Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-10-07

the wide, deep, glorious lake OF divine
soiace and rescue. The most Of the men
and women whom l happened to know
at different times, if not now, have had
trouble after them, sharp muZzled trou-
bles, swift troubles, all devouring trou-
bles. Many Of you have made the mis-
take of trying to fight them. Somebody
meanly attacked You, and you attacked
them; they deprecated you, you de-
preciated them, or they overreached you
in a bargain, and you tried, in Wall
street parlance, to get a corner on them,
or you have had a bereavement and
instead Of being submissive you are
fighting that bereavement. You charge
on the doctors who failed to effect a
cure, or you charge on the carelessness
Of the railroad company through which
the accident occurred, or you are a
chronic invalid, and yOu fret and wor-
ry and scold and wonder why you can
not be well like other people, and you
angrily blame the neuralgia, or the lar
yngitis, or the ague or the sick head
ache. The fact is you are deer at bay
Instead Of running to the waters Of di-
vine consolation and shaking your thirst
and cooling your body and soul in the
good cheer Of the gospel and swimming
away into the mighty deeps Of Gods
love you are fighting whole kennel Of
barriers.
saw in the Adirondacks dog lying
across the road, and he seemed unable
to get up, and said to some hunters
near by, "What is the matter with
that dog:" They answered, A deer
hurt him. And | saw he had great
swollen paw and "a battered head, show
ing where the antlers struck him. And
the probability is that some Of you
might give a mighty clip to your pur-
suers you might damage their business,
you might worry them into i'll health,
you might hurt them as much as they
have hurt you, but after all it is not
worth while You only have hurt a
hound. Better be of for the upper Sar-
anac, into which the mountains Of Gods
eternal strength look down and moor
their shadows As for your physical dis.
orders, the worst strychnine you can
take is fretfulness, and the best medi-
cine is religion.
know people who were only little
dsordered, yet have fretted themselves
into complete valetudinarianism, while
others put their trust in God and come
up from the very shadow Of death and
have lived comfortably % years with
only one lung. 4 man with one lung,
but God with him, is better off than a
goddess man with two lungs. Some OF
YOU have been for long time sailing
around Cape Fear when you ought TO
have been sailing around Cape Good
Hope. Do not turn back, but 90 ahead.
The deer will accomplish more with its
swift feet than with its horns.
Waters of Comfort.
l saw whole chains of lakes in the
Adirondacks, and from one height you
can see 30, and there are said 10 be over
500 in the great wilderness of New
York. So near are they to each other
that your mountain guide picks up and
carries the boat from lake to 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 a
lake very short carry between them,
and though for ages the pursued have
been drinking ont of them they are full
up to the top Of the green banks and
the same David describes them, and
they seem so near together that in three
different places he speaks Of them as
continuous river, saying, There is
river the streams whereof shall make
glad the city of Cod" Thou shalt
make them drink Of the rivers Of thy
pleasures - Thou greatly enrichest it
with the river of God, which is full OF
water"
But many eff you have turned your
back on that supply and confront your
trouble, and you are soured with your
and you are fighting So
ciety, and you are fighting a pursuing
world, and troubles, instead of driving
YOU into the cool lake Of heavenly com
fort have made you stop and turn
around and lower your mead, and 1t l..
simply antler against tooth | do not
blame you Probably under the sam
would have done worso
But you are all wrong You need TO {
as the reindeer does in February an'
March-it sheds its horns The rabbin
ical writer's allude to this resignation. c.
antlers by the stag when they say Of T.
man who ventures bis money in risky en-
terprises, "He has hung it on the stag's
horns, and a proyerb in the far east
tells man who has foolishly lost his
fortune TO 20 and find where the deer
sheds her horns. My brother, quit the
antagonism Of your circumstances. quit
quit complaint, quit
pitching into your pursuers, be as wise
az next spring will oe all the deer OF
the Adirondacks Shed your horns
The Redcemer's Reward.
But very many of you who are
wronged of the world-and if in anJ
assembly between here and Golden
Gate, San Francisco, it were asked that
all those that had been sometimes badly
treated should raise both their hands
and full response should be made, there
would be twice as many hands lifted rs
persons present. say many Of you
would declare. 1--WE have always done
the best we could and tried to be useful,
and why we should become the victims
of malignment or invaidism or mishap,
is inscrutable. Why, do you know
the finer deer and the more elegant
its proportions, and the more beautiful
its bearing, the more anxious the hunt
ers and the hounds are to capture itf
Had the roebuck a ragged fur and
broken hoofs and an obliterated eye and
a limping gait the hunters would have
said, "Pshaw, don't let us waste our
on a sick deer" And the