The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-12-16
Or. TALMAGES SERMON,
sH,sF SYNOPSIS OF TIFF olylNE's SUN
pN olscouRsk
Subject: The Water Brooks-The GospeA
of Refresh,nent Shows How we May
Elude the Hounds OF Trouble anu
Safely Reach the Lake Of Divine soiace'
te,opvripbt. Louis Klopsch, 1891

rCopyright, Louis Klopsch. 1891
wAsu1soros. ID. C.-The Gospel as
great refreshment is here set forth by Dr.
Talmage. under figure which will pc
found particularly graphic by those VINO
have gone out as hunters to find game IN
the mountains; text, Psalm Kill, l, As tue
hart papteth after the water brookss
David. who must some time have seen
deer hunt. points us here to hunted stag
making for the water. The fascinating AMI
NAL called in my text the hart, Is the same
animal that in sacred and profane litera-
| ture Is called the stag, the roepuoR, tue
| hind. the gazelle, the reindeer In centrai
syria in Bible times there were whole pas
| ture fields OF them. as Solomon suggests
| when he saws. 81 charge you by the ninos
| of the held.' Their antiers Jutted from
the long grass as they lay down: NO nunle5
| who has been long in John Brown tract
will wonder that in the Bible they were
| classed among clean animals, for the dews,
| the showers, the lakes, washed them as
| clean as the sky. When Isaac, the patrl,
| arch, longed for venison, Esau snot anu
| brought home a roebuck. Isaiah compares
the sprightliness OF the restored crlpple OF
| millenuiaI times TO the long and quick
lump of the stag, saying, 1.-The lame shall
lean "a the hart.'' Solomon expressed hts
disgust at a hunter who, having shot
deer is too lazy to cook 1t, saying, "The
slothful man roasteth not that winch 10
took In hunting.
But one day David, while far from the
home from which he had been driven ana
| sittjnp 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 starties
him. and he says to himself, Il Wonuer
! what these dogs are after" Tnen tnere Is
. | a cracking in the brushwood and the louo
l~,oth;,O of oona I'll ShiQC wonder OIL tue
woods and the sutiers OF a deer rend the
leaves OF the thicket, and by an instinct
: which all hunters recognize 1t plunges inso
r n pond or lake or river to cool lts thi.sl
o and at the same time, by It's capacity nor
swifter and longer swimming, TO get away
from the foaming barriers. :.
,. David saws to himself: "Ahal That Is
"a myself Saul after me;TAbsaiom AFTER me,
enemies without number after me. alh
chased. their bloody muzzles at my heeis,
a barking at my good name barking ~, "' t1s
a nv body, barking after my soul. oh, the ,
:. hounds. the houndsl But look therel
saws David. THAT hunted deer has splashed
8 into the water. 1t puts its hot lips ana
lie nostrils into the cool wave that washes tue
lathered flanks, and 1t swims away rom
the fiery CANNES, and 1t is free Mt last.
TO Oh that I might find in the deep, wide
er lake of Gods mercy and consolation es
"A cane from my pursuers! On, Tor tne
waters of life and rescued AS the mar.
panteth after the water brooks, SO panlei'
D. nv soul alter thee, o Godl'
IN Some of YOU have just come from TN
Adirondacks. and the breath OF the bnlsnn
and spruce aud pine is still on you. In
K! Adirondacks are now populous VIII
he hunters, and the deer are pelng sialn U.
the score. Once while there talking Win
hunter l thought l would ike TO Sc
en- whether my text was accurate In ITS anu
he sion. and as heard the dogs baying III
NJ tie way off and supposed they were on tn
- track OF a deer said to tue hunter In roug
'Se eorduroy. "Do the deer always make IL
n the water when they are pursued!
he said: ooh, yes, misterl You see; they al
yn n hot and thirsty animal. and they kno
WI where the water is, and when they hea
DO danger In the distance they lift their an
at, Iers and snuff the breeze and start Tor ia.
e's uuet or Loon or Saranac, ana we eet lh'
ho our cedar she'll boat or stand by the runWt
with riae loaded ready to blaze away; -,
SO NV friends, that is one reason why INK
, the Rihle so much. Its illusions are
ON true to nature. Its partrldges are real par
ridoes ira ostriches real ostrlcheS ana !
reindeer real reindeer. do not wo
:. der that this antlered glory OF the tel
yht makes the hunters eye sparkle ana
"a cheek glow and his respiration quicken,
LIZ saw nothing of its usefulness, althout, IL
ng, the most useful of all game, its flesh de
oious. its skin turned into human appare
len its sinews fashioned into bow strings,
- antlers putting handles on cutlery al
bed tive its name taken from the hart al
ON called hartshorn. BY putting ASIDE
a. usefulness this enchanting creature seer
made out of graoefulness and elastlci'
ost What an eve, with liquid brightness as
yer gathered up from O hundred lakes at su
me, setl The horns coronai prahcnins ~
evarv nossible curve, and, after 1t seer
IN. done. ascending into other projections
he "Reminiscences. a tree OF polished bone, U
lifted in pride or swung down ior aW
.rs- combat 1t is velocity embodied, timld
'u impersonated, the enchantmenS Oh
ling death, 1.-The splendid animal COMP
cou rhythm of muscle and bone and color q
attitude and locomotion, whether couel
the in the graas among the shadows or Il iiVl
ggy bolt shot through the forest or turning
e, bay to attack the hounds or rearing LOT
last fall under the bucKshot OF the trapp
II ia a splendid appearance, that
nainter's pencil fails to sketch, and onl
hunters dream on pillow OF hemlocks
ivil- fine foot OF st. Regis is able to plctt
ghtA When twenty miles from any se.tieme
;t;ss It comes down at eventlde 10 tue iai
edge to drink among the nlypaus,
'hor. with its sharp-edged hoof, Skaters
,thesl crystal OF Long lake, it isvery picturesq
Bpt only when after miles OF pursuit,
heavirg sides and boiling tongue ana
mora swimming in death, the stag leaps II
g Al cliff to clth into upper oalhnac con W
crit. alize how much David had suffered !
his troubles and how much he wanted
no when he expressed himself in the wo
!, fos "As the bart panteth after tue W
thew brooks, so panteth my soul after Inc
God.''
W. Well, now, let all those who have con
ID by after them the lean hounds OF povert
wages the black hounds OF persecution or
+roy.l spotted hounds OF vicissitude or the
hounds of death or who are In any
while pursued run to the wide, deep gior
it'll a lake of divine solace and rescue.
miost of the men and women whom L
plain, pen eua ~ had trouble after them, sh
The muzzled troubles, swift troubles, all
: into vouring troubles. MANY u e St a
ousn Somebody meanly attacked you, ana
Non attacked them. They deprecated you
thing Won deprecated them, or they o'ertea
You in a bargain. and you tried, IN
asain Street parlance, to get corner -on
t his Or YOU have had q bereavement, an,
2 and stead of being submissive You are ng'
:hat bereavement. You charge on the
ee tors who have failed to effect cur'
, to Won charge on the carelessness OF the
,other road company through whica the ace
a ~. occurred. Or you are chrome IN
~ and You fret and worry and seoid anu
TACT der wby YOU cannot be we'll ike othef
anger nile. and YOU angrily charge on the
, wbol rsIria or the laryngitis or the ague o.
. sjck headache. The fact Is you are
's ne' st bay. Instead OF running to the v
King q ~ divine consolation and slakirg