The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27


after thee. o God"
There are whole chains Of lakes In
! the Adirondack5, and from one height
you can see thirty lakes; ans There
are said to be over 500 in the great
wilderness. So near are they to each
ether that your mountain guide picks
up and carries the boat from lake to
lake, the small distance between them
| for that reason called carry" And
| tho realm of Gcds word is one long
chain OF bright. refreshing lakes; each
promise n lake, a very short carry be-
! tween them, aAd though for ages the
pursued have been drinking out of
! them, they are full up 10 tho 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 4 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 it with the
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 q pur-
suing world and troubles, instead OF
! driving you into the cool lake OF heav-
emily comfort have made you stop and
|
il is simply antler against tooth. l do
not blame you. Probably under the
same circumstances | 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 man who ventures his
money in risky enterprises. he has
hung 1t on the stays horns; and
proverb in the far east tells 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 hornsl
But very many OF you who are
wTouged Of the woodland if in any
, assembly between tho Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, it were asked that all
who had been badly treated should
raise both their hands, and fall re-
I cT
/ 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 aud tried to be useful,
and why we become the victims OF
nalignment. or invslidism, or mishap.
! is inscrutabe." Why, do you know
/ that the finer a deer, and the more
elegant It's proportions. and the more
beautiful its bearing, the more anxious
the hunters and the hounds are to cap
ture it? Had that roebuck a ragged
fur, and broken hoof5, and an obliter-
ated eye, and a liu:piHg salt, the hunt.
crs would have said, "Pshaw! don't let
us waste cur ammunition on a sick
deer" And the hounds would have
given n few shifts at the track, and
then darted off in another direction for
( better game. Dut when they see a
deer with antlers lifted in mighty
challenge to earth and sky, and the
, 7leek hide looks 90 If it he'd been
...:.ioothed by invisible hands, and the
fat sides enclose the richest pasture
that could be nibbled from the bank
of riils so clear they seem 10 have
dropped out Of heaven, and the stamp
Of its foot de1es the jaclt-shootng Ian
tern and the rife, the horn and the
/ hound. that deer they will have if they
must needs break their recks in the
rapids. So II there were no noble
stuff in your makeup, If you were a
bifurcated nothing, If you were for
! Torn failure, you would be allowed to
/ go undisturbcd; 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 finest
! bead; therefore the world goes run
ming for you with its best Winchester
| breech-loGder. Highest compliment is
! il 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 dla-
holic, and they Tapped his blood after
/ the Calvarcan massacre. The world
paid nothing to its Redeemer but q
/ bramble. four spikes and cross.
Many who have done their best to
make the world better have had such
q rough time Of 1t that all their pleas
ure is in anticipation of the next
world, and they would. IL they could.
express their own feelings in the words
of the Baroness Of Marin at the close
of her long life, when asked IL 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;
I.ife's dark wave forded Ger,