The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-10-18
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most of the men and women whom hap
pen to know at different times, if not
now, have had trouble after them, sharp
muzzled troubles swift troubles, all de-
youring troubles. Many of you have made
the mistake of trying to fight them.
Somebody meanly attacked you, and you
attacked them. They deprecated you,
and you deprecated them, or they over
reached you in bargain, and you tried,
in Wall street parlance, to get corner
on them. Or you have had bereave-
ment, and. instead of being submissive,
you are fighting that bereavement You
charge on the doctors who have failed to
effect a cure. Or you charge on the care
lessness Of the railroad company through
which the accident occurred. Or you are
a chronic invalid, and you fret and worry
and scold and wonder why you cannot be
we'll like other people, and you angrily
charge on the neuralgia or the laryngitis
or the ague or the sick headache The
fact is you are deer at bay. Instead of
running to the waters of divine consola
ton and shaking 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 fight
ing whole kennel of barriers.
AS for your physical disorders, the
worst strychnine you can take is fretful-
Eess, and the best medicine is religion. [
know people who were, only little dis
ordered, vet have fretted themselves into
complete valetudinarianism, while others
put their trust in God and came up from
the very shadow Of death and have lived
comfortably twenty-five years with only
one lung. A man with one lung. but God
with him, is better off than goddess man
with two lungs. Some of you have been
for long time sailing around Cape Fear
when you ought to have been sailing
around Cape Good Hope. Do not turn
back, but go ahead The deer will ac-
compNsh more with it's swift feet than
with it's horns
Lakes of Gods Word.
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 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, and the same David de-
scribes them, and they seem so near to-
gether that in three different places he
speaks of them as continuous river, say
ing, There is a river the streams where
of shall make glad the city of Cod"
Thou shalt make them drink of the riv-
ers of thy pleasures" Thou greatly en-
richest it with the river of God, which
is full Of water"
But many of you have turned your back
on that supply and confront your trouble,
and you are soured with your circum-
stances, and you are fighting society, and
you are fighting pursuing world, and
troubles, instead of driving you into the
cool lake of heavenly comfort have made
you stop and turn round and lower your
head, and it is simply antler against
tooth. [ do not blame you Probably
under the same circumstances l would
have done worse. But you are all wrong.
You need to do as the reindeer does IN
February and March-it sheds it's horns.
The Rabbinical writer's allude to this res
ignation of antlers by the stag when they
say of a man who ventures his money in
risky enterprises he has hung it on the
stays horns, and proverb in the far east
tells man who has foolishly lost his
fortune to go and find it where the deer
shed his horns. My brother, quit the an
tagonism Of your circumstances, quit mis-
anthropy, quit complaint, quit pitching
into your pursuers. Be as wise as next
spring will be the deer of the Adiron-
dacks. Shed your horns.
But very many of you who are wronged
of the woodland if in any assembly be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
1t were asked that all who had been bad
ly treated should raise both their hands,
and full response should be made, there
would be twice as many hands lifted rs
persons present. say many of you
would declare, "We have always done
the best we could and tried to be useful,
and why we become the victims of ma
llgnment or invalidism or mishap is in
scrutable.' Why, do you not know that
the finer deer and the more elegant it's
proportions and the more beautiful it's
bearing the more anxious the hunters
ana the mounds are to capture it! So if
there were no noble stuff in your make
up, if you were bifurcated nothing, if
you were for!orn 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.
The Bead of Sarcasm.
Therefore sarcasm draws on you it's
finest bead;' therefore the world goes
cunning for you with its best Winchester
breechloader. Highest compliment is It
to your talent Or your virtue or your use
fulness. You will be assailed in proper
ton to your great achievements. The
best and the mightiest Being the world
ever saw had set after him all the hounds,
terrestrial and diabolic, and they Tapped
his blood after the Calvarean massacre.
The world paid nothing to its Redeemer
but bramble, four spikes and cross.
Many who have done their best to make
the world better have had such a rough
time of it that all their pleasure is in an
ticipatlon Of the next world. and they
would, if they could, express their own
feelings in the words of the Baroness Of
Nalrn. at the close Of bny lopr e.