Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-10-14
TRUE TO NATURE.
TALMACE TELLS WY Ne LIKES
BIBLE ALtUs- OES.

Subject: "The Hsunded ReIndeer"-Let
Those no Are Pursued by the Hounds
Of Persecution Run 60 the Glorious
Lake of Divine >olace.
Trxr. As the hart panteth after the
water brooks, so nantrth my soul after
Thee q Got."-Psa. xiii. /.
David. who must some time have seen A
a deer-hunt, points Us here to a hunted
stag making for the water. The fasciunt-
inr animal called ia my text the hart is the
same animal that In sacred and profane
literature j. called the stag, the roerucE
the hind the gazelle, the reindeer. In
Central Syria, in Bible times, there were
whole pasture-aelds OF them as Solomon
suggests when he saws, Il charge Won by
the kinds Of the field" Their antiers iutted
from long grass as they lay down No
hunter who has been long in John Browns
tract" will wonder that in the Bible they
were classed among clean animals. for the
dews. the showers, the lakes washed them
as clean as the sky. When Isaac, the pa
triarch, longed for yeniSon, Esau shot and
brought home a rOehuck. Isaiah compares
the sprightliness Of the restored cripple OF
millpnnial times to the long and quick
jump of the stag, saying, The lame shall
leap as the hart Solomon expressed his
disgust at "a hunter who having shot deer
1
tul man roasteth not that which he took in
hunting.
But one 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 on the banks of a
pond or river. hears a pack of hounds in
swift pursuit. Because Of the previous 81
iance of the forest the ,langOr startlps him
and he says to himself: 81 wonder what
those dogs are after" Then there is
cracking in the brushwoOd, and the loud
! breathing of some rushing wonder of the
woods, and the antlers of deer rend the
( leaves of the ticket, and by an instinct
/ which all hunters recognize the creature
/ plunges into pool or lake or river to cool
/ it thirst, and ut the same time by its ca
I pacity for sWifter and longer swimming to
1 get away from the foamiGg barriers. David
says to himself: Aha, that is myself! Saul
after me, AbsalOm after me, enemies with
/ out number after me; | am chased: their
7 bloody muZZes at my heels, barking at my
/ good name barking after my body. bark
ne after my soul. Oh, the hounds, the
| hounds But look there says David to
himself That reindeer has splashed into
the water 1t puts its hot lips and nostrils
into the cool wave that washes its leatherCd
TANKS, and it swims away from the fiery
CANNES, and it is free at last. Oh, that [
might find in the deep, wide lake Of Gods
mercy and consolation escape from my
pursuers, Oh for the water, of life and
rescue! As the hart panteth after the
water brooks, so panteth my soul after
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