The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-11-10


plete rhythm of muscle, and bone,
and color, and attitude, and locomo-
ton, whether crouched in the grass
among the shadows, or Il 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 trapper. 1t is splendid appear
ance that the painters pencil fails TO |
sketch, and only a hunters 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 ponds and, with
crystal of Long Lake, it is very pic
turesque. But only when, after miles
of pursuit, with heaving sides and
lolling tongues and eyes swimming in
death the stag leaps from the cliff ILL
to 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 my text: "As the hart
| panteth after the water brooks, so
panteth my soul after thee, o Cod"
Well, now let all those who have
coming after them the lean hounds of
poverty, or the black hounds of per-
secution, or the spotted hounds Of
vicissitude, or the pale hounds OF
death, or who are in any wise pur-
sued, run to the wide, deep, glorious
lake of divine Solace and rescue. The
most of the men and women whom l
happened to know at different times,
if not now, have had trouble after
them, sharp-muzzled trouble after
of you have made the mistake of try
ing to fight them. Somebody meaniy
attacked you, and you attacked them;
or 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 a bereavc-
ment, and, instead of being submis-
sive, 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 in
valid, and you fret, and worry, and
scold, and wonder why you can not
be we'll like other people, and you
angrily blame the neuralgia, or the
laryngitis, or the ague, or the sick
headache. The fact is, you are a deer
at bay. Instead of running to the
, ! of 1;r;po consolation and c1aE
ing your thirst and cooling your body
and soul in the good cheer of the Cos
, pei, and swimming away into the
mighty deeps of Gods love. you are
fighting a whole kennel of barriers.
l saw in the Adirondacks a dog ly-
ing across the road, and he seemed
unable to get up, and l said to some
. hunters near by: What is the mat
ter with that dog?" They answered.
> "a deer hurt him." And l saw he had
, a great swollen paw and a battered
head, showing where the antlers
= struck him. And the probability is
!, that some of you might give a mi ghty
6 clip to your pursuers, you might dam
y age their business, you might worry
q them into i'll health, you might hurt
. them as much as they hurt you. but
4 after all, it is not worth while. Yol
!, only have hurt hound. Better be of
!! for the Upper Saranac, into which thu
, look down and moor their shadows
As for your physical disorders, thu
s worst strychnine you can take is fret
o. fulncss, and the best medicine is re
l. ligion. know people who were only ;
d little disordered, yet have frette'
>, themselves ito complete valetudina
d rianism, while others put their trus
d in God and come up from the YER,
a shadows of death, and have lived com
n fortably twenty-five years with onl
l. one lung. a man with one lung, bn
re- God with him, is better off than
s. Goddess man with two hlngs. Some y
" you have been for long time sailin
a. around Cape Fear when you ought I
in have been sailing around Cape Goo
I'd Hope. Do not turn back, but go aheac
1e The deer will accomplish more wit
I'd it's swift feet than with it's horns.
Or l saw whole chains of lakes in tn
lie Adirondacks, and from one height 70
can see thirty, and there are said
~ be over eight hundred in the grea
as wilderness of New York. So near n
cs they to each other that your mountai
al guide picks up and carries the boz
IL from lake to lake, the small distan(
u between them for that reason cal!c
ne carry" And the realm of God
* word is one long chain of bright, \
10 freshing lakes; each promise lake
yh very short carry between them, an
IS though for ages the pursued ha'
to been drinking out of them, they a
cd full up to the top of the green bank
ng and the same David describes the:
gs and they seem SO near together til
"a in three different places he speakes
lrt them as continuous river, sayin
NJ There is river, the streams where
ng shall make glad the city of God
ul- ''Thou shalt make them drink of +