Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-15
Earth is Not the Permanent Abid-
inc Place Of Mankind.
rbare is No Use in Our Driving Our
stakes too Deep: We Are On the
March to the Other Land.
-. non,t want in the Church People Who Are
Mere Weeping willows, Who Stand
Signing in the Water.
, BOWER OF BRANCHES.

cnecfal 20 the GsAS1'0-
Thar HauproNs, July 1.-THE subject
.ho Pew. DR.. T. De Witt Talmage IS
s.-r,on to-day was: ''The Bower of Tree
p..rcbes. - His text was Nehemiah
- y. eco forth unto the mount and
,.t,b olive branches, and pine branches,
and myrtle branches, and palm branches,
"a branches of thick trees, to make
1.,otbs. " Following is the sermon:
-. ssau,s rs if Mount Oliyet were un-
red The people nave gone into the
-Il,,,tain. and have cut OF tree branches
Ia nuf them OH their shoulders, and
~ come forth now into the streets of
T.~.s9lem. and on the housetOps, and
TO- twist these tree branches into arbors
- foofbs. Then the people come from
.bair comfortable homes, and dwell for
.I~an days Ia these booths or arbors.
WIN DO ihev DO that? Well, it is a great
,.stal tine. II is the feast of
.aforuarles: and these people
o-a Going to celebrate the desert
.-ova, OF their fathers and
.bsir ,7eIiveranue from their troubles, the
s,perfepce Of their fathers when, travel
inc i'm the desert. they lived in booths, on
. ,lafr way TO the land of Canaan Aud so
.Fzse booths also become highly suggest
ira-T will not say they are necessa-
Tlv typical, but highly suggestive-of
onr march toward heaven, and of the
feet that we are only living temporarily
here. as it were, i'll booths or aTbors, on
our wav 10 the Canaan OF eternal rest.
And what Was said to the Jews liter
oily may to-day be said figuTatively to
OH this audience Go forth into the
mountain, and fetch olive branches, and
nine branches, and myrtle branches, and
IaIm branches, and branches Of thick
frees. TO make us booths Yes, we are
only here IN 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-
dances 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
stakes too deep into +he earth; we are on
the march. The generations that have
preceded us have gone so far on that we
cannot even hear the sound OF their foot
steps. They have gone over the hills,
and we are to follow them. But blessed
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 TIE GOSPEL.
Well, now we are to-day to construct
gospel arbor or gospel booth; and how
shall we construct it? Well, we must get
ali the tree branches and build. Accord
ing to my text we must go up unto the
mount and bring olive branches. What
does that mean?
The olive tree grows in warm climates,
and if reaches the height Of twenty or
twenty-five feet, a straight stem, and
then an oGshoot 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
70 the general of another army, what
does that mean? Why, it means unsad-
die the war chargers. It means hang up
the war knapsacks. 1t is but a beautiful
way of saying peace.
Now, il we are to-day going to succeed
in building this gospel arbor we must go
into the Mount OF God IS blessing and
fetch the olive branches, and whatever
else We must have, and we must have at
least two olive branches, peace with God
and peace with man. When l say peace
With God, DO not mean to represent God
as bloody chieftain, having
gIudge against US, but 1 do mean
10 affirm there IS no more antagonism be-
tween hound and hare, between
hawk and a pullet, between elephant
and swine, than there is hostility be-
tween holiness and sin. And if God is
AL holiness and We are all sin, there
must be a reimbursement, there must be a
reconstruction, 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,
and It is q law suit which man is bringing
against his Maker; that law suit is now
Oh The calendar. 1t is the human versus
,A5 divine, il Is iniquity versus the i'm
Maea.ate, II is weakness versus ON
Impotence. Man began it; God did not
'e-lI the law suit. We began it: we as
sa1l[ed our Maker, and the sooner we
gta This part of the struggle in which the
unite attempts to overthrow the infinite
sAl omnipOtent, the sooner we end il the
better.
Travellers tell us there is no such place
as 4ount Cavalry-that it is'only q hill,
,.L{ an insignificant hill; but [ presist
~ calling it the mount of God's divine
mercy Gnd love, far gTander than any
D.-e' place on earth, grander than the
APPS OF Himalays, there are no other hills
as compared with it ;Gnd have noticed in
ne.E sect where the cross of Christ is
as' forth it is planted in olive branches.
.l-~ all we have to do is to get rid of |
.-S war between God and ourselves, of /
which we are all tired. We want TO back |
s1' OF the war, we want 10 get rid of this
-.s'llty. All we have to do is just to |
50 up on the mount of God 5 blessing, !
.. ---' pluck these olive branches and wave |
.-sl- before the throne. Peace through |
'-s Lord Jesus Christ.
o@, 1t don't make much difference !
ana, @-4' the world thinks of you; what /
..-. ms King, that queen, that senator
. INKS Of YOU. But come into the warm,
- mate, glowing and everlasting rela-
e">l!p with the God of the round uni
,- SO That is the Joy that makes a halle
Ian seem stupid. All, why do we
--l 10 have peace through our Lord
:; S,S ,a Christ? Why, if we had gone on
- ~ goo years of war against God, we
LII LII not have captured so much as a