The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-10-27
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE DEER HUNT LAST SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT.
From the Bible Text; Psalms, Chapter
Kill. Verse 1, as Foiiowsi As the
Hart Panteth After the Water
Brooks"
Downright 1899 by Louis Klopuch)

Copyright 1899 by Louis KlopDch)
| David, who must some time have seen
a deer hunt, points us here to hunted
stag making fora the water. The fas-
cinating animal, called in my text the
hart. is the same animal that in sacred
and profane literature is called the
stag, the roebuck, the hind, the gazelle,
| the reindeer In central Syria, in Bible
times, there were whole pasture fields
of them, as Solomon suggests when he
! says: 81 charge you by the kinds OF
the field" Their antlers jutted from
the long grass as they lay down. No
hunter who has been long in John
Browns track" Will wonder that in
the Bible they were classed as clean
animals, for the dews, the showers, the
lakes, washed them as clean as the
sky. When Isaac, the patriarch, longed
for venison, Esau shot and brought
home a roebuck. Isaiah compares the
sprightlness of the restored cripple OF
millennial times to the long and quick
Jump of the stag saying: "The lame
shall leap as the hart Solomon ex-
pressed his disgust at hunter, who,
having shot deer, is too lazy to cook
it, saying: 1.-THE slothful man roasteth
not that which he took In hunting
But one day David, while far from
the home from which he had been
driven, and sitting near the mouth OF
lonely cave where he had lodged,
and on the banks Of a pond or river,
| af N
suit. Because of the previous silence
in the forest the clangor startles him,
and he says to himself: Il wonder
what those dogs are after! Then there
is a cracking in the brushwood, and
the loud breathing of some rushing
wonder of the woods, and the antlers
of a deer rend the leaves of the thicket,
and by an instinct which all hunters
recognize, plunges into pond or lake
or river to cool it's thirst, and at the
same time by it's capacity for swifter
and longer swimming, to get away
from the foaming barriers.
David says to himself: aha, that Is
myself! Saul after me, Absalom after
, me. enemies without number after me:
, am chased, their bloody muzzles at
my heels, barking at my good name,
barking after my body, barking after
my soul. Oh, the hounds, the hounds!
But look there" says David, that
hunted deer has splashed into the
, water. 1t puts its hot lips and nostrlls
into the cool wave that lasnes the
lathered TANKS, and it swims away
from the fiery CANNES, and it is free
at last. Oh, that I might find in the
: deep. wide lake of Gods mercy and
g consolation, escape from my pursuers!
: Oh. for the waters Of life and rescue!
: AS the hart panteth after the water
brooks, so panteth my soul after thee
e O God"
: Some of you have just come from the
8 Adirondacks, and the breath OF the
0 balsam and spruce and pine is still on
d YOU. The AdirondacBs are now popu-
lous with hunters, and the deer are be-
It ing slain by the score. Once While
Q there talking with hunter, l thought
p / would like to see whether my text
: was accurate in its allusion and as |
heard the dogs baying little way Oil,
It and supposed they were on the track OF
s a deer l said to the hunter in rough
: corduroy: do the deer always make
. for the water when they are pursued"
a He said: "Oh, yes, mister; YOU see
o they are a hot and thirsty animal, enc
they know where the water is, and
!. when they hear danger in the distance
they lift their antlers and snun the
breeze and start for Racquet or Loon
or Saranac: and we get into our cedar-
shell boat or stand by the runway
,t with rifle loaded ready to blaze away.
My friends, that is one reason why
d. T like the Bible so much-its allusions
al are so true to nature. It's partridges
l. are real partridgcs, its ostriches rea
~ ostriches and its reindeer real rein
" deer. l do not wonder that this ant
" Tered glory of the text makes the hunt
Ii er's eye sparkle, and his cheek glow
10 and his respiration quicken. To say
n. nothing of its usefulness, although j
" is the most useful of all game, its fiesf
q delicious, it's skin turned into human
m apparel. its sinews fashioned into bow
=. strings. its antlers putting handles or
n cutlery, and the shavings of its horns
=. used as a restorative, its name taker
=, from the hart and called hartshorn-
!, by putting aside its usefulness, thi:
enchanting creature seems made ou
= of gracefulness and elasticity. What
:, an eye, as If gathered up from hun
- dred lakes at sunset! The horns, 6
N coronal branching into every possible
III curve, and after it seems done, ascend
lie ing into other projections of exquisite
+ ness. a tree of polished bone, uplifted
4 in pride, or swung down'for awful com
C. hat. 1t is velocity embodied. Timid
n, ity impersonated. The enchantment o.
J. the woods. Eye lustrous in life ant
of pathetic in death. The splendid ami
is NAL a complete rhythm of muscle ant
~ bone and color and attitude and loco
is motion, whether couched in the gras:
s. among the shadows, or a living bolt
N shot through the forest, or turning al
y bay to attack the hounds, or rearing
{ for its last fall under the bucksbot o.