Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
Earth is Not the Permanent Abid-
inc Place Of Mankind.
Tbora Is No Use in Our Driving Our
stakes too Deep; We Are On the
March to the Other Land.
,.u,+ want in the Church People Who Are
Mere Weeping willows, Who Stand
Signing in the Water
. BOWER OF BRANCHES.

, .ba Rev. Or. T. De Witt Talmage 8
on to-day was: "The Bower of Tree
branches. - His text was Nehemiah
*. 600 forth unto the mount and
,...b olive branches, and pine branches,
"a myrtle branches, and palm branches,
"a branches of thick trees, to make
tbs - Following is the sermon:
=. searns rs if Mount Olivet were I'M
.-.,rad The people have gone into the
..,tofr. and have cut off tree branches
ll -7 nrt them on their shoulders and
- come forth now into the streets of
,-.sorem and on the housetOps, and
80 t,yfst these tree branches into arbors
- iootbs. Then the people come from
- ,orrfortable homes, and dwell for
In DAVIS in these booths or arbOrs.
,ri, do they do that? Well, it is a great
,,...I time. 1t is the feast of
...I'arroc1es; and these people
To- Going to celebrate the desert
.-oro1 of their fathers and
IL deliverance from their troubles, the
avnerie,,ce Of their fathers when, travel
inc in the desert. they lived in booths, on
,bair way TO the land Of Canaan. And so
,ba.e booths also become highly suggest
ira-T will not say they are necessa-
rilc typical. but highly suggestiye-Of
rrr march toward heaven, and Of the
fact that we are only living temporarily
here as it were, in booths or arbOrs, on
our wav TO the Canaan Of eternal rest.
And what was said to the Jews liter
our may to-day be said figuTatively to
ain This audience Go forth into the
maintain. and fetch olive branches, and
nine branches. and myrtle branches, and
ralm branches, ana branches of thick
trees. TO make us booths. Yes. we are
only here I'm a temporary residence. We
are marching on. The merchant princes
who used to 1--we in Bowling Green, n.
Y. have passed away, and their resi-
dences are now the fields of cheap mer-
chants. Where are the men who fifty
wears ago owned New York? Passed on.
There is no use in our driving our
sta5es too deep into The earth; we are on
thg march The generations that have
rreceded us have gone so far on that we
caunot even hear the sound of their foot
stems. They have gone over the hills,
and we are 10 follow them. But blessed
he 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, ami pine branches, and myrtle
branches, and palm branches, and
branches Of thick trees, and build
booths.
THE ARBOR OF THE GOSPEL.
Well. now we are to-day to construct
gospel arbor or gospel booth; and how
shall we construct it? Well, we must get
al the tree branches and build. Accord
Ing to my text we must 20 up unto the
mount aud bring olive branches. What
does that mean?
The olive tree grows in warm climates,
and il reaches the height of twenty or
twenty-five feet, a straight stem, and
then an onshOot from that stem. And
then people come and they strip off these
branches sometimes, and when in the
time of war the general of one army takes
one of these olive branches and goes out
10 the general Of another army, what
does that mean? Why, it means unsad-
die the war chargers. It means hang up
the war kuapsacks It is but beautiful
way of saying peace!
Now if we are to-day going TO succeed
IN building this gospel aTDor we must go
into the Mount of God 5 blessing and
fetch the olive branches, and whatever
else we mus. have, and we must have at
least two olive branch& peace with God
and peace with man. When l say peace
with God do not mean to represent God
as bloody chieftain, having
grudge against us, but l do mean
20 affirm ther- Is no more antagonism be-
tween a hound and a hare, between q
hawk and a pullet, between elephant
and swine, than there is hostility be-
tween holiness and sin. And if God is
all holiness and we are all sin, there
must De 81 readiustment, there must be a
regoustructious there must be a treaty,
there must be a stretching forth of olive
branches.
THE HUMAN vs.. THE DIVINE.
There is great law suit going on now,
ami il is "a law suit which man is bringing
against his Maker; that law suit is now
on The calendar. 1t is the human versus
laa divine. il Is iniQuity versus the i'm
maea.ate, il is weakness versus ON
Impotence. Man began it; God did not
begin the law suit. We began it; we as
sau.ted our Maker, and the sooner, we
end t3is part of the struggle in which the
ante attempts to overthrow the infinite
and omuipotent, the sooner we end it the
better.
Travellers tell Us there is no snch place
as Mount Cavalry-that it is only q hill,
only an insignificant hill; but l presist
10 calling il the mount of God s divine
mercy and love, far grander than any
Other place on earth, grander than the
Alps or Himalays there are no other hills
as eompared with it;and have noticed in
every sect where the cross of Christ is
SCI forth it is planted in olive branches.
Au1 ali we have to do is TO get rid of
ms war between God and ourselves, of
which we are an tired. We want TO back
,uj oi the war, we want TO get rid of this
hostility. All we have to do is just TO
get up on the mount of God s blessing,
AMI pluck these olive branches and wave
'Aem before the throne. Peace through
our Lord Jesus Christ.
Oh. it don't make much difference
what the world thinks of you; what
lAS king, that queen, that senator
th.nkS Of you. But come into the warm,
intimate, glowing and everlasting rela-
uonship with the God Of the round uni
verse; that is the joy that makes halle
l1Jah seem stupid All, why do we
want TO have peace through our Lord
Jesus Christ? Why, if we had gone on
'u lp 200 years Of war against God, we
could not have captured so much as a
sword or a cavalry stiTrup, or twisted
eu one of the wheels of the chariot of
MS Omnipoteuce But the moment we