The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-10-16


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Copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1891
WASHINGTON, Oct. N.-The gospel as
q great refreshment is here set forth by
Or. Talmage under a figure which will be
found particularly graphic by Those who
have gone out as hunters to find game in
the mountains; text, Psalm 4lii, l, AS
the hart panteth after the water brooks"
DAVID, who must some time have seen
a deer hunt, points us here to a hunted
stag making for the water. The fasci-
mating animal, called:in my text the hart.
10 the same animal that in sacred and
profane literature Is called the stag, the
roebuck, the hind, the gazeiIe, the REIN
deer. In central Syria in Bible times
there were whole pasture fields Of them,
a. Solomon suggests VIXEN he says, Il
charge you by the kinds of the field"
as they lay, down. No hunter who has
wonder that in the Bible they were
classed amapg clean animals, for the
deys, the showers, the lakes, washed
LA6m NO IlOau 40 tAC BAys w hCu AbHuSp
the patriarch, longed for venison, Esau
shot and brought home reebuck. Isaiah
,0omparesssxhe sprightliness, of the re-
long and quick jump Of the stag, saying,
'"The lame shall leap as the hart" Solo-
mon expressed his disgust at a hunter
who, having shot deer, Ii too lazy to
cook 1t, saying, "The slothful man roast
4. snh 49, e., L.,~& 81
But one day David, while far from the
home from which he had been driven
and sitting near the mouth Of a lonely
cave where he had lodged and on the
banks Of pond or river. hears pack Of
hounds in swift pursuit. Because of the
previous silence Of the forest the clang0r
startles him, and he says to himself, II
wonder what those dogs are after" Then
there is cracking in the brushwood
and the loud breathing of some rushing
wonder Of the woods, and the antlers of a
deer rend the leaves OF the thicket, and
by an instinct which oil hunters recog-
nize 1t plunges into pond or lake or
river to cool its thirst and at the same
time, by Its capacity for swifter and
longer swimming, to get away from the
foaning barriers.
David says to himself: "Aha! That Is
myself! Saul after me, Absalom after
me, enemies without number after me.
am chased, their bloody muzzles at my
heels, barking at my good name, barking
after my body, barking after my soul.
Oh, the hounds, the hounds! But look
there" says David. "That hunted deer
has splashed into the,water. 1t puts its
hot lips and nostris into the cool wave
that washes the lathcred TANKS, and it
swims away from the fiery CANNES, and
it is free at last Oh, that might find
in the deep, wide lake Of Gods mercy
and consolation escape from my pursuers!
Oh, for the waters of life and rescued As
the hart panteth after the water brooks,
SO psnteth my soul after thee, o God"
+ True to Nature.
Some Of you have just come from the
Adirondacks, and the breath of the bal
sam and spruce and pine Is still on you.
The Adifondacks are now populous with
hunters, and the deer are being slain by
the score. Once while there talking, with
hunter I thought would like to see
whether my text was accurate in its al
fusion, and as l heard the dogs baying
little way off and supposed they were
on the track of a deer said to the hunter
In rough corduroy, ado the deer always
make for the water when they are pur-
suedT He satd: "Oh, yes, mister. You
see, they are hot and thirsty ANIMAL
and they know where the water is, and
when they hear danger in the distance
they lift their antlers and SIT the breeze
and start for Racquet or Loon or Sar-
annc, and we get into our cedar shell
boat or stand by the runway with rifle
loaded ready to blaze away"
My friends, that is one reason why l
like the Bible so much Its illusions are
50 true to nature. Its cartridges are real
partridges, Its ostriches real ostriches
and its reindeer real reindeer. do not
wonder that this antlered glory Of the |
text makes the hunters eye sparkle and
his cheek glow and his respiration quick
en-, to say nothing OF its usefulness, al
though it is the most useful of all game, |
its flesh delicious, its skin turned into hui
man apparel, its sinews fashioned into |
bow strings, Its antlers putting handles
Oh cutlery and the shavings Of its horns
used as . restorative, its name taken
from the hart and called hartshorn. by
putting aside its usefulness this enchant-
Ing creature seems made out of graceful
ness and elasticity. What ah eye, with
liquid brightness as If gathered up from
hundred lakes at sunset! The horns
coronal branching into every possible
curve, and, after 1t seems done, ascend
ing into other projections of exquisite
ness, a tree Of polished bone, uplifted in
pride or swung down for awful combat!
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snu a.'ituae anu 'oeoniot'on, %hs'her
eoochsu ~ INC grass alhons .he shauo"s
VI lying poi. sl,o. .nrousn the lores.
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Is sp'ehuM appeuiahee, .nat lhe
pain.e, . peneii iais 70 she'cn ahu on,y
the foot Of st. Regis is able to picture.
When 20 miles from any settlement, it
comes down ut eventide to the lakes
edge to drink among the laypads and,
with its sharp edged hoof, skaters The I