Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-10-25

know people who were only a little dis
ordered, yet have iretted themselves into
complete valetudinarlanism, 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 of than goddess man
with two lungs Some Of you have been
Tor a 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 the boat from
lake to lake, the small distance between
them for that reason called Garry"
Aud the realm OF Gods word is one long
chain of bright. refreshing lakes, each
promise n 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 they seem so near together that III
three different places he speaks OF them
as a continuous river, saying, There Is n
river the streams whereof shall make glad
the city of God.' ''Thou shalt make them
drink OF the rivers of thy Pleasures"
''Thou greatly enrichest 1t W tn 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 lighting society, and
inroubIes na les 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 all wrong. You need
to do as the reindeer does in February and
March-it sheds its horns. The r Ribbinical
writer's allude to this resignation OF antier5
by the stag when they say OF man who
ventures his money In risky enterprises ne
has hung It on the stag's horns, and a pro-
verb in the far east tells man who has
foolishly lost his fortune to go and find
where the deer has shed his horns. My
brother, quit the antagonism OF your cir
cumstances, quit misanthropy, quit COM
piaint quit pitching into your pursuer. BE
rs wise as next spring will be tho deer oil
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
be twice as many hands lifted as persons
present. say many of you would declare,
awe have always done the best we could
and tried to be useful, and why we became
the victims OF malignment or invalidism or
mishap Is inscrutable." Why, do you not
know that the finer a deer and the moro
elegant its proportions and the more
beautiful its bearing the more anxious tho
hunters and the hounds are to capture 1t?
Had that roehuck ragged fur and
broken hoofs and an obliterated eye and n
linn MING Datf the hunters wOulh have said.
"Pshawl ID ont let US waste our ammuni-
tion on sick deer" And the hounds
ould have given a few sniffs 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
IL It had been smoothed by invisible hands,
and the fat sides inclose the richest past
ure that could be nibbled from the bank OF
rlls so clear they seem to have dropped
out OF heaven, and the stamp of its foot de-
tles the irrk, shaotia = lantern and the rifle,
ttfheli0rn anr ssne hound, that deer they -,7-..
have II they must needs break their neck
In the rapids. So II there were no noble
stuff in your make up, If you were q BIZ
furcated nothing, IL you were q Tor.
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 sarcaam
draws on you its "flnest 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 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 diabolic, and
they Tapped his blood after the Calvarean
massacre. The world paid nothing to its
Redeemer but a bramble, four spikes and
cross.
But what is a relief for all those pursued
Of trouble and annoyance and pain and be-
reavement2 My text gives 1t to you In q
word of three letters, but each letter Is q
chariot II you would triumph, or throne
II you want to be crowned, or a lake If you
would slake your thirst-yea, chain OF
three lakes-G-o-d, the one for whom
David longed and the one whom David
found. You might as well 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 drop OF dew
from a blade Of grass as to attempt to
satisfy an INN mortai 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
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.
Oh, when some of you get there 1t will be
like what q 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 any other
human beings. He was startled one day
as he heard n stepping on the ice, and he
cooked the rifle, 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,
he restored him, found out where he
had lived and took him to his homo
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, rs had been
agreed at bis first appearance, bells were
rung and guns were discharged and BAN
quets spread and the rescuer 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 of
all the villages Of the glorified, and your
friends rush out to give you welcoming
kiss, the news that there is an
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 cbalices
| click at the feast and the bells clang from
| the turrets II will be scene so uplifting I
pray God 1 may be there to take part I'm
/ 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, "UntiI
the day break and the shadows fee away
| be thou like roe or a young hart upon
| the mountains Of Bether?"
"A farmer in Collin county, Tex.
amused himself on a rainy day b,
| coating a cat with tar and setting /
on fire. The blazing animal sough
/ refuge under the harm of tho cruo