Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-07-21

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lHbernacicsi and these people are
gong 10 celebrate the desert travel Of
tlsir fathers and their deliverauce
f'Ou their troubles, the experience of
their fathers when. travelling in the
desert, they lived in booths on their
way 10 the land of Canaan. And SO
those booths also become highly sug,
gcstIyc-l will not say they are nsccs-
slrily typical, but highly Suggestive
OF our march toward heaven. aud Of
the fact that we are only living TEN.
pOrarlly here. rs il were, in booths or
arbors, on our way to the Canaan Of
eternal rest.
Aud what was said 10 the Jews
literally NAV today he said figura-
lively To all this audience. Go forth
into the mountain, and fetch olive
branches. and pine brancMs, and
myrtle branches, and palm branches,
and branches of thick trees TO make
booths. Yes, we are only here in a
temporary residence. We are march.
ing on. The merchant princes who
used 10 live in Bowling Green, New
York, have passed away, and their
residences are now the fields of cheap
merchants. Where are 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 are 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 we are 10 follow them.
But, blessed be- God, we are not in this
world left out Of doors and unshel-
tered. 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.
Well, now we are today TO ocJnstruct
a gospel arbor, or gospel booth; and
how shall We construct iti Well, we
must get all the tree branches and
build. According TO my text we must
60 up into the mount and bring olive
branches. What does that meant
The olive tree grows in warm eli
mates, and il reaches the height Of
twenty or twenty-five feet, straight
stem. and then am ofshoot from that
stenLt 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 10 the general
of another army, what does that meant
Why, il means, unsaddle the war
chargers. II means hang up the war
knapsacks. 1t is but a beautiful way
Of saying, Peacel
Now, If we are today going to sue
ceed 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 10 represent God as a bloody
chieftain, having grudge against us,
but do mean to affirm there is no
more antagonism between a hound
and hare, between a hawk and a
pullet, between elephant and swine,
than there is hostility between holi-
ness and sin. And if God is all holi-
ness, and we are all sin, there must
be readjustment, there must be a re-
construction, there must be treaty,
there must be a stretching forth Of
olive branches.
THE HUMAN VS.. TIE 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. Ii is the
human versus the divine; il is iniquity
versus the immaculate; il is weakness
versus omnipotence. Man began IL;
God did not begin the lawsuit. We
began il; we assaulted our Maker, and
the sooner we end this part OF the
struggle in which the finite attempts
TO overthrow the infinite and omnip-
otent the sooner we end il the better.
Travellers tell us there ls no such
place as Mount Calvary, that il is only
a hill, only an Insignificant hill; but
i persist in calling IL 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 com
pared with il; and | have noticed in
every sect where the cross Of Christ is
set forth. il is planted with olive
branches. And all we have TO do is
10 get rid OF this war between God and
ourselves, OF which we are all tired.
We want TO back out of the war, we
want TO get rid Of this hostility. All
We have 10 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 Christi
oh, it don't make much difference
what the world thinks Of you-what
this king, that queen. that senator
thinks OF you. But come into the
warm, intimate, glowing aud everlast-
ing relationship with the God OF the
world can give. A young prince,
when The children came around TO
play with him, refused toplay. He
said; / will play only with kings.
And il might be supposed that YOU
would throw away all other solace be-
fore this regal satisfaction, this i'm.
perial JOY. Ye who are sons and
daughters Of the Lord Almighty ought
10 play only with kings.
The hill Of Zion yields
A thousand sacred swectA,
Before We reach the heavenly fclds
I'M tha .xs.I.l...