Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-05-11

have one GlanI OF DaJJle imam 5,UUO
snowdrops.
Give me a man who may make some
mistakes in his afdor for the Lords
service, rather than that kind of
nature which spends its whole life
doing but one thing, and that is keep
ing equilibrium There are snowdrops
in all churches--men without any
sympathy. Very good; they are in the
garden of the Lord, therefore | know
they ought to be there; but always
snowdrops.
You have seen in some places, per-
haps, a century plant. | do not sup
pose there is person in this house
who has ever seen more than one CEN
tury plant in full bloom, and when you
see the century plant your emotions
arc stirred. You look at it and say,
This flower has been gathering up its
beauty for whole century, and it VIII
not bloom again for another hundred
years" Wen, have to tell you that
in this garden of the Church, spoken of
in my text, there is n century plant
1t has gathered up its bloom from
all the ages of eternity, and
nineteen centuries ago it put forth
its glory. 1t is not only
century plant, but Il passion-fower
The passion-tlower Of Christ a Grim
son flower, blood at the root, and
blood on the leaves, the passion flower
of Jesus, the century plant of eternity.
Come, O winds from the north, and
winds from the south, and winds from
the west, and scatter the perfume of
this flower through all nations.
His worth if all the nations knew
Sure the whole earth would love him too
Thou, the Christ of all the ages, hast
garments smelling of myrrh and aloes,
and cassia, out of the ivory palaces.
go further, and say the church of
christ is appropriately compared to
garden because of its thorough irriga-
ton. There can be no luXuriant gar
den without plenty of water, ] saw
garden in the midst of the desert, amid
the Rocky Mountains. | said, How is
it possible You have SO many flowers,
SO much rich fruit in a desert for miles
around? | suppose some of you have
seen those gardens. Well, they told
me they had aqueducts and pipes
reaching up the hills, and the SHOWS
melted on the Sierra Nevada and the
Rocky Mountains, and then poured
down in water to those aqueducts, and
1t kept the fields IN great luXuriancc.
And thought to myself-how Xix ethe
garden of Christ. All around it the
barrenncss of sin and the barrenness
OF the Worli' but our eyes are unto the
NILS from whence cometh our hclp,.
There is a river the streams whereof
shall make glad the city of our God,
the fountain of gardens and streams
from Lebanon. water 10 sack the
thltSt' water 10 relfeSh inc IaluJihG,
water 10 WASH lie unclean' water 20
loss up IN fountains uhu"r thc sun Oh
righteousness unIil you can see the
RAINBOW around the throne
WahGered In garden OF hfaIllIan
casheW-hut' aud saw the luNurlance
OF those gardens were helped by the
aouhoant supply OF water. came 10
II on DAY when strangers were not
ADMITTED, nut by strange conner
achce, at the moment got IN, the
KING charlot passed ana the gardener
went up on the NIL ana turned on the
water ana 1t came flashing down the
broad STAIRS OF stone, until sunlight
ana wave IN gIeesOmc Wrestle tumoieu
at my feed. And SO 1t IS with this gar
den OF CHRIST Everything comes from
ahoye--fardon from above. peace from
above comfort from above, sanctlhca-
ton from ABOVE streams from Leba-
non, on. the consolation IN TINS
thought NOult GOt that the gard
enerS turned on the fountain OF saliva !
ton until the place whore we st and
stand might become Elm with twelve !
wells OF water and threeScOre and ten
pa Im-trees. But | hear his sound at
the garden gate: L hear the lifting of
the latch of the gate. Who comes
there? 1t Is the Gardener, who passes
in through the garden gate. lie comes
this path of the garden, and
he comes to the aged man, and he says, !
''Old man. | come to help thee | come
to strengthen thee. Down to hOary
hairs | will shelter thee; | will give
thee strength at the time of old age:
l Will not leave; l will never torsake
thee. Peace, broken hearted old man,
will be thy consolation forever"
And then Christ the Gardener comes
up another path of the garden, and he
sees Il soul in great trouble, and he
says, flush, troubled spirit; the sun
shall not smlte thee by day. nor the
moon by night; the Lord shall pre-
serve thee from all evil: the Lord shall
preserve thy soul And then the
Gardener comes up another path OF the
garden, and he comes where there are
some beautiful buds, and say, stop,
q Gardener, do not break them Off
But he breaks them off, the beautiful
buds, and see great tutter among
the leaves, and | wonder what he is
doing, and he says, II do not come to
destroy these flowers; am only going
to plant them in higher terrace, and
in the garden around my palace. |
have come into my garden to gather
lilies. l must take back whole clus-
ter OF roscbu Peace, troubled soul;
all shall he well. Suffer the little
children to come unto me, and forbid
them not. for of such is the kingdom of
heaven Oh. glorious Gardener of the
Church! Christ comes to it now, and
he has right to come. We look into
the face of the Gardener as he breaks
off the bud, and we say, Thou art
worthy to have them: thy will be
DONE The hardest prayer be-
reaved father or mother ever uttered
THY will be done"
But you have noticed that around
every kings Garden tbarn * a hiUb