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reCeeee eC UCCUUUUVT?Y? puVvVvVweuvvuvvrer+Trwverf¢q~r;:st??* rowwuewv r 4 OOD DDFS IS SPS OSS 6OOOOOOOOOOOOGOHOOHOOOOHOOH OO0OO0OOGOOO0000OOOO Y vwevuew ~ RIVERS OF DIVINE COMFORT. Talmage Points Out Out Where All Those Pursued By the < Hounds of Poverty, or Persecution Can Find . Solace and Rescue. Ad > to fe lay ODPL DIDI IIS Washington, Oct. 9.--Dr. Walton gs: drawing his illustrations from a deer hunt, in this discourse calls all .the come and slake their thirst at the deep river of divine comfort, _ Text, Psalms 's1iL, 1: "As the hart panteth after the Water apace: so panteth my soul after thee, O David, ee must some time have seen a deer hunt, points us here toa hunted stag making for the water. The fascinating animal called.in my text the hart is the same animal that in sacred and profane literature is called the stag, .the roebuck, the the gazelle, the reindeer. In Central "Syria in Bible times there were whole Lapel fields of them, as when he says, 'I charge you by hinds of the field." lay | in "John Brown's tract" that in the Bible they among clean animals, for the dews, the showers, the lakes washed them clean as the sky. When Leaae: the saying, hart." sust at a hunter who, having shot a deer, js too lazy to - cook it, saying, "The slothful man roasteth not Which he took in huntin But one day David, w hile far from the home from which he had been driv- en, and sitting near the mouth of a lonely cave where he had lodged, and on the 'banks of a pond or river, heard | a pack of hounds in swift pursuit. Be- cause of the previous silence of the forest the clangor startles him, and he says to himself, "I wonder what those | ling in the brushwood, and the breathing of some rushing wonder of | the woods and the antlers of a deer; rend the leaves of the thicket and by, an instinct which all hunters recognise ; the creature plunges into a pool lake or river to cool its thirst and a the same time by Its capacity for swifter and longer swimming to ge away from the foaming harriers. Da- vid.says to himself: "Aha, that Is my- : self! Saul after me, Absalom after me, enemies without number after me: ° ere " am chased. their bloody muzzles at my heels, barking at my good name, bark- ing after my body, barking after my soul. Oh, the hounds, the hounds! look there," says David to "that reindeer has splashed its canines and it at I might -find in of God's mercy and deep, wide "ta e : from: my pursuers! consolation escape Oh, for the waters of life and rescue! 'As the hart pdmteth after: the water brooks, 80 panieth my seul after thee. © God." : The Adirondacks are now populous ; with hunters, and the deer are being slain by the score. Talking one sum- mer With a hunter, I thought I would ; like to see whether my text was accur- ate in its allusion, and as I heard the dogs baying a little way off and sup- they were on the track of a said to one of the hunters in rough corduroy, "Do the deer always make 'for water when they are pure sued?" e said: "Oh, ye miste You see they are a hot and thirsty moe mal and they know where the water is, and when they hear danger-in the dis- tance they lift their antlers and sniff the breeze and start for the Raquet or pose deer, I Loon or Saranac, and we get into our eedar shell boat or stand by the 'run- way' with rifle londed and ready to blaze away My friends, that is one reason why I like the Bible so much--its allusions are so true to nature, Its partridges are real partridges, its ostriches real ostriches and its reindeer real reindeer. not wonder this antlered, glory of the text makes the hunter's: eve sparkle und his cheek glow and his respiration quicken. To say nothing of its usefulness, although it is the most useful of all game. its flesh delicious, its skin turned inte human apparel, its sinews fashioned into bowstrings, its antlers putting handles on cutlery and the shavings of its horn used as a pun- gent restorative, the name taken from the hart and called hartshorn. But putting aside its usefulness, this en- chanting creature seems made out of gracefulness and elasticity. What an eve. with a liquid brightness as if gath- ered from a hundred lakes at sunset! es Thé horns, a coronal: branching inte every possible curve, and after it seems complete ascending into other projec- tions_of exquisiteness, a tree of polish- ed- bone, uplifted in pride or swung r awful combat. The hart .is , embodied; timidity impersen- the ench: oe of the woods. 