Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-05-08

ing down the broad stairs Of stone unit
sunlight and wave In gleesome wrestl,
tumbled at my feet And 40 10 Ia will
this garden Of Christ. Everything come,
from above--pardon from above, peac,
from shove, comfort from above, sanc
tification from above. Streams from
Lebanon. Oh, the consolation In tbi,
thought Would God that the garden
ers turned on the fountain of salvation
until the place where we sit and stand
might become Elm with f2 wells OF
water and threescore and ten palm trees.
But hear his sound at the garden gate.
I hear the lifting of the latch of the gate.
Who comes there7 II is the Gardener,
who passes In through the garden gate.
He comes through this path of the gar.
den, and he comes TO the aged man, and
he says: "Old man, come to help thee;
I come to strengthen thee. Down 10
hoary hairs I will shelter thee; will
give thee strength at the time Of old age.
/ will not leave; / will never forsake
thee. Peace, broken hearted old man;
will be thy consolation forever"
THE DIVINE GARDENER
And then Christ, the Gardener, comes
up another path Of the garden, and he
sees soul in great trouble, and he says,
Hush, troubled spirit; the sun shall not
srnite thee by day, nor the moon by
night; the Lord shall preserve 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, 0 Gardener; do not
break them off" But he breaks them
off, the beautiful buds, and l see great
futter among the leaves, and l wonder
what he is doing, and he says: II do not
come to destroy these flowers. I am
only going to plant them in higher ter
race and in the garden around my pal
ace. / have come into my garden to
gather lilies. Unjust take back whole
cluster Of rosebuds. Peace, troubled
soul; all shall be 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
churchl 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 bereaved father or
mother ever ruttered-"Thy will be DONE"
THE WALL OF DEFENSE.
But you have noticed that around ev-
cry kings garden there is high WALL
You may have stood at the wall Of
kings court and thought, "How would
like to see that garden!" and while you
were watching the gardener opened the
gate, and the royal equipage swept
through it, and you caught glimpse Of
the garden, but only glimpse, for then
the gates closed.
bless God that this garden of Christ
has gates on all sides; that they are
opened by day, opened by night, and
whosoever will may come in. Oh, how
many there are who die in the desert
when they might revel in the gardenl
How many there are who are seeking in
the garden of this world that satisfaction
which they can never findl
1t was so with Theodore Hook, who
made all nations laugh while he was liv-
Ing. And yet Theodore Hook on q GER
tain day, when in the midst of his rev.
elry he caught glimpse of his own face
and his own apparel in the mirror, said:
"That is true. look just as AMIDST,
body, mind, soul and estate, lostp And
30 1t was with Shenstone about his gar
den, of which I spoke in the beginning
Of my sermon. He sat down amid all its
beauty and wrung his hands and said,
II have lost my way to happiness; am
frantic; hate everything; hate myself
rs mad man ought to-" Alas, so many
IN the gardens of this world are looking
Tor that flower they never can find ex-
,ept in the garden Of Christ!
Substantial comfort will not grow
In natures barren soil.
All we can boast till Christ we know
Is vanity and toll.
UNsATIsFYINd PLEASURES.
How many have tried all the fountains
VI this worlds pleasure, but never tasted |
II the stream from Lebanonl How
many have reveled in other gardens to |
heir souls ruin, but never plucked one
lower from the garden Of our Godi
wing open all the gates of the garden
md invite you in, whatever your history,
your sins, whatever your temp
ations, whatever your trouble. The
invitation comes no more to one than TO
ii, "Whosoever will, let him come"
The flowers of earthly gardens soon
ade; but, blessed be God, there are gar
ands that never wither, and through
he grace OF Christ Jesus we may enter
nto the joys which are provided for us
{ Gods right hand. Oh, come into the
arden. And remember, as the closing
hought, that God not only brings us
nto garden here, but 1t Ia garden all
he way with those who trust and love
nd serve him, o garden all through the
truggles Of this life, a garden all up the
Iope of heaven.
There everlasting spring abides
And never withering flowers.
Death, like o narrow stream, divides
That heavenly land from ours.
An Experiment with Fresh Air.
An interesting experiment that proves
ae value of fresh air in winter, even for
oyv vnuno and dencate children Was