Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-10-06

are chronic individual; anC Nou fret
ami worry, and >cold. and wonder " ny
you can not be well like other rcopl
and you angrilv blame the neuralgia.
or the laryngitis, ar tine ague, or the
sick headache. The fact is you are a
deer at bay Instead of running to
the waters of divine consolation, and
stalking Your thirst and cooling your
Oody and soul in the good cheer OF the
Gospel and swimming away into the
mighty dccps OF Gods love, you are
| fighting "A whole kennel OF barriers
saw in the AdirondacEs dog ly-
ing across the ruad, an lac seemed I'M
able To get up, ami said 10 some hunt
erS near 10y: What i the matter with
that dog They answered.: "A deer
hurt him" And saw he had "a great
swollen paw and a battered head,
| showing where the antlcrs strucl; him
And the probability is that some of
| you might give mighty clip to your
| purSucrs, you might damage their bust
ness. you might worry them into ill
/ health, YOU might hurt tncm a> much
as they have hurt You, but, after all,
it is not worth while. You only have
hurt a hound. Better be oil for the
| Upper SaraUac. into which the mount
| aims of GCd's eternal strength look
down and moor their shadows. As for
your physical disorders, the wofst
strychninc you can take Is frctfulncS-.
and the best medicine is religion.
know people who were only n little
disordercd. vet have fretted themselves
! into complete valctudinariani>m, while
! others put their trust in GOd ami come
| up from the very shadow of death. aud
| have lived comfortably - years with
only one .ung. n man with one lung,
but God with him. Is better OFF than
goddess man with two lungs. Some
of you have been for a long tim. sail
ing around Cape Fear when you ought
to have been sailing aroun. Cane Good
| Hope, DO not turn back, but go ahead
| The deer will accomplish more with
its swift feet than with its horns.
saw whole chains of lakes in the
Adirondacis, and from one height you
can see 50, and there are said to bc
over 500 in the great wilderness, oi
| New York. 80 near are they TO each
other that your mountain guide picks
up and carries the boat from lake Il
lake, the small distance between them
for that reason called carry And
| the realm of Gods word is one long
chain of bright, refreshing lakes;
each promise lake, a very
short carry between them, and
though for ages the pursued have been
drinking out of them, they are full III
to the green banks, and the same Da'
vid describes them. and they seem SC
near toge ther, that in three difrcren'
places he speaks of them As a continu
Gus river, the streams whereof shall
make glad the city of Cod Thou
shalt make them drink of the rivers OF
thy pleasures" Thou greatly enrich
est il with the river of God, which i:
full of water"
But many of you have turned your
back on that supply, and confront youl
trouble, and you are soured with youi
circumstances. and you are fighting
society, and You are fighting a pursu
| ing world, and troubles, instead o
driving you into the cool lake OF heav
emily comfort, have made YOU stop anC
turn around and lower your head, anC
it is simply antler against tooth. d,
not blame you. Probably under the
same circumstances | would hav,
done worse. But you are al
wrong. You need TO do as tn,
reindeer does in February an,
March-it sheds its horns The Ra b
binical writers allude to this resigna
ton of antlers BY the stag when they
say OF clan who ventures his money
in risky enterprises, he has hung it OF
the stays horns; and a proverb in tn,
far east tells a man who has foolishly
lost his fortune to go and find where
the deer sheds her horns. My brother
quit the antagonism of your circum
stances, quit misanthrophy, quit com
plant, quit pitching into your pur
suers. be as wise, as next spring, will
Shed your horns.
But very many of You who are
wronged of the world-and il any as
sembly between here and Golden Gate
San Francisco, it We're asked that al
those that had been sometimes badly
treated should raise both their LANDS
and full response should be made
there would be twice as many hands
lifted as persons present. say many
of you would declare: 1--WE nave al
ways done the best we could and tried
to be useful, and why we SHOULD
become the victims of maiignment
or invalidism, or mishap, ris inscrut
able" Why, do You know the finel
deer and the more elegant its pro
portions, and the more beautiful il!
bearing, the more anxious the hunter.
and the hounds are to capture it Had
the roebuck ragged fur and broker
hoof and an obliterated eye and
limping gait, the hunters would hav,
said: "Pshay! don't let Us waste on
ammunition on sick deer. An,
the hounds would have given few
shifts of the scent and then darte,
off in another direction for bette
game. But when they see deer will
antlers lifted in mighty challenge L
earth and sky, and the sleek hid'
looks as if it had been smoothed witt
invisible hands, and the fat sides en-
close the richest pasture that coul b,
nibbled from the banks ofrills so ciea
they seem to have dropped out o
Heaven, and the stamp of its foot de
fies the Understanding lantern and tn
rifle. the horn and the hound. tina
deer they will have if they must need
break their ne ok in the rapids.
So if there were no noble stuff il
your makeup, if you were biiurcat
ed nothing, if you were n folorn fail
ure, you would be allowed to go un
disturbed; but the fact that the Who'll
pack is in full cry after you is proc
positive that you are SPLENDID gam
and worth capturing. Therefore sar
casm draws on you its finest bead.
Therefore the world goes cunning 70
you with Its best Maynard breech
loader. Highest compliment is it I
your talent or your virtue, or you
usefulness. You will be assaulted il
proportion to your grea
achievements. The best an
the mightiest Bling the worl
ever saw had set after him all tn
hounds, terrestrial and Giabolic. an
they Tapped his blood after the Calva
roam ma acre The world maid not l.