r--..t.r....-,Tm.irM TALMAfJK TO HIS FLOCK. THE REVEREND DOCTOR PREACHES AT THE TABERNACLE. 'A tho Hart I'untetli Alter tli A Valor llronkn, So J'antrtli My Soul Aflr Time, O OihI" A Sermon Sut;cUl ly Visit to tlie Alirnnilack. Hkooklyn, Sept. 0 The great organ, Improved and enlarged, rolled out with new power the long meter doxology at the ojK-ning of the service in the JSrook lyn Tabernacle today. Tlio great audi torium was thronged and overflowing. ThoKev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D.D., lias 'returned from his summer vacation, dur ing which lie has ppoken in many parts of tho country, and fchaken hands, lie says, with about a hundred thousand people, lie closed his tour by a visit to ' tho wilderness in upper Kew York state, and (spending some time among the hunters. This morning ho cxoundud passages illustrative of Solomon's ac quaintance with natural history. His text was Psalm xlii, 1: "As the hart pantcth after the water brooks, bo panteth my fouI after thee, O Cod." The great preacher said: David, who must sometime have seen a doer hunt, points us here to a hunted htag making for tho water. The fasci nating animal called in my text the hart, i3 tho same animal that in sacred and profane literature 13 called tho stag, tho roebuck, tho hind, tho gazelle, the rein deer. In central Syria in Bible, times there were whole pasture fields of them, as Solomon suggests when ho savs: "I charge you by the hinda of tho held." Their antlers jutted from tho long grass as they lay clown. No hunter who has been long in "John Brown's track" will wonder that in the Bible they were classed among clean animals, for tho dews, " the showers, tho lakes washed them as clean as the sky. vi ion Jacob, tho patriarch, longed for venison, Esau shot and brought home a roebuck. Isaiah compares the sprightli ness of the restored cripple of millennial times to the long and quick jump of tho fctag, saying: "Tho lame shall leap as a hurt.1" Solomon expressed his disgust at a, hunter who, having hot a deer, is too lazy to cook it, saying: "The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting." But one day David, while far from tho homo from which ho had been driven, and sitting near tho door of a lonely cave where he had lodged, and" on the banks of fi pond or river, hear3 a pack of hounds in swift pursuit. Because of the pre vious 6ilence of the forest the clangor etartles him, and he says to himself : "I wonder what those dniranrn nfler " Tlion thero is a crackling in the brushwood, and the loud breathing of some rushing wonder of the woods, and the antlers of a deer rend tho leaves of the thicket, and by an instinct which all hunters recog nize, plunges into a pond or lake or river to cool it3 thirst, and at the same time by its capacity for swifter and longer swim ming, to get away from the foaming har riers. David says to himself: "Aha, that is myself! Saul after me, Absalom after me, enemies without number after mo, I am chased, their bloody muzzles at my heels, barking at my good name, barking after my body, barking after my bouI. Oh, tlse hounds, tho hounds! But look there,' says David, "that reindeer has splashed into the water. It puts its hot lips and nostrils into the cool wave that washes the lathered flanks, and it swims away from the fiery canines, and it is free at last. Oh, that I might find in the deep, wide lake of God's inercy and consolation escape from my pursuers! Oh, for the waters of life and rescue! As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth mv 60ul after thee, OGod." I have just come from tho Adiron dacks and the breath of tho balsam and sprue and pine is still on me. The Adirondacks are now populous with hunters, and the deer are being slain by the score. Talking a few days ago with a ' hunter, I thought I would like to see whether my text was accurate . in its allusion, and as I heard the dogs baying a little way oil and supposed they were on the track of a reindeer, and I -eaicrto- tho hunter in rough corduroy, "Do the deer always make for tho water when they are pursued?" He said, "O, yes, mister; you see, they are a hot and tliirsty animal, and they know where the water is, and when they hear danger in the distance they lift their antlers and snuff tho breeze and start for the Rac quet, or Loon, or Saranac, and we get into our cedar shell boat or stand by the 'runaway' with rifle loaded ready to Llaze away." J.Iy friends, this is one reason why I like the Bible so much its allusions are so true to nature. It$ partridges are real partridges, its ostriches, real ostriches, and its reindeer, real reindeer. I do not wonder that this antlered glory of the text makes the hun ter's eye sparkle and his cheek glow and his respiration quicken. To say nothing of its usefulness, although it i3 the most