Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-10-19, Page 3djiSGED BY TRIALS. A SERMON OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO /r THOSE. AFFLICTED. HUNTING THE DEER THE THEME.. Tho Gospel as a Refreshment Graph -1,017 Set Forth -Refuge in God's Word for Those Pursued lay tha Rounds. of Poverty and Misfortune. Washington, Oct, 15,—The gospel as a great refreshment is here set forth by Dr. Talmage under a figure which will be found particularly graphic hythose who have gene oat as hunters to find game in the moue- tains; text, Psalm xiii, I, "As the hart panteth after the water brooks." David, who must some time have seen a deer hunt, points us here to a hunted etag making for the water. The fascinating animal, called in my text the hart, is the saane animal that in sacred and profane literature is called the stag, the roebuck, the hint]. the gazelle, the reindeer. In central a'yriaa in Bible times there were whole pasture fields of them, as Soloman suggests when he says, "I charge you by the hinds of the field." Their antlers jutted front the long grass as they lay dawn. No, hunter who has been long in "dohs Brown's tract" will w ouder that in the Bible they were classed among clean animals, for the dews, the showers, the lakes, washed them as Iv clean as the sky. When Isaac, the patriarch, lnngod for venison, Esau shot and brought homea roebuck. Isaiah compares time sprightliness of the restere•tl Cripple of the millennial times to the, long and quick jump of the stag, saying, .The lame shall leap as the hart." Solomon express- ed his disgust at a hunter who, hav- ing shot a deer, is too lazy to cook it, saying, "The slothful man reinst- ate not that which he took in as hunt- amr• you depreciated then, or they reeaehed you in a ba.rgain, and youe tried in Wall street parlance, to get a corner on them. Or you have had bereavement, and, instead of be - inn submissive, you are fighting that bereavement. You charge on the doctors who have failed, to effect a cure. Or you charge on the care- lessness of the railroad company through 'which the accident occurred. Or you are a chronic invalid, and you fret and worry and scold and wonder why you cannot be well like other people. and you angrily charge on the neuraigia or the larnygitis or the ague or the sick headache. The fact .is you are a deer at bay, In- stead of running to the waters of di- vine consolation and slaking your thirst and cooling your body and soul in the good cheer of the gospel and swimming away into the mighty deeps of Goers love, you are fight- ing a, whole kennel of harriers. Some time ago I saw in the Adir- ondacks adog lying across the road, and he seemed unable to get up, and I said to some hunters, "What is the matter with that dog?" They answered, "A deer hurt him," and I saw he had a swollen paw and a bat- tered head, showing where the ant- lers struck Aim. And the probabili- ty is that some of you might give a mighty clip to your pursuers. Y ou might damage their business, you night worry thein into ill health, you might hurt thein as .touch as they hurt you; but, after alh it is not worth while. You only have hurt oa hound. Better be off for the Upper Saranac, into which the mountains of God's eternal strength look down and moor their shadows. There are whole chains of lakes in the Adirondacks, and from one height you can see 30 lakes, and there are said to be over SOO in the great wil- derness. So near are they to each other that your mountain guide Dirks up and carries the boat thorn leke to lake, the small distance be- tween thelia for that reason called a "tarry." And the realm of God's word Is one long chain of bright, re- freshieg lakes, each promise a lake, a very short carry between 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 sante David describes therm. and they seem so near to- gether that in three different places he speaks of theme es a continuous river, saying, "Ther' is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of trod;" "Thou shalt make them drink of the rivers of thy pleas- ures;" "Thou greatly enriehest it w Kit the river of Gad, which is full of water." But many 01 you have turned your back on that supply and confront your trouble, and you are soured with your circumstances. and you are lighting society,and you aro fighting a i n g a pursuing world, and troubles, in- stead 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. I do not blame you. Probably under the same circum- stances I would have done worse. But you are wrong. You need to do as the reindeer does in February and 1tla,rch—it sheds its Borns, But very ninny of you who are wronged of the world --and ff In any assembly between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans it were asked that all who had been badly treated should raise both their hands, and full response sho ld be made, there would be twice as