The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-29

turesque. But only when, after miles
OF pursuit, with heaying sides and
lolling tongues and eyes swimming in
death the stag leaps from the cliff ili-
to Upper Saranac, can you realize
how much David had suffered from
God when he expressed himself in the
words of my text: las the hart
panteth after the water brooks, SO
panteth my soul after thee, o God"
Well, now let all those who have
coming after them the lean hounds of
poverty, or the black hounds of per-
secution, or the spotted hounds Of
vicissitude, or the pale hounds of
death, or who are in any wise pur-
sued, run to the wide, deep, glorious
lake of divine solace and rescue. The
most of the men and women whom
happened to know at different times,
if not now, have had trouble after
them, sharp-muzzled trouble afler
of you have made the mistake of try
ing to fight them. Somebody meanly
attacked you, and you attacked them;
I or they deprecated you, you de-
preciated them; or they overreached
you in bargain, and you tried, in
Wall street parlance, to get corner
on them; or you have had bereave-
ment, and, instead of being submits
sive, you charge on the doctors who
failed to effect cure; or you charge
| on the carelessness of the railroad
company through which the accident
occurred; or you are a chronic in
valid, and you fret, and worry, and
scold, and wonder why you can not
be well like other people, and you
angrily blame the neuralgia, or the
laryngitis, or the ague, or the sick
headache. The fact is, you are deer
at bay. Instead of running to the
waters of divine consolation, and slak-
ing your thirst and cooling your body
and soul in the good cheer of the Cos
pei, and swimming away into the
mighty deeps of Gods love, you are
fighting a whole kennel of barriers.
l saw in the Adirondacks dog ly-
ing across the road, and he seemed
unable to get up, and / said to some
hunters near by: what is the mat
ter with that dog?" They answered.
"a deer hurt him." And l saw he had
u great swollen paw and battered
head, showing where the antlers
struck him. And the probability is
that some of you might give mighty
clip to your pursuers, you might dam
age their business, you might worry
them into ill health, you might hurt
them as much as they hurt you. but,
after all, it is not worth while. You
only have hurt hound. Better be off
for the Upper Saranac, into which the
mountains of Gods eternal strength
look down and moor their shadows.
AS for your physical disorders, the
worst strychnine you can take is fret
fitness, and the best medicine is re-
ligion. I know people who were only a
little disordered, yet have fretted
themselves ito complete yaletudina-
rianism, while others put their trust
in God and come up from the very
shadows of death, and have lived COM
fortably twenty-five years with only
one lung. A 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 10
have been sailing around Cape Good
Hope. Do not turn back, but go ahead.
The deer will accomplish more with
its swift feet than with it's horns.
l saw whole chains of lakes in the
Adirondacks, and from one height you
can see thirty, and there are said 10
be over eight hundred 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 God s
word is one long chain of bright, re.
freshing 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 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 speales Of
them as continuous river, saying:
''There is river, the streams whereof
shall make glad the city of God;
'Thou shalt make them drink of the
rivers of thy pleasures;" "Thor
greatly enrichest it with the river d
God. which is full of water"
But very many of you who ar,
wronged in the woodland if in IN,
assembly between here and Colder
Gate, San Francisco, it were asked
,, that all those that had been some
times badly treated should raise boil
their hands, AID full response shoul,
be made, there would be twice a
:, many hands lifted as persons presen
Il say many of you would declare
1--WE have always done the best w
) could and tried to be useful, and VIII
we should become the victims of na
lignment, or invalidism, or mishap, i
? inscrutable." Why, do you know tn
finer the deer and the more elegant it
Y proportions, and the more beautiful
: it's bearing, the more anxious tn
s hunters and the hounds are to car