Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-12
GATE Open,
en Of the Church What is
! Therein2---lts Entrance
eadeth to Salvation.
|er Collection In all the Earth
a Collection Of Christians
ne Garden Of the Lerd.


she Gazette
HApirroNs," July ll.-Continu-
cries OF rural sermons, entitled
OF Gardens and Fields" the Rev,
Il Tnlmage, d D., to-day preached
Song oil Solomon, chap. v, v, Il,
i,nA into my ga DEM He said,
bIe is a great poem. We have in
rs Rhythm, and bold imagery, and
antithesis, and raptnrous lyric,
- PASTORAL, aud Instructive nara.
deyotional psalm; thoughts eN-
M etyle more solemn than that of
merry, more bold than that Of Mil
rs terrible than that Of Dante,
tufal than that OF Wordsworth,
inaskioned than that of Pollok,
nfIap than that Of Cowper, more
inp HAT of Spenser. This, great
luRs all the gems Of the earth into
net, and 1t weayes the flames OF
X intO its garlands, and pours
nnrmonies In its rhythm. Every
h book touches 1t makes beauti-
n the plain stones OF the summer
z door TO the daughters OF Major
io trough for the camels; and the
is Of Heshbou up to the Psalmist
God with diapason Of storm and
nd, and Job leading forth Orion,
and the Pleiades,
xt leads US into scene of sum-
doience. The world has had a
nany beautiful gardens. Charlie
dded to the glory of his reign by
that they be established all
TIE realm deciding even the
I the flowers to be planted there.
M. at Montpelier, established
" bewitching beauty aud luXu-
gathering INTO them Alpine,
% and French plants. One Of the
spots on earth was the garden Of
ne, the poet. His writings have
II lille impression on the world,
harden, "The Leasowes," will he
IL. TO the natural advantage Of
ca was brought the perfection OF
Dor, and terrace, and slope, and
rnple, and reservoir, and urn and
hero had their browning. Oak
and hazel put forth their richest
There was no life more diligent,
more ingenious than that OF
me, aud all that diligence and
he Brought to the adornment Of
Measured spot. lie gave three
! p5nnds Tor it; he sold IT for sew.
Shehsand. And yet l am to tel
ldY BIZ
a RICHER GARDEN
~ have mentioned. 1t is the
spoken of in my text, the garder
1aurch, which belongs to Christ
eNt says so. He bought It,, lI'
81 lie owns IL. He shall have
liter Scott in his outlay at Abhots
med his foItune, and now in tn,
! iiowers of those gardens you car
think or imagine that you see The
4 that old mans broken heart
yment of the last one hundred
ID pounds sacrificed him But
hell you that Chrlst's life ant
Death were the outlay of thii
ui garden OF the church, of which
spcaks. Oh, how many signs, an,
nd pangs, and agonies! Tell me
ben Who saw him hang! Tell me
sutioners who lifted him and lie
DWni Tell me, thou sun, tina
hide; ye rocks that fell
ioyed the church an,
himself for it," II the gardel
,hufch belongs to Christ, certainl
q right to walk in 1t. Come, then
sed Jesusl to-day; walk up an,
these aisles and pluck what tho
6Weetness for myself
church., in my text, is apprqpri
smpafed to a garden, because 1t
II choice flowers, OF select fruit
thorough irrigation.
would be Il strange garden 4
there were no flowers. II nc
else they would be along the boz
r at the gateway The home hes
IN dictate something, II 1t be tn
hioned hollyhock, or dahlia, o
bnt II there be larger means
ers will be the Mexican cactus
ling aza lea, and clustering clear
Veil, now, Christ comes TO I'll
and lie plants there some Of tn
* spirits that ever lowered upo
Fl6. Some OF them are vlolets
i,;cu0ns, but sweet as heaven
Va to search and find them. 70
see them very often, perhaps, bu
d wDere they have been by tn
md lace of the invalid, and tn
IL uranium on the stand, and tn
gindcW-curtains keeping out tn
the sunlight. They are, perhaps
like the ranunculus, creepin
along amid the thorns and briar
giving kiss for sting; and many
DO has had in his way some grea
och Of trouble has found that the
lyeredit all over with fiowery les
running in and out amid the GREY
These Bowers
III cHRIsT's GARDEN
like the sunfiower gaudy in tn
Mt wherever darkness hovers owe
nat needs TO be comforted, Their
tand, night blooming cereuses
christ's gardens there are plant
y be better compared TO the Mex
stuH thorns without, lovelines
men with sharp points Of charac
hey wound almost everyone tina
them. They are hard TO handle
bncunce them nothing but thorns
fldt loves them notwithstandin
eharpnesses. Many a man ha
Ffg hard ground 10 cultivate, an
tl8 been through severe trial b
'sed oven the smallest scrap 9
A very harsh minister was tall
very placid elder, and the placi
"a to1he harsh minister: "DoC
y WISH You would control you
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