The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-13
AT THE TABERNACLE.
"a HUNTING SCENE" THs SUBJECT oe
Or. TALMAGE's SERMON.

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BRooKLYN, Nov 2G--lu the forenoon
service at the Tabernacle today, Rev. DR.
Talmare took for his subject most sea-
Fonahle one. "a Hunting Scene,n the text
being Genesis Nix, %, "In the morning he
shall devour the prey, and at night he
shall divide the spoil"
A few nights ago SEQ men encamped .
along the Long Island railroad 50 rs to be
ready for the next morning, which was the .
first "opon day" for deer hunting Be |
tween sunrise and . o'clock in the after
noon of that day Is deer were shot On the |
20th 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 n certain day in all England you can
hear the crack of the sport smans gun, be-
cause grouse hunting has begun, and every
man that can afford the time and ammuui.
ton and can draw u bead starts for the
fields Xenophon grow ploutent i'm regard
to the art of hunting. Ia the far east peo-
ple. 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 aud at the
stag hunt. Francis was called the father
of hunting. Moses declares of Nimrod,
lie was a mighty hunter before he Lord"
Therefore, in all ages of the world, the
imagery ofmy text ought to be suggestive,
whether 1t means a wolf after fox or
man after lion
Old Jacob, dying, is telling the fortunes
of his children. He prophesies the devour-
ing propensities OF Benjamin and his de
4 IL 4 1 l.. L..
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
a rabbit, and another roe. In 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 il 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-
scriptiye of those people who in the .norn-
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 bouse who. if they gave
Testimony. would tell Won that in the morn
inc of their life they were after the world
as intense rs n hound after A hare. or as n
falcon swoops upou a pazelle. They want
ed the worlds plaudits and the worlds
gains They felt that if they could get this
world they yyould 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 burlesaue
and madripal.
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
barleuuiu. and the Merry Andrew. and the
bufToon. and the lester. Life was to them
foam and bubble and exclamation and
rovsterinu and primace. 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 50
dolorous in the tone or couutenance of the
undertaken.
After awhile misfortune struck then
hard ON the back. They found there wa
something they could not laugh at. Unde
their late hours their health gave way o.
there was a death in the house. OF ever,
green thing their soul was exfoliated. They
found out that life was more than a Joke
From the heart of God there blazed int
their soul an earnestness they had nevel
felt before. They awoke to their sinfunes.
and their immortality, and here they sit al
30 or 20 years of age as appreciative of al
innocent mirth as they ever were, but they
are bent on a STYLE of satisfaction which il
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 TIE DOLLAR.
Then there are others who started ou
for financial success They see how Timber
The rim of mans hat is when he bow
down before some one transpicuous. They
felt they would like to see how the worlt
looked from the window of a $4,000 turn
out. They thought they would like t,
have the morning sunlight tangled in tn
mead gear If dashing lan. They wanted
The bridges in the parl, to resoud unde
The rataplan of their swift hoofs The,
wanted a gilded baldric, and so they start
I'd on the dollar hunt. They chased it nj
one street and chased it down another
They followed it when it burrowed in tn
cellar. They freed 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. The
stopped not for the night Hearing tina
dollar, even in the darkness. thrilled then
rs an Adirondack sportsman is thrilled a
midnight by a looms laugh. They chase
that dollar to the money vault. They chase
it to the government treasury. They route
It from under the counter All the hound