Connecticut western news., 1898-10-06

of the railroad company through which tho accident occurred, or you are chronic invalid, and you fret and wor " and scold and wonder why you can. not be we'll 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 slaking 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 harriers
 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 I saw he had a great swollen paw and battered head, show ing where the antlers struck him. And the probability is that some of you might give 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 hound. Better be off for the upper Sar- anao, 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 disordered, yet have fretted themselves into complete yaletudinarianism, while others put their trust in God and come up from the very shadow of death and have lived comfortably 25 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 to have been sailing around Cape Good Hope. Do not turn back, but go ahead. The deer will accomplish more with it's swift feet than with it's horns.
 Waters of Comfort.
 I saw whole chains of lakes in the Adirondaoks, and from one height you can see 30, and there are said to be over 800 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 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 speaks of them as continuous river, saying, "There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God:'' "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 of you have turned your back on that supply and confront your trouble, and you are soured with your circumstances, and you are fighting so- ciety, and you are fighting pnrsuing 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 head, and it is simply antler against tooth. l do not blame you. Probably under the same circumstances would have done worse. But you are all wrong. You need to do as the reindeer does in February and March-it sheds its horns. The rabbin- ical writers allude to this resignation of antlers by the stag when they say of a man who ventures his money in risky en- terprises, He has hung it on the stag's horns," and proverb in the far east tells man who has foolishly lost his fortune to go and find where the deer sheds her horns. My brother, quit the antagonism of your circumstances. quit misanthrophy, quit complaint, quit pitching into your pursuers, be as wise as next spring will be all the deer of the Adirondacks. Shed your horns.
 The Redeemer's Reward.
 But very many of you who are wronged of the world-and if in any 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 as persons present. say many of you would declare, "We have always done the best we could and tried to be useful, nnd why we should become the victims of malignment or invalidism or mishap, is inscrutable. Why, do you know tLe finer deer and the more elegant its proportions, and the more beautiful its bearing, the more anxious the hunt CTS and the hounds are to capture itp Had the roebuck ragged fur and broken hoofs and an obliterated eye and @ limping gait the hunters would have said, "Pshaw, don't let us waste our ammunition on sick deer" And the hounds would have given few sniffs of the scent and then darted off in an other direction for better game. But when they see a deer with antlers lifted in mighty challenge to earth and sky, and the sleek hide looks as if it had been smoothed by invisible hands, and the fat sides inclose the richest pasture that could be nibbled from the banks of rills so clear they seem to have dropped out of heaven, and the stamp of its foot defies the jack shooting lantern and the rife, the horn and the hound, that deer they will have if they must needs break their necks in the rapids. So if there were no noble stuff in your make up, if you were bifurcated nothing, if you were forlorn failure, you would be allowed to go undisturbed, but the fact that the whole pack is in full cry after you is proof positive that you are splen- did game and worth capturing. There fore sarcasm draws on you it's finest bead" Therefore the world goes gum ming for you with its best Maynard breechloader. Highest compliment is it to your talent or your virtue or your usefulness. You will be assailed in pro- -ls mn