Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-10-21

hounds or rearing for its last fall under I
the buckshot OF the trapper-
Il Is a splendid appearance, that the
painters pencil fails 20 sketch and only |
a hunters dream on pillow Of hemlock
ut the foot OF st. Regis Is able 10 picture.
When 20 miles from any settlement. 10
comes down at eventide 90 the lakes
edge to drink among the hlypods. and
with its sharp edged hoof. shatter, the
crystal OF Long lake. IL Is very pictur-
esque. But only when, after miles Of
pursuit, with heaving sides and loiling
tongue and eyes swimming IN death, The
stag leaps from the cliff into Upper Sar-
anac csn 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 OF the black hounds OF persecution
or the spotted hounds OF vicissitude, or
the pale hounds OF death or who arc in
any Wise pursued run 10 the wide, deep,
glorious lake OF Divine Solace and res
cue. The most Of the men and women
whom ] happen 10 know at different
times. IL not now, have had troubles
after them. sharp n-uzzled troubles,
swift troubles. all devouring troubles
Many OF YOU have made the mistake Of
trying 20 fght them. Somebody mean
" attacked you. and you attacked them
They Deprecated you. and you depre-
ciated them. or they Overreached you in
a bargain. and you tried, in Wall street
parlaRcc. 20 get = corner on them Or
YOU have had a bereavement, and, IN
stead OF being submissive, you are fight
ing that bereavement. You charge on
the doctors who have failed 90 effect n
cure Or you charge on the careless
ness OF the railroad company through
which the railroad accident occurred.
Or YOU are a chronic invalid, and you
fret and worry and scoid and wonder
. why YOU cannot be well like other Peo-
. pie. and YOU angrily charge on the neu-
ralgia or the laryngitis or the egue OF
. the sick headache. The fact Ii you an
: q deer at bay. Instead OF running 20 tho
j. waters of Divine consolation and slak
!, ing your thirst and cooling your body
!. and soul In the good cheer OF the Gospe
. and swimming away into the might,
\ deeps OF Gods love, you are lighting
A. whole kennel OF barriers
II some tiule ago ! saw in the Adiron
10 dacks dog lying across the road, an
e. he seemed unable 10 get up, and sal
er 20 some hunters: What is the matte
n with that dog?" They answered; =
deer hurt him." AID l saw he had
a swollen paw and a battered head, show
pr ing where the antlers struck him An
,e. the proba bility is that some Of 20
at might give g mighty clip 20 your Pu
,e. suers. You might damage their bus
er ness. you might worry them into
Isl health, you might hurt them as niue
at as they hurt you; but. after all. II is N
IN worth while You only have hurt
ITO hound. Better be OF for the Upp
ed Saranac. into which the mountains
he Gods eternal strength look down al
)h. moor their shadows. AS for your ply
Ike ical disorders. the worst strychnine "
,pe can take Is fretfulness. and the be
ers medicine is religion. ] know peoI
eth who were only little disordered. y
my have fretted themselves into compis
valetudinarianism, while others P
the their trust IN God and came up from
the very shadow Of death and have lis
on comfortably 25 years with only c
pu- lung. 4 man with one lung. but G
be- with him. is better OF than gool
lere man with two lungs. Some of you h
,uld been for a long time sailing arou
,cu- Cape Fear when you ought to have b'
the sailing around Cape Good Hope.
,up- not turn back, but so ahead. The d
eer, will accomplish more with its swift I
rdu- than with it's horns.
for There are whole chains OF lakes in
He Adiroudacks, and from one height
they can see 80 lakes, and there are said q
they over 500 In the great wilderness.
Ehen near are they to each other that y
they mountain guide picks up and carries
'eeze boat from lake 10 lake, the small
Sar- tance between them for that rea
shell called a .carrv.~ And the realm
rine Gods word is one long chain of bri
refreshing lakes. each promise
rhy q verv short carry between them,
- are though for ages the pursued have
E real drinking out of tAem, they are fu
iches TO the top of the green banks, and
o not same David describes them, and
the seem so near together thss in three
e and ferent places he speaks of them 4
alton continuous river. saying: There
seful- river the streams whereof SHALL I
ful OF glad the city Of God; ct hou shalt
skin them drink of the rivers of Thy P
'el. its ures;" "rhou greatly enrichest II
ys. its the river of God. which Is f.u o;
y ana ter"
re- But many OF you have turned
ns,' back on that supply ano eonfront