The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1885-07-23
FRESH RELIGION.
3srmon Preached by Rev. T. De-
Witt Telmage.
N Feast OF the Tabernacles-Typicll 81
Our Long March to Hesven-Ouf
Residence Here . Temporary
AfIhlr ct Most.
Subject: "Green and Fresh RELIGION .

Subject: Green and Fresh Religion"
T6xt-Neh WILL, Is: "Go forth unto the
Uount and fetch olive branches and pine
ekonches and myrtle branches and palm
1anches and branches Of thick trees to make
AnothS."
The Mount of Olives seems unmoored.
N tree branches are being cut Of and
shOuldered and carried on down In great
Uso~ession to the city Of Jerusalem. These
1se branches arc bent and twisted into
arbors or booths, and set on the house,
hep and along the streets. Foliated booths
everywhere, and the people coming out
from their homes to live In them for seven
dAvG Why do the people come from their
so0fortable houses to this temporary
Booth! 1t is q grand festival. 1t 10 the
Feast of the Tabernacles. The people cels.
lrats the deliversnce of their fathers from
asssrt travel, where they lived in tents.
And it 10 also typical Of our march 10
Heaven, pilgrims in temporary booth on
~ way to Canaan, 30 that say in fig
rative sense what was said to the Jews In
sliteral sense: go forth into the mount
and fetch olive branches and pine branches
md myrtle branches and palm branches
and the branches Of thick trees to make
hooths."
Our residence here is temporary affair.
w rent or lease or buy house; but the
esase soon runs out, and the deed must
spon be surrendered. Bowling Green,
nce inhabited by merchant princes, has
Become shipping Offices. Where are the
Dsn who did importing in our great cities
thirty years agof Passed OF tho stage.
whore are the men who owned New York
Afty years ago? They have departed this
8e for the most part. There is no use in
ssr driving our stakes too deep, for we
shall soon have to pull them up. We are
- the march, and are stopping only in q
temporary booth Of twisted branches on
the way to palaces eternal. Where are
che other generations? So far gone that
We can not even hear the sound Of their
Seet. They have passed up the hill We
shall soon follow them. But, blessed be
God, we are not living here out of doors
and unsheltered. No; we may 60 into the
mount Of God and bend and twist for our.
selves . shelter Of comfort and delight,
and ! bid you to Ego forth into the mount,
and fetch olive branches and pine branches
and palm branches and myrtle branches
and the branches Of thick trees and make
booths"
The olive branch, you know, is always
ned IS sign OF peace. The olive.tres
Grows in warm climates to the height of
about twenty five feet, has an upright
stem and many outshooting branches,
which can easily be stripped of. II q
tvig of this tree in time of war is handed
from one General to another it means the
ansaddling Of cavalry horses and the
hanging up of the war knapsacks. After
Aostilities have ceased these branches are
placed over doorways, and they are bull:
into triumphal arches, and they are waved
IN professions. They spell out in verdur.
Gus letters that Heaven born word Of
"Pesce" Now, my friends, in this Cos
Del arbor which God sends us to build we
must have two Of these olive branches.
Peace with God! Idon't mean to intimate
by that that God Is bloody chieftain and
Has grudge against US; but want to in
innate that there Is more affinity between
ahare and hound, between q hawk and
puaet, between an elephant and the
swine, than there Is between holiness and
Mn; and since God Is all holiness, and we
BY Nature, all sin, there must be some re.
adjustment, some appeasement, some re-
construction, some treaty, some stretch.
ing forth Of olive. branches. The fact il
that the race has begun lawsuit against
- Maker, and that lawsuit 10 now ON thu
calendar It 10 the human versus thu
Divine. 1t is iniquity versus tho i'm.
oaculate. 1t is weakness versus ON
sipotence. God did not begin wa,
Hgainst us; We began war agains
Him; and II 10 high time that thi,
farce Of the finite struggling against tn,
infinite were ended. We are tired Of tn,
war. We want to back out But how
shall We get cessation Of this contest
By going up into the mount of God and
plucking olive branches. What mount
calvary. Modern travellers say IL 10 only
N Insignificant hill; but persist In call
Ing 1t mount, because, through tn,
grandeur Of its meaning, it overtops tn
very highest of all earthly elevations. Tn,
Alps and the Himalayas are less than ant
Nils compared with 1t. In the very OK
savation on Calvary, where the cross wa
snce set, afterward the olive was PLANTED
and it is green and thrifty and foliages
to-day, and strip it of and wave it, cry
kg: "Peace with God through our Lori
Jesus Christ" Oh, II there IL any Joyful
Aought enough to overthrow ones equi
xbrium that is the thought. 1t may be
matter Of very little Importance wha,
Queen Victoria or Emperor William thinl
Il sny one; but to be brought into clos
and intimate and hearty and glowing 10
htions with the God Of the round univers
that makes . hallelujah seem stupid.
ne had continued this fight against Go
Or ten thousand years, We could not hav
aaptured 90 much - sword, or taken 0
much Is cavalry stirrup or wrenched Of
% much az Q chariot wheel Of his omnipo
oence; but God and al Heavens artiller,
came over on our side at tho first swing o
~ olive branch. Peace with God through
sar Lord Jesus Christ, and there 10 n
neece In any other way.
But amity with God u not enough. W
must have two olive branches. Peace wit
aseh other. Oh, 1t Il easy enough to e
- quarrel. There ere all around u
gunpowder Christians and tho snalles
match Of provocation will Get them Oh. l
. easy to get up . quarrel in Church o
State; but Il never pays. When ~
christians contend with each other, the,
always both get whipped. Satan slightl,
smiles when he gets two worldlings ago