The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-07-17
"a GOSPEL ARBOR.
Y, DR.. Talmage Tells How to
Construct It
N branches for Peace. Pine Branches
'or Health and Palm Branches for
victory-A Rural Sermon at
Nj q Rural Resort.

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And what me-. sata "a - .hn Io lo.S u.u-
NAV n AN, ha soiS a,s,.al, s yv"s w sniy
audience a. torth IT, tha ,.ssu W o. una nS
fetch olive h,annhas Ia sae u,r" n.nsa" anu
and mvrtie brancbas ana ,ai,, t,.a,,ohos
and branches ~ thicb t,oa. t - 49, hao.Ss'
fes, we are only here In temporary resi-
uence. We are marchingon. The merchant
princes who used to live in Bowling Green,
New York, have passed away and their res
licences are now the fields Of cheap mer-
chants. Where are the men who fifty years
ago owned New Yorkf Passed on.
There is no use In our driving our stakes
700 deep into the earth ; we are on the march.
The generations that have preceded US have
gone SO far on that 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 notin 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.
Well, now we are to-day to construct a
gospel arbor, or gospel booth, and how shall
we construct iti Well, we must get all the
tree branches and build. According to nv
text we must 90 up into the mount and bring
olive branches. What does that meant
The olive tree grows in warm climates. and
II reaches the height OF twenty or twenty-five
feet, straight stem, and then an offshoot
from that stem. And then people come and
they strip of 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, 1t means unsaddle
the war chargers. II means hang up the war
knapsacks. II Is but beautiful way of saw
ing, Peacel
Now, FIVE are to-day going TO succeed in
building the gospel arbor, we must 20 into
the mount Of Gods blessing. 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 bloody chieftain,
having grudge against US, but lido mean TO
afirm there is nc more antagonism betweena a
hound and hare, between hawk and
pullet between elephant and swine, than
there Is hostility between holiness and sin.
And II God Is all holiness, and we are all sin,
there mustbe readjustmenl, there must be
reconstruction, there must be a treaty,
there must be stretching forth of olive
branches. -
There is a great lawsuit going ON now. and
Il Is lawsuit which man Is bringing against
a - n "A =
dar IL Is the human versus thediyine: IL Ia