Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-07-22

tiful things-pat1ence, charity, generosity, in
tegrity; but he intends the choicest fruits te
be in the garden, and IL they are not there
then shame on the church. Religion is mott
1 mere Towering sentimentalIty. 1t is practi.
cal, life-gylng, healthful frpitEnot posies bui
| apples. "O,n says somebody, II don't see
what your garden OF the church has Yielded"
| Where did your asylums come from, and your
hospitals, and your institutions OF mercyt
Christ planted every one of them; He planted
them in His garden. When Christ gave sight
| to Bartimeus he laid the cornerstone OF
every blind asylum that has ever been
built. When Christ soothed the demoniac oil
Galilee he laid the corner stone of every luna
tic asylum that has ever been established.
When Christ said to the sick man, take up
thy bed aud walk" he laid the corner stone Of
every hospital the world has ever seem When
Christ said, 81 was in prison and ye visited
me, he laid the corner stone OF every prison
reform association that has ever been formed
| The church of Christ is glorious garden, and
! it is full Of fruit. ! know there Is some poor
| fruit in 1t. / know there are some weeds that
ought to be thrown over the fence. | know
| there are some crab-apple trees that ought
to be cut down. ! know there are some wild
| grapes that ought to be uprooted; but are you
| going to destroy the whole garden because OF
! a little gnarlcd fruit! You will find worm
| eaten leaves in Fuuntainbleau, and insects
/
| Eysees. You do not tear down and destroy
the whole garden because there are a few
! specimens of gnarled fruit
GRAND EXAMPLES OF RELIGION.
| | admit there are men and women in the
church who ought not to be there, but let us
! be Just as frank and admit the fact that there
are hundreds and thousands and tens OF thou
| sands of glorious Christian men and women
holy, blessed, useful consecrated and trl-
| umphant There is no grander collection In
| all the earth than the collection of Christians.
There are Christian men In this house whose
religion is not a matter of psalm singing and
church going. Tomorrow morning that re-
| ligon will keep them just as consistent and
cOnsecrated in their worldly occupation as 1t
ever kept them at the communion table.
There are women here to-day of higher type
of character than Mary of Bethany. They not
only sit at the feet of Christ, but they go out
into the kitchen to help Martha in her work,
that she may sit there too. There Is woman
who has drunken husband, who has exhibit
ed more faith and patience and courage than
| Ridley in the fire. He was consumed III twenty
minutes. Here has been twenty years mar
| tyrdOm. Yondcr is man who has been tif-
teen years on his back, unable even to feed
| himself, vet calm and peaceful as though he
lay on one of the green banks of heaven,
watching the Oarsmcn dip their paddles in the
| crystal river! WHY, il seems to me this mo-
mcnt as if st. Paul threw to us a pOmologists'
catalogue Of the fruits growing in this great
! garden of Christ-lOye, JOY, peace, patience,
| charity, brOthery kindness, gentlcness, mercy
| glorious fruit, enough to ill as the baskets
| Of earth and heaven.
THE RICH TREE OF MERCY.
have not told you of the better tree in this
| garden and of the better fruit. 1t was plant
| ed just outside Jerusalem good while ago.
| When that tree was planted it was SO split,
| and bruised, and barked men said nothing
would ever grow upon it; but no sooner had
that tree been planted than it budded, and
| blOssOmcd, and fruitcd, and the soldiers
spears were only the clubs that struck down
that fruit, and it fell into the lap of the ma
| tons, and men began to pick it up and eat it:
and they found in it an antidOte to all thirst,
| to all lOson, to all sin, to all death-the small
est cluster larger than the famous one Of Esh-
col, which two men carried on a stall between
them. If the one apple in Eden killed the
race, this one cluster of mercy shall restore it.
! Again: The church in which my text Is
appropriately called a garden because it Is
thoroughly irrigated. No garden could pros
per long without plenty of water have seen
a garden in the midst Of desert, vet blooming
and uXuriant. All around are dearth and
barrcnrss, but there were pipes, aqueducts,
reaching from this garden up to the noun
tains, and through those aqueducts the water
came streaming down ald tossing up into
beautiful fountains until every root and leaf
and flower We're saturated. That is like the
church. The church is garden in the midst
of a great desert Of sin and suffering, but it is
well irrigated, for ''our eyes are unto the hills
from whence cOmeth our help" From the
mountains of Gods strength there flow down
rivers of gladncss. There is a river, the
stream whereof shall make glad the city OF
our GOl.N
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