The Penn's Grove record., 1899-10-20
XII. PENIS GROVE, N. d., FRIDAY, OCTOBER TO-, 1899.

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There are whole chains OF lakes In the
and from one height you can
ace thirty lakes, and there are said to be
over 800 in the great wilderness. So near
are they to each other that your mountain
guide picks up and carries the boat from
to lake, the small distance between
them for that reason called a ''carry."
the realm OF Gods word is n long
chain OF bright, refreshing lakes, each
nromise a lake, and a very short carry be-
tween them, and, though for ages the
pursued have been drinking out OF them.
they are full up to the top of the green
banks, and the same David describes them,
and thew seem so near together that In
three different places he speaks OF them
as a continuous river, saying, There 10 a
the streams whereof shall make glad
the city of God.' 'fThou shalt make them
drink of the rivers of thy pleasures
sThou greatly enrlchest 1t with the rlyer
of God, which is full of water"
But many OF you have turned your back
on that supply and confronted you6 troab-
stances, and you arc fighting society, and
you are fighting q pursuing world, and
troubles, instead of driving you Into the
lake OF heavenly comfort, have made
YOU stop and turn round and owe your
head, and 1t Is simply antler against tooth.
| do not blame you. Probably under the
circumstances l would have done
to do as the reindeer does In February and
March-it sheds Its horns. The Rabbintcal
writer's allude to this resignation of antler5
by the stag when they say OF a man who
ventures his money In risky enterprises he
has hung 1t or the stays horns, and q pro-
verb in the far east tells q man who has
foolishly lost his fortune to 60 and fud
-I1~o Aha Aaar haa Qhad hla hnrn9 NV
brott Or, quit the a~ntagonism OF your cir
c~umstances, quit misanthropy. quit COM
plant. quit pitching into your pursq' Be
as wise as next spring will be the q OF
the A~dirondacks. Shed your horns.
But very many of you who are WI d
of the world-and IL in any assemb
tween the Atlantic and Pacific oci
were asked that all who had been
treated should raise both their hand
full response should be made. theret -dld
be twice as many hands lifted as persons
present. say many OF you would declare,
1--WE lave always done the best We could
and tried to be useful, and why we becnme
the victims of mallgnment or inyaiidism OF
mishap Is i~nscrutable." Why, do you not
know that the Incl a deer and the more
elegant Its proportions and the more
beautiful Its bearing the more anxious tho
hunters and the hounds are to capture 1t?
Had that roebuck q ragged fur n
broken hoofs and an obliterated eye and a
limping gait the hunters would have said;
"Pshawl Don't let us waste our ammuni.
ton on a sick deer" And the bounds
would have given a few shifts of the tracks
and then darted of in another direction
for better game. But when they see a deer
with antlers lifted in mighty challenge TO
earth and sky, and the sleek hide looks as
II 1t had been smoothed by invisible hands,
and the fat sides inclose the richest past
ure that could be nibbled from the bank OF
rills SO clear they seem to have dropped
out OF heaven, and the stamp OF Its foot dc.
fies the jack shooting lantern and the rifle,
the horn and the hound, that deer they will
have II they must needs break their neck
In the rapids. So IL there were no noble
stuff In your make up, II you were a BIZ
furcated nothing, II you were a for
lorn failure, you would be allowed to
go undisturbed, but the fact that the
whole pack is In full cry after you is proof
positive that you are splendid game and
worth capturing. Therefore sarcasm
draws on you its "fnest bead" therefore
the world goes cunning for you with its
best Winchester breechloader. Highest
compliment Is 1t to your talent or your
virtue or your usefulness. You VIII pc as
sailed In proportion to your great achieve
ments. The best and the mightiest Being
the world ever saw had set after him all
the hounds, terrestrial and dlabolic, and
they Tapped his blood after the Calvarean
massacre. The world paid nothing to Its
Redeemer but a bramble, four spikes and
cross.
Many who have done their best to make
the world better have had such a rough
time of 1t that all their pleasure is In an
tlcipation OF the ext world. Yes, for some
people In this world there seems no let up.
They are pursued from youth to manhood
and from manhood into old age.
But what Is a relief for all those pursued
Of trouble and annoyance and pain and be-
reayement? My text gives it to you In a
word OF three letters, but each letter is a
chariot II You would triumph, or a throne
II you want to be crowned. or a lax II you
would slake your thirst-yea, a chain of
three lakes-G-o-d, the one for whom
David longed and the n whom David
found. You might as we'll meet a stag
which, after its sixth mile OF running at
the topmost speed through thicket and
gorge and with the breath of the dogs
on bis heels, has come in full sight of
Schroon lake and try to cool Its projecting
and blistered tongue with II drop OF dew
from a blade OF grass as to attempt to
satisfy an immortal soul, when lying from
trouble and sin, with anything loss deep
and high and broad and immense and In
finite and eternal than God. His comfort
why, 1t embosoms all distress. His arm
1T wrenches of all bondage. His hand
1t wipes away all tears. His Christly
atonement-it makes us all right with the
past, and. all right with the future, and all
right with God, and all right with man; and
all right forever.
Or. when some Of you get there 1t will be
like what a hunter tells of when he was
pushing his canoe far up north in the win.
ter and amid the ice foes and q hundred
miles, as he thought, from ahy other
human beings. He was startled one day
as he heard a stepping on the ice, and he
cooked the rife, ready to meet anything
that came near. He found n man, bare
footed and insane from long exposure,
approaching him. Taking him into his
canoe and kindling fires to warm him,
Ne restored him, found out where he
had lived and tool him to his home
and found all the village in great excite
ment. A hundred men were searching fof
this lost man, n his family and friends
rushed out to meet him, and, as had been
agreed at his first appearance, bells were
rnng and guns were discharged and BAN
| quets spread and the rescue loaded With
| presents. Well, when some of you step
out OF this wilderness, where you have been
chilled and torn and sometimes lost amid
the icebergs, into the warm greetings oil
| all the villages Of the glorlhed, and your
friends rush out to give you welcoming
kiss, the news that there Is al.
other soul forever saved will call
the caterers OF heaven TO spread the
banquet and the bellmen to lay hold Of the
rope in the tower, and while the chalices
click at the feast and the bells clang from
the turrets 1. will be a scene so uplifting j
pray God l may be there to take part in
the celestial merriment. AND now do you
not think the prayer in Solomon's SONG
where he compared Christ to a reindeer In
the night would make an exquisitely ap.
propriate peroration to my sermon, Until
the day break and the shadows nee away
be thou like a roe or a young hart upon
the mountains OF Bether?'