Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-10-01
A HUNTED ROEBUCK.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE DRAWS A LESSON
FROM THE CHASE.

Man In Like the Hart Fleeing From
the Dogs-Pursued by Sin, He Find,
safety and RefreshmentI In the Wa.
tcrs of Eternal Life.
copyright, 1893. by American Press Asso
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-Dr, Talmape
drawing his illustrations from a dee,
hunt, in this discourse calls all the pur
sued and troubled of the earth to come
and Stake their thirst at the deed rive,
OF divine comfort; text, Psalms xiii, /,
"As the hart panteth after the water
brooks, SO panteth my soul after thee,
o God" = M
David, who must some time have seen
deer hunt, points us here to hunted
stag making for the water The fasci
mating animal called in my text the hart
is the same animal that in sacred and
profane literature is called the stag, the
roebuck, the hind, the gazelle, the rein
deer. In central Syria, in Bible times,
there were whole pasture fields Of them,
as Solomon suggests when he says, 81
charge you by the kinds Of the field. -
Their antlers jutted from the long grass
as they lay down. No hunter who has
been long in "John Browns tract
Will wonder that in the Bible they were
Chased among clean animals, for the
dcws, the showers, the lakes, washed
them as clean as the sky. When Isaac
the patriarch longed for venison, Esau
shot and brought home roebuck. Isaiah
compares the sprightliness of the re-.
stored cripple of millennial times to the
long and quick jump of the stag, say
ing, 1.-The lame shall leap as the hart ="
Solomon expressed his disgust at hunt
or who, having shot deer, is too lazy
to cook it, saying, 1.-the slothful man
roasteth not that which he took in
hunting"
But ono day David, while far from the
home from which he had been driven,
and sitting near the mouth of lonely
cave where he had lodged, and OH the
banks Of a pond or river, hears pack
of hounds in swift pursuit. Because of
the previous silence of the forest the
clangor startles him, and he says to
himself, II wonder what those dogs are
after" Then there is a cracking in
the brusllwood and the loud breathing
of some rushing wonder of the woods,
and the antlers of deer rend the leaves
of the thicket and by an instinct which
all hunters recognize the creature
plunges into pool Or lake or river to
cool its thirst and at the same time by
its capacity for swifter and longer
swimming to get away from the foam
ing barriers. David says to himself:
"Aha, that is myself! Saul after me,
Absalom after Inc, enemies without
number after me; am chased; their
bloody muzzles at my heels, barking at
my good name, barking after MY body,
barking after my soul. Oh, the hounds,
the hounds But look there" says Da-
vid to himself; "that reindeer has
splashed into tho water. 1t puts it's hot
lips and nostrils into the cool wave that
washes its lathered tanks and it swims
away from the fiery CANNES and it is
free at last. Oh, that l might find in
the deep, wide lake of God : mercy and
consolation escape from MY pursaers!
Oh, fer the waters of life and rescue !!
AS the hart pantcth alter the water
brooks, so pantcth my soul after thee,
o God )"
The Bible Truc TO Nature.
The Adirondacks arc now rorulous
with hunters, end the deer are being
slain by tho rccre. Talking enc summer
with q hunter, l thought I would like
to see whether my text was accurate III
it's Gllusion, and as heard the dogs bay
ing little way off and supposed they
wero Oh the track Of deer, said to
one ct tho hunters in rough corduroy,
"Do tho deer always make for water
when they arc pursued" He said: ooh,
yes, mister. You see they are d bot and
thirsty animal, and they know where
the water u.s. and when they hear CAN
ger in the distance they lift their ant
lers and sniff tho breeze and start for
the Racquet or Loon CT Sararac, ard we
get into our cedar shell boat CT stand
by the runaway with rifle loaded and
ready to blaze away"
My friends that is one reason why
like the Bible SO much-its illusions
arc so true to nature. Its partridges a1e
real cartridges, its ostriches zeal ostrich
es and its reindeer real reindeer. do
not wonder that this antlercd glory of
the text makes the hunters eye sparkle
and his cheek glow and his respiration
quicken. To say nothing of its useful
ness although it is the most useful OF
all game, its flesh delicious, its skin
turned into human apparel, its sInews
fashioned into bowstrings, its antlers
putting handles on cutlery and the
shavings of its horn used as pungent
restorative, the name taken from the
hart and called hartshorn. But putting
aside its usefulness, this enchanting
creature seems made out of gracofulness
and elasticity. What an eye, with llq'
uid brightness as if gathered up from
hundred lakes at sunset! The horns, a
coronal branching into every possible
curve, and after it seems complete as
cending into other projections OF ex'
ouisiteness, tree Of polished bone, up
lifted in pride or swung down for awful
combat. The hart is velocity embodied;
timidity impersonatcd; the cnchant'
ment of the woods. Its eye lustrous III
life and pathetic in death. Tic splendid
animal complete rhythm OF muscle
and bono and color and attitude and
locomotion whether couched in the grass
among the shadows or living bolt shot
through the forest, or turning at bay TO
attack the hounds or rearing Tor JUS