many hands lifted as persons present I say many of you would declare, "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 to capture it? Therefore sarcasm draws on you its "finest bead;" therefore the world goes gunning for you with its best Winchester breechloader. High- est compliment is it to your talent or your virtue or your usefulness. You will be assailed in proportion to your great achievements. The best and the mightiest Being the world ever saw bad set after him all the hounds, terrestrial and diabolic, and they lapped his blood after the Calvarean massacre. The world paid nothing to its Redeemer but a bram- ble, four spikes and a rross. Many who have done their best to make the world better have had such a rough time of it that all their pleas- ure to in anticipation of the next world, and they would, if they could, express their own feelings in the words of the Baroness of Nairn, at the close of her long life, when ask- ed if she would like to live her life over again: Mg." But one day David, while far from the Rome from which he had been, driven and sitting near the iuouth of a, lonely gave where he had lodged and on the banks of a pond or river, hears a p,tek of hounds in swift pur- suit. Because of the previous silence of the forst the clangor startles him, and be says to himself, "I won- der what those dogs are lettere' Then there is a erncklitag in the brushwood and the loud breathing of some rushing wonder of the woods, and the antlers of a deer rend the Maes of the thicket, and. by an instinct which all hunters re- cognize it plunges into a. pond or lake or river to cool its thirst and at the sante time, by its capacity for swifter and longer swimming, to get away from the foaming har- riers. David says to himself: "Aha! That is myself! Saul after ane, Absalom after rte, enemies without number after me. I am chased, their bloody muzzles at my heels, barking at nay good nanme, backing after my body, Marking after my soul. Oh, the hounds, the hounds] But look there!" says David. "That hunted deer has splashed into the water. It puts its hot lips and nostrils into the cool wave that washes the lath- ered flanks, and it swims away from the fiery canines, and it is free at last. Oh, that I might iInd in the deep, wide lake of God's mercy and consolation escape from my pursuers! Oh, for the seaters of life and res- cue As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, 0 God." Some of you have just come from the Adironclacks, and the breath of the balsam and spruce and pine is still on you. The Adirondacks are now populous with hunters, and the deer are being slain by the score. Once while there talking with a hun- ter I thought I would like to see whether my text was accurate io its allusion, and as I heard the dogs baying a little way off and supposed they were on the track of a. deer I said to the hunter in rough corduroy, "Do the deer always make for the water when they are pur- sued?" He said: "Oh, yes, inister. You see, they are a hot and thirsty animal, and they know where the water is, and when they hear dan- ger in the distance they lift their antlers and snuff the breeze and start for Racquet or Loon or Saranac, and we get into our cedar shell boat or stand by the runway with rifle load- ed ready toblaze away." 9' - My friends, that is one reason why I like the Bible so much. Its par- tridges Are real partridges, its os- triches real ostriches and its rein= deer real reindeer. I do not wonder that this antlered glory of the text makes the hunter's eye sparkle and his cheek glow and his respiration quicken, to say nothing of its use- fulness, although it is the most use- ful of all game, its flesh delicious, its skin turned into human apparel, its sinews fashioned into bow strings, its antlers putting handles on cutlery and . the shavings of its horns used as a restorative, its name taken from the hart and called harts- horn. By putting aside its useful- ness this enchanting creature seems made out of gracefulness and elasti- city. What an eye, with a liquid brightness as if gathered up from a hundred lakes at sunset! The horns a coronal branching into every pos- sible curve, and, after it seems done, ascending- into other projections of exquisiteness, a tree of polished bone, uplifted in or swungdown for pride. awful combat! It is velocity em- bodied, timidity impersonated.. Well, now, let all those who have coming after them the lean hounds of poverty or the black hounds of persecution . or the spotted hounds of vicissitude or the pale hounds of death or who are in any wise pur- sued run to the wide, deep, glorious • lake of divine solace and rescue. The most of the men and women whom • I happen to know at different times, Sf not now, have had • trouble after ahem, sharp, muszled troubles swift trnubles, all devouring , troubles. Many of you have made the mistake wrenches off all