useful of all game, its flesh delicious, its skin turned into human apparel, its sinews fasliioned into bow strings, its an tlers putting handles on cutlery, and the shavings of its horns used as a restora tive, taken from the name of the hart and called hartshorn. But putting aside its usefulness, this enchanting creature seems made out of gracefulness and elas ticity. What an eye, with a liquid brightness as if gathered up from a hun dred lakes of sunset! The horns, a coronal branching into every possible curve, and after it seems done, advancing into other projections of exquisiteness, a tree of polished bone, uplifted in pride, or swung down for awful combat. It is velocity embodied. Timidity impersonated. The enchant ment of tho woods. Eye lustrous in life and pathetic in death. Tho splendid ani mal a complete rhythm of muscle, and Lone, and color, and attitude, and loco motion, whether couched in tho grass among the shadows, or a living bolt shot through the forest, or turning at bay to attack the hounds, or rearing for its last fall under tho buckshot of the trapper. Is is a splendid appearance that tho painter's pencil fails to sketch and only a hunter's dream on a pillow of hemlock at the foot of St. Kegi3 is able to pict ure. When, twenty miles from any ec-ttlernent, it comes down at eventide to ihe lake's edge to drink among the Jdy )0ls, and, with its sharp edged hoof, maiu-rs me crystal or lxms lake, it w very picturesque. But only when, after miles or pursuit, with heaving sides and lolling tongue and eyes swimming in ueain mo nag leaps from the cliff into Upper Saranac, can you rcalir.u how much David had millerd from his troubles and - how much he wanted God when he expressed himself in the words of the text: "As the hart panteth after tlio water brooks, so panteth my houl alter thee, O God." Well now, k-t all those who have com ing after them tho lean hounds of ov eny or 1110 uiacK nounus of Tjersecution or tho Pxttcd hounds of vicissitude or the pale hounds of death or who are in any wise pursued, 11 v to the wide, deep, glorious lake of divine solace and rescue. Tho most of tho men and women whom I happen to know at different times, if not now have had trouble after them, uharp muzzled troubles, swiTt troubles, all devouring troubles. Many of you have made the mistake of trying to light them. Some txxiy meanly attacked you, and vou at tacked them; they depreciated you, you depreciated them; or they over?ached you in a bargain, and you tried, in Wall Btreet parlance, to get a corner on them; or you have had a bereavement, and in stead of Ixing submissive, you are fightin that tiereavement; you charge on tho doctoi'3 who failed to effect a cure; or ..i ii i . , i ii.wgu on uio carelessness oi the railroad company through which the ac cident occurred; or you aro a chronic invalid, and you fret and worry and scold and wonder why you can not ho well like other neonle. and you angrily charge on tho neuralgia or me laryngitis or ttio ague or the sick headache. The fact is you aro a deer at bay. Instead of running to the waters of divine consolation, and slaking your inirst and cooling your body and soul in me goou cneer oi me uospel, and swim ming away into the mighty deeps of God's love, you are lighting a whole kennel of harriers. A few days ago. I saw in tho Adirondacks a dog lying across tlie road, ana lie seemed unable to get up, and I . . ; . i . ... i , , u ouuhj iiuuuTs near dv: 'What is the matter with that dog?" Thev an swered : "A deer hurt him.' And I saw he had a great swollen paw and a bat tered head, showing where the antlers struck him. And the probability is that some of you might give a mighty clip to your pursuers, you might damage their business, you might worry them into ill health, you might hurt them as much as nicy nave Hurt you, but, after all, it is not worth while. You only have hurt a iiouiid. Better be olf for the Upper Saranac, into which the mountains of God s eternal strength look down and moor their shadows. As for your physi cal Ui.-:oruers, me worst strvenmne vou can take is fret fulness, and the best med icine is religion. I know people who were only a little disordered, yet have iretteci themselves into complete valetu dinarianism, while others put their trust in jou anu came up lrom the very shadow of death, and have lived com fortably twenty-five years with only one utng. iv man with one lung, but God with him, Is better off than a godless man with two lungs. Some of you have oeen lor a long time sailing around Cape Fear when you ought to havo been sail ing around Cape Good Hope. Do not turn back, but go ahead. The deer will accomplish more with its swift feet than wnh its horns. 