The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-10-26

into Upper Saranac. can you realize
how much David had suffered from
his troubles. and how much he wanted
God when he expressed himself In the
words: "As the hart pante.h SITTER
the water brooks. SO panteth my soul
after thee. o God"
There are 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 the 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 a lake, a very short carry be-
tween 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
river, saying: There is a river. the
streams whereof shall make glad the
city Of Cod; 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"
But many of you have turned your
back upon that supply. and confront
your trouble, and you are soured with
your circumstances, and you are fight
ing society, and you are fighting pur-
suing world; and troubles, instead Of
driving you into the cool lake of heav-
emily comfort, have made you stop and
turn round and lower your head. and
it is simply antler against tooth. I 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 Feb
ruary and March-it sheds its horns.
The rabhinical writers allude to this
resignation of antlers of the stag when
they say of man who ventures his
money in risky enterprises, he has
hung it on the stays horns; and
proverb in the far east tells a man
who has foolishly lost bis fortune to
go and find where the deer shed his
horns. My brother. quit the antagon-
ism of your circumstances, quit mis-
anthropy, quit complaint. quit pitch
ing into your pursuers; be 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 between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, it were asked that all
who had been badly treated should
raise both their hands, and full re-
Spouse should be made, there would
be twice as many hands lifted as per-
sons present. say many of you would
declare, 1--WE have always done the
best We could and tried to be useful.
and why We become the victims of
malignment. or invalidism, or mishap,
is inscrutable." Why, do you know
that the finer a deer, and the more
elegant its proportions, and the more
beautiful its bearing, the more anxious
the hunters and the hounds are to cap
ture it? Had that rOebuck a ragged
fur, and broken hoofs, and an obliter-
ated eye, and limping gait, the hunt
ers would have said, "Pshaw! don't let
us waste our ammunition on sick
deer" And the hounds would have
given a few shifts at the track, and
then darted off in another direction for
better game. But when they see a
deer with antlers lifted in mighty
challenge to earth and sky, and the
sleek hide looks as if it had been
by invisible hands, and the
fat sides enclose the richest pasture
that could be nibbled from the bank
Of rills so clear they seem to have
dropped out of heaven, and the stamp
IF its foot defies the jack-shooting Ian
tern and the rifle, the horn and the
hound, that deer they will have if they
must needs break their necks in the
rapids. So if there were DO noble
oifurcated nothing, if you were for
orn failure, you would he allowed to
90 undisturbed; but the fact that the
whole pack is in full cry after you is
proof positive that you are spendid
game and worth capturing. Therefore |
draws on you its finest |
,ead"; therefore the world goes run
ling for you with its best Winchester
Highest compliment is |
t to your talent, or your virtue or |
vour usefulness. You will be assailed |
n proportion to your great achieve |
nents. The best and the mightiest |
Being the world ever saw had set after |
lin all the hounds, terrestrial and dia-
'olic, and they Tapped his blood after
he Calvarean massacre. The world |
laid nothing to its Redeemer but a
four spikes and a cross.
fanny who have done their best to
make the world better have had such
rough time Of it that all their pleas