'and ,~athetie in ated: Its eve Instrous in lift death. Well,, now, let all those who have coming after them the lean hounds «% poverty, or the black hounds of perse- cution, or the spotted hounds of vicis- situde, vr the pale houads of death, or who are in, any wise pursued, run to the wide, deep, glorious lake of divine solace and Eee e: The most of the men Whom I happened to erent times, if not now, trouble after them, sharp awitt 'troubles, all devourin®stroubles. Many of you have made the mistake of trying to fight them. Somebody meanly attacked you, and you attacked them. They dae cated you, you deprecated tes they overreached you in a beets: and you tried, in Wall street parlance, to get a corner on them, or you have had a bereavement, am? instea submissive, you aré fightin ou charge on,the doctors dent occurred, or you are a chronic in- well like other people, m4 Pet? angrily blame the neuralgia, o @ laryngitis, Their antlers jut- ; g,| Up an Solomon expressed his dis- { jy (1 do not blame you. wv ~ PPO SVS YS FS or the ague, or 'the sick headache. The fact is you are a deer a Instéad of running to the waters of divine sons solation and slaking your thirst: pursued and troubled-of-the-earth--to-}-cooling your body" and soul tn the e600 cheer of the -gospel and swimming away into the mighty deep of God's love you are fighting a whole sonnet of harrier he seemed unable to get up, @ hunters near b that deer hurt him." And I saw he hada great swollen paw and a battered head, showing where the antlers struck him. And the probability Is that some of you might give a mighty clip-to your pursuers, you ati damage their busi- orry them into ill- "the ey ust you; but, after all, | not worth while. You. only have hurt a hound. Better be off for the Upper ae thee shadow saw whole cnuins of lak=s in the | Adirondacks, and from one ! 2ight you ; can see 30, and there are :.id to be over 800 in the great wilde. aess. of New York. So near are the, to each other that yours fe thane ulde picks and carries the boat frv.m lake to ames the small latutice be: ween ree for that reason called a"carry."' nd | the realm of God's word is one inne 'chain of bright, pifleahing lakes, "ech promise a lake, a very short carry tween them, and, though for ages the 'pursued have been drinking out of , them, they are full up-to the top of the ' vreen banks, and the same David de- | scribes them, and they seem so near together that in three different places | he speaks of them as a continuous riy- er, saying, "There is a river the | streams ye ge shall make glad 3 city of God. "Thou shait 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 on that supply and confront your 'troubles and you are soured with your { circumstances, and you are fighting society, an you are ing . pursuing world, and troubles, instead t Of driving you into the cool lake heavenly comfort. have made you stop and turn around and lower your head, simply antler against tooth. Probably under ; the same circumstances |] would have 'done worse. ut you are all wrong. You need to do as the reindeer does in Febru@ry. and March--lji sheds its ; horns, The rabbinical writers allude 'to this resignation of antlers by the stag when they say of a man who ven- | Suess his money in risky enterprises he has hung it on the stag's horns,and a proverb in the far east tells a man Who has foolishly ni his fortune to fo and find it where the deer sheds her horns, y bracher, quit the an- tagonism of your circumstances, quit misanthropy, quit complaint, quit 'pitehing inte your pursuers: be as wise as next spring will be all the deer of the Adirondacks. Shed your horns, ' But very many you are 1 wronged of the wore ae assembly between he and G San 'eandace, 'it were | all those that had been some- times badly treated should raise both their hands and full response should & 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 should become the victims of malignment or invalidism or mishap is inscrutable." Why. do you know 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 capture it? the roebuck . ragged fur and broken hoofs anda obliterated eye and ba limping Bait the unters would ha said shaw, don't let us waste var ammunition on a sick deer."" And the hounds would ave given a few sniffs of .the scent, and then darted off in 'oe direc- tlon for better : when they see a deer with anti ers vered in migh- ty cnallenge to earth and sky, and the sleek hide looks as if it had been smoothed by invisible hands, and the fat sides Inclose the richest pasture that could be nibbled from the banks of rilis so clear they seem to have drop- ped out of heaven, and the stamp its foot defies the jack shooting lan- tern and the rifle. the hérn and the . that deer they Will have if they needs break their necks In the So If there were no noble,stuft . if you were a bifur- were a forlorn ® allowed undisturbed, but fact that Whole pack is in full cry after you proof positive that you are splendid game and Worthcapturing. Therefore Sarcasm draws on its "finest bead.' Therefore the world goes gun- ning for you with its best Maynard breechloader. .Highest compliment is it to your talent, or yqur virtue, or your usefulness, You will be assailed in proportion to your great achievements, The best and the mightiest being the world ever saw had set after Him all the hounds, terrestrial and diabolie, and they lapped His blood after the Caivarean massacre.' The world paid nothing to its Redeemer but a bram- ble, four spikes and a cross, Many who have done their "-- to make.the World bé@fer have had such*a rough time. of it that all their Ditansee is a anticipation of the next world. and they could express their own feelings in the words of the Baroness of Nairn at the close of her long life.,when asked if she would like to live her life over again Would you ne young pidin' 0 would not I; _ One tear of memory given, « Onward I'll hie Life's a dark wave Ades o'er, All but at rest on shor Say. would you ec feet wiles more, - With home so nigh? u If. you might, me you now Retrace your wa: Wander = Senay wilds, . Faint and astray? --= 'Night's ee hubpages fied, _ Hope's smile sround -- shed. Heavenward, awa Yes, for some people in ral there seems no world ear to But all of them put together do not. equal in number or speed or power to hunt down the great kennel of hounds of which sin' and trouble are owner and tis a relief for all this pur- ible and annoyance -pain eavement?---My text Elves | t to you in a word of three jettene but each letter is a-charlot-if you would triumph or a throne you want to be crowned or a: lake if you would slake your thirst--yes, a chain of three lakes --God, the one for whom David onges and the one whom David found. might as. well meet a stag which, after dew" from a blade of grass as ae atiompe to Satisfy an immortal soul, when flying from tiouble and sin with anything less deep and high and broad and im- mense and infinite and eternal God His comfort--why, it emblos- soms all distress. His arm it wrenches off all bondage. away all tears. ment, it makes us past and all right with the future, all right with God, all right with man and' all right forever. Lamartine tells us that King Nimrod said to his three sons: "Here are three vases, and one js of clay, another and another of gold. Choose now which: you will have."" The eldest son, having first choice, chose the vase of gold, on which was 'written the word "Empire," and when opened it was found to con- tain human blood. he second making the next choice, vase of amber, inscribed with word "Glory," and when he opened it it contalged the ashes of those wno were oncé called great. The third son took the vase of clay and, opening it, found it empiy, but on the bottom of it was inscribed the name od. King Nimrod asked his courtiers which vase they thought weighed the most. The avaricious men of his court said the vase of gold. one. of amber. But>' the Wisest men said thé empty vase, because one let- ter of the name,of God outweighed the universe, For Him I thirst; for His grace I beg; on His promise I build my _ all. Without Him I cannot be happy ve 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 am not a prejudiced witness. have nothing against this world, have been one of the most fortunate, or, to use a-moré Christian word, one of the most blessed of. men--blessed in my parents, blessed in the place of my nativity, blessed in my health, blessed in my field of work, blessed in my temperament, blessed in my family, blessed in my opportunities, lessed in comfortable livelihood, blessed in the hope that my soul will go to heaven through the pardoning mercy of God, and