Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1899-11-02


'nirst and cooling your body and soul in
the good cheer of the cospe! and swim
! ming away into the mighty deeIs Of Gods
rove yoo are fighting Il whole kennel o.
, barriers.
Some time ago saw in the Adirouaacls
dog lying across the road and he seemed
| nb3bie To get NJ, ana said 10 some hunt
| tr~ w lat J, lie matter with that dog.''
Ih'y ans swered A deer hart him" and |
| sA" ne haa ;.reat swollen paw ana 4 ha. :
| tered heai, showIn. where the antlers
| struck HIN. And the probability ic that
| some OF You might give a mighty e..ip "a
your pursuerS. You might dama... their
| business. You might worry them into i'll
health. you might hurt them as much
as they hurt you; but, after all, 1t Is
| not worth while. You only have hurt n
Ionnd. Better be of for the Uprer sara
| nae into which the mountains of God.
! eternal strength look down and monrtheir
| shadows. A. FOR your physical dis orders,
inc worst Strychntne you can TAX. Is fret
lulness. and the best IA iicinc is re,iyion
know people who were only n little dis
ordered, vet have iretted themselves into
complete valetudlnariauism while other,
put their trust in God and came u, fro.,
the very shadow Of death and have lived
comfortably twenty-five years with only
one lung. man with one lung, but God
with him. is better or than a goddess man
with two lungs. Some OF yon have been
for long time sailing around Cape Fear
when yol ought 70 have been sailing
around Cape Good Hope Do not turn
back bat go ahead. The deer II accom-
rish more with Its swift feet than with its
horns.
There are whole chains of lakes in the
Adirondacks. and from one height YOU can
Bee thirty lakes, ami there are said to be
over 500 in the great Wilderness SO near
are they TO each other that your mountain
guide picks up and carries the boat from
lake to lake, the small distance between
them for that reason called carry"
Aud the realm Of Gods word is one long
chain or bright refreshing lakes each
promise a lake, and n very short carry be-
tween them, and. though for ages tho
pursued have been drinking out OF then,
they are full up to the top OF the green
banks, and the same David des escribes them
and they seem SO near together TINT in
three different places he speaks OF them
as continuous river, saying, There is q
river the streams whereof shall make glad
.he city OF God Thou shalt make them
drink OF the rivers of thy pleasures"
Thou greatly enrichest it W IN tho river
Of God which is full Of water"
But many OF you have turned your back
on that supply and confronted your troub-
le, and yOu arc sOurea with your circum-
stances, and you are fighting society. and
Eol are lighting u pursuing world and
troubles, instead Of driving YOU into the
cool lake OF heavenly comfort, have made
you stop and turn round and lower your
head, and it is simply antler against tooth
] do not blame you. Probably under the
same circumstances | would have done
"orsc. But you are all wrong. You need
to do AS the reindeer does in February and
March-it sheds its horns. The Rabbinicai
writers aflude to this resignation OF antlers
by the stag when they say Cf q man who
ventures his money in risky enterprises be
has hung it on the stag's horns and pro-
verb IN the far east tells man who has
foolishly lost his fortune to go and find
where the deer has shed his horns NV
brother, quit the antagonism OF YOUR ,.ir-
cumstances, quit misanthropy qHit COM
plaint, quit pitching into your pursuer Bs
as wise as next spring will be the deer OF
the Adirondacks. Shed your horns
But very many OF you who are wronged
Of the world-and if in any assembly be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans 1t
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 as persons
present say many OF YOU would clare
1--WE have always done the best we could
and tried to be useful, and why we became
the victims OF maiRnment or invaidisn or
mishap is inscrutable." Why, do You not |
know that the finer deer and the more |
elegant its proportions and the moro |
beautiful Its bearing the more anxious the |
hunters and the hounds are TO capture it, |
Had that roebuck n ragged fur and |
broken hoOfs and an Obiterate1 eye anI |
llnp ping gait the hunters would have said:
''Pshaw! Don't let US waste our ammuni- |
ton on a sick deer And the hounds |
ould have given few shifts OF the tracks
dthen darted of in another direction
for better game. But when they see u deer |
With antlars lifted in mighty challenge 20
earth aud sky, and the sleek hide looks as
il 1t had been smoothed by invisible hands,
and the fat sides inclose the richest past
b,t MI ha ,it,k
riils so clear they seem to have dropped |
out OF heaven. and the stamp o' it's foot de-
tes the lack(shootiny lantern and the rife |
the horn and the hound that deer they will
have II they must needs break their neck |
in the rapids. 50 il there wero 10 noble
stun in your make up, II you were bi
'urcated nothing. II You were n for
lOrn failure, YOU would be allowed 10 |
go undisturbed. but the fac. tina; the
whole pack IS in full cry after you l. Troo.
positive that you are splendid game and
worth capturing. Therefore sarcasm
draws On you its finest head" ther.'ore
the world goes cunning for you will rs
best Winchester breec hIoaier Highest
compliment IS II 10 your talent or your
virtue or your usefulness. Iou will be as
allied In proportion 10 your great achieve
nents. The best and the nishtiess Bting
he world ever saw had set after him all |
he hounds. terrestrial AMI iia )0.ic. and
hey Tapped his blood after the Calvarean
massacre The ~or!i palt nothing - its
4.edeener bat a bramb!e. four spikes ania
ross.
Many who have done their Jea II .nase
the world better have ha1 sucs a rough
time IL that all their pi"a>ur' i II an /
ticipation o. the next world. r.. for -a,ue |
leoqie in this world there seems no lei m.
They ara pur-ned from 70 ii 10 mauA14d |
sni from manhood into oh a-@.
Bat what Is relief for al ,4o-e r1rsael
CT trouble and annoyance and pain ani be-