Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-16

some OF you might give q mighty clip tt
your pursuers. You might damage theii
health, you might hurt them as much
as they hurt you; but, after ALL 1t is
not worth while. You only have hurt o
Lound. Better be off for the Upper Sara.
nac, into which the mountains OF Gods
eternal strength look down and moor their
| shadows. As for your physical disorders,
! the worst strychnine you can take Is fret.
| fulness and the best medicine Is religion.
know people who were only little dis.
| ordered, yet have iretted themselves into
complete valetudlnarianism, 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. man with one lung, but God
with him, is better Off than goddess man
with two lungs. Some OF you have been
for Il 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 accom-
plish more with its swift feet than with its
horns.
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 tho boat from
lake to lake, the small distance between
them for that reason called IA "carry."
Aud the realm Of Gods word is ono long
chain OF bright refreshing lakes, each
promise lake, and 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 continuous river, saying, "There is
river the streams whereof shall make glad
the city Of God" tThou shalt make them
drink Of the rivers of thy pleasures;"
"Thou greatly enrichest 1t with tho river
of God, which Is full of water"
But many Of you have turned your back
on that supply and confronted your troub-
le 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 1t is simply antler against tooth.
do not blame you. Probably under the
same circumstances I would have done
worse. But you are oil wrong. You need
to do as the reindeer does In February and
March-it sheds It's horns. The tbbinical
writer's allude to this resignation Of antlers
by the stag when they say OF man who
ventures his money in risky enterprises he
has hung 1t on the stag's horns, and pro-
verb in the far east tells u man who has
foolshly lost his fortune to go and find
where the deer has shed his horns. My
brother quit the nntagonism of your cir
cumstances, quit misanthropy, quit COM
plant, quit pitching into your pursuer. Be
us wise as next spring will be the deer OF
the Adirondacks. Shed your horns.
But very many of you who are wronged
of the world-and il in any assembly be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans 1t
were asked that all who had been badly
treated should raise both their hands, and
full response should be made. there would
he twice as many hands lifted rs persons
! nnf- mn Of Hatsln a
1--WE have always done the best we could
and tried to be useful, and why we became
the victims Of malignment or invalidlsm or
mishap is inscrutable." Why, do you not
know that the finer deer and the more
elegant its proportions and the more
beautiful It's bearing the more anxious the
hunters and the hounds are to capture it?
Had that roebuck a ragged fur and
broken hoofs and an obliterated eye and
limping gait the hunters would have said:
"Pshaw! d ont let us waste our ammuni-
ton on sick deer."- And the hounds
would have given IA few shifts of the tracks
and then darted off in another direction
for better game. But when they see deer
with antlers lifted in mighty challenge to
eartn and sky, and the sleek hide looks rs
II it 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 de-
| Hes tle JUck SnOOtlnO luuteru duu tue riilc,
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 BIZ
furcated nothing, II you were 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 thnest 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 usefulness. You will be 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 diaholic, and
they Tapped his blood after the Calvarean
massacre. The world paid nothing to its
, Redeemer but q bramble, four spikes and n
, cross.
But what is relief for all those pursued
, of trouble and annoyance and pain and be-
| reavement? My text gives 1t to you in a
word OF three letters, but each letter Is u
chariot II you would triumph, or a throne
: If you want to be crowned. or Il lake II you
would slake your thirst-yea, a chain OF
three lakes-G-o-d, the one for whom
David longed and the one whom David
/ found You might as we'll meet stag
| which, after its sixth mile OF running at
the topmost speed through thicket and
gorge and with the breath of the dogs
on his heels has come in full sight OF
, Schroon lake and try to cool its projecting
and blistered tongue with a drop OF dew
from a blade OF grass as to attempt to
satisfy an immortal soul, when flying from
trouble and sin, with anything less deep
and high and broad and immense and In
: finite and eternal than God. His comfort
why, 1t 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, and all right with man; and
all right forever.
Oh, when some Of you get there it will be
> like what a hunter tells OF when he was
3 pushing his canoe far up north in the WIN
. ter and amid the ice foes and hundred
miles, as he thought, from any other
. human beings. He was startled one day
rs he heard Il stepping on the Ice, and he
, cooked the rifle, ready to meet anything
that came near He found man, bare
footed and insane from long exposure,
> approaching him. Taking him into his