Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-07-10

r1E has not been pointed NJ then. The tract
distributor and city missionary sometimes
eaten glmpse % them, NJ a huuterthrouEh
the Trees gets m1meutary sight % a part
ridge or a roebuck. The trouble G.. We are
waiting Tor the game 20 come 10 NJ. We are
not good hunters. We are s'audingin some
street or highway expecting that the timii
antelope will come up and eat out % our
hands. We are expecting that the prairie
fowl viii isht on our church steepie. IL i
not their habit
II the church should wait ~. n0O. 90 %
years Tor the world 20 come In ami be- saved,
Il Will wait in vain. The world will not
come. What the church wants now e % liz
its feet from damask o.tOmans and put them
in the stirups. We want a pulpit on wheels.
The church wants not so much cushions a.
Il wants saddlehags and arrows. We have
got 20 put aside the gown and kid gloves and
put on the hunting shirt. We have been Ash
ing 50 long In the brooks that run under the
shadow Of the church that the fish know ";
that they avoid the hook and escape a. soon
as We come TO the hank, while yonder Is Up
per Saranac and Biz Tupper's lake, where
the first swing Of the gospel net would break
il for the multitude Of the fishes. There Is
outside work 10 be done. What ls that see
in the hackwOois2 II Is a tent. The hunters
have made clearing and campet out.
What 90 they care II they have wet feet, or
II they have nothing hut pine branch for
pillow or Tor the northeast storm? IL a
moose In the darkness steps into the lake 10
drink. they hear Il right away. II loon
cry in the moonlight, they hear H. So IN
the service OF God we have exposed work.
. We have got To camp ont and rough IL. We
are putting all orr care on the people who
come - our churches. What are we doing
for the thousands upon thousands that do
not come? Have they no souls? Are they
sinless that they need no pardon2 Are there
no dead in their houses that they need no
I comfort? Are they cut of from God 10 20
into eternity-nO wing to bear them. no light
/ to cheer them, no welcome 10 greet them2 /
hear to-day surging up from the lower
depths grcan that comes through our
. Christian assemblages and through our
beautiful churches aud II blots out all this
scene from my eyes to-day, as by the mists
OF n great Niagara, for the dash and the
plunge OF these great torrents of life drop
ping down into the fathomless ami thunder
ing abyss Of suffering and Woe Isometimes
think that Just as God blotted ont the
churches Of Thyatira and Corinth and
. LaOdicea, because Of theirs 10th and stolidity.
He will blot out American and English
Christianity and raise on the ruins q stall
wart, wideawake, missionary church that
can take the full meaning Of that command
Go into all the world and preach the gospel
to every creature"
lrcmark, further II you want to succeed in
SIllAAAbt dItiiEIt you must nave courage. II
the hunter stand with trembling hand or
shoulder that hnchcs with fear, instead Of
mis- taking the catamouut, the catamount
takes him. What would become Of the Green
lander II. when ont hunting for the bear, he
should stand shiyerinc with terror on an ir,-
bergI What would have become OF Du
Chailln and LIVINGSTONE in the African
thickct with faint heart and weak knee?
When panther comes within twenty PAGES
OF you AMI it has it, eye on Won and IL has
squattcd for the fearful spring, "Steady
there."
Courage, o We spiritual archers' There
are great monsters In iniquity prowling all
around about the community. Shall we not
Of the strength Of God 20 forth and combat
them? We not only need more heart. but
more backbone. What il the church o. God
that it should fear to look In the eye auy
trans erosion? There is the Bengal tiger
Of drunkenness that prowls around. and
instead Of attacking it, how many Of W.
hide under the church pew or the COM
munlon table. There is So much invested In
1t we are afraid to assault it; millions of dol
lars in arrais, In watts, IN spigOts, in cork
screws, in gin palaces with matbe floors and
italian top tables, and chased ice coolers and
in the stryrhnine and the logwool and the
t0rtaric acid and the nuX yOmira that 20 to
make up our pure American drinks. |
looked with wondering eyes on the "Heidel-
berg tun' 1t is the great liquor vat of Ger
many which is SAID to hold 500 hogsheads
Of wine. aud only three times in 100 years
il has been filed. But "a | stood and
looked at it, said TO myself: "That is moth
tng-S10 hOgsheads. Why, our American vat
holds 2 800 900 barrels OF strong drinks and
wv 'syug 900 900 uaan with nothing to 10 Uut
TO see that 1t is filled" Oil to attack
TINS great monster Of intemperance and the
kindred monsters Of fraud anduncleanliness.
requires you to rally all your Christian cour-
age. Through the press through the pulpit,
through the platform YOU must assault il
Would to God that all our American Chris
ttans would band together, not for crack
bralhcd fanaticism, but for holy Christian
reform.
think it was in 1898 that there went on
from Lucknow, India, under the sovereign,
the greatest hunting party that was ever
projected. There were 10000 armed men In
that hunting party. There were camels and
horses and elephants. On some princes rode,
anu royal ladies under exquisite housings,
and 800 coolies waited upon the train. and
the desOlate places of India were invaded
ny this excursion, and the rhinocerous the
deer aud elephant fell under the stroke OF
saber and bullet After awhile the partv
brought back trophies worth 50, 900 rupees,
having lett the wilderness Of India CHASTITY
with the slain bodies of wild beasts. Would to
God that, instead Of here and there a stray
ger going out TO fight these great monsters
! OF lniquity in our country, the million men,
bership OF our churches would band togeth-
er and hew In twain these great crimes that
make the land frightful with their roar and
are fattening upon the boiIes and souls of
immortal mem Who is ready for such
party as that? Who will be a mighty hunter
/ for the Lord?
remark. again, if you want to be success
/ full in spiritual archery you need not only to
bring down the game, but bring 1t in.
think one OF tue most beautiful pictures of
/ ThCrwaldsen is his Autumn" Itrepresents
a sportsman coming home and standing I'M
der grapevine. He has a staff over his
shoulder, and ON the other end Of thar staff
are hunga rabbit and Il brace of birds. Every
I hunter brings home the game. No one would
think Of bringing down a reindeer or whip
! ping up u stream for trout and letting them
/ lie in the woods. At eventide the camp is
/ adorned with the treasures of the forest
beak and fin and antIer If you go out to
hunt for immortal souls, not only bring them
down under the arrow of the gospel, but
bring them into the church of God, the en-
campment we have pitched this side of the
skies Fetch them in. Do not let them lie
out in the open field. They need our PRAYERS
and sympathies and help. That is the mean
ing of the church of God-help. o We hun
tiers for the Lord not only bring down the
/ game but bring it in:
nMithridates liked hunting so well that
for seven years he never went indoors, what
! enthusiasm ought We to have who are hunt
ing for immortal souls! Ii Domitlanus prac-
ticed archery until he could stand boy
| down in the Roman amphitheater, with
hand out, the fingers like that, and then the
ring could shoot an arrow between the
fingers without wounding them, to what
drill and what practice ought not we sfrb.
! iect ourselves in order to become spiritual
/ archerS and mighty hunters before the
! Lord But let me say, you will never work
any better than you pray. The old archers