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around Cape Good Hope. Do not turn
back, but go ahead. The deer will accom-
pllsh more with its swift feet than with Its
horns.
There arc 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 "carry."
And the realm OF Gods word Is one long
chain OF bright. refreshing lakes, each
promise lake, and very short carry be-
| tween thom, and, though for ages the
pursued have been drinking out OF them,
| they are full up to the top OF the greeu
banks, and the same David describes them,
and they seem 80 near together~thae iu
three different places he speaks OF them
| as q continuous river, saying, "There is
river the streams whereof shull make glad
| the city Of God" "Thou shnlt make them
| drink OF the rivers OF thy pleasures"
"Thou greatly enrlchest 1t with tho rivci
Of God, which Is full OF water"
Butmany OF you have turned your back
on that supply and confronted your troub-
| Ia, aud you are soured with your clrcum-
stances, and you are lighting society. aud
yo are flghting pursuing world, and
i
cool lake Of heavenly comfort, have made
you stop and turn round and lower yout
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 Rabblnlcali
| writers allude to this resignation OF antler5
by the stag when they say OF man who
| Iii In ri
has hung 1t on the stag's horns, and pro.
verb In the far east tells man who has
foolishly lost his fortune to 60 and find
| where the deer has shed his horns. My
brother, quit the antagontsm OF your cir
cumstances, quit misantbropy, quit com.
plant, quit pitching into your pursuer. Be
as wise as next spring WILL be the deer oil
the Adlrondacks. Shed your horns.
But very many Of you who are wronged
tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans It
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 rs persons
present. say many OF you would declare,
1--WE have always done the best we could
and tried to be useful, and why we became
the victims Of mallgnment or invalidtsm or
mishap is inscrutable." Why, do you not
| KNOW CQHt Cue uDoE uooI ouu tuo luoho
elegant Its proportions and the moro
beautiful It's bearing the more anxious the
hunters and the hounds are to capture it2
Had that roebuck o ragged fur and
broken hoofs and On obliterated eye and
limplng gait the hunters would have said:
"Pshaw! Don't let us waste our ammuni.
ton on a sick deer" And the bounds
would have given 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
earth aud sky, und the sleek hide looks rs
IL 1t had been smoothed by invisible hands,
and the fat sides inclose tho richest past-
ure that could be nibbled from the bank OF
rllls 80 clear they seem to have dropped
out OF heaven, and the stamp OF Its foot de-.
fles tho Jack shooting lantern and tue rifle,
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 mako up, IL you were BIZ
turcated nothing, II you we're for
lorn failure, you would be allowed to
60 undlsturbed, but the fact thas 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 "Hnest 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 over saw had set utter him all
the hounds, terrestrial and dlabollc, and
they lapred his blood after the Calvarean
massacre. The world paid nothing to Its
Redeemer but q bramble, four spikes and o
cross.
Many who have done their best to make
the world better have had such rough
/ time OIL that all their pleasure is in an
tlcipatlon OF the next world. Yes, for soma
people In this world there seems no let up.
i They ars pursued from youth to manhood
and from manhood into old age.
But what Is Il relief for oil those pursued
OF trouble and annoyance and pain and be-
reavement2 My text gives 1t to you In
word OF three letters, but each letter Is
chariot II you would triumph, or a throne
II you want to be crowned, or lnke II you
would slake your thlrst-yea, q 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 como In full sight OF
Schroon lake and try to cool its projecting
and blistered tongue with IL drop OF dew
from O blade OF grass US to attempt to
satisfy an i'm IN ortal soul, when flying from
trouble und sin, with anything less deep
and high and broad and immense and In.
finite and eternal than God. His comfort
why, II embosoms all distress. His arm
it wrenches Off all bondage. His hand
1t wipes away all tears. His Christly
atonement-lt makes US all right with the
past, md all right with the future, and oil
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 canoo far up north In rhe win.
ter and amid the ice foes and hundred
miles, as he thought, from any othet
human beings. He was startled ono day
rs he heard stepping on the Ice, and be
cooked tho rifle, ready TO meet anything
that came near. He found mau, bare.
footed and insane from long exposure,
approaching him. Taking him into bis
canoe and kindling fires to warm him,
he restored him, found out where lie
and found oil the village In great excite
ment.' A hundred men were searching fol
this lost man, and bis family and friends
rushed out 10 meet him, and, rs had been
agreed ut his first appearance, bells were
rung anu guns were discharged and ban
uuets spread and the rescuer loaded with
presents. Well, when some OF you ster
out of this wilderness, where you havo been
chilled and torn and sometimes lost amid
the icebergs, into the warm greetings ol
all tho villages OF tho gIortfed, and your
friends rush out to give you welcoming
kiss, the news that there is an.
other soul forever saved will call
tho caterers OF heaven to spread the
banquet and the Dellmen to lay hold ofthe
rope in the tower, and while the chalices
click ut the feast and the bells clang from
the turrets !! will be 4 scene 80 uplifting ]
pray God I may be there to take part il