my body, unless it be lost at a or cremated in some conflagration, will lie: down the gardens Greenwood amon m kindred and- friends, some | already gone and others to come after me. {fe to many has been a disappoint- ment, but to me it has been a pleasant surprise, and yet IL declare that if I did not feel that God was new my friend and ever present help I should be wretched and terror stricken. but want more of Him. I have thougnt rover this text and preached this ser- mon to myself until with all" the chose in ~ aroused energies of my body, mind and soul I can cry out, "As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God." Through Jesus Christ make this God your God, and you can withstand any- thing and every ything, and that which affrights others will inspire ycu. As in time of an carthquake when 'an old Christian woman was asked whether she was scared, answered, .""No; I glad that I havé a God who can shake the world:*' or, as in a financial panic, when a Christian merchant was asked if he did not fear he would break, an- swered: 'Yes, I shall break when. the whereas at a breaks in the fifteenth verse the day of trouble. "I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me.'"' Oh, Christian men and women, pursued of annoyances and exasperations, remember that this hunt, whether a still.hunt or a hunt in full cry, will soon be over. If ever a whelp looks ashamed and rgaily to slink cut of sigtt, it is when in the Adirondacks a deer by one tremendous plunge into big Tupper lake gets away from' him. The disappointed canine swims in a little way, but, defeated, swims out again and cringes with humiliated yawn at the feet of iis master. : And how abashed and ashamed will all your earthly troubles be when you have dashed into the river from under the throne of God, and the heights and depths of heaven are between you and your pursuers. We are told in Reve- -- xxii., 15, "Without are dogs," by ich I conclude there is a whole kKen- nal of hounds outside the gate of heav- en, or, as when a' master goes in through"h door his dog lies.on the step waiting ror him to come out, so the troubles of this life may follow us to the shining door, but they cannot get "Without are dogs!" I have seen dogs and owned dogs that I would not be. chagrined to see in the heavenly city. Some of the grand eld watch dogs who are the constabulary-of the homes in solitary places, and for years have been the only protection for wife and child: some of the shepherd dogs that drive back the wolves and bark away the floc' from going too near the precipice, and some of the dogs whose meck and« paw Landseer, the painter, has made immortal, would not find me shutting them out from the gate of shining pearl. Oh, when some of you get there it will be like what a hunter tells of when pushing his canoe far up north in win- ter and amid the ice floes and 100 miles, as he thought, from any other human beings. He was startled one day as he heard a stepping on the ice, ey he cocked the rifle ready to meet 'anything 5 : he epee him and f scien him., Taking noe and kindling fires to Fe waied him, und out where and | the -vil A hundred men oo me search ing 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 ns were fired and banquets spread, and the rescuer loaded with presents. Well, "when some of you step out of this wil- derness, where you have been chilled and torn and sometimes lost amid the icebergs, into-the warm greetings of ell the villages of the glorified and your friends rush out to give you welcom- Ing kiss, the news that there is an- other soul forever saved will call the caterers of heaven to spread t quet, and the belilmen to lay the clang from the turrets it will be a scene so uplifting I pray God I may be there to take part in the celestia?~ merri- ment. "Until the day brea shadows flee away, be thou Jike a roe or a ore hart upon the mpu Beth SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTMRNATIONAL LESSON NU OCTOBER 16, 1898, It The Temple Repaired.--2 Chron, 24 4-13. Time.--B. C, 878. Place.--Jerusalem. Persons.--Joush. Jehoiada. Levites. Athaliah. Commentary.--4. carne Was eB- eential to God's pose concerning the gift of His Son I that one, at Jeast, of David's house be red. Hence his providence preserved the: infant Joz seh fulfilling 1 Chron. xvii. 1 K ; Jer. xxxili. 17; Ex ae xxiii 3; Matt. i. \ x, 30; xvili. 14. --Dougliss. 