bondage. His handn r —it wipes awayall tears. His. Christly atonement—it makes us all right with the past, and all right with the future,, tend all right with God, all right with man, and all right forever. Lantartine tells us that Ding Nim- rod said to his three sons: "Here are three vases, and one is of clay, another of amber and another of gold_ Choose now which you will have," The eldest son, having the first choice, chose the vase of gold, on which was written the word "Ezn- Aire," and when it was opened it was found to contain human blood, The second son, making the next choice, chose the vase .of amber, in- scribed with the word "Glory," and. when opened it contained the ashes of those who were once called great. The third son took the vase of clay and, opening it, found it empty, but on the bottom of it was inscribed the name of God, King Nimrod ask- ed his courtiers which vase they thought weighed the most, The ava- ricious men of his court said the vase. of gold, the poets said the one of amber, but the wisest men said the empty vase, because one letter- of the name of God outweighed a, universe. For him I thirst, for his grace I beg, on his promise I build my all, Without hint I cannot be happy. I have tried the world, and it does well enough as far as it goes, but it is too uncertain a world, too evanescent a world. I ant not a pre judiced witness. 1 have nothing against this world. I have been one of the most fortunate or, to use a more Christian word, one of the most blessed of nmee—blessed in my parents, blessed in the place of nam tivity, blessed in my health, blessed in any fields of work, blessed in my natural temperament, blessed in my farrtily, blessed in my opportunities, blessed in the hope that my soul will go to heaven through the pardoning mercy of Cod, and my body, unless it be lost at seaor cremated in some conflagration, will lie down among my kindred and friends, some already gone and others to come af ter ane. Through Jesus Christ make this God your God, and you can with- stand anything and everything, and that which affrights others will in- spire you --.-as in time of earthquake, when an old Christian woman, asked whether she was scared, answered, "No; I am glad that I have a God who can shake the world," or as in a financial panic, when a. Christian merchant, asked if he did not fear he would break, answered, "Yes; I shall break when the Fiftieth Psalm breaks in the fifteenth verse, "Call upon me in the day of trouble; I Will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify ire,' " We are told in Revelation xxii, 1,5, "Without are clogs," by which I con- clude there is a whole kennel of hounds outside the gate of heaven, or, as when a master goes in a door, his clog lies on the steps waiting for him to come out, so the troubles of this life may follow us to the shining door, but they cannot get in. "Without are dogs." I have seen clogs and owned dogs that I would not be chagrined to see in the hea- venly city. Some of the grand old watchdogs who are the constabulary of the homes in solitary places and for years have been the only protec- tion of wife and child, some of the shepherd dogs that drive back the wolves and bark away the flock from going too near the precipice and some of the dogs whose neck and paw Landseer, the painter, has made immortal would not find me shut- ting them out from the gate of shin- ing pearl. I say if some soul entering heaven should happen to leave the gate ajar and these faithful creatures should quietly walk in it would not at all disturb my heaven. But all those human or brutal hounds that have chased and torn and lacerated the world—yea, all that now bite or worry or tear to pieces—shall be prohibited. "Without are dogs." No place there for harsh critics or back- biters or despoilers of the reputation of others. •Down with you to the kennels of darkness and despair! The hart has reached the eternal wa- ter brooks, and the panting of the long chase is quieted in still pas- tures, anh "there shall be nothing to hurt or destroy in all God's holy mount." Oh, when some of you 'get tbere it will be like what a hunter tells of when he was pushing his canoe far up north in the winter and amid the ice floes and a hundred miles, as he thought, from any other human beings. He was startled one day as he heard a stepping on the ice, and he cocked the rifle, ready to meet anything that came near. He found a man, barefooted and insane from long exposure, approaching him. Taking hien into his canoe and kin- bling fres to warm him, he restored him, found out where he had lived and took him to his home and found all the village in great excitement. A hundred men were searching for this lost man, and his family and friends rushed out to meet him, and, as had been agreed. at his first ap- pearance, bells were rung, and guns were discharged, and banquets spread and the