The Red Cloud chief., 1889-07-19

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OF the Olive Br.noh-The Pine Suggest.
I've OF the Health u Rsligioa-
Power OF the Gospel.
The subject Of . late sermon BY Rev. T.
De Witt Taimage was sThe Bower oil
Tree Branches" His text Wa Nehemah
viii. Is: go forth unto the mount and
fetch olive branches. aud palm branches.
and branches OF thick trees to make
boothA" Dr.. Talmaee said:
II seems as il Mount Olivet were un-
uoored. Tbs people have gone into the
mountain and have cut Oh tree branche-
and put them on their shoulders and they
come forth now into the streets Of Jerusa-
lem aud ON the house tops and they twist
these tree branches into arbors or booths.
Then the people come forth from their
in these booths or srLora. Why do they
do that? Well. 1t 10 . great festal time
II il the feast Of tabsi nacles, and these
people are going to celebrate the desert
travel Of their fathers and their deliver.
ancs 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 20 these
booths also become highly suggestive-I
will not say they arc necessarily typical.
but highly sug eastwood our march 10.
ward Heaven. and Of the fact that We are
only living temporarily here, ~ it were.
In booths or arborA On our way 70 the Co.
naan Of eternal rest
And what was said to the Jews literally
may to-day be said fguratively to all this
audience. Go forth into the mountain
and fetch olive branches aud pine
branches and myrtle branches OF thick
tre,s to make booths. Yes, We are only
here in . temporary residence. We are
marching o The merchant princes who
q sed to live in Bowling Green, Now York,
have passed away, and their residences are
now the field OF cheap msrchants. Whore
r the mon who fifty years ago owned
New York? Passed on.
There 10 no US. in our driving our stakes
too deep into lbs earth; We are On the
march. The generations that have pre-
coded Us have zone 90 far on that We can
not even hear tho sound Of their footsteps.
Thew have gone ' the hills and ~ ar
to follow them. But, blessed BE- God, we
arc not in this world left out OF doors and
unshel;ered. There are Gospel booths or
Gospei arbors. in which our souls are to be
Go forth unto the mountain
and fetch olive branches and pine
branches and myrtl" branches and palm
branches and branches Of thick trees and
build US booths. 10y
Well. nov. we are To-day to construct q
gospel asbor; or Gospel booth. and how
shaN we construct it? We'll, sve mu 1t got
81! the tree branches and build Accord.
ing 70 my text We must 60 mp into the
mount and bring olive branches. What
does that mean:
The olive tree grows In wafm climates.
and il = teaches the. height Of swentyvor
twsnty.two feet . straight atem and then
ofYshoot from that stem, And thea
people come and they strip. OF these
sometimes, and when in time Of
war the genera, OF ono army takes one Of
these olive branches and goes out to the
general OF another army what does thar
Why, it mean uasaddls the war
chargerA 1t means hang up the war
K, apsacks. 1t Is but . beautiful way Of
saying Peace!
Now. If we are to-day going to succeed
in building this Gospel arbor. We must 20
into the mount Of Gods blessing and fetch
the olive branches, and, whatever else We
must have, We have at least two olive
branches-peace with God and peace with
man. When I say peace with God do
not mean to represent God a . bloody
chieftain, having q grudge against Us. but
l do mean to affirm there is no more an.
tagonism between . hound and . hare.
. hawk and q pullet between
elephant and swine. than there is hostility
between holiness and sin. And il God is
all holiness and we are q l sin, there must
be . readjustment, there must be . treaty.
there must be . stretching forth Of olive
branches
i, There is q great lawsuit going ON now,
and it Is q lawsuit which man 10 bringing
sga INST his Maker. That lawsuit Is now
On the calendar. 1t il the human versus
The divine; it is iniquity versus the i'm.
maculate; it is weakness versus omnipo-
tence. Man began it. God did not begin
the lawsuit We began it; We assaulted
Maker. and tho sooner We N this
part Of tho struggle in which the finite at.
to overthrow the infinite and the
the sooner we end it the
better.
Travellers tell US there is no such place
~ Mount Calvary, that it is only . hill,
only an Insignificant hill; but ! persist in
it the mount Of Gods divine mercy
md love, far grander than any place on
eartb, Yrander than the Alps or Hima-
layas. and there arc NO other hills as
compared with it; and l have noticed in
every sect where the cross Of Christ is set
forth, it 10 planted with olive branches.
And all We have to do is to get rid Of this
var between God and ourselves. of which
We are all tired. We want to back ont Of
the war, We want to get rid Of this hostil-
All We have to do 10 to just got up on
tho mount of Gods blessing and puck
these olive branches and wave them be-
lore the throne. Peace through our Lord
Jesus Christ
o. it don't mako much difference what
The world thinks Of you-what this King.
What that Queen. that Senator thinks Of
you. But como into the warm, intimate.
and everla sting relationship with
God Of the round universe; that il the
Joy that makes . hallelujah seem stupid.
Why do No want TO have peace
through our Lord Jesus Christ: Why, il
had gone on in ten thousand years Of
var against God, We could not have
captured 90 much as . sword or . cavalry
,tirrup, or twisted of one Of the wheels