Milford chronicle., 1889-07-19


Feast of the TabernaoIes to the Present
Time.
THE HASuToNs, July 14--The subject of
the Rev. DR.. I. De Witt Talmage's sermon
today was; THE Bower Of Tree Branches
Bis text was Nehemiah viii; 10; go forth
unto the mount and fetch olive branches, and
pine branches, and myrtle branches, and
palm branches, and branches Of thick trees, to
make booths Following is the sermon;
1t seems as if Mount Oivet were unmoored.
The people have gone into the mountain, and
have cut off tree branches, and put them on
their shoulders, and they come forth now
into the streets of Jerusalem, and on the
bousetops, and they twist these tree branches
into arbors or booths. Then the people come
forth from their comfortable homes, and
dwell for seven days In these booths or ar
| bors. Why do they do thatl Well, 1t is a
great festal time. It is the feast Of taber-
nacles; and these people are going to cole
brate the desert travel Of their fathers and
their deliverance from their troubles, the ex-
perience Of their fathers when, travelling in
| the desert, they lived in booths, on their way
to the land Of Canaan And so these booths
also become highly suggestive-I will not say
| they are necessarily typical, but highly sug-
gestive-of our march toward heaven, and
of the fact that we are only living tempo
rarily here, as it were, in booths or arbors
on our way to the Canaan Of eternal rest.
And what was said to the Jews literally
may today be said hguratively to all this au-
dience Go forth into the mountain, and
fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and
myrtle branches and palm branches, and
branches of thick trees, to make booths. Yes
we are only here in a temporary residence.
We ne taassaaiiasg e.. Tho merchant princes
who ~ b BE = Bowling Green, New
[eFk. haas f6Esa fsEay, and their resi-
dahOas szs'aOS ese fssts5f cheap merchants.
WhsBe me the men VITO fifty years ago
owrod New York; Passed on.
Theae is no bso in our driving our stakes
too deep iRto the earth; weare on the march.
The generations that saye preceded us have
gone so far on that we cannot even hear the
sound Of their footsteps They have gone
over the hills, and we are to follow them.
But blessed be God we are not in this world
left out Of doors and unsheltered. There are
gospel booths, or gospel arbors, in which our
souls are to be comforted. 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 ARBoR OF THE GOSPEL
Wen, HOW we are today to construct a Cos
pei arbor or gospel booth and how shall we
construct it, Well, we must get all the tree
branches and build According to my text
we must go up unto the mount and bring
olive branches What does that meant
The olive tree grows in warm climates, and
it reaches the height Of twenty or twenty two
feet, straight stem, and then an ofPshoot
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 does
that meant Why, it means. unsaddle the
war chargers. II means hang up the war
knapsacks, 1t is but beautiful way of say
ing Peacel
Now if VIC are today going to succeed in
building this gospel arbor, we must go into
the Mount Of Gods blessing and fetch the
oblive branches, and whatever else we must
have, and we must have at least two olive
branches, peace with God and peace with
man. Vixen I say peace with God, do not
mean to represent God as a bloody chieftain,
having ,grudge against US, but l do mean
to affirm there is no more antagOnism between
hound and hare, between hawk and a
pullet, between elephant and swine, than
there is hostility between holiness and sin.
And if God is all holiness, and we are all sim
there must be a REIMBURSEMENT, there must be
a reconstruction, there must be treaty,
there must be a stretching forth of olive
branches.
THE HUMAN VS.. THE DIVINE.
There Is a great law suit going on now, and
it is a law suit which man is bringing against
his Maker; that law suit is now on the calen-
dar. 1t Is the human versus the divine; it is
iniquity versus the immaculate; it is weak
ness versus omnipotence Man began It;
God did not begin the law suit We began
it; we assaulted our Maker, and the sooner
we end thispart of the stRuggle in which the
finite attempts to overthrow the infinite and
omnipotent, the sooner we end it the better.
Travellers tell us there is no such place as
Mount Cavalry-that it is only hill, only
an insignificant hill; but persist in calling
it the mount of Gods divine mercy and love,
far grander than any other place on earth,
grander than the Alps or Himalayas, and
there are no other hills as compared with it;
and have noticed in every sect where the
cross Of Christ is set forth It is planted with
olive branches And all we have to do is to
get rid of this war between God and our
selves, of which we are all tired. We want
Of this hostility. All we have to do is Just |
to get up on the mount of Gods blessing, and
pluck these olive branches and wave them
before the throne Peace through our Lord |
Jesus Christ
On, it don't make much difference what !
Che wOrld thiraSs # yaR what this king, that
queea, tl.Rt seAatDF tsIlaass Of you. Butcome |
Into Ne Wa5Sa, fatanafe, glowing and ever
lnstaDg relationship Sith the God of the |
round universe; that n the joy that makes a
hallelujah seem stupid. All, why do ne |
we want 70 have peace through our Lord |
jesus Christi Why, if we had gone on in |
ten thousand years Of war against God, we |
could not have captured 50 much as a sword |
or cavalry stirrup, or twisted Off one of the |
wheels Of the chariot of his omnipotence |
But the moment we bring this olive branch |
God and all heaven come on our side. Peace /
through our Lord Jesus Christ; and no other |
kind Of peace is worth anything.
DON'T QUARREL.
But then we must have that other olive !
branch, peace with man. Now it is very
easy to get up a'quarrel There are gun
p0wdery Christians all around us, and one |
match Of provocation will set them of. |
It is easy enough to get up quarrel But, |
my brother, don't you think you had better
have your horns sawed Off Had you not /
better make an apologyl Had you not better
submit to a little humiliationi Oh, you say
until that man takes the first step will never
be at peace with him; nothing will be done |
until he is ready to take the first step. You |
are a pretty Christian. When would this
world. be saved if Christ had not taken the ,
first stepl We were in the wrong, Christ |
was in the right, all right and forever right.
And yet he took the first step, And instead |
Of going and getting knotty scourge with /
which to whip your antagonist, your enemy, /
you had better get upon the radiant mount |
where Christ suffered for his enemies, and |
just take an olive branch, not stripping of |
the soft, cool, fragrant leaves, but leaving |
them all on, and then try ON them that gos-
nal switch r. yvonit hurt than, and H. will !