The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-11-23

ows of living bolt shot through the
forest or turning at bay to attack the
hounds or rearing for its last fall under
the buckshot OF the trapper.
It is splendid appearance, that the
painters pencil fails to sketch and only
hunters dream on pillow of hemlock
at the foot of st. Regis is able to picture.
When 90 miles from any settlement, it
comes down at eventide to the lakes
edge to drink among the lilypods, and
with its sharp edged hoof, skaters the
crystal of Long lake, it is very pictur-
esque. 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 Sar-
anac can you realize how much David
had suffered from his troubles and how
much he wanted God when he ex-
pressed himself in the words: ''As
hart panteth after the water brooks, so
panteth my soul after Thee, O God"
Well, now, let all those who have COM
| ing after them the lean hounds of pow
erty or the black hounds of persecution
or the spotted hounds of yicissitude, or
| the pale hounds of death or who are in
| any wise pursued run to the wide, deep,
glorious lake of Divine solace and res
cue. The most of the men and women
whom 1 happen to know at different
| times, if not now, have had troubles
after them, sharp muzzled troubles.
swift troubles, all devouring troubles.
| Agop,, x,o,, l,o,o Jo Tho vniSt axe Of
trying to fight them. Somebody mean
ly attacked you, and you attacked them.
| They deprecated you, and you depre-
ciated them, or they oyerreached you in
a bargain, and you tried, in Wall street
parlance, to get corner on them. Or
you have had bereavement, and, in
stead of being submissive. you are fight
| ing that bereavement. You charge on
the doctors who have failed to effect a
cure. Or you charge on the careless
ness of the railroad company through
| which the railroad accident occurred.
Or you are chronic invalid, and you
| fret and worry and scold and wonder
why you cannot be well like other peo-
pie, and you angrily charge on the neu-
ralgia or the laryngitis or the ague or
1 the sick headache. The fact is you are
deer at bay. Instead of running to the
waters of Divine consolation and slak-
ing your thirst and cooling your body
and soul in the good cheer of the Gospel
and swimming away into the mighty
deeps of Gods love, you are fighting a
whole kennel of barriers.
Some time ago l saw in the Adiron-
dacks dog lying across the road, and
he seemed unable to get up, and said
to some hunters: what is the matter
with that dog?" They answered: "A
deer hurt him." and saw he had a
swollen paw and battered head, show
ing where the antlers struck him. And
the probability is that some of you
might give mighty clip to your pur-
suers. You might damage their busi-
ness, you might worry them into i'll
health, you might hurt them as much
as they hurt you; but, after all, it is not
worth while. You only have hurt a
hound. Better be off for the Upper
Saranac, into which the mountains OF
Gods eternal strength look down and
moor their shadows. AS for your phys
ical disorders, the worst strychnine you
can take is fretfulness, and thes best
medicine is religion. l know people
who were only little disordered, yet
have fretted themselves into complete
valetudinarianism, while others put
their trust in God and came up from the
very shadow of death and have lived
comfortably 25 years with only one
lung. A man with one lung, but God
with him, is better off than a godles.
man with two lungs. Some of you have
been for long time sailing around
Cape Fear when you ought to hase beer
sailing around Cape Good Hope. Dc
not turn back, but go ahead. The deer
will accomplish more with it's swift feet
than with its horns.
But very many of you who art
wronged of the world-and if in any as
sembly between the Atlantic and Pa
cific oceans it were asked that all who
had been badly treated should raise
both their hands, and full respons,
/ should be made, there would be twice
as many hands lifted as persons presen,
IL say many of you would declare;
ave have always done the best WI
. could and tried to be useful, and WHY
we become the victims of malignmen'
, OF invalidism or mishap is inscrutable.'
Why, do you know that the finer dee
. and the more elegant its proportions
and the more beautiful its bearing tn,
, more anxious the hunters and tn,
hounds are to capture it? Had theroe
/ buck a ragged fur and broken hoof
, and an obliterated eye and a impin,
gait the hunters would have said
! '.Pshaw! Don't let us waste our am
, munition on sick deer" And tn,
hounds would have given few sniff
of the track and then darted of in an
: other direction for better game. Bu
: when they see deer with antlers lifte,
5 in mighty challenge to earth and sky
. and the sleek hide looks as if it had beel
, smoothed by invisible hands, and 4 tn