1 raw whole chains of lakes in the Adirondacks, and from one height you can see thirty, and there are said to be over eight hundred in the crreafc wilder ness. So near are thev 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 tho realm or U-Kl s word is one long chain of bright, refreshing lakes; each promise a Like, a very short carry be tween them, and though for ages tho pursued havo been drinking out of them, they are full up to the top of the green uaniis, and the same David de scribes them, and they seem so near to gether that in three different places he speaks of them as a continuous river saying: "mere is a river the streams wnerecf shall make glad the city of God ;" "Thou shalt make them drink of the rivers of thy pleasures;" "Thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God whicl is full of water." Lut many of you have turned your back on that supply, and confront your trouble, and you are soured with vour circumstances, and you are fighting so . it-i , aiKi you aro lighting a pursuing voriu, ana troubles instead of driving you ii.to the cool lake of heavenly com fort, have made you stop and turn round and lower your head, and it is simply antler c.gamst tooth. 1 do not blamo you. J rooabjy under the same circumstances i iii i x "oi.ju nave uone worse, uut you are ail wrong. 1 ou need to do as the rein deer does m February and March it sheds its horns. The Rabbinical writers allude to this resignation of antlers by the f tag when they say of a man who ventures his money in risky enterprises, ho has hung it on the stag's horns ; and a proverb in the far east tells a man who has foolishly lost his fortune to go and find where the deer shed her horns. My brother, quit the antagonism of your circu.'iistances, quit misanthropy, quit comj laint, quit pitching into your pur suers, tie as wise as, next spring, will be all the reindeer of the Adirondacks. Shed your horns. But very many of you are wronged of the world and if in any assembly between ranciy hook, jsew York, and Golden Gate, San Francisco, it were asked that i all those that had been sometimes badly j treated should raise both their hands, J and full response should bo made, there would be twice as many hands lifted a3 ! persons present I say many of you j would declare: "We havo always . done the best we could and tried to be j useful, and why we should become the i victims of malignment, or invalidism, or : niishap, is inscrutable." Why do you not know that the finer a deer, and the more elegant its proportions, and the more beautiful its bearing, the more amicus the hunters and the hounds are to capture it. Had that roebuck a ragged fur and broken hoofs and an obliterated eye and & hxnping gait tho hunters would have eaid: "Pshaw! don't let us waste our ammunition m ck deer. And the hounds would have j a Citfpn a few uiiffs of tho track and then darted off in another direction for better game, y Pat when, the see a deer with I'LAlTSMOtTTri WEfcklA ji&tViW, inUKSDiVr, SEPTEMBER Rntlers lifted in mighty challenge" to earth and sky, and the sleek hide looks as if it had been smoothed by invisible band, and the fat Bides inclose the richest pasture that could bo nibbled from tho bank of rills 60 clear they Bcem to have dropped out of heaven, and the tamp of its foot defies tho jack shooting lantern and the rifle, the horn and the hound, that deer they will have if they must needs break their neck in tho rapid3. So if there were no noble stuff in your make up, if you were a bifurcated nothing, if you were a for lorn failure, you would be allowed to go undisturbed; but the fact that the wholo pack is in full cry after you is proof pos itive that you aro splendid game and worth capturing. Thereforo sarcasm draws on you its "finest bead." There foro the world goes gunning for you with its best Maynard breech loader. Highest compliment is it to your talent, or your virtue, or your usefulness. You will be assailed in proportion to your great achievements. Tlio best "and tho mightiest being tho world ever saw, had set after him all the hounds, terrestrial and diabolic, and they lapiied his blood after the Calvarean massacre. The world paid nothing to its Redeemer but a bramble and a cross. Many who havo done their best to make the world better have had such a rough time of it that all their pleasure is in anticipation ot tlio next world, and they could ex press their own feelings in tho words of tho Baroness of Nairn at the close of her long life: Would you bo young again Bo would not I; Ono tear of memory given. Onward I'll hie; Life's dark wave forded o'er, All but at rest on shore; liar, would you plungo once more, With home so uigh? If you might, would you ootr Retrace your way 1 Wander through stormy wilds. Faint and astray ? Night's gloomy watches fled, Morning all beaming red, Hoio's smile around us shed, 1 leaven ward, away I Ves; for some people in this world there seems no let