St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-11-18
Yes. Tor come people n this world

Yes, for some people in this world
there seems NO let up. They are pur-
sued from youth to manhood and from
manhood unto old age. Very distin-
guishcd are Lord Stafford's hounds and
the earl of Yarborough's hounds and
the duke of Rutland's hounds, but all
of them put together do not equal, in
number or speed or power TO hunt
down, the great kennel of hounds OF
which Sin and Trouble are owner and
master.
But what is a relief for all those pur-
sued of trouble and annoyance and pain
and bereavement? My text gives it to
YOU in a word OF three letters, but each
letter is a chariot if you would triumph,
or a throne if you want to be crowned,
or lake if you would Stake your thirst
yea, n chain of three lakes-G-o-d, the
one for whom David longed and the one
whom David found. You might as well
meet q stag which, after its sixth mile
of running at the topmost speed
through thicket and gorge and with the
breath Of the dogs on its heels, has
come in full sight of Schroon lake and
try to cool it's projecting and blistered
tongue with a drop of dew from blade
of grass as to attempt to satisfy an i'm
mortal soul, when flying from trouble
and sin, with anything less deep and
high and broad and immense and infin-
lite and eternal than God. His comfort
why, it embosoms all distress. His
arm-it wrenches off all bondage. His
hand-it 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, all
right with man, and all right forever.
Through Jesus Christ make this God
your God, and you can Withstand any
thing and everything, and that which
affrights others will inspire you-a as in
time of earthquake, when an old Chris
tan woman, asked whether she was
scared, answered.: mo; am glad that
have God who can shake the world"
or as in a financial panic, when Chris
tan merchant, asked if he did not fear
he would break, answered.: "Yes; ]
shall break when the Fiftieth Psalm
Me in the day Of trouble; Twill deliver
thee, and thou shalt glorify me-" G
Christian men and women, pursued of
annoyance and exasperations, remem-
Der that this hunt, whether a still hunt
or hunt in full cry. will soon be over.
If ever a whelp looks ashamed and
ready to sink out of sight, it is when in
l,x,
tremendous plunge into Upper lake
gets away from him. The disappointed
canine swims in q little way, but, de-
fcated, swims out again and cringes
with hnmiliating yawn at the feet of
his master. And how abashed and
ashamed will all of your earthly
troubles be when you have dashed into
the river from under the throne of God
and the heights and depths of Heaven
are between you and your pursuers!
We are told in Revelation 22:15:
"Without are dogs" by which l con-
cludc there is a whole kennel of hounds
outside the gate of Heaven, or, as when
a master goes in door, his dog lies on
the steps waiting for him to come out,
so the troubles of this life may follow
us to the shining doors, but they can
not get in. without are dogs Ihave
seen dogs and owned dogs that would
not be chagrined to see in the heaven
" city. Some of the grand old watch
dogs who are the constabulary of the
homes in solitary places and for years
have been the only protection of wife
and child, some IF the shepherd dogs
that drive back the wolves and bark
away the flock from going too near
the precipice and some of the dogs
whose neck and paw Landseer, the
painter, has made immortal would not
find me shutting them out from the
gate of shining pearl. Some of those old
St. Bernard dogs that have lifted per-
ishing travellers out of the Alpine snow;
the dog that John Brown, the Scotch es-
sayist, saw ready to spring at the sur
geon, lest, in removing the cancer, he
too much hurt the poor woman whom
the dog felt bound to protect, and dogs
that we caressed in our childhood days,
or that in later time lay down on the
rug in seeming sympathy when our
homes were desolated-
/ say if some soul entering Heaven
should happen to leave the gate ajar
quietly walk in it would not at all dis
turb my Heaven. But all those human
or brutal hounds that have chased and
torn and lacerated the world-yca, all
that now bite or worry or tear to pieces
shall he prohibited. without are
dogs" No place there for harsh critics
or backbiters or despoilers of the repu-
tation of others. Down with you to the
kennels of darkness and despair! The
hart has reached the eternal water
brooks, and the painting of the long
chase is quieted in still pastures, and
"there shall be nothing to hurt or de-
stroy in all Gods holy mount"
Oh. when some of you get there il
will be like what the hunter tells of
when he was pushing his canoe far up
north in the winter and amid the ice
foes, and hundred miles, as he
thought, from any other human being. |
lie was startled one day as he heard |
a stepping on the ice, and he cooked
his rife, ready to meet anything that
came near. He found a man, barefoot |
ed and insane from long exposure, APP
preaching him. Taking him into his
canoe and kindling fires to warm him, |
he restored him, found out where he |
had lived and took him to his home and |
found all the village in great excite
ment. A hundred men were searching
for this lost man, and his family and |
friends rushed out to meet him, and, |
MS had been agreed at his first appear
ance, bells were rung. and guns were |
and banquets spread and |
the rescuer loaded with presents. Well,
when some of you step out of this will |
derness, where you have been chilled |
and torn and sometimes lost amid the |
icebergs, into the warm greetings of |
all the villages of the glorified, and |
your friends rush out to give you wei !
coming kiss. the news that there is an
other soul forever saved will call the |
of Heaven to spread the ban
met and the he1imen IN Inv hold of the