The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-10-11

dollars i'm barrels, in vats, in spigots
in corkscrews, in gin palaces will
marble foors and Italian top tables
and chased ice coolers, and i'm tn,
f strychnine and the logwoOd and tn,
tartaric acid and the nux vomica that
go to make up our pure" American
drinks. ! looked with wondering eve,
on the Heidelberg tun." II is IN,
great liquor vat of Germany, which is
said 10 hold 500 hogsheads of wine
and only three times in 100 years il
has been filled. But as | stood and
looked at it I said to myself: THAT
is nothing-SOO hogsheads. Why, our
American vat holds 100000 barrels
of strong drinks and we keep 100000
men with nothing to 90 but to see
that it is filled"
Oh, to attack the great monster OF
intemperance and the kindred mon
sters of fraud and uncleanliness re-
quires you to rally all your Christian
courage. Through the press. through
the pulpit, through the platform you
must assault it. Would to God that
all our American Christians would
band together, not for crack Drained
fanaticism, but for holy Christian re-
forml 1 think it was in 1898 that
there went out from Lucknow, India,
under the sovereign, the greatest
hunting party that was ever project
ed. There were 10000 armed men in
that hunting party. There were cam
els and horses and elephants. On
some princes rode. and royal ladies
under exquisite housings, and 500
coolies waited upon the train, and
the desOate places of India were In
gaded by this excursion, and the rhi-
noceros and deer and elephant fell
under the stroke of the saber and
bullet. After awhile the party
brought back trophies worth $4,000
rupees, having left the wilderness of
India CHASTITY with the slain bodies of
wild beasts. Would TO God that in
stead of here and there straggler
going out to fight these great mon
sters of iniquity in our country the
millions of membership in our
churches would band together and
hew in twain these great crimes that
make the land frightful with their
roar and are fattening upon the
bodies and souls of immortal menl
Who is ready for such a party as
that? Who will be a mighty hunter
for the Lord?
I remark. again, f you want to be
successful in spiritual archery you
need not only to bring down game,
but bring IL in. ! think one of the
most beautiful pictures of Thorwald-
sen is his Autumn" 1t represents
sportsman coming home and stand
ing under a grapevine. He has a
staff over his shoulder, and on the
other end of that staff are hung a
rabbit and a brace of birds. Every
hunter brings home the game. No
one would think of bringing down a
roebuck or whipping up a stream for
trout and letting them lie in the
woods. At eventide the camp is
adorned with the treasures of the
and fin and antler.
II you go out to hunt for immortal
souls, not only bring them down un-
der the arrow of the Gospel, but bring
them into the church of God, the
grand home and encampment we have
pitched this side the skies. Fetch
them in; do not let them lie out in
the open field. They need our
prayers and sympathies and help
That is the meaning of the church of
God-help. o We hunters for the
Lord, not only bring down the game,
but bring II in.
If Mithridates liked hunting so well
that for seven years he never went
indoors, what enthusiasm ought we
to have who are hunting for immor-
tai soulsl If Domitian practiced arch
cry until he could stand a boy down |
in the Roman amphitheater with a
hand out, the fingers spread apart,
and then the king could shoot an ar
row between the fingers without
wounding them, to what drill and
what practice ought we to subject
ourselves in order to become spirit
nal archers and mighty hunters be-
lore the Lord" But let me say you
will never work any better than you
pray. The ola archers took the bow,
put one end of it down beside the
'oot, elevated the other end, and ii
vas the rule that the bow should be
ust the size OF the archer If il were
ust his size, then he would 60 into
he battle with confidence. Let me
ay that your power to project good
n the world will correspond exactly
o your own spiritual stature. In
,ther words, the first thing in prep
ration for Christian work is person
i conservation.
Oh for a closer walk with God.
a calm and heavenly frame,
A light 10 shine upon the road
That leads me 10 the lamb
There is in forest in Germany
lace they call the deer leap"-two
rags, about IS yards apart; between
hem a fearful chasm. This is called
he deer leap because once a hunt
r was on the track of a deer. J.
anne TO one of these crags. There
fas no escape LOT it from the pur-
nit of the hunter, and in utter de-
pair it gathered itself up and in the
cath agony attempted TO jump
cross. OF course it fell and was
ashed on the rocks far beneath.
Iere is a path TO Heaven. It is plain;
is safe. Jesus marks it out for
very man 10 walk in. But here is a
ian who says: 81 won't walk in