rescuer loaded with pres- ents. Well, when some of you step out of this wilderness, where you have been chilled and torn and some- times lost amid the icebergs, into the warm greetingsof all the .vil- lages of the glorified, and your friends rush out to, give you welcom- ing kiss, the news that there is .an- other soil forever saved will call the caterers of heaven to spread the ban- quet and the bellmen to lay hold of the ropein the tower, and while chalices click at the feast and the bells clang from the turrets it will be a scene so uplifting I pray God I may be there to take part in the celestial merriment. And now do you not, think the prayer in Solomon's'. Song where he compared Christ to a reindeer in the night would make an exquisitely appropriate peroration to my sermon, "Until the day break and the shadows flee away be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bother?" Rill •f'Tt,a Old Ideas. Would you be young again? So would not I. One tear of memory given Onward I'll hie. Life's dark wave forded o'er, All but at rest on shore, Say, would you plunge once more, With home so nigh? If you might, would you now Retrace your way, Wander through stormy wilds, Faint and astray? Night's gloomy watches fled; Morning, all beaming red; Hope's smile around us shed, Heavenward, away! But what is a relief for all those pursued of trouble and annoyance and pain and bereavement? My text gives it to you in a word of three letters, but each letter is a chariot if you triumph, or a throne if you want to be crowned, ora. lake if you would slake your thirst—yea, a chain of three lakes—G-o-d, the one for whom David longed and the one whom David found. You might as well meet a stag which, after its sixth mile of running at the topmost speed through thicket and gorge and with the breathof the dogs on its heels, has come in full sight of Schroon Lake and try to cool its projecting and blistered tongue with a blade of grass as to attempt to satisfy an immortal soul, when fly- ing: from trouble and sin, with any- thing less deep and high and ' broad O UL P PU ARS S O UPtR TITI NS. Ckaraeter In shoes. -'he Four Leav- ed Clover Charm. It is said that character may be read from an old pair of shoes. If the sole and heel are equally worn, the wearer is wise and energetic if a man, faithful and or- derly if a woman. When the inner edges are worn, it signifies feebleness and ir- resolution in a man, sweetness and mod- esty in a woman. When the greater wear appears at the outer edges, it is an. indication that a roan is obstinate, perse- vering and bold, and that a women is full of resolution and authority. Some women have or profess to have a horror of spiders. The spider is, how - of trying to fight them. Som®hod and immense and infinite and eternal II Heas three years old are not profit- g Y than God.'' His comfort—why; it em- 1 able to keep, except they are of the steamy attacked you, and you at- boseoma all distress. His arm—it small laying: varieties. *salted .them. They depreciated yep. TAFFETA conning, ever, a bringer of good fortune, according to superstitious authorities, and to kill a optder is to incur 111 luck. The four leaved clover continues to be the favorite porte bonbenr and is seen in gold, silver, enamel and jewels, or the real clover Is incased in erystal and set like a jewel. The picture shows a gown of sky blue skirt, over taffeta. having a plaited, s rt, which Is a tunic of blue taffeta embroidered with white silk. The bodice, which is rat- ted at the back, has bolero fronts em- broidered with white, closing by a' white satin bow and gold buckle over a blouse of puffed blue taffeta. The sleeves are plaited across the top and have embroid- ered caps. The white satin belt is fast- ened by a gold buckle. The hat of white felt is trimmed with black plumes and pink roses. Xylem CUOLLET, FALL FASHIONS. STAGE FLIGHT FATAL MANY OASES WHERE IT BROUGHT DEATH TO THE VICTIM. The AQlietiou is Not Confined to lie - clatters Before the Pootlights, bet Has Been Known to Attack Players of Experience, WORDS FROM THE HEAR' L iOY.tt SCOTIA:► FAR3IER TELL$ HOW ILE REGAINED HEALTH.. Be Suh'ered for Years I+rorn .Kidney Trouble, Sick 1 eaciaehe and Rheumna- tient-Although Adv aneed in .Life $e ""Of ail the many ills to which the Hits Found a Cure. atrical flesh is belt," said an old From the Enterprise, Bridgewater, physician who has a large clientele of IsT. S. actors, "the worst is stage fright, This Solomon ►Meldrum, Esc,]., of Upper is nothing less than a species of heart Branch, Luneuburg Co., N. S., is a disease, induced by the nervous dread gentleman of Scorch descent, and well known throughout the county. He is an agriculturist of repute and is pro- minent in the local affairs of the Bap- tist denomination. Referring to Dr.. Williams' Pink Pills, he says: ---"I consider them a most wonderful and beneficieut revelation