The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-10-08

and lolling tongue and eyes swimming
in death the stag leaps from the cliff
into the Upper Saranac. can you real
iEe how much David had suffered from
his troubles, and how much he wanted
God when he expressed himself in the
words Of the text: rs the heart
panteth after the water brooks, 50
panteth my roul after Thee, o God"
Well, now let all those who have
coming after them the lean hounds Of
poverty, or the black hounds OF perse-
cution, OF the spotted hounds Of vicis-
gitude, or the pale hounds Of death, or
who are in any wise pursued, run 70
the wide, deep glorious lake OF divine
solace and rescue. The most OF the
men and women whom ! happened 70
know at different times II not now.
have had trouble after them, sharp
muzzled troubles swift troubles all
devouring troubles Many of you have
made the mistake Of trying 10 fight
them Somebody meanly attacked
you, and you attacked them; they de-
preciated you, you deprecated them;
or they overreaehed you in q bargain.
and you tried, in Wall street parlance,
to get a corner on them; or you have
had n bereavement and, instead Of be-
ing submissive, you are fighting that
bereavement you charge on the
doctors who failed to effect 4 cure; or
you charge IN the c~arelessness Of the
railroad company through which the
accident occurred; or you are . chronic
invalid, and you fret and worry, and
scold, and wonder why you cannot be
well like other people. and you Angrily
blame the neuralgia or the l~AryngitiS,
or the ague, or the sick headache
The fact is, you are a deer at bay. In
stead of running 70 the waters OF di.
vine consolation, and Stacking 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 9 whole
kennel Of barriers
saw in the Adirondacks 3 dog lying
across the road, and he seemed unable
TO get up and l said TO some hunters
hear by; what is the matter with
that dogG" They answered: "a deer
hurt him" And l saw he bad Q great
swollen paw and a battered head,
showing where the antlers struck
him. Aud the probability is that
some Of q might give a mighty clip
to your pursuers, you might damage
their business, you might worry them
into i'll health, you might hurt them
as much As they hurt you, but after
all, IL Is not worth while. You only
have hurt 4 hound. Better be of for
the Upper Saransc, into which the
mountains Of Gods eternal strength
look down and moor their shadowa
As for your physical disorders the
worst strychnine you eau take Is fret
fitness, and the best medicine IL reli.
gion. know people who were only =
little ~disordered, yet have iretted
themselves into complete vAletudina-
rianism, where others put their trust
In God aud come up from the very
shadows OF death, and have lived com
fortably IS years with only one lung.
A man with n lung. but God with
him, Is better of than q goddess man
with two lungs Some Of you have
been for a 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 Its
swift feet than with its horns.
i saw whole chains OF lakes in the
Adirondscks, and from one height you
a see 80, 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 u
lake, the small distance between them
for that reason called a carry" And
the realm Of Gods word is one long
chain of bright refreshing lakes; each
promise q lake, a very short carry be.
tween 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, aud they seem so neal
together that in three different place.
He speaks Of them as q continuous
river, saying: There is q river, tn.
streams whereof shall make glad tn,
city of God;" Thou shalt make then
drink Of the rivers of thy pleasures;'
Thou greatly enrichest 1t with tn.
river Of God, which Is full Of water"
But many of you have turned YOU
back on that supply, and confront
your trouble, and you are soured with
your circumstances, and you are Aght
ing society, and you are fighting {
pursuing world, and troubles insteat
of driving you into the cool lake o.
heavenly comfort have made you $50,
and turn around and lower your head
and it is simply antler against tooth
do not blame you. Probably undel
the same circumstances ! would hsv,
done worse. But you are all wrong
You need TO do as the reindeer docs il
February and March-it sheds II
horns The Rabbinical writer's allud,
to this resignation Of antlers by tn,
stag when they say of a man who ven
lures his money In risky enterprises
he has hung It on the stays horns; an.
q proverb In the far east tells q mar
who has f~oolishly lost his fortune Il
90 and find where the deer shet
his horns. My brother, quit the an
tagonism Of your circumstances, qui
misanthropy, quit complaint, qui
pitching into -four pursuers, DO as wis
) as, next spring, will be all the deer O
the Adirondack Shed your hornA
! But what is a relief for all this DOR
= suit Of trouble, and annoyance, an,
pain, and bereavementp My text give
II to you In q word Of three letters
but each letter is a chariot II yo,
: would triumph, or q throne II You
want TO be crowned, or a lake II yo,
would slake your thirst-yes, a chaii
OF three lakes GOD, the one fol
whom David longed, and the one WHOM
David found. You might as well NEE
! a stag which, after its sixth mile O
! running at the topmost speed .hrouRI
> thicket and gorge, and with the breatI
OF the dogs on its heels, has come Il
full sight Of Scroon lake, aud try /
cool its projecting and blistered tongu
with a drop Of dew from c blade o
grass, as TO attempt TO satisfy an i'm
mortal soul, when flying from troubl
and Sia. with anything less deep, an,
high, and broad, and immense, and ia
finite, and eternal than God. His com
fort why IL embosoms all distress HI
arm, 1t wrenches of all bondage. hi
; hand, II wipes away all tears. HI
Christly a~tonement, II makes us al
right with the past and all RICH
with the future; all right with God
: all right with man, and all right for
ever. LamaTtine tells US that Kin
Nimrod said 70 his three sonk, Her
are three vasea and one is Of CLAY, an
other Of amber. and another OF gold
Choose now which VIM ,yilI H..