Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-07-27
=AcgoMAC @ H. Va SATURDAY, JULY q, 1899
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sURgEcT oE SERMON PREACHED
JGI9 : 9 BYssREN: Or. TALMAeE.
The ELOQUENT l:roelslyns Divine Adapts
tho Words OF the bible I:elnting to- the
Fesstsor TIL sTabernacles to the Present
Time, e +:
The ANiPToNs, July.sl4 .-The sub
ject .ofthe Rev.ssDr. 7. Dewitt Tai
Images :serlnon totiayswas: s'eTllc Bower
of Trosi Branches" His textlvas Nelic-
5nniahs vii, l5.sss.Go forth unto the
imourtand fetch olive branches. and
Pine ches, and myrtle branches,
and palm branches, and branches OF
.thicfltrees to;malse booths. Follow,
ling iSsth he sermon ~
. 1t seems as if MouHt Olivet were
unmoprcd Tile people have gone
Into le5moulltain, and have cut of
freas bisancl lies; and put them on their
should elss and they come forth now
into tile Streets Of Jerusalem, andsson
the haIise.tops, and they twist these
tree blailcEesinto arbors or booths
IsThgllstElia people come forth from their.
conf rsaal ghomes sand dwell for
Esevesi nj these boot hs:or arbors%
WHY as do tIast
great. festal time II is the feast of
tabernaclcs; and these people are
going to celebrate the desert travel Of
their fathers and their dcliverance
from their troubles the experience of
their fathers when, travelling in the
desert. they lived in booths on their
way to the land of Canaan. And so
these booths ais. become highly sug-
gestive-I viii not say they arc ncces-
sarily typical. but highly suggestive
of our march toward lioaven, and Of
the fact that we are only living tenn.
porarily here. as it were in booths or
arbols, on our way TO the Canaan OF
eternal rest.
And what was said to the Jews
literally may today be said fgura-
lively to all this audience. Go forth
into the mountain, ard fetch olive
branches. and pine branches. and
myrtle branches, and palm branches.
and branches of thick trees to make
booths Yes, we are only~hcre in
temporary residence. We are march
ing on. The merchant princes who
used to live i'll Bowling Green, New
York, have passed away, and their
residences arc now tic fields Of cheap
merchants Where arc the men who
fifty years ago owned New York;
Passed on.
There is no use in our driving our
stakes too deep into the earth; we arc on
the march. The generations that have
preceded us have gone so far on that
we cannot even hear the sound OF
their footsteps. They have gone over
the hills. and, VIC nrc to follow them.
But, blessed be God. we are notil this
world left out Of doors and unshel-
tered. There are gospel booths, or
gospel arbors. in which our souls are
10 be comfortcd. Go forth unto the
mountain, and fetch olive branches,
and Pine branches, and myrtle
branches, and palm branches, and
branches of. thick trees, and build
booths.
THE AREoR OF THE GOSPEL.
We'll, now we are today to construct
gospel arbor, or gospel booth; and
how shall.wc construct it? Well, we
must get all the tree branches and
build According to my text we must
coup insostf he lnouNts and bring olive
branches What does that meana
The olive tree grows inwarm eli
mates, and it reaches tho height OF
twenty or twenty-five feet, straight
stem, and then all olfshoot from that
stem. And then people come, and they
strip off these branches sometimes
and when in time Of war the general
of one army takes one Of these olive
branches and goes out TO the general
of.another army, what docs that meanG
Why, it means, unsaddle the war
chargers. It means hang up the war
knapsacks. II is but u beautiful way
OF saying, Peaccl
Now, if we are today going TO sue
coed in building this gospel arbor, we
must go into the Mount of Gods bless,
ing, and fetch the olive branches, and
whatever else we must have, we must
have at least two olive branches
peace with God and peace with man.
When say peace with God, do not
mean to represent God as bloody
chieftain, having grudge against us,
butI do mean 10 affirm there is no
moro antagonism between a hound
and. hare between a hawk and q
pullet, between elephant and swine,
than there is hostility between holt
ness and sin. And il Gol is all holl,
ness, and We are all sin, there must
be readjustment. there must be 4 re-
construction, there must be treaty,
there must he a stretching forth OF
olive branches.
THE HUMAN VS.. THE DIVINE.
There is a great lawsuit going on
now, and il is a lawsuit Which man is
bringing against his Maker: that law
suit is now on the calendar. is the
human versus the divine; it is iniquity
versus the immaculate. lit is weakness
versus omnipotcnce Maj. began il;
God did not begin the lawsuit. we
began it; we assaulted our Maker, ana
tile sooner we end this part OF the
struggle in which the finite attempts
Ito overthrow the infinite and omnip-
otent. the sooner we end it the better.
Travellers tell us there is no such
place as Mount Calvary, that it is only
a hill, only an insignificant hill; but
FL persist in calling it the mount OF
Gods divine mercy and love, far
.grander than any other place on earth,
grander than tile Alps or Himalayas,
and there are no other hills as COM
pared with it; and have noticed in
every sect where the cross of Christ is
set forth. it is planted with olive
branches. And all ne have to do is
to get rid OF this war between God and