Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-11-11

most of the men and women whom
happened to know at different times,
if not now, have had trouble after
them, sharp-muzzled trouble after
of you have made the mistake OF try
ing to fight them. Somebody meanly
attacked you, and you attacked them;
or they deprecated you, you de-
preciated them; or they overreachcd
you in n bargain, and you tried, in
Wall street parlance, to get a corner
on them; or you have had bereavc-
ment, and, instead of being submits
sive, you charge on the doctors who
failed TO effect cure; or you charge
on the carelessness of the railroad
company through which the accident
occurred; or you are a chronic in
valid, and you fret, and worry, and
scold, and wonder why you can not
be well like other people, and you
angrily blame the neuralgia, or the
laryngitis, or the ague, or the sick
headache. The fact is, you are n deer
at bay. Instead of running to the
waters of divine consolation, and slak-
ing your thirst and cooling your body
and soul ir the good cheer of the Cos
pei, and swimming away into the
mighty deeps of Gods love, you are
fighting a whole kennel of barriers.
saw in the Adirondacks a dog ~
ing across the road, and he seemed
unable to get up, and | said to some
hunters near by: What is the mat
ter with that dog?" They answered.
"a deer hurt him." And | saw he had
a great swollen paw and battered
head, showing where the antlers
struck him. And the probability is
that some of you might give mighty
clip to your pursuers, you might dam
age their business, you might worry
them into ill health, you might hurt
them as much as they hurt you, but,
after all, it is not worth while. You
only have hurt hound. Better be Oft
for the Upper Saranac, into which the
mountains Of Gods eternal strength
look down and moor their shadows.
AS for your physical disorders, the
worst strychnine you can take is fret
fulness, and the best medicine is re-
ligion. | know people who were only IA
little disordered, yet have fretted
themselves ito complete valetudina-
rianism, while others put their trust
in God and come up from the very
shadows of death, and have lived COM
fortably twenty-five 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 10
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.
| saw whole chains of lakes in the
Adirondacks, and from one height you
can see thirty, and there are said 10
be over eight hundred 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 God
word is one long chain of bright, re.
frcshing lakes; each promise lake, q
very short carry between them, and
though for ages the pursued have
been drinking out of them, they arc
full up to the top of the green banks
and the same David describes them
and they seem so near together thai
in three different places he speakes 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 tn,
rivers of thy Pleasures; "Thol
greatly enrichest it with the river o.
God, which is full of water"
But many of you have turned you
back on that supply, and confron
your trouble, and you are soured will
your own circumstances, and you ar
fighting society, and you are fightin.
a pursuing world, and troubles, in
stead of driving you into the cool lax
of heavenly comfort, have made yo,
stop and turn around and lower you
head, and it is simply antler agains
tooth. | do not blame you. Proba
bly, under the same circumstances
would have done worse But you ar
all wrong. You need to do as tn
reindeer does in February and Marc
it sheds its horns. The Rabbinica
writers allude to this resignation o
antlers by the stag when they say Of
man who ventures his money in risk
enterprises, he has hung it on tn
stays horns; and proverb in the ia
cast tells man who has foolishly los
his fortune to go and find where tn
deer sheds her horns. My brother
quit the antagonism Of your circun
stances, quit misanthropy, quit CON
plant, quit pitching into your pun
suers, be as wise as, next spring wi
be all the deer OF the Adirondack
Shed your horns.
But very many of you who ar
wronged in the woodland il in an
assembly between here and Golde
Gate, San Francisco, it were aske
that all those that had been some
times badly treated should raise bot
their hands, and full response shoul
be made, there would be twice q
many hands lifted as persons preser
i say many of you would declare
"We have always done the best W
could and tried to be useful, and VIII
we should become the victims of m;
lignment, or invalidism, or mishap,
inscrutable." Why, do you know tn
finer the deer and the more elegant il
proportions, and the more beautifl
its bearing, the more anxious tt
, hunters and the hounds are to cal
ture it. Had the roe buck q ragge