in the realm of medicine. Previous to using these pills some two years ago, I had suffer- ed for years from kidney trouble and rheumatism. Many a time I had been. so bad that I could do nothing but endure the pain and pray for physical deliverance. My advanced age, being nearly 70 years old, made a cure look almost impossible, huuianIy consider - ems comrade laughed at the notion I ed, in a. ease of such long standing and urged him to go an, as usual, but But Monks to the 'Lord and Dr. his astonishment may well be eon- lime' Pink Pills, I ata here to -day ill excellent health with scarcely an ill feeling to remind ire of past su ar• Ings, Something over two years age I read of the wonderful cures attend - was due to failure of the heart's action, ing the use of Dr. Williams' Piny evidently Induced by the presence of Pills, 1 thought if these test mcniali an attack of stage fright, are tree it is possible the pills may "Death is by no means an Infrequent benefit even ane, I bought six bezel end to the trouble, and more than one first, used them strictly as dire tsd, case in my own practice has euded fa- and with the Lord's blessing they did tally. It Is not always the person whose nae mueh good. But my ailmentt heart is already affected who suffers were chronic, deep seated, and I am the moat, either, for 1. recall one case an old inan. The cure was not cora- some years ago where a your ;woman plate, and I got twelve boxes more whose heart t knew #a tke perfectly with all faith in the result. I only normal made her professional debut In had to are six boxes of the second lot this city. While standing in the wings when I found myself quite free from awaiting her first cue she was seized kidney troubles, rlaeuntatism and all with an attack of stage fright and other bodily ailments, except the dis- trembled violently, ability incidental to persons of my "Not tillshe heard the line spoken advanced age, an oven these were in which was her signal for entrance did a measure relieved. i may add that she make any effort at recovery, and for a long time before I used the pills then, to the surprise of these who were trying to get her In shape, she and when I began their use, I was the braced up and went on the stage as victim of the most distressing attaclrs though she had been on the boards for years. She went through her part mechanically Dud without apparent consciousness of her actions, but she played the scene better than she bad done at rehearsal. "At the close of her scene she came ori the stage, staggered to her dressing room and sank unconscious to the floor. She never recovered from her coma, and an autopsy developed the fact that she had died of heart disease, though I had examined her shortly before and could find no trace of cardiac affection. "Several standard authorities quote the case of a young English aspirant who came to the theater on the night of his debut in a state bordering on nervous prostration. He was braced up on brandy and given encourage- ment by those on the stage with him, but no sooner had he stepped upon the stage than he clapped his hand upon his heart and fell dead. The excite- ment had ruptured the valves of his heart, and he had ended his career as he was about to begin it. "One curious case was told me not long ago by one of the physicians at Bloomingdale. A young man, a mem- ber of a college dramatic club, was brought there for treatment. He had been' cast for a part in the spring production, and this extra study, add- ed to the regular studies imposed by the collegiate course, caused some- thing to give way. On the occasion of the dress rehearsal it was found that he could not remember a line of his part, and this so worried him that he broke down and was brought here. "For several weeks • he could not speak an intelligent sentence, and. then suddenly his part came back to him, and he could go through it, cues and all, without a break. For another full week he kept going through the lines of his part, and then developed a that one's performance may not be sue• cessful. This naturally attacks begin- ners more often than old stagers, and yet instances are by no means isolated where death bas been brought about tbrougb its evils, even in the case of old timers. "Perhaps, however, the most peculiar instance of all was that of the veteran performer who had gone through 30 years of stage work without experienc- ing this malady. One night, however, be confided to a fellow player that a quite unaccountable nervousness had suddenly taken hold of ]lila and that he did not think he could ever act again. White Costumes and White Trim- mings Icor Other Gowns. White costumes are still much in evi- dence. In cloth, serge and crepe de chine they adapt themselves for autumn wear, both for in and out of doors. A novel idea in tailor made gowns is the combination of pique and cloth, not merely the use of