8 life ly a notable instance of one who made a good beginning but came to a bad end. Of a weak character, he was from outward transgression by the influence of the strong Jehoiada ; as soon as Jehoiada died, he yielded to his evil tendencies and made a to- tal wreck of his character and des- tiny. How ad should thank God that our High Priest can never die! Heb. vil. 25.--Whittle, «Minded--It re- irst movement to- the temple should but from murkable that the' ward restoring come, not from Jehoiada, oush, the priest, but from king.--Pool]l. To Tepate the house of she Lord--It is nu su ficial servant religion who ioe not igs a 'iin ve house of. worship. --Baker. When d's house or God's cause is running down, it is time for some one to n a crusade of res- toration. = acobs. i 'iy . go---They were not merely © Teceiy e, but to go and ask, asa icker way of collecting. Lewis. Unes the cities of Judah--T 'he collection was not to be made at Jeru- salem only, but in the cities of Judah; ag priests aid Lovites being collectors their own neighborhoois,--Cook. All Israel--Israel is properly the name of the whole twelve tribes as the peo- ple of God. At the time of the schism the tea tribe's, is the larger section, arrogated to themselves the name, Here applied to Judah, Green. Gather mon . The "atonement" money, the same goog (haifa shekel, about 80 cents) for ich and poor alike; Wlustrating the truth that the souls of men are eqnally preclous in God's sight, Ex. xxx. 11-16. 2. Money om special vows, which was 'regulate d by Inw and circumstances, Ley. xxvii. 1-8. 3%. Free-will offerings, Ex. xxxy. All these ure mentioned in IT. Kgs. xii. 4, and in each is a practical sug-. gestion for us.--Jacobs. To repair the house of your God-- Throweh long ueglect and damage done to it, it was sadly out of repair, 'the young king's thoughts were bent upon having it put am a seemly 3 Stes condition,--Green. From yeur to year--Steady, persistent effort, regular rly renewed, is tenet If all cannot. be accomplished at once, let the attq@upt not be abandbned. but repeated agabu and again,--Ibid. See that ye haste: the matter--In how mazy matters of personal refor- mation or of great personal decision @ mad loses everything through not hasting to do what ie pine purposed or has been called t In every- thing 'that needs to be "ue, "now is the uccepted time" for its doing.-- Trumbull. 6. Jehoiada the chief--He being high priest, had chief charge of the work. And the fact that he did not press it forward shows he had pee personal excuse for the delay.--l. y hast thou not required......the cobeenion 2 Many a congregation has fallen into and remained in decay, ose appointed to be its builders have not raised their negligent hands. . The sons of Athauliah--No young mun knows how weak he is until the inspirations home influence are withdrawn. It is not always the sweet and amiable boys under the watchful protection of a good mother who make the strong men. A man is what he is when he must stand alone.--Baker. That wicked woman--Daughter of the infamous Jezebel, and wife of the son of Jehoshaphat, slew all the seed royal except. J . The king's commandment--To._ se- fare: "greater efficiency and expedition in Collecting the necessary money for the repair of the temple he resolved 4o change the method of receiving and depositing it.--Ibid. Chest--Permitting ths giver to (1) divide his eying for] the temple from the offering to t priests; (2) see for himself thait was applied where he. intended.-- Lange. At the gate--Near the door of ths priests' court and = the altar.-- Proclamation--Not. content with olnskne the the chest at the entrance, he made a proclamation nt the same time in Judah and Jerusalem to offer the tax of Moses for the repair of the temple.--Ibid. 10 resigned zod never to be --Henry. orhey put heart into thels 'gifts, making them doubly precious to God--Palmer. drew up the king's edicts, eek "his: lJetters, and P irda gs managed his his most influen- tia) cekeliiorn: fawilaion: Money in abundance--They recogn! 'the | he had lived and took him to his home lage i = | ally ' claims of God--His right"to their best--and gladly rendered it ilber- to Him.--Douglaas, 1, The king and Jehoida gave it --The disposition of the"money was under the immediate direction of the king and high priest, who enga) the workmen and paid them for their services, The ores and ¢ontri- butors alike took part the fur- therance' of this enterprise.