Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-10-21
ACCOMAC c. H. VA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1900.


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coming after them the lean HOUNDS Oh
poverty or the black hounds OF perse-
cution or the spotted hounds Of ylcis-
situdc or the pale hounds Of death or
who arc in any wise pursued run TO
the wide deep, glorious luke of divine
solacc and rescue The most OF the
men and women whom happen TO
know. at different times If not now,
have had trouble after them. sharp
muzZled troubles. swift troubles, I'LL
deyouring troubles. Many of you have
made the mistake of trying to fight
them. Somebody mennly attacked you.
and you attacked them. They depre-
ciated you. and you deprecated them'
Nr they overreached you IN bargain
aud you tried, in Wall street pnrlance
to get a corner on them. Or you have
had n bereavement, and instead of be-
Ing submissive you are fighting that
bereavement. You charge on the doc
tors who have failed 10 effect cure,
or YOU charge on the careless" rss VI
the railroad company through hich
the accident occurred. Or you are q
chronic invalid. and you fret and wor-
ry and scold and wonder why you can
not be well like other people. and you
angrlly charge on the neuralgia or the
laryngltis or the aguc or the SICK
headache. The fact IS you are deer
at bay. Instead Of running to the wa
tcrs Of divine consolation and SHAKING
your THIRST and cooling your body anu
soul in the good cheer Of the gospel
and swimming away into the mighty
deeps of Gods love. you are lighting Il
whole kennel Of barriers.
Some time ago ! saw In the Adlron-
dacks u dog lying across the ROAD. anu
he seemed unable TO get up. and SAID
to some hunters. What Is the matter
with that dogy" They answered, "a
deer hurt him." aud | saw he had q
great swollen paw and battered head.
showing where the untlers struck him.
And the probability Is that some or
you might give IL mighty clip to your
Dursuers. You might damage their
business. you might worry them into
i'll health. you might hurt them as
much as they hurt you; but. after ALL
It ls not worth while. You only have
hurt hound. Better be off for the
Upper Snrnnac. Into which the noun
tains of Gods eternal strength look
down and moor their shadows. AS Tor
your physical disorders. the worst
strychn!ne you cnn take Is fretfulness,
and the best medicine Is religion.
know people who were only a little
dIsordered. yet have fretted them
selves into complete Observation-Disclosures,
while others put their trust In Coo
and came up from the very shadow OF
death and have lived comfortably %
years with only one lung. A man
with one lung. but God with him, Is
better Off than goddess man with two
lungs. Some Of you have been FOR i
long time sailing around Cape Fear
when you ought to have been sailing
around Cape Good Hope. Do not turn
back. but so ahead. The deer wiz ac-
complish more with It's swift feet than
with Its horns.
There are whole chains of lakes in
the Adlrondncks. and from one height
YOU can see 80 lakes, and there are
said to be over 500 In the great wilder
| ness. So near are they to each other
that your mountain guide picks up
and carries the bout 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 prom
Use lake. n 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 be speaks
Of them as a continuous river. saying,
."There Is 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 river of God,
which Is full Of water"
Be Wise an the Deer.
But many Of you have turned your
back on that supply and confront your
trouble. and you are soured with your
circumstances, and you IRE fighting So
ciety, and you are fighting pursuing
world, and troubles. Instead OF driy-
ing you into the cool lake Of heavenly
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 would have done
worse. But you ure all wrong. You
need to do as the reindeer does in Feb
ruary and March-it sheds Its horns.
The RabbipIcal writer's alludc to this
resignation Of antlers by the stag
when they say OF man who ventures
his mouey in risky enterprises he has
| hung il on the stays horns, and q
proverb In the far east tells a man
who has foolishy lost his fortune to
/ go and fnd where the deer shed his
horns. My brother quit the nntag-
onism Of your circumstances, quit
misanthropy. quit complaint. quit
pitching into your pursuers. Be Us
wise as next spring will be the deer
Of the Adirondacks. Shed your hons.
But very many Of you who are
wronged Of the world-and If In any
assembly between the Atlantic and Pa
ciic 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
rs many hands lifted as persons pres
ent-I say many Of you would declare
I'VE have always done the best we
could and tried to be useful, and why
we become the victims of mallgnment
or inyalidism or mishap is inscruta-
BILE" Why. do you not know that the
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