a pique shirt waist or vest with a cloth gown or the addition of removable pique collars, cuffs and revers, but the employment of stitched bands, applications and trimmings of pique sew- ed permanently on the cloth; also the cloth is sometimes perforated in designs which reveal pique beneath. The pique ceived when the poor old player went on the stage and, after malting several vatu efforts to speak, fell back and •ex- pired. The doctor who made the post mortem examination stated that death TAILOR MADE JACKET. Is usually white, . and the transitory na- ture of these costumes is too self evident, to require comment, Many gowns for autumn and winter ars decorated with a border band of cloth, plain or embroidered. The cloth employed Is very thin and fine. The picture illustrates a tailor made jacket of red cloth. It is tight fitting and fastens diagonally with two . groups of crystal buttons. The basque and• revers are slashed, and all edges, as well as the sleeves, are bordered with rows of black hi linen collar and braid. A w to a d shirt bosom, with a black cravat, are worn, and a hat of black braided felt with red flowers, white lace and black quills. JUDIC CHOLLET.' ' Clear Cut. The Rev. F. W. Greenstreet furnishes the London Spectator with an amusing epitaph. • When he was curate of Tetbury, Glen- eesterirhlre fifties the parish church contained, the , ained, and no doubt still con- taint, ° a marble slab near the west door inscribed as follows: "In a vault underneath lie several of the Saundersea late of this parish. Par ticulara the last day, will disclose, severe attack of brain fever, from which he came out perfectly rational, but, oddly enough, with absolutely no memory of the lines o1 the play In question. "The excitement caused by stage fright is a most curious thing, and did the opportunity present, I should like to write a treatise on the subject, for it is a fascinating one, but I am kept too busy patching up the troubles that exist to write of the troubles which have existed." Japan's Spider Plague. Spiders are a serious plague in Ja- pan. They spin their webs on the telegraph wires, and are so numerous as to cause a serious loss of insula- tion. Sweeping the wires does little good, as the spiders begin all over again. Ask for Minard's and take no other. f sick headache, the sensation of sea- siekness in extreme violence being not a whit more distressing. These at- taeks came on once or twiee a weak. After taking tho pills, the attacks be- came less frequent and less trouble- some and finally ceased almost entire- ly. My son who lived at a distance took the remaining six boxes and stated to me that they did hina ranch good. This I do know, that he looked much fresher and appeared in better spirits after their use. Believing as I do that an over -ruling power suggests to mortals all the wise and beneficial thoughts and inventions which oper- ate to improve our race, and allay and cure our suffering, I say again that I thank the Lord and Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for my prolonged life and present good health. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure by go- ing to the root of the disease. They renew and build up the blood, and strengthen the nerves, thus driving disease from the system. Avoid imi- tations by insisting that every box you purchase is enclosed in a wrapper bearing the full trade mark, Dr. Wil - limns' Pink Pills for Pale People. If your dealer does not keep them they will be sent post paid at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by addressing the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Disfigured. He Hid Himself, Richard Brownlow, ]mown as the Lancashire hermit, has just died near Bolton, England. He began life as a lawyer, but was afflicted with a dis- ease that disfigured his face, compel- ling him to wear a mask. He built himself a fine country house on top of a hill at Horwich, and lived in it for 50 years, never leaving his grounds except at night. New life for a quarter. Miller's Com- pound Iron Pills. Facts Told. By Eyes. It is said that the health of the bru- nette• type of eye is. as a rule, super- ior to that of the blonde type. Black eyes usually indicate good powers of physical endurance. Dark blue eyea are most common in persons of deli- cate, refined or effeminate natures, and generally show weak health, You need not cough all night and dis- turb your friends ; there is no occasion for you running the risk of contracting in- flammation of the fangs or consumption, while you can get Bickie's Anti -Con- snmptive Syrup. This medicine cures coughs, colds, inflammation of the lungs and all throat and chest troubles. It pro- motes a free and ease expectoration, which immediately relieves the throat and lungs from viscid phlegm. M 4_- it'a. /Lt! saasa gua �l� " ioiL sl i ' �1 - l�0�771<�LfL,Qi 70•72.4,44;,, 144e, 0110,