coney, and another q rabbit, and another
Ia roe. I'm the morning he shall deyouT
the prey, and at night he shall divide the
lspoil'' 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.
THE WORLDS GAIN.
| take my text, in the first place, as de-
iscriptive of those people who in the
morning of their life give themselves up
ito hunting the world, but afterward, by
the grace Of God. in the evening Of their
life divide among themselves the spoil
lof Christian character. There are aged
Christian men and women in this house
Iwho, if they gave testimony, would tell
you that in the morning of their life they
were after the world as intense as
hound after hare, or as falcon swoops
upon q gazelle. They wanted the worlds
lplaudits 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 repa1 tee and conundrum and bur
Ilesque 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
Iworshipers Of the harlequin, and the
Merry Andrew, and the bufoon, 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
orous in the tone or countenance of the
undertaken.
After awhile misfortune struck them
hard on the back. They found there was
they could not laugh at. I'm
der their late hours their health gave
way, or there was death in the house.
of every green thing their soul was ex-
foliated. They found out that life was
more than a joke. From the heart of
God there blazed into their soul an car
nestness they had never felt before.
They awoke to their sinfulness and their
immortality, and here they sit at go or
70 years Of age as appreciative 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
In the morning they devoured
the prey, but at night they divided the
Fpoil.
Then there are others who started out
for financial success. They see how linn
Der the rim of q 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 $4,000 turnout. They thought they
would like to have the morning sunlight
tangled in the headgear of a dashina
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 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 il in the roof.