Connecticut western news., 1898-10-06
1 A HUNTED ROEBUCK.
REv. DR. TAlMAGE DRAWS A LESSON
 FROM THE CHASE.

Man Is Like the Hart Fleeing From
 the Dogs-Pursued by Sin, He Finds
 Safety and Refreshment In the Wa
 ters of Eternal Life.
 ECopyright. 1898, by American Press Asso-
 ciation.l
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-Dr. Talmage drawing his illustrations from deer hunt, in this discourse calls all the pur- tued and troubled of the earth to come and slake their thirst at the deed river f divine comfort; text, Psalms xiii, l. As the hart panteth after the water ] rocks, 90 panteth my soul after thee, k' God"
 David, who must some time have seen pa deer hunt, points us here to hunted D az making for the water. The fasci- ' ating animal called in my text the hart ] the same animal that in sacred and ! rofane literature is called the stag, the
 )ebuck, the hind, the gazelle, the rein
 ger. In central Syria, in Bible times,
 here were whole pasture fields of them, A.s Solomon suggests when he says, "I . harge you by the minds of the field. Their antlers jutted from the long grass ,.s they lay down. No hunter who has ieen long in "John Browns tract" svill wonder that in the Bible they were p:lassed among clean animals, for the .lewa the showers, the lakes, washed hhem as clean as the sky. When Isaac she patriarch longed for venison, Esau Shot and brought home roebuok. Isaiah compares the sprightliness of the re- stored cripple of millennial times to the long and quick jump of the stag say ang, "The lame shall leap as the hart. " Solomon expressed his disgust at hunt ar who, having shot deer, is too lazy 10 cook it, saying, "The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting"
 ] But one day David, while far from the home from which he had been driven, and sitting near the mouth of lonely cave where he had lodged, and on the banks of pond or river, hears pack of hounds in swift pursuit. Because of the previous silence of the forest the .clangor startles him, and he says to himself, "I wonder what those dogs are after" Then there is cracking in the brushwood, and the loud breathing of some rushing wonder of the woods, and the antlers of deer rend tho leaves of the thioket and by an instinct which all hunters recognize the creature ,plunges into a 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 foam ing harriera David says to himself: "Aha, that is myselfl Saul after me, Absalom after me, enemies without number after me; I 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 houndsi But look there." says Da- vid to himself; "that reindeer has splashed into the water. It puts it's hot lips and nostrils into the cool wave that washes it's lathered Hanks and it swims away from the fiery oanines and it is free at last. Oh, that I might find in the deep, wide lake of Gods mercy and Iconsolation escape from my pursuers! lOh, for the waters of life and rescue As the hart panteth after the water brooks. so panteth my soul after thee, 10 God.
 l. The Bible True to Nature.
 The Adirondacks are now populous with hunters, and the deer are being slain by the score. Talking one summer with hunter, thought would like ito sec whether my text was accurate in its allusion, and as I heard the dogs bay ling little way off and supposed they were on the track of deer, said to one of the hunters in rough corduroy, ''Do the deer always make for water when they are pursued?" He said: "Oh, yes, mister. You see they are hot and thirsty animal, and they know where the water is, and when they hear dan- lers and sniff the breeze and start for the Raquet or Loon or Saranac, and we Iget into our cedar shell boat or stand by the runaway with rife loaded and ready to blaze away"
 My friends, that Is one reason why I like the Bible SO much-its allusions are so true to nature. Its cartridges are real cartridges its ostriches cal ostrich es and it's reindeer real reindeer. I do not wonder that this antlered glory of the text makes the hunters eye sparkle and his cheek glow and his respiration quicken. To say nothing of its useful mess, although it is the most useful of all game, its flesh delicious, its skin turned into human apparel, Its sinews fashioned into bowstrings, its antlers putting handles on cutlery and the shavings of it's horn used as pungent restorative, the name taken from the hart and called hartshorn. But putting aside it's usefulness, this enchanting creature seems made out of gracefulness and elasticity. What an eye, with liq- uid brightness as If gathered up from a hundred lakes at sunset The horns, coronal branching into every possible curve, and after it seems complete as- -cending into other projections of ex- lQuisiteness, tree of polished bone, up lifted in pride or swung down for awful combat. The hart is velocity embodied; timidity impersonated the enchant ment of the woods. Its eye lustrous in life and pathetic in death. The splendid animal complete rhythm of muscle and bone and color and attitude and among the shadows or living bolt shot through the forest, or turning at bay to attack the hounds, or rearing for it's last fall under the buckshot of the trap per. It is splendid appearance that tho painters pencil fails to sketch, and only hunters dream on pillow of hemlook at the foot of St. Regis Is able to picture. When 20 miles from any set clement 1t comes down at eventide to the lakes edge to drink among the lily pods and with its sharp edged hoof shat tars the crystal of Long lake it is very picturesque. But only when after miles of pursuit. with heaving sides and loll- ing tongue and eyes swimming i'll death the stag leaps from the cliff into upper Saranae can you realize how much David had suffered from his troubles and how much he wanted God when he expressed hfmaelf in the words Of the