Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-03

| David had suffered from his troubles
| and how much he wanted God when he
expressed himself in the words of the
text, Gas the hart panteth after the wa
/ ter brooks, so panteth my soul after
/ thee, 0 God"
Like Deer at Bay
! Well, now, let all those who have
| coming after them the lean hounds of
poverty, or the black hounds of persecu-
| tion, Or the spotted hounds of vicissi-
tude, or the pale hounds of death, or
who are in anywise pursued, run to
the wide, deep, glorious lake of divine
solace and rescue. The most of the men
and women whom I happened to know
at different times, if not now, have had
trouble after them, sharp muzSzled trou-
| bles, swift troubles, all devouring trou-
bles. Many of you have made the mis-
take of trying to fight them. Somebody
meanly attacked you, and you attacked
them; they deprecated you, you de-
preciated them, or they overreached you
in a bargain, and you tried in Wall
street parlance, to get corner on them,
or you have had bereavement, and
instead of being submissive you are
fighting that bereavement. You charge
on the doctors who failed to effect a
cure, or you charge on the carelessnesS
Of the railroad company through which
the accident occurred, or you are
chronic invalid, and you fret and wor-
ry and scold and wonder why you can
not be we'll like other people, and you
angrily blame the neuralgia, or the lar
yngitis, or the ague, or the sick head
ooho Tbo fao &c 1o01, OF how
Instead of running to the waters of di-
vine consolation and shaking 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 Adirondacks 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 dog?" They answered, ga deer
hurt him.. And I saw he had a great
swollen paw and a battered head, show
ing where the antlers struck him. And
the probability is that some of you
might give a mighty clip to your pur-
suers, you might damage their business,
you might worry them into i'll health,
you might hurt them as much as they
have hurt you, but after all it is not
worth while. You only have hurt
hound. Better be off for the upper Sar-
anac, into which the mountains of Gods
eternal strength look down and moor
their shadows. AS for your physical dis
orders, the worst strychnine you can
take is fretfulness, and the best medi-
cine is religion.
[ know people who were only little
disordered, yet have fretted themselves
into complete valetudinarianism, while
others put their trust in God and come
up from thevery shadow of death and
have lived comfortably % years with
only one lung. A man with one lung,
but God with him, is better off than
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 it's horns.
Waters of Comfort.
I saw whole chains of lakes in the
Adirondacks, and from one height you
cam 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 carry" And the realm
of Gods word is one long chain of |
bright, refreshing lakes, each promise
lake. very short carry between them.
or6 fhO11cyh tho bau
been drinking out of them they are full
up to the top of the green banks, and |
the same David describes them, and
they seem SO near together that in three
different places he speaks of them as a
continuous river, saying, "There is
river, the streams whereof shall make
glad the city of God:'' "Thou shalt
make them drink of the rivers of thy /
pleasures; "Thou greatly enrichest it
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 fighting So
ciety, and you are fighting pursuing
world, and troubles, instead Of driving
you into the cool lake of heavenly COM
fort, have made you stop and turn
around and lower your head, and it is
simply antler against tooth. l do not
blame you. Probably under the same
would have done worse
But you are all wrong. You need to do
as the reindeer does ins February and
March-it sheds it's horns. The rabbin-
ical writer's allude to this resignation of
antlers by the stag when they say of
man who ventures bis money in risky en-
terprises, 'He has hung it on the stag's
horns" and proverb in the far east
tells a man who has foolishlz lost his .