Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-27

pursued have been drinking out or
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 a 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 fight
ing society, and you are fighting a 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. 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 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 II on the stays horns; and
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
next spring will be the deer of the
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 inscrutabe" 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 let
us waste our ammunition on a sick
deer" And the hounds would have
given a few shifts at the track. and
then darted off in another direction for
better game But when they see
deer with antlers lifted in mighty
challenge to earth and sky, and the
sleek hide looks as if it had been
smoothed by invisible hands. and the
fat sides enclose the richest pasture
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 defies the jack-shooting lam
tern and the rifle. the horn and the
hound. that deer they will have if they
must needs break their necks in the
rapids So il there were no noble
stuff in your makeup. if you were
bifurcated nothing. if you were a 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 spendid
game and worth capturing. Therefore
sarcasm draws on you its finest
| bead; therefore the world goes run
| rx-ith tic oh, o-
breech-loader Highest compliment is
It to your talent, or your virtue or
your usefulness. You will be assailed
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 dia-
bolic, and they Tapped his blood after
the Calvarean massacre. The world
paid nothing 10 it's Redeemer but a
bramble, -four spikes and a cross.
Many who have done their best to
make the world better have had such
a rough time OF il that all their pleas
ure is in anticipation OF the next
world, and they would. If they could,
express their own feelings in the words
1
of her long life, when asked II she
would like to live her life over again:
Would you be young again,
So would not /;
One tear of memory given
Onward I'll HE;
Life's dark wave forded Ger,
All but at rest on shore,
Say, would you plunge once more
With home SO nigh?
II you might, would you now
Retrace your way?
Wander through stormy wilds,
Faint and astray?
Nights gloomy watches fed,
Morning. all beaming red
Hopes smile around us shed,
Heavenward. away,
We are told in Revelation. 22:15:
Without are dogs by which | con
clude there is whole kennel OF
hounds outside the gate of heaven, or
as when a master goes in door, hi:
dog lies on the steps waiting for hin
to come out, so the troubles of this lif,
may follow us to the shining door, bu
they cannot get in. Without ar,
dogs" | have seen dogs, and owned
dogs. that | would not be chagrined Il
| in heavenly civ Soma Of tn,