The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-10-20

pursuit, with heaving sides and lolling
tongue and eyes swimming in death, the
stag leaps from the cliff into Upper Sar-
anac con 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 Cod"
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 vicissitude, 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. TIE most of the men and women
whom | happen to know at different
times, If not now, have had troubles
after them, sharp muzzled troubles,
swift troubles, all devouring troubles.
Many of you have made the mistake of
trying to fight them. Somebody mean
]y attacked you, and you attacked them.
They deprecated you, and you depre-
ciated them, or they overreached you in
bargain, and you tried, in Wall street
parlance, to get n corner on them. Or
you have had n bereavement, and, in
stead of being submissive, you are fight
ing that bereavement. You charge on
the doctors who have failed to 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
fr.at 10,
why you cannot be well like other peo-
pie, and you angrily charge on the neu-
ralgia or the laryngitis or the ague or
the sick headache. The fact is you are
a deer at bay. Instead of running to the
waters of Divine consolation and slat-
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 a 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 aLtlers struck him. And
the probability is that some Of you
might give n mighty clip to your pur-
suers. You might damage their bust
ness, you might worry them into i'll
health, you might hurt them as much
rs they hurt you; but, after all, ii is not
worth while. You only have hurt n
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 frctfuuess, and the best
medicine is religion. ! know people
who were only little disordered, yet
have fretted themselves into complete
valetudiuariansm, 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 n goddess
man with two lungs. Some of you have
been for "A long time sailing around
Cape Fear when you ought to have been
sailing around Cape Coed Hope. Dc
not turn back, but go ahead. The deer
will accomplish more with its swift feet
than with its horns.
There are whole chains of lakes in the
Adirondacks, and from one height you
can see 30 lakes, and there are said to be
over 500 in the great wilderness. Sc
near are theJ to each other that your
los q,
boat from lake TO lake, the small dis
lance between them for that reason
called a carry" And the realm ot
Gods word is one long chain Of bright
refreshing lakes, each promise Il lake
very short carry between them. and
though for ages the pursued have beer
drinking out of them, they are fun NJ
to the top of the green banks, and the
same David describes them, and they
seem so near together that in three diff
ferent places he speaks of them as {
continuous river, saying: There is {
river the streams whereof shall make
glad the city of God ""Thou shalt make
them drink of the rivers of Thy pleas
ures;" ''Thou greatly enrichest it will
the river of God, which is full of wa
ter"
But many of you have turned you
back or that supply and confront YOU
trouble, and you are soured with you
circumstances, and you are fighting
society, and you are fighting pursu
ing world and troubles, instead o
driving you into the cool lake of heav
emily comfort, have made you stop an,
turn round and lower your head, anC
it is simply antler against tooth. de
not blame you. Probably under th'
same circumstances | would have dom
worse. But you are all wrong. Hol
need to do as the reindeer does in Feb
ruary and Mnrch--it sheds its horns
The Rabbinical writer's allude to Thi
resignation of antlers by the stag whel
they say of man who ventures hi
money in risky enterprises he has hung
il on the stag'S horns and DrOYerb il