The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1885-07-23


Do not, therefore, take knotty and twist.
ed scourge and 60 after your enemy; but
20 up into the mount where the Radiant
One suffered for his enemies, and twist of
an olive branch. and, without stripping
away any Of the soft, tender, cool, beauti-
full leaves, put on your enemy that Gospel
switch. 1t will not hurt him, and It will
save you. Oh, for million olive branches
from the Mount of God, that we might
build them into an arbor for our souls. Go
up into the mount and pluck olive branch.
es and make booths.
Ny text in the next place suggests that
in this arbor for our soul ON the way TO-
ward glory we ought to have good many
pine branches. Now, pine, you know, is
aromatic and an evergreen. It
has often been the case that invalids have
been sent into the regions where the pine
grows, and they have come back thor
oughly well. 1t is frequent prescription
on the part Of physicians to say "Go for
few weeks amid the pines, and you will be
better" Now, we want In this Gospel
arbor pine branches. We want something
that means health, aroma and evergreen.
This 10 very healthy religion. have
known an old Christian with no capital Of
physical health and carrying about him
all the respectable diseases that one can
carry, and yet kept alive by nothing at all
but his religion. He did not eat enough to
sustain child. He lived on beverage Of
hosannas. He lived high, because every
day he dined with the King could not
understand his exhilaration until found
out that he lived In an arbor Of pine
branches - Gospel pine branches. Oh,
1t is q healthy religion. It is healthy for
the head. It is healthy for the heart. 1t
is healthy for the lungs. 1t is healthy for
the liver. 1t ia healthy for the whole man.
I mean II we get enough Of it. Now, there
are some people who get just enoug b re-
ligion to make them sick or to bother them;
but mean full inhalation-a full draught
from the breath of the pine branches in
Gods mount. This is living, bounding,
exuberant, undying immortal health.
But this Gospel is evergreen. remark
still further, what does the pine forest care
for the snow on its brow? 1t merely con-
siders it crown Of glory. You can not
freeze out the pine forest, and this grace
Of God is just as good in the winter OF
trouble as it is in the summer of prosper
ity. It is the religion you want-not
dependent upon weather or upon change,
There are some Of you who feel that y III
have had more than your share Of tror ble.
All the troubles seemed to come together
in your life, and you may be as bad of al
Muckelbacket, the fisherman who was
chided for mending his boat on the same
day that his boy was buried. They said
sit is indecent for you to be working q
your boat when your child was just buried
this afternoon" And he looked up in the
mans face and said: ''What am to do!
Shall allow the five to starve because
one Of them is drowned? It is we'll enough
for you gentles, who can sit in your
houses with your handkerchiefs at you
eyes, to talk that way when you hav'
grief, but the like of US maun to oul
work though our heart beat like thi
hammer" Oh, yes! Your bereave'
ments and your poverties AMI
your distresses may all have come at once
But want to tell you of Gospel that il
full Of life, full Of comfort, full Of peace
You have tried every thing else; you hav'
tried the world, you have tried human
sympathy, come now and try Holy Cos
pol. have read Of . Cardinal who wa
very fond of money, and during his sick
ness he used to ask that basin Of gold b.
brought to him, and then he would thrus
his equity hands in the gold and anus
himself, and cool his hands by turning
over the gold in the basin. What q vail
attempt! There is nothing in all the sill
yer and the gold and the honors and tn
emoluments Of this world, however briskl,
you may turn them over. to soothe q per
turbed spirit. You can not be consoled il
that way. You want something mightie
than the worlds gains to appease you
sorrow. Come and get this consolation
A young Prince refused to play with an.
but Kings, and wish you would this da,
throw aside all other solaces and try thi
regal satisfaction. Come, my friends ant
neighbors, and try q religion which Is a
good in the winter Of trouble a. II Is in tn
summer Of prosperity. 1t is glorious an
ever green. Go into the Mount Of God, an
fetch pine branches and make booths.
| "The Hill of Zion yields
thousand sacred sweets
Before we reach the Heavenly fields.
| Or walk the golden Streets"
My text suggests still further that thi
arbor of Christian grace ought to have i
It q good many palm branches. You kno,
that 10 . favorite tree at the East Th
ancients used to make II into three hun
dred and sixty uses. The fruit Is con
served. The sap becomes beverage. Tn
stones are ground up a. food for camela
Tho base of the leaves 10 twisted into ropt
Baskets and mats are made out Of it, an
from the root to the tip.top Of the palm
10 all usefulness. ltgrows eighty. five fee
in height, 10 columuar, its fringed leave
sometimes four or Ave yards long, and tn
ancients used to carry IL In professions q
. symbol Of victory. Oh for moro pail
branches in our Gospel arbor! Usefulnes
and victory! Head, heart, tongue, pei
money, social position-all employed Il
God. Counsel Ia often given on world
matters about Investments - that yo
must not put all the eggs in one basket
but in this matter Of religion wish th.
we might give Ill to God and get in ouI
selves.
''Oh," says some man, ''my business
to sell silks and calicoes." Then sell sill
and calicoes for the glory Of God. Say
another man: NY business is 70 edit
newspapsr." Then edit newspaper (,
the glory of God. Says another maj
my business 10 to raise corniand carrots