Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-10-16

after miles of pursuit, with heavinS
| sides and lOlling tongue and eyes
swimming in death, the stag leaps
from cliff to cliff into Upper Saranac
can you realize how much David had
suffered from his troubles and how
much he wanted God when he express
ed himself in the words, LAS the hart
panteth after the water brooks, so
panteth my soul after thee, o God"
Well, now, let all those who have
coming after Them the lean hounds Of
poverty or the black hounds of perse-
cutiOn or the spotted hounds OF V1clS-
situde or the pale hounds of death or
who are in any wise pursued run to
the wide, deep, glorious lake Of divine
soIace and rescue The most Of the
men and women whom 1 happen to
know, at different times, if not now,
have had trouble after them, sharp
muzzled troubles, swift troubles, all
devouring troubles. Many of you have
made the mistake of trying to fight
them. Somebody meanly attacked you,
and you attacked them. They depre-
ciated you, and you deprecated them,
or they overreached you in a bargain,
and you tried, in Wall street parlance,
to get corner on them. Or you have
had a bereavement, and instead Of be-
ing submissive you are fighting that
bereavement. You charge on the doc
tors who have failed to effect a cure,
or you charge on the carelessness OF
the railroad company through which
the accident occurred. Or you are q
chronic invalid, and you fret and Wor-
ry and scold and wonder why you can
not 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 wa
tiers of divine consolation 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 fighting
whole kennel of barriers.
Some time ago l saw in the Adiron-
dacks a dog lying across the road. and
he seemed unable to get up, and SAID
to some hunters, what is the matter
with that dog? They answered, "A
deer hurt him." and l saw he had
great swollen paw and a battered head,
showing where the antlers struck him.
And the probability is that some of
YOU might give a mighty clip to your
Dursuers You might damage their
business, you might worry them into
ill health, you might hurt them as
much as they hurt you; but, after all.
it is not worth while. You only have
hurt a hound. Better be off for the
Upper Saranac, into which the noun
tains of Gods eternal strength look
down and moor their shadows. AS for
your physical disorders, the worst
strychnine you can take is fretfulneSs,
and the best medicine is religion. l
know people who were only a little
disordered, yet have fretted them
selves into complete valetudinarianism,
while others put their trust in God
and came up from the very shadow of
death and have lived comfortably %
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 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 ac
complish more with it's swift feet than |
with it's horns.
There are whole chains of lakes in |
the Adirondacks, and from one height |
YOU can see 80 lakes, and there are |
said to be over 800 in the great wilder
ness. So near are they to each other |
that your mountain guide picks UP |
To- tn a
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 prom |
Use lake, a 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 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 God;" j
"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"
Be Wise as the Deer.
But many of you have turned your
back on that supply and confront your
trouble, and you are soured with your
and you are fighting So
ciety, and you are fighting a pursuing
world, and troubles, instead of driv-
ing you into the cool lake of heavenly
have made you stop and turn
round and lower your head, and it is
simply antler against tooth. 1 do not
blame you. Probably under the same
| would have done
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