The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-12

sern,onlzing: ,,.o
1--we NV fair one and come away. For 10, the winter IS
ma st. the ra nis and gone; The flowers appear o IT,
earth the time of the singing OF birds s ON t a"u t
voice of the turtle heard in our land the hg tree p
teth forth her green figs and the vines with the tenoer
srapc give good smell Arise my love my fa'r one
and come away. '-Soiom0n'S Song H. lO-lo.
The things which are seen are types OF the
things which are not sean. The works OF GRE
alton are pictures to the children of God or
the secret mysteries Of grace. Gods truths
are the apples of goId and the visible crea
lures are the baskets of silver. The very sea-
sons of the year find their parallel IN the mt
tie world OF man within. We have our VIM
ter dreary, bowling Winter, when the North
wind of the law rusheth forth against us,
when every hope is nipped, when ali the seeds
OF 10y lie buried beneath the dark cods OF
despair, when our soul is fast fettercd like Il
river bound with ice, without waves OF Joy,
or aowin9s Of thanksgiving. Thanks be unto
| God, the soft South wind breathcs upon our
soul, aud at once the waters of desire are set
free, the Spring OF love coneth Oh, flowers OF
hope appear in our hearts, the trees OF lalth
put forth their young shoots, the time OF the
singing of birds cometh in cur hearts aud we
have Joy and peace in believing through the
Lord Jesus Christ. That happy springtide
is followed in the believer by II rich summer
when his graccs like fragrant flowers, are In
full bloom, loading the air with perfume; and
fruits of Spring like citrons and pomegran-
ates swell into their full proportion III the
genial warmth of the sun Of Righteousness.
Then cometh the believers Autumn, when his
fruits grow ripe and his fields are ready for
tie harvest the time has come when his
Lord shall gather together his pleasant
fruits and store them in Heaven the feast
OF ingathcring is at hand--the time when the
year shall begin anew, an urchanging year,
like the years Of the right hand OF the Most
High III Heaven. Now, beloved, each par
ticuIar season mas its duty. The husbandman
finds that there is a time to plough, time to
SOW, time to reap; there Is season Tor VIM
tage and period for the pruning OF the vine
there is month 10: the planting OF herbs and
for the insatherlug Of seeds. 70 everything
tAcre is a time and u purpose, and every sea,
sou has its special labor. 1t seems from the
text, that whenever it is springtidc in our
hearts, then Ch!ists voice may BE- heard say
ing, Arlse, my love, ny fair one, and come
away WAeuever We have oecl delivered
from dreary winter Of temptation or af1ic-
loHs, or fluctuations, --wheneye the fair
spring OF hope cometh upon Us ard our joys
begin to multiply, then we should hear the
Mas tr bidding US seek after something high
er and better, and "e should 90 forth in His
strength 10 love Him more, AID serve Him
more diligently than atoretimo. This | take
to be TIC truth fought in the text, and it shal!
be the subject of this mornings discourse
and to any with whom the singing OF birds has
come, in whom the flowers appear-to any
such hope The Master may speak till their
souls shall ay, My beloved spake, and said
unto me, Use up my love, my fair one, and
come away | shall have to use the general
principle in illustration Of four different cases
TIE SPRING TIME OF THE CHURCH.
l. First. with regard to the unicersa
Church Of Christ.
The history of Christ's Church is varied
year OF many seasons She has had her high
, and noble professions of victory she has had
her sorrowiu congregations OF mourners dur
ing times of disaster and apparent defeat
Commencing with the life Of Christ, what q
smiling Spring it was for the world when tbt
Holy Spirit was poured out in Peutecost-
d The rain was over and gone the black cloud
of wrath had emptied themselves upon tn,
Saviour's head; thunder, and tempest, ant
storm, all dark aud terrible things, were gon,
}. forever. The flowers appeared on the earth
). three thousand in one day blossomed forth
n baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
: Then had earth one Of her joyous Sabbaths
n the Zig tree put forth her green figs; in ever,
= and there were some converts; the dweer
= in Mesopotama, Modes, Parthians Elamite
>, some Of al--had been converted to God
y and the tender grapes Of the new born pict
and Zeal gave forth sweet smell before God
j. Tier 1t was that Christ spakc in words whic
lie made the heart of his church to burn Xix
II Goals OF juniper
= "My Fellow friends my beautiful,
10 Arise and come thy way"
y Her apostles landed on every Shore he
~, ~ confessors were found among people of ever
r, tongue; her martyrs kndled a light in tn
If midst OF lands afflicted with tie midnight {
re heather darkness. No place trodden by lce
ID OF man was lett unvisited by the heralds {
n: God, the heroic sons of the Church. &C
ID ye forth into all all the world and preach III
. Gospel to every creature was ringing in the
ears like clarion sounding the war charg
tie and they obeyed it like soldiers who had bee
is men OF war from their vouth TLoso 49,.