Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-11-24

much lie wanted Gou Wnen ne en-
pressed himself in the words: "As n
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 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. The 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
ly attacked you, and you attacked them.
They deprecated you, and you depre-
ciated them, or they overreached you in
n bargain, and you tried, in Wall street
parlance, TO get corner on them. Or
you have had bereavement, and, in
stead of being submissive, you are fight
| ing that bereavement. You charge on
the doctors who have failed to effect a
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 scold and wonder
why you cannot be well like other peo-
pie, and you angrily charge on the neu-
ralgia or the laryngitis or the ayue or
the sick headache. The fact is you are
a deer at bay. Instead of running to the
waters of Divine consolation and slak-
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 | 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 l saw he had a
swollen paw and battered head, show
ing where the antlers struck him, And
the probability is that some of you
might give 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
as they hurt you; but, after all, il is not
worth while. You only have hurt a
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 fretfulness, and the best
medicine is religion. | know people
who were only little disordered, yet
have fretted themselves into complete
aletudinarianism, while others put
their trust in God and came up from tho
very shadow of death and have LIVED
comfortably 25 years with only one
lung, A man with one lung, but Goo
with him, is better off than n Codes:
man with two lungs. Some of you have
been for a long time sailing around
Cape Fear when you ought to have beer
sailing around Cape Good 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 yor
can see 30 lakes, and there are said TO be
over 500 in the great wilderness. 81
near are they TO each other that YOU
mountain guide picks up and carries tho
boat from lake to lake, the small dis
lance between them for that reason
called "carry." And the realm o.
Gods word is one long chain of bright
refreshing lakes, each promise n lake
very short carry between them, and
though for ages the pursued have beer
drinking out of them, they are full VI
to the top of the green banks, and th'
same David describes them, and thel
seem so near together that in three DIFF
ferent places he speaks of them as
continuous river, saying: "fhcre is {
river the streams whereof shall max
glad the city of God; ""Thou shalt max
them drink of the rivers of Thy pleas
ures;" "rhou greatly enrichest it witt
the river of God, which is full Of wa
ter"
But many of you have turned you
back on that supply and confront you
trouble, and you are soured with you
circumstances, and you arc fighting
society, and you are fighting a pursu
ing world, and troubles, instead o
driving you into the cool lake Of heav
emily comfort, have made you stop ant
turn round and lower your head, an,
it is simply antler against tooth. d.
not blame you. Probably under tn
same circumstances | would have don
worse. But you are all wrong. Yol
need to do as the reindeer does in Eel
ruary and March-it sheds its horns
The Rabbinical writers allude to thi
resignation of antlers by the stag whe
they say of man who ventures hi
money in risky enterprises he has hun
it on the stays horns, and proverb i
the far east tells man who has foolish
ly lost his fortune to 60 and find wher
the deer shed his horns. My brother
quit the antagonism Of your circun
stances, quit misanthropy, quit CON
plant, quit pitching into your pursueri
BE as wise as next spring will be tn
deer of the Adirondacks. Shed you
, horns.
; But very many of you who al
: wronged Of the world-and If in any al
: sembly between the Affairs and Pr
cific oceans IT were asked that ali VIII
: had been badly treated should rails
, both their hands, and full respons
r should be made, there would be twic
as many hands lifted as persons preser
3 Il say many OF you would declare
7 1--WE have always done the best "
( could and tried TO be useful, and VIII
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