The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-10-19

see thirty lakes, ana there are said TO De
over 800 in the great wilderness. So near
are they to each other that your mountain ,
guido picks up and carries tho boat from
lake to lake, the small distance between
them for that reason called a "carry."
And the realm OF Gods word Is one long
chain OF bright, refreshing lakes, each
promise lake, and very short cnrry be-
tween them, and, though for ages the
pursued have bean drinking out OF them,
they are full up to tho top OF tho 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 II
river the streams whereof shall make glad
the city Of God" "Thou shalt make them
drink OF the rivers of thy pleasures"
"Thou greatly enrlchest It with tho river
OF God, which ls full of water"
But many OF you have turned your back
on that supply and confronted your troub-
le, and you arc soured with your circum-
stances, and you are fighting society. aud
you are lghtlng 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 1t Is simply antler against tooth.
] 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 February and
March-it sheds its horns. The II lbbnical
by the stag when they say OF II man who
ventures his money In risky enterprises ho
has hung It on The stag's horns, and pro-
verb In the far east tells man who has
foolshly lost his fortune to go and ind
where the deer has shed his horns. Ny
brother, quit the antagonlsm OF your cir
cumstances, quit misanthropy, quit COM
plalnt, quit pitching into your pursuer. Be-
MS wise rs next spring will be tho deer OF
the Adlrondacks. Shed your horns.
But very many of you who are wronged
OF the world-and IL 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 1 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 malignment or invulidlsm or
/ mishnp Is inscrutabe." Why, do you not
/ know that the finer deer and the more
/ elegant its proportions and the more
/ beautiful its bearing the more anxious the
/ hunters and the hounds are to capture II?
Had that roebuck ragged fur and
/ broken hoofs and an obliterated eye and II
| limpug gait the hunters would hnve said:
"Pshaw Don't let us waste our ammuni-
tion on sick deer" And the hounds
would have given few sniffS OF the trucks
aud then darted of in another direction
for better game. But when they see deer
/ with antlers lifted in mighty challenge to
earth aud sky, and the sleek hide looks as
| II 1t had been smoothed by invisible hands,
| and the fut sides inclose the richest past
ure that could be nibbled from the bank of
rllls so clear they seem to have dropped
\ out of heaven, ana the stamp of its foot de-
| 1les the jack shooting lantern and the rifle,
tho horn and the hound, that deer they will
have IL they must needs break their neck
l in the rapids SO IL there were no noble
I n N IN "a n n n Di-
furcated nothing, II you were for
Iorn failure, you would be allowed to
go undisturbed, 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
tho world goes cunning for you with its
best Winchester breechoader. 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 ever saw had set after him all
the hounds, terrestrial and diabolic, and
they Tapped his blood after the Calvarean
massacre. The world paid nothing to it's
Redeemer but Il bramble, four spikes and II
cross.
But what is relief for all those pursued
of trouble and annoyance and pain and he
reavement2 My text gives 1t to you in 1t
word of three letters but each letter Is n
chariot II you would triumph, or throne
IL you want to be crowned, or lake II you
would slake your thirst-yea, chain OF
three lnkes-G- -o-d, the one for whom
David longed and the one whom David
found. You might as well meet II stag
which, after its sixth mile OF running at
the topmost speed through tncket and
gorge and with the breath OF the dogs
on his heels, has come In full sight OF
Schroon lake and try to cool It's projecting
and blistered tongue with drop Of dew
from blade OF grass as to attempt to
satisfy an immortal soul, when flying from
trouble and sin, with anything less deep
and high aud broad and immense and in
, finite and eternal than God. His comfort
why, it embosoms all distress. His arm
it wrenches off all bondage. His hand
it wipes away all tears. His Christly
atonement-It makes US all right with the
past, and all right with the future, aud al
right with God, and all right with man; and
all right forever.
, Oh, when some of you get there it will bC
like what hunter tells OF when he was
, pushing his canoe far up north In the win
| ter and amid the ice foes and Il hundred
t miles, as he thought, from any other
human beings. He was startled one day
rs he heard II stepping on the ice, and h,
! cooked the rifle ready to meet anything
that came near. He found u man, bare
footed and insane from long exposure
approaching him. Taking him into hi'
canoe and kindling fires to warm him
; he restored him, found out where III
4 had lived and took him to his hom,
and found all the village in great excite
4 ment. A hundred men were searching FOL
| this lost man, aud has family and friend
l., rushed out to meet him, and, as had beer
I agreed ut his first appearance, bells were
} ! rung and guns were discharged and ban
quets spread and tho rescuer loaded witt
presents. Well, when some of you stel
out of this wilderness, where you have beer
. chilled and torn and sometimes lost ami,
= the icebergs, into the warm greetings o
: all the villages OF the gorlled, and you
: friends rush out to give you welcoming
] kiss, the news that there Is an
other soul forever saved will cal
tho caterers OF heaven to spread til
> banquet and the bellmen to lay hold of th
. rope in the tower, and while the chalice
: click at the feast and the bells clang from
the turrets I. will be II scene so uplifting
, pray God | may be there to take part Il
I, the celestial merriment. And now do yol
4 not think the prayer in Solomon's Son.
/, where he compared Christ to Il reindeer 4
the night would make an oXquisitelv AZ
= propriate peroration to my sermon, "Unt
!, the day break and the shadows feo ava
? be thou like roe or young hart upo
\. the mountains Of BetherG