The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-10-27

into Upper Saranac, can you realize
how much David had suffered from
his troubles, and how much he wanted
God when he expressed himself In the
words: "As the hart panteth after
the water brooks, so panteth my soul
after thee. o God"
There are whole chains OF lakes In
the Adirondacks, and from one height
you can see 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 lake TO
lake, the small distance between them
for that reason called a carry And
the realm OF Gods word is one long
chain of bright, refreshing lakes; each
promise lake, 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 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 glad the
city of Cod; 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
back upon that supply, and CONFRONT
your trouble, and you are soured with
your circumstances, and you are nght-
ing society, and you are fighting pur-
suing world; and troubles, instead OF
driving you into the cool lake OF heav-
emily comfort, have made you stop and
turn round and lower your head, and
1t is simply antler against tooth. l do
not blame you. Probably under the
same circumstances would have done
worse. But you are all wrong. You
need to do as the reindeer does in Feb
ruary and March-it sheds its horns.
The rabbinical writer's allude to this
resignation of antlers of the stag when
they say of a man who ventures his
money in risky enterprises, he has
hung it on the stays horns; and a
proverb in the far east tells a man
who has foolishly lost his fortune to
go and find where the deer shed his
horns. My brother, quit the antagon-
ism of your circumstances, quit mis-
anthropy, quit complaint, quit pitch
ing into your pursuers; be as wise as
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Adirondacks. Shed your horns!
But very many of you who are
wronged of the world-and if in any
assembly between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. it were asked that all
who had been badly treated should
raise both their hands, and full re-
spouse should be made, there would
be twice as many hands lifted as per-
sons present. say many of you would
declare, 1--WE have always done the
best we could and tried to be useful
and why we become the victims OF
malignment, or invalidism, or mishap
is inscrutable." Why, do you know
that the finer a deer, and the more
elegant its proportions, and the more
beautiful its bearing, the more anxious
the hunters and the hounds are to cap
ture it? Had that roebuck ragged
fur, and broken hoofs, and an obliter
ated eye and limping gait, the hunt
ers would have said, "Pshaw! don't lie
us waste our ammunition on sicl
deer" And the hounds would have
given a few shifts at the track, anc
then darted off in another direction fol
better game. But when they see
deer with antlers lifted in mighty
challenge to earth and sky, and thu
sleek hide looks as if it had beer
smoothed by invisible hands, and th'
fat sides enclose the richest pasture
that could be nibbled from the banl
of rills so clear they seem to have
dropped out of heaven, and the staml
of its foot defies the jack-shooting Ian
tern and the rife, the horn and thu
hound. that deer they will have If the!
must needs break their necks in tn
rapids. So if there were no nobl
stuff in your makeup If you were
bifurcated nothing, if you were for
lorn failure, you would be allowed t.
90 undisturbed; but the fact that tn
whole pack is in full cry after you !
proof positive that you are spendi'
game and worth capturing. Therefor
sarcasm draws on you its fines
bead; therefore the world goes run
ming for you with its best Wincheste
: breech-loader. Highest compliment /
) it to your talent, or your virtue o
YOUR usefulness. You will be assaile
In proportion to your great achieve
ments. The best and the mighties
Being the world ever saw had set ate
him all the hounds, terrestrial and dia
bolic, and they Tapped his blood afte
the Calvarean massacre. The worl
paid nothing to its Redeemer but
bramble, four spikes and cross
Many who have done their best t
make the world better have had sue
a rough time of it that all their pleas
ure is in anticipation of the mex
world, and they would, If they could
express their own feelings in the word
: of the Baroness of Marin at the clos
of her long life, when asked if sh