The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-07-20
GOSPEL BOOTHS.
Or. Talmage on the Blessings Of
True Christianity.
constructing Gospel Observation-Disclosures
sfthe Olive Brench-The Pine q
I've of the Health of Religion
Power of the Gospel.

TIL subject of a late sermon by Rev. 7.
De Witt Talmage was ''The Bower of
Lree Branches" His text was Nehemiah
VII. 10; go forth unto the mount and
ietch olive branches, and palm branches,
ana branches OF thick trees, to make
oootns." DIR. Talmage said:
IL seems as il Mount Olivet were I'M
moored. The people have gone into the
and heve cut off tree branches
ana put them on their shoulders and they
come forth now into the streets of Jerusa-
Ism aud on the house tops and they twist
theee tree branches into arbors or booths.
the people come forth from their
comfortable homes and dwell seven days
In these booths or arbors. Why do they
do that? Well, II is a great festal time.
II lie the feast of tabei nacles, and these
people are yolng TO celebrate The desert
travel Of their fathers and their deliver
nnce from their troubles, the experience
OF their fathers when, travelling in the
desert they lived in booths on their way
u the land of Canaan And so these
booths also become highly suggestive
will not say they are necessarily typical,
but highly 3ug yestive-of our march to-
ward Heaven. and of the fact tina we are
only living temporarily here, as 1t were,
az bOOtAAu VI aIDOIN. On OUT NAV 10 me IA
nean OF eternal rest.
And was said to the Jews literally
may to-day be said fguratively to all this
audience Go forth into the mountain
and I tch olive branches and pine
and myrtle branches OF thick
trees to make booths. Yes, we are only
mere IA q temporary residence. We are
marching on. The merchant princes who
naQd tn live in R.NyIfnn tNraan Nau, WI
have passed away, and their residences are
now the field of cheap merchants. Where
are he men who fifty years ago owned
New York; Passed on.
There Ii no use in our driving our stakes
too deep into ,hs earth; we are on the
march. The generations thet have pre-
coded Us have gone so far on tpaS we can
not 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
comtorted. Go forth unto the mountain
and fetch olive branches aud pine
branches and myrtle branches ana palm
branches and branches OF thick trees and
build US booths.
Well, now, we are to-day to construct a
gospel arbor, or Gospel booth, and how
shall we construct 1t? Well, we must get
all the tree branches and build. Accord
Ing to my text we must go up into the
mount and bring olive branches. What
does that meanp
The olive tree grows In warm climates,
and IL reaches the height Of twenty or
twenty-five feet, a straight stem and then
an offshoot from that stem. And then
people come and thew strip off these
bre sometimes. and hen in time Of
war the general OF one army takes one of
these olive branches and Ooes ont IN tho
general OF another army what does that
meant Why. IL means unsaddIe the war
chsrpere It means hang nm the w.r
kpapsacks. IL IL but a benuiiful vav NJ
saying Peacel
Now, IL we are to-day going 70 succeed
In binding this GOSPEL arbor. we must go
into the mount of Gods blessing and fetch
the olive branches. and. wha5eyer else we
must have. we have at least two olive
branchee-peace with God and peace with
man. When / say peace with God do
not mean TO represent God as n bloody
chieftaih, having a grudge against us. but
I do mean to affirm there Is no more an
ts1ouiam between n hound ard n hare
bstwoen a hawk and a outlet between
elephant and swine, than there is hostility
bsfuean holiness and sin. And IL God il
al hoiln45s nnGp We are a | ain. there must
4 read5attu1snf, Mere must be a treaty.,
k111Eaxzteetstfgtching forth of olive
tFsnchek
There Is . great lawsuit going on now.
and ID IL a lawsuit which man is bringing
against MS Maker. That lawsuit is now
90 the calendar, IL l. the human versus
~ divine. it ls ~iniouit versus the i'm
n is wsakneso versus omnino.
$500 Man baoan II God ala not haoin
,,r EssLar and the qoonar wa end his
n.-t ~ .ha .trnooIa Ia which to anita o.
'sm ann, :, :: sos oye atsS III the sp inap ute r anS the Ise
Trava,ers fall us tbereIs M sucb nlace
a Mount CALVARY. that it is onIv a hill.
srly an insignificant hill; but | persist in
Ealing Il the mount of Gods divine rnercv
And love. far erander than anv place on
ssrtb, grander than the Alps or Hima-
and there are no other hills as
coyn,arsd with IL: and l have noticed in
svsrv sect where the cross of Christ Ia set
forth IT is pfGrteu-Eitb olive ranches.
all we have to do is to1get rid OF rfr,-
war bstw cen God and ourselves, of which
We are ali tired. We wont to back out of
the war, we want to get rid of this hostil-
lty. All We have to do Is to just get up on
The mount OF Gods blessing and pluck
these olive branches and wave them be-
fore the throne. Peace through our Lord
sssns Christ