up. They are pursued from youth to manhood, and from man hood into old age. Very distinguished are Lord Stafford's hounds, and Earl of Yarborough's hounds, and the Duke of Rutland's hounds, and Queen Victoria pays $8,500 per year to her master of huckhounds. But all of them put to gether do not equal in number, or speed, or power to hunt down, the great ken nel of hounds of which sin and trouble are owner and master. But what is a relief for all those pur suits of trouble, and annovance. and jxiin, and bereavement? My text gives it to you in a word of three letters, but each letter is a chariot if vou would triumph, or a throne if you want to be crowned, or a lake if you would slake your thirst yea, a chain of three letters G-o-d, the one for whom David longed, and the one whom David found. You might as well meet a ttar which. after its sixth mile of running at the top most speed through thicket and eorire. and with the breath of tho doers on its heels, has come in full sight of Scroon lake and tried to cool its vroiectinir and blistered tongue with a drop of dew from a blade of grass, as to attempt to satisfy an immortal soul, when flying from trouble and sin. with any thins less deep, and high, and broad, and immense, ana mliuite, and eternal than God. His comfort, why it embosoms all distress. IIis arm, it wrenches off all bondage. His hand, it wipes away all tears. His Christlv atonement, it makes us all right with the past, and all right with the future, and all right with God, all right with man. and iu riK"t lorever. lamartine tells us 1 I ' .1. A P T . . ... that King Nimrod said to Ins 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 cold, on which was written the word "empire," and when oiened it was found to contain human blood. The second son, making the next choice, chose tho vase of amber, in scribed with tho word "c-lorv." and when opened it contained the ashes of those who were once called great. The third 6on 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 asked liis courtiers which vase they thought weighed tho most. Tho avaricious men of his court said the vase of gold. The poets said the one of am- oer. But the wisest men said the emntv vase, because one letter of the name of God outweighed a universe. For him I thirst: for his errace I bejr: on his promise I build my all. "Without him I cannot be happy. I hare tried the world, and it does well enousrh as far as it goes, but it is too uncertain a world, too evanescent a world. I am not a prejudiced witness. I 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 men, blessed in my parents, blessed in tho place of my nativity, blessed in my health, blessed in my field of work, blessed in my natural temDerament. blessed in mv familv, blessed in mv opportunities, blessed in a comfortable livelihood, blessed in the hone that mv soul will go to Heaven through the par doning mercy of God, and my body, un less it De lost at sea or cremated in sonic conflagration, will Ije down in the car- dens of Greenwood among my kindred and friends, some already gone and others to come after me. life to many has been a disappointment, but to me it has been a pleasant surprise, and vet I de clare that if I did not feel that God was now my friend and ever present help, I should be wretched and terror struck. But I want more of him. I have thought over this text and preached this bermon to myself until with all the aroused energies of my body, mind and soul, and I can cry out: "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, po panteth my soul after thee, O God." Through Jesus Christ make this God your God and you can withstand anything and every thing, and that which affrights pthers will inspire you. As in time of earth quake when an old Christian woman was asked whether the was scared, an swered: "No, I am glad that I have a God who can 6hake the world," or, as in financial jsnic, when a Christain mer cuani was asxea u ne aia not tear lie would break, answered: "Yes, I shall break when, the fifteenth Psalm breal hi tho fifteenth verse: Call upon mo in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me.'" O Chris tian 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 ready to slink out of sight it is when in the Adirondacks a deer by ono long, tremen dous plunge into Big Tupper lake gets away from him. The disapjiointeil canine swini9 in a little way, but, defeated, swims out again and cringes with humili ated yawn at the feet of his master. And how abashed and ashamed will all your earthly troubles be when you have dashed into tho river from under the throne of Chid, and the heights and depths of heaven are between you and your pursuers. We are told in Revelation xxii, 15: "Without are dogs," by which I conclude there is a whole kennel of hounds outside the gate of