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ROUNDED LIKE DEER.
|wHERe THE TROUBLED OF EARTH
MAY ouENcH THEIR THIRST.

fNHENe Tue THOUbLeO OF EARTH
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DR.. Talmase Sees In the Forest an
Example of hope For the Unfort.-
|. nate and Harsssed Of the world--A
Lesson From the Life Of David.
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etation.l
| WASHINGTON, Oct. e.-Dr. Talmaee,
drawing his illustrations from deer hunt,
IN this discourse calls all the pursued and
troubled of the earth to come and slake
their thirst at the deep river of divine
comfort, text, Psalms xiii, !, "As The
hart panteth after the water BROOKS, 80
panteth my soul after thee, o God"
David, who must some time have seen a
deer hunt. points us here to . hun ted stag
making for the water. The fascinating
animal called In my text the hart Is the
sa1no animal that In sacred and profaAe
literature IL called tho stag, the roebuok,
the hind, the gazelle, the reindeer. In osn-
tral Syria 10 Bible times there were whole
pasture fields Of them, az Solomon sug.
gests when he says, ~ charge you By the
binds Of the field" Their antlers iutted
from tho long grass as they lay down. No
hunter who has been long In "John
Browns tract" will wonder that In tic
Bible they were CHASED among clean ami
mails, for the dews, the showers, the lakes
washed them as clean, as the sky. When
Isaac, the patriarch, longeD for venison,
Esau shot and brought home q roebuck.
Isaiah compares tho sprightliness Of the
restored cripple Of millennial times to the
long and quick jump Of the stag, saying,
'The lame shall leap as tho hart" Solo
mon expressed his disgust at huntor who,
having shot deer, is too lazy to cook 1t,
saying. 1.-THE slothfui man roasteth not
that which he took In hunting"
But one day David, while far from tho
homo from which he had been driven, and
sitting near the mouth Of lonely cave
whore he had lodged, and on the banks Of
pond or river, hearth pack Of hounds In
swift pursuit. Because Of the previous
silence Of the forest the clangor startIes
him, and he says to himself, II wonder
what those dogs are after" Then there 10
cracking In the brushwood, and the
loud breathing Of some rushing wonder Of
he woods and the antlers of deer rend
the leaves Of the thicket md by an In
stinct which all hunters recognize the
creature plunges into q pool or lake or
river to cool its thirst and at the same time
by its capacity for swifter and longer
swimming to get away from the foaming
barriers. David says to himself: "Aha,
that 10 myself! Saul after me, Absalom
after me, enemies without number after
me; am chased; their bloody muzzles
at my heels, barking at my good name,
barking after my body, barking after my
soul. Oh, the hounds, the houndsl But
look there" says David to himself; THAT
reindeer has splashed into the water. It
puts its hot lips and nostrils into the cool
wave that washes Its lathered TANKS and
1t swims away from the fiery CANNES and
1t is FREQ at last. Oh, that might find in
tho deep, wide lake Of Gods mercy and
consolation escape from my pursuers! Oh,
for the waters Of life and rescued AS the
hart panteth after the water brooks, SO
panteth my soul after thee, o God.'
The Adirondaoks are now populous with
hunters, and the deer are being slain by
the score. Talking ono summer with
hunter, thought I would like to see
whether my text was accurate In its allu-
sion, and as heard the dogs baying lit
tie way off and supposed they were on the
track Of deer, said to one of the hunt
ers In rough corduroy, "Do the deer al.
ways make for water when they are pur-
BuedP" He said: "Oh, yer, mister. You
see they are hot and thirsty animal and
they know where the water is, and when
hey hear danger in the distance they lift
their antlers and sniff the breeze and start
Tor the Raquet or Loon or Saranac, and
We get into our cedar shell boat or stand
BY the runaway with rifle loaded and
ready to blaze away"
. Bible Allusions True to Mature.
My friends, that Is one reason why I
ike the Bible 90 muoh-its illusions are
70 true to nature. Its partridges are real
to reindeer real reindeer. do not wonder
hat this antlored glory Of the text makes
he hunters eye sparkle and his cheek
glow and his respiration quicken. To say
Nothing Of its usefulness, although 1t IL
he most useful Of all game, its flesh deli
'ious, Its skin turned into human apparel,
to sinews fashioned into bowstrings, its
'ntlers putting handles on cutlery and
no shavings OF its horn used a. q pungent
tho name taken from the hart
md called hartshOrn. But putting aside
b usefulness, this enchanting creature
GEMS made out Of gracefulness and elias
icity. What an eye, with liquid bright
loss as II gathered up from hundred
nkes at sunset! The horns a coronal
into every possible curve, and
fter 1t seems complete ascending into
ther projections of exquisiteness, tree
I polished bone. uplifted In pride or
wung down for awful combat The hart
3 velocity embodied; timidity imperson-
ted; the enchantment of the woods. Its
ye lustrous In life and pathetic in death.
The splendid animal complete rhythm
muscle and bone and color and atti-
ude and looomotion, whether couohed In
he grass among the shadows, or a living
oft shot through the forest, or turning at
ny to attack the hounds, or rearing for
- last fall under the buokshot of the
rapper. 1t Is a splendid appearance that
DO painters pencil fails to sketch, and
My hunters dream on pillow Of hem
ock at the foot of St. Regis is able to pic
ire. When 30 miles from any settlement
comes down at eventide to the lako's
lge to drink among the lily pods and
18th its sharp edged hoof skaters the
youuA Va A<oh8 AShC ~ 10 NCIy PAouuE- |
sque. But only when, after miles Of pur-
lit, with hoaving sides and lolling tongue
nd eyes swimming In death the stag
APPS from the cliff into upper Saranao,
IN you realize how much David had suf-
red froEa his troubles and how much he
anted God when he expressed himself in
Ne words Of the text, "As the hart pant
h after the water brooks, SO panteth my
,ul after thee, o God"
Deer at Bay.
Well, now, let all those who have COM
g after them the lean hounds of poverty, ,
the black hounds Of persecution, or the
'otted hounds Of vicissitude, or the palo
FUNDS of death, or who are In any wise ,
lrsued, run to the wide deep, glorious
Ike of divine solaoe and rescue. The most 8
the men and women whom happened ,
know at different times, II not now 3
I've had trouble after them, sharp mug !
I'd troubles, swift troubles, all devouring s
oubles. Many Of you have made the =