Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-10-06
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Harsh Critics Are Not Wanted Within
the Pcarly Gates of Heaven.
SOME Dogs Might Br Welcomed lily the
Saved Men Who Hat. Had Troubles
In Tbs World Can Stake Their
THIRST al the Biyer Of Dr.
time Comfort

Ia Tbs World Can Stake Their
THIRST al the Biyer Of d.
t'ne comfort.
l'r. Talmagc, drawing his ilIustra-
tons from deer hunt, in this dis
course calls all the pursued and
troubled of the earth To come and
Stake their thirst AT the deep river of
Divine comfort Test, Psalms Xiii, /:
AS the hart pautcth after the water
brooks, SO pantcth my soul after Thee,
q God.
David, who must some time have
STE II deer hunt, points MS here to a
hunted stag mhNing for the water.
The fascinating animal called in my
tcAt the hart is the same ANIMAL that
in sacred and profane literature is
called the stag, the roebuck. the
hind, the gazrllc, the reindeer.
In Central Syria, in Bible times,
there were whole pasture fields
of them, as solomon suggests when
ne SAYS, Il charge you 10y the kinds
of the field" Their antlers juttcd
from the long grass as they lay down.
No hunter who has been long IN John
Brown tract will wonder that in the
Bible they are cia> scd among clean
animals, for the dcwS, the showers, the
lakes washed them as clean as the sky.
When the patriarch Isaac longcd for
vcnison, Esau shot and brought home
a roebuck. Isaiah compares the
sprightliness of the restored cripple of
millennial times to the long and quick
jump OF the stag, saying, The lame
shall leap a. the hart solomon eX-
pressed his disgust at hunter who,
having shot a deer, is too lazy to cook
it, saying, The slothful man roast
eth not that WHICH he took in hunt
ing"
But one day David, while far from
the home from which he had been
driven, and sitting near the mouth of
n lonely cave where he had dyed, and
on the banks of a 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: Il wonder what those
dogs are after" Then there is crack
ling in the brushwood, and the loud
breathing OF some rushing wonder of
the woods. and the antlers of deer
rent the leaves of the thicket and
by an instinct which all hunters
| recognize the creature plunges in-
to pool or lake or river to cool
its thirst, and at the same time by its
! capacity for swifter and longer swim
ming to get away from the foaming
barriers. David says to himself: 1Aha,
that is myself! saul after me, Absa-
lom after me. enemies without num-
her after me. l am chased; their bloody
muzzles at my heels, barking after my
good name, barking after my body,
barking after my soul. Oh, the
hounds, the hounds! But, look
there" says David to himself, that
reindeer has splashed into the water.
1t puts it hot lips and nostrils into the
cool wave that washes its lathered
tanks, and it swims away from the
fiery CANNES, and it is free at last.
Oh, that might find in the deep, wide
lake of Gods mercy and consola ton
escape from pursuers! Oh, for the wa
tiers of life and rescue! AS the hart
panteth after the water brooks, SO
panteth my soul after Thee, o Godr"
The Adirondacks are now populous
with hunters, and the deer are being
| slain by the score. Talking one sum
mer with hunter, thought l would
Hike TO see whether my text was accu.
| rate in its allusion, and, as l heard the
| dogs baying a little way off and sup
posed they were on the track of a deer,
| said to one of the hunters in rough
| corduroy: do the deer always make
for the water when they are pursued"
lie said: ''On, yes, mister; you see they
are hot and thirsty animal, and they
know where the water is, and when
they hear danger in the distance they
| lift their antlers and sniff the breeze
and start for the Racquet or Loon or
| Saranac; and we get into our cedar
she'll boat or stand by the runway
with rifle loaded and ready to blaze
| away"
My friends, that is one reason why
| like the Bible so much--its illusions
are so true to nature. Its cartridges
are real cartridges, its ostriches real
ostriches, and its reindeer real rein
deer. do not wonder that this antler-
ed glory of the text makes the hun
ter's eye sparkle and his
checks glow and his respiration
| quicken. To say nothing of
its usefulness, although it is the
most useful of all games, its flesh de-
licious, its skin turned into human APP
| parel, its sinews fashioned into bow
strings, its antlers cutting handles on
cutlery, and the shavings of its horn
used as a pungent restorative, the
name taken from the hart and called
hartshorn. But putting aside its use
| fulness, this enchanting creature seems
made out of gracefulness and elias
ITCHY. With an eye with n liquid
brightness as if gathered up from n
hundred lakes at sunset! The horns,
a coroual branching into every pos
sible curve, ami after IL seems COM
plete ascending into other projections
of exquisiteness, n tree of polished
bone, uplifted in pride, or swung
down for awful combat. The hart is
velocity embodied. Timidity imper-
sonatcd. The enchantment of the
woods. Its eye lustrous in life and
! pathetic in death. The splendid
animal a com nlete rhythm of muscle,
and bone. and color, and attitude, and
! locomotion. whether couched in the
grass among the shadows, or living
bolt shot through the forest, or turn
ing at bay 10 attack the hounds, or
rearing for it's last fall under the
buckshot of the trapper. 1t is a
splendid appearance that the painter S
pencil fails to sketch, and only hunt
er's dream on a pillow of hemlock at
the foot of ST. Regis is able to picture
When, 20 miles from any settlement. it
comes down at eventide to the lakes
edge TO drink among the lily pods and,
with its sharp edged hoof, skaters the
crystal of Long Lake. il is very pic
turesque. But only when, after miles
of pursuit, with heaving sides and
lolling tongue and eyes swimming in
death the stag leaps from the cliff into
Upper Saranac, can You realize how
much David had suffered from his
troubles, and how much he wanted
God when he expressed himself in the
words of the text: "As the hart pant
9th after tho yater brocl.s sn panta, n