Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-17

ming for you with it's best Maynard
breech-loader. Highest compliment
is to your talent, or your virtue, or
your usefulness. You will be assailed
in proportion to your great achieve
ments. The best and the mlghtlest
being the world ever saw had set after
him all the hounds, terrestrial and d1a-
bolic, and they Tapped his blood after
the Calvarean massacre. The world
paid nothing to it's Redeemer but
bramble, four spikes and cross.
Many who have done their best to
make the world better have had such
a rough time of it that all their pleas
ure is nm anticipation of the next
world, and they could express their
own feelings in the words of the bar
oness of Nairn at the close of her long
life, when asked if she would like to
live her life over again:
Would you be young again?
So would not l.
One tear Of memory given,
Onward I'll HE;
Life'S dark wave torded Ger,
ALI but at rest on shore,
Say, would you plunge once more,
With home so nigh?
If you might, would you now
Retrace your way?
Wander through stormy wilds,
Faint and aStray?
Nights gloomy watches fled,
Morning all beaming red,
Hopes smile around us shed,
HeavenWard, away.
Yes, for some people in this world
there seems no let-up. They are pur-
sued from youth to manhood, and
from manhood into old age. Very dis
tinguished are Lord Stafford's hounds,
the earl of Yarborough's hounds, and
the duke of Rutland's hounds, and
Queen Victoria pays $500 per year 20
her master of buckhounds. But all of
them put together do not equal in
number or speed, or power to hunt
down, the great kennel of hounds of
which Sin and Trouble are owner and
master.
For Him I thirst; for His grace I
beg; on His promise I build my all.
Without Him [ can not be happy.
have tried the world, and it does well
enough as far as it goes, but it is too
uncertain a world, too evanescent a
world. I am not a prejudiced wit
ness. / have nothing against this
world. I have been one of the most
fortunate, or, to use more Christian
word, one of the most blessed of men
blessed in my parents, blessed in
the place of my nativity, blessed in
my field of work, blessed in my nat
ural temperament, blessed in my fam
II
blessed in comfortable livelihood.
blessed in the hope that my soul will
go to Heaven through the pardonin2
mercy of God, and my body, unless it
be lost at sea or cremated in some con-
fagration, will lie down in the gardens
of Greenwood among my kindred and
friends, some already gone and others
to come after me. Life to many has
been a disappointment, but to me it
has been a pleasant surprise, and yet
I declare that if [ did not feel that
God was now my friend and ever-pres-
ent help, should be watched and ter.
ror-stricken. But I want more of Him.
7 have thought over this text and
preached this sermon to myself until
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body, mind and soul, I can cry OUT:
GAS the hart panteth after the water
brooks, SO panteth my soul after Thee,
o, Cod,
Oh, when some of you get there it
will be like what hunter tells of when
pushing his canoe amid the ice-foes,
and a hundred miles, as he thought,
from any other human being! He WIS
startled one day as he heard a stepping
on the ice, and he cooked the rife
ready to meet anything that came
near. He found a man, barefoOted
and insane from long exposure, APP
preaching him. Taking him into his
he restored him and found out where
he had lived, and took him to his
home, and found all the village in
great excitement. A hundred men
were searching for this lost man, ana
his family and friends rushed out to
meet him; and, as had been agreed
at his first appearance, bells were
rung and guns were fired, and bar
quets spread, and the rescuer loaded
with presents. Well, when some of
you step out of this wilderness, where
you have been chilled and torn and
sometimes lost among the icebergs,
into the warm greetings of all the
villages of the glorifed, and your
friends rush out to give you welcom-
ing kiss, the news that there is anoth-
er soul for ever saved will call the
caterers Of Heaven to spread the ban
quet, and the bellman to lay hold of
the rope in the tower, and while the
chalices click at the feast, and the
bells clang from the turrets, it will be
a scene so uplifting pray God I may
be there to take part in the celestial
merriment 'Until the day break and
the shadows flee away, be thou like a
roe or young hart upon the noun
tains of Bether."
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