--Green. € rought and the work vas perfected--The labors of all, from the king to the humblest carpenter, were essential to the suc- cess of the great undertuking. It is not for any worker in the Lord's any good thiligs. best he is 'only one Of.many ngents in the perfecting of God's planus.--Trum- Teachings.--More lives are wasted from want of purpose than from a deliberately evil purpose. V. 4. A. ul- lapidated church reveals a baek- slidden. people. V. 4. a gives twice who gives quickly. V. a. ~e. Without persiste nee the ca no true suceess. V. G6. "* Be thou: faithful unto death," or there "erown of life." V. € rl Rey. 2, 10 so the children. -V Try new plans when old ones fail. Vs. 8, 9. Work shared by all is ap- preciated by 'all. V. 10. Love, sincere and. strong, Jon io 'to ll ose itself in gifts. V. 11. John 8, 16. Get the money first. give out the contracts aftérward. V. PRACTIC AL SURVEY. God, the Father, dwelt among men. He commanc Moses, " Make me a sanctuary ; what I may «wel! among them." Ex God, the Ben. "awelt with men. They called Jesus' name, "Emmanuel. which bein interpreted is God with us."' Matt. i. 23; John xiv. God, the Holy Spirit, dwells in men. are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. temple 'was built of. grea costly stones (I. Kgs.*y. 17), dug Pasi the deep, dark auarry ; silently put in their places oN the foundation- stone, covered with cedar and gar- nished elth gold and precious jew Kgs. vi. 18-22. Like the pre in the deep darkness. ' "T have loved thee with an 'everlasting love: there- fore from afar have I drawn thee." Jer. xxxi. 3, Marg. We were more dead than the stones--dead in trespasses and sins, but now we, "fas living stones, are built up-.a spiritual home." eo word translated " broken 7, includes every cn so that probably .much of the needed repairs would be in the beau- tiful 'ornamentation which made the temple so remarkable as a work of art, Until all the cubbish of unbelief and selfishness and elf-will be cleared away there es bul little opportunity for repairs: or build z up. A COOL BU BU LAR He Dined so Well "That He Forgot His b=] up," oa The religion of the cold bath, 80 deir to Englishmen, seems to - have reached the burglar Class, says the London Telegraph. And after a good days' work what is so nice in these as a bath and a enlightened thief°at Bickley seems to have been thoroughly in accordance. Havi ing entered a house during the absence of the family and 'servants, ae or gp anaeon appears to have set wen a ections. The aniahe ae finished, the' burglar evidently thoug e was tit] h, so he went to th-room and took a most Beka 5 ing tub, with bs doubt just ash of warm water to take the chat off, for after exertion a quite cold bath is apt to be harmful. He next pro- ceeded to put on an evening suit, leaving his own in exchange, and after Lies i ab two of Beau Brummell's eins B= tasty meats and tempting "wines, and at the end of the meal Sie over-fed housebrenker left the prone of his Inbors with only' a cruet 6 WAR'S COST OF LIFE. The U.S. Lost 2,624 24 Men in the Brief Struggle. -AVuanligcton report: The mortality statistics which wi ve submitted by the Adjoteneeouerel to the commis-' sion ie is arb aber the con- duct of the war will show that the death rate has bzen remarkably small baer 1 r cent. The reached 2 maximum of 265,000 men. The number Ol dea the from all cau is 2,624. The most remarkable feature is the stanll number of men who died kind of dilapida- from wounds. This is believed to have - been due to the antiseptic treatment. CASUALTIES IN BATTLES. In peers: Rive. Officers, Men, led seaeks - 'ore 8 Kill seis cease cree Wounded ... .. .. ciciteeneease + wt He din Manila: Killed? 2505 nish + NOL 15 Wounded «...... Mt ost racariedsen 10 88 In Cuba: BOOS es cinccie eaues seen siane 2e 237 Wounded .. 99 1,332 Death: from sarlons. (CUBES: From wounds rec spemas ee: 82 on accidents ...... .. aoe 30 disease, etc. ... ... 75 2,150 Ships. in 'the Suez Canal, All. in all, just 1,792 ships passed through the Suez Canal last year, of which 1, spat were British. How peony "do you ; "American ? Oniy four, ane no more--only see Itis time for the American me: marine to get into the water and be gin to do business. New. York Mall and Express. Champagne was first made Le! monks fn the 17th century.