heaven, or, as when a master goes in a door his dog lies on the steps waiting for him to come out, so the troubles of this life may follow us to the shining door, but hey cannot get in. "Without are dogs!" I have seen dogs and owned dogs that I would not be chagrined to see in the heavenly citv. Some of the grand old watch dogs who are tho constabulary of the homes in sol itary places, and for years have been tho only protection of wife and child; some of the shepherd dogs that drive back the wolves and bark away tho flocks from going too near the precipice; and some of tho dogs whose neck and paw Landseer, the painter, has made immortal, would not find me shut ting them out from the gate of shining pearl. Some of those old St. Bernard dogs that have lifted jierishing travelers out of the Alpine snow; the dog that John Brown, the Scotch essayist, saw ready to spring at the surgeon lest, in removing tho cancer, ho too much hurt the poor woman whom the dog felt bound to protect; and dogs that we caressed in our childhood days, or that in later time lay down on the rug in seeming sympathy when our homes were desolateiL 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 aud torn and lacerated the world; yea, all that now bite or worry or tear to pieces, shall be prolubited. "Without are dogs!" No place thero for harsh critics or backbiters or despoil ers of the reputation of others. Down with you to the kennels of darkness and despair! The hart has reached the eter nal water brooks, and the panting of the long chase is quieted in still pastures, and "There shall be nothing to hunt or destroy in all God's holy mount." Oh, when some of you get there 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 ho thought, from any other human beings. He was startled one day as he heard a stepoincr on th ice, and he cocked tho rifle ready to meet anything that came near. He found a man, barefooted and insane from long exposure, approaching him. Taking him into his canoe and kindling fires to warm him, ho restored him and 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 hmi, and, as had been agreed, at his first appearance bells were rung and guns were discharged and banquets spread, and the rescuer loaded with presents. Well, when some of 3-ou step out of this wilderness, where you have been chilled and torn and sometimes lost amid the iceberg;, into the warm greetings of all the villages of the glorified, and your friends rush out to give you welcoming a kiss, mo news that there is another soul forever saved will call the caterers of heaven to spread the banquet, and the bell men to lay hold of the rope in tho tower, and while the chalices click at the feast, and the bells clang from the towers, it will be a scene 60 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 rein deer coming down kj the night to pasture on the plains, 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 Bether." A Pathetic Tale from Australia. The other day a leading Sydney solici tor received instructions from London to hunt up a young man who had quitted London ten vears previously, and a draft for 300 was inclosed to pay his passage home. After a course of advertising a member of a charitable society called in and directed the solicitor to a certain hovel in lower Alexandria, Sydney. The solicitor, knowing the "lay" of the country, judiciously sent his clerk down to catch the fever instead of doing it in person. That well dressed young man explored the barbarous region, dodging through back lanes and over mud pies and among broken fences that hung wearily and lopsidedly amid abysses of mud, and at last he arrived at a hut which boasted a box and a pile of rags and straw for its sole furniture. A weary woman, who had once been handsome, and who under happier auspices would be handsome again, begged that they should not be turned out of their dismal abode until her husband was better, and a hollow cjeuuivium sireiciiea on a pile ot raga in the corner echoed the petition. And these two were the heirs to a fortune of 30,000. Sydney (Australia) Bulletin. Men Servants the Rage. Men servants are now the rage among rich people. Families that formerly em ployed girls are discarding them now in favor of neat, handy, good looking men. These are kept in swallowtails all the time, and they answer the door, wait on table, clean the knives and forks, brush boots and clothes and go out with the carriage as footmen. The result of this has been that there are twice the num ber of women out of employment here now than ever before. The intelligence offices are overcrowded with them. New York Star. Lord Tennyson has passed upon his 80th year witl; a fight heart, 13, 1838. 'iA 'noi3uitJh;t 'wdojj x dli nOA 30VUS 77AI ijti ioiAV T1"0 ou BU,l 1.' 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