The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-10-25
The Chase Furnishes Or. Tai
= mage Timely Theme.
REFUGE.lN GODS WORD.
For Those Pursued by Trials ano
MisforEunes. The Goapsl as
a Refreshment GT2phl-
calIy Set Forth.
calIy Set Forth.

graphic By those whn have gone cut as
hunters to fud GAM Ia the mountains;
text, Psalm xiii, l, AS the hart pant
eth after the water book
David, who must some time have
seen deer hunt, pointsus here TO
hunted st~g making for the Naeer. The
fascinating animal, called IN my tex
the hart, is the same auimal that in
sacred and prcfane literature IS calico
the stag, the rcebuck, the hind, tn
sazelle, the reindeer. n Central Syn"
in Bible times there were whole past
ure fields of them, as Solomon suggests
when he says, I charge 5ou by the
kinds of the field Their ah,-srS 13t
ted from the long grass as they lay
down. No hunter who has been long
in John Brown tract will woDder
that in the Bible they wele classeo
among clean animals, for the dews, the
showers, Ee lakes, washed them as
clean as the sky. When Isaac, the
patriarch, longed for veniSon, ESau
shot and brought home roebuck.
Isaiah compares the sprightliness CT the
restored cripple of milleuial timee to
the long and quick jump Of the stag,
saying, THE lame shall leap as the
hart. Solomon expressed his disgust
at q hunter who, having shot deer, Is
too lazy to cook it, saying, The sloth-
full man roaSteth not that which he
took in hunting.
But one day David, while far from
the home FROM which ne had been
driven and setting near the mouth OF a
lonely cave where he had lodged and on
the banks Of pond or river, hears a
pack Of hounds in swift pursuit. Be
cause of the previous silence of the
forest the clargor startles him. AID be
says to himself, Il wonder what those
dogs are after" Then there is crack
ling in the brushwood and the LOUD
breathing of some rushing wonder Of tie
woods, and the antlers of deer rend
the leaves of the thicket, and by an in
stinct which all hunters recognize 1t
plunges into a pond or lake or river to
cool its thirst and at the,same time, by
its capacity for sWifter and longer swim
ming, to get away from the foaming
harrie1s.
David said to himself: "Aha! That
is myself! Saul after me, Absalom after
me, enemies without numbers 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 wa
ter. 1t puts its hot lips and nostsi!S
into the cool wave that washes the
lathered fanks, and it swims away from
the fiery CANNES, and it is free at last
Oh, that | might 6nd in the deep, wide
lake Of Gods mercy and consolation
escape from my pursuers! Oh, for the
waters Of life and rescue AS the hart
panteth alter the water brooks, 50
panteth my soul after thee, . God.
Some of you have ;ust come from the
Adirondacks, and the breath Of the bal
sam and spruce and pine is still on you.
The Adirondacks arc DOW populeus
with hunters, ard the deer are beipg
slain by the score. Oace while there
talking with a hunter I thought /
thought I would ike to see whether
my text vas accurate in its allusion,
and as I heard thedog baying little
way OF and supposed they Were on the
track of deer l said to the hunter in
rough corduroy, do the deer always
make for the water when they are pur-
sued?" He said: "Oh, yes, mister.
You see, they are hot and thirsty ami
NAL, and they know where the water is,
aad when they hear danger in the dis
tance they lift their antlers and snuff
the tretze ard start for Racquet OF
Loon or Saranac, and We get into our
cedar she'll boat or stand by the runway
with rife loaded ready to blaze away,
Ny friend. that is nne reason Why l
like the Bible 80 much It's alu-iuns
are 50 true to nature. Its par. i::ses
are real pa-tlidges, its ostriches 7 =! os
triches and its reindeer real rel deer.
It is splendid appearance, that the
painter's pencil fails to sketch and only
. hunters dream on pillow of hemlocs
at the foot of St, Regis is able to pic
ture. When 20 miles from any settle
uent, it comes down at eventioe to the
.ake's edge to drink among the E'ypads
and, with its sharp edged hoof, skaters
the crystal of Long lake, it is very pic.
turesque. But Only when, after miles
of pursuit, with heaving sides and lolI.
ing tongue and eyes swimming IN death
the stag leaps from the cliff into Uppe.
Saranac can you realize how much Da-
vid had suffered from his troubles an
how much he wanted God when he eH
pressed himself in the words, ''As the
hart panteth after the water brooks, sc
panteth my soul after thee, 0 God.
There are whole chains Of lakes IL
the Adirondacks, and from one height
you can see 80 lakes, and there are SAID
to be over 500 in the great wilderness.
So near are they to each other that
your mountain guide picks up and car
ries the boat from lake to lake, the
small distance between them for that
reason called carry" And the realm
of Gods word is one long chain Of
bright, refreshing lakes, each prom ise
alake. a very Snort carry between them,
and, though for ages the pursued have
been drinking out Of them, they are
full up to the top Of the green banks,
aud the same David describes them, and
they seem so near together that in three
different places he speaks Of them as a
continuous river, saying, There is
river the streams whereof shall make
slac the city Of God;' Thou shalt
make them drink of the rivers Of thy
pleasures" Thou greatly enrichest it
with the river of God, which is full Of
water.
But many Of you have turned your