The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-10-07


muzzled troubles, swift troub les all
devouring troubles. Many of you have
made the mistake of trying to fight
them. Somebody meanly attacked
you, and you attacked them; they de-
preciated you, you deprecated them;
or they overreached you in bargain,
and you tried, in Wall street parlance,
to get corner on them; or you have
had bereavement, and, instead of be-
ing su bmissive. you are fighting that
bereavement; you charge on the
doctors who failed to effect n cure; or
you charge on the carelessness of the
railroad company through which the
accident occurred; or you are a 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 laryngitis,
or the ague, or the sick headache.
| The fact is. you are deer at bay. In
stead of running to 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 a whole
kennel of barriers.
saw in the AdirondaclSs 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 dogw They answered.: "a deer
hurt him" And saw he had great
swollen paw and a battered head,
showing where the antlers struck
nd 1,u1 4, l.. q,
some of you 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, it is not worth while. You only
have hurt a hound Better be off 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 reli-
gion. ] know people who were only
little disordered, yet have fretted
themselves into complete valetudina-
rianism, where others put their trust
in God and come up from the very
shadows of death, and have lived com
fortably % years with only one lung.
A man with one lung, but God with
him, is better off than IA 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 90 ahead. The
deer will accomplish more with its
swift feet than with its horns.
l saw whole chains of lakes in the
Adirondacks, and from one height you
can 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 to
lake, the small distance between them
for that reason called Garry" And
the realm of Gods word is one long
chain OF bright, refreshing lakes; each
promise lake, very short carry be-
tween them, and though for ages the
pursued have been drinking out of
them, they are full up 10 the top of
the green banks, and the same David
describes them, and they seem so near
together that in three different places
lie speaks of them as a continuous
river, saying: There is river the
streams whereof shall make glad the
city of Cod" Thou shalt make them
drink of the rivers of thy pleasures"
Thou greatly enrichest il 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 fight |
ing society, and you are fighting a
world, and troubles, instead |
of driving you into the cool lake of |
heavenly comfort, have made you stop |
and turn around and lower your head. |
and it is simply antler against tooth. |
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 i'm
February and March-it sheds its
horns. The Rabbinical writer's allude
70 this resignation of antlers bv the
stag when they say of man who VEN
lures his money in risky enterprises.
he has hung it on the stays horns: and
a proverb in the far east tells man
who has foolishly lost his fortune TO
go and find where the deer shed
his horns. My brother, quit the an
tagonism of your circumstances, quit
misanthropy, quit complaint, quit
into flour pursuers, be as wise
rs, next spring, will be all the deer of
The Adirondacks, Shed your horns.
But what is relief for all this pur-
suit of trouble, and annoyance, and
pain, and bereavement9 My text gives
I to you in word of three letters.
out each letter is a chariot If Won
would triumph, or throne II you
want to be crowned, or lake if YOU
would Stake your thirst-yes, Il chain
IF three lakes-G-O-D, the one for
whom David longed, and the one whom
David found. You might as we'll meet
stag which, after its sixth mile of
'unning at the topmost speed through
'hicket and gorge, and with the breath
II the dogs on its heels, has come in
ull sight of Scroon lake, aud try to