Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-10-01

blos, 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-
preclated them, or they overreachod you
in a bargain, and you tried, in Wal
street parlance, to get corner on them,
or You have had bereavement, and
instead of being submissive you arc
fighting that bereavement. You charge
Oh 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 q
chronic invalid, and you fret and wor
~ and scold and wonder why you can
not be we'll like other people, and you
angrily blame the neuralgia, or tho lar
yngitis, or the ague, or the sick head.
ache. The fact is you are deer at bay.
Instead Of running to the waters of iii.
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 God s
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 I said to some hunters
near by, "What is the matter with
that dog?" They answered, "a deer
hurt him." And saw he had great
swollen paw and battered head, show
ing where the antlers struck him And
the probability is that some Of You
might give a mighty clip to your rur-
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 a
hound. Better be off for the upper Sar.
anac, into which the mountains Of God s
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 me,li
cine is religion.
know people who were only little
disordercd, yet have fretted themselves
into complete Observation-Disclosures while
others put their trust in God and come
up from the very shadow of death and
have lived comfortably 25 years with
only one lung. A man with enc lung,
but God with him, is better off than u
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 go ahead.
The deer will accomplish more with its
swift feet than with its horns.
Waters of Comfort.
I saw whole chains of lakes in the
Adirondacks, and from one height you
can see 30, 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 a
lake, very short carry between them,
and though for ages the pursued have
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
continuous river, saying, "There is a
river the streams whereof shall make
glad the city of Cod" "Thou shalt
make them drink of the rivers Of thy
pleasures :" "Thou greatly enrchest 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
Getty, and you are fighting a 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. 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 in February and
March-it sheds its 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, "IIe has hung it Oh the stag's
horns" and proverb i'll the far east
tells man who has foolishly lost his
fortune to 60 and find where the deer
sheds her horns. My brother, quit the
antagonism of your circumstances, quit
misanthrophy, quit complaint, quit
pitching into your pursuers, be as wise
as next spring will be all the deer Of
the Adirondacks. Shed your horns.
The Redeemer's Reward.
But very many of you who are
wronged of the world-and if in any
assembly between here and Golden
Gate, San Francisco, it were asked that
all those that had been sometimes badly
treated should raise both their hands
and full response should be made, there
would be twice as many hands lifted as
persons present. say many of you
would declare, "We have always done
the best we could and tried to be useful,
and why we should become the victims
of mulignment or invalidism or mishap,
is inscrutabie. Why, do you know
the finer deer and che more elegant
its PROPORTIONS, and the more beautiful
its bearing, the more anxious tho hunt
ers and the hounds are to capture it?
Had the roebuck ragged far and
broken hoofs and IN obliteratod eye and
a limping gait the hunters would have
said, "Pshaw, don't let us waste our