Milford chronicle., 1905-03-31
CalmaQe
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee. D. D.


Of indiscriminate recommendation.
The text is Proverbs vi. 2. Thou art
shared with the words of thy mouth"
There are many ways Of killing game.
The one is to go after it with gun, ar
row or spear; to slay it, as "Scotty"
McDougall slew Kfag, the Kootenay
ram Of Mountain Sheep range; or to
lie In wait for it, as did Roualeyn
George GOrden Cumming the mighty
lion hunter" in African Jungle: or to
relentlessly follow it through American
forests, as did Pathfinder in the old
Leather Stocking Tales" or to course
for 1t, as the old English sportsman
with hounds used to chase the foxes
over the Lancashire fats; or to pursue
1t with hawks, as the knights of old in
falcOnry would hunt the birds Of the
air. As the eyes of the Jungle mon !
archs or the kings Of the aif look into |
the fearless and unfinching eyes Of |
man, the hunter knows that an un- !
steady hand or a bullet miscarrying |
its mark one inch may mean his own
death. Then the ''lives of the hunted"
might become the elves of the hunt
ers."
Mighty must be the exhilaration of a
brave man when killing big game. Al
most intoxicated with excitement must
be that modern Esau, Chanler, who, in
the solitude Of an African forest hun
dreds Of miles inland, hears the wild
roar Of a man eating monster coming
nearer and nearer to the deer licks :
Lying there, he knows that If he can
only slay yOnder mountain of muscle
he will save scores and perhaps hun
dreds of human lives, for man eating
lion or tiger has been known to live }
for years upon human flesh So fear q
full do the natives become of such hu- y
man destrOyers that they have depopu- '
lated whole villages and towns, fleeing
from their ravages. L
Next to the actual experience of per- II
sonally hunting the wild beasts of the d
forest is the fascination Of reading Il
about the marvellous deeds Of the p
stortsmen who destroy them. Hunting N
such animals single handed and alone
always has had and always will have ~
an attraction for brave men. The al
hunters life is a dramatic and an ex- d
citing one. But there is a more ef- N
fectual means Of depopulating the for :!
ests Of their game than the gun. the az
arrow or the spear. The trapper's work "
mas always been more fatal to game OF
han the aimed rife Of a Kit Carson. ~
Where a modern American Nimrod has. "
)een able to shoot one mountain lion Dc
n night the trapper of the Hudson nc
Bay Fur company was able to come pt
nto camp staggering under the pelts al
Il ten, twenty, fifty wild beasts killed pa
a the same night. Yes, the trapper's le'
work is the most widespread and dan NJ
'erous and deadly to the wild beasts "
( a forest. As the Rocky mountain Du
'ear might put his great shaggy paw OF
ntO merciless trap, whose iron jaws Ia
nap shut and whose teeth probe their Iol
7ay through his flesh to the bone. this
bible scene Of my text describes the stl
redicament of the indOrser who fool IA
silly becomes the guarantOr of a friends all
r an acquaintance's honor. As old do
ruin tugs and pulls to get his leg loose up
nd Keeps on tugging and pulling until ma
t last he pulls OH his leg or in des- WI
GRAFTON eats it off to get free and then nei
oes hobbling away to his den, so wi
ing Solomon describes the somewhat VIII
milar predicament of the unfortunate cia
AN who has become a surety for his tai
lend. MY son." said he, "if thou to
2 a security for thy friend, = ou'
ou art shared with the words of thy his
outh, thou art taken with the words sig
thy mouth" 1t is manning or de- mil
ruction by an unseen trap. The in ma
'rser's dangers are great. l preach DIRE
Is sermon to warn my hearers and of
aders against these ensnarements ma
hich are set for many of us. And frit
hen warn you against the indorser's lOOl
r.ls asO warn you against the sins
an unjust recommendation of in d
friends or mere acouaint- hon
ces for positions which you do not in
sitively know they are able to fill VIII,
Iese two evils come in the same cate TAX
r. drei
The InaOrser's Predicament. bac
Nhs Is the indorser's predicament frO1
Q that Of a wild beast caught in a whi
y? First. because he is enticed into win
dangers unawares. He does not recG
* them out Of a silly curiosity OF fthe
IN nero idle desire like the ante but
es that eome nearer and nearer to fear
'7hi5o iag waved by the hunters speG
ag hidCel in the grass. He does not New
lrge them, as a wounded stag might leas
n upon the hounds or an angry mad
IT, caring not what happens, might pers
b against the fatal spear held out sucC
his destruction. But the indOrser scor
IS into his trap as unsuspectingly wou
innOcently as the wild turkeys are daul
ght The trappers build cage then
b small opening. Then they scat The
corn along the path leading to the fami
e, and the wild turkeys, with their abou
ds down picking up the corn. walk that
the trap, and when they lift their kind
1s they cannot see the exit and are at h
" slain. He goes into 1t and is Blu
-ured as the mighty Bengal tiger is the 3
ght IN a cage. The agile beast that