Democratic messenger., 1893-05-13
come a member of the churchs have such
violent temper.
-xlsuIxG A MIIEMAN.

/ violent temper
PUNisHiNG A MIi.EMAS.
| Yesterday | was crossing Jersey City
ferry. 1t WAS early i'll the morning, and
saw a milkman putting large quantity OF
water into his can, and | said. That is
enough. sir, and he got off the cart and in
suited me, and | knocked him down.
Well. said he, do you think | could ever
become Christian" That man had in
lis soul the grace OF the Lord Jesus, but
outside he was full OF thorns. and full OF
brambles, and full of cxasperatons but he
could not hear the story of "A Saviour's mercy
told without having the tears roll down his
cheek. There WAS loveliness within. bat
roughncss outside Mexican cactus all thc
| time
/ But remember In boyhood that we had
/ in our fathers garden what we called the
Giant of Battle. IA peculiar rose very red
and fiery Suggestive flower, il was called
the Giant of Battle. And so in the garden
of the Lord we find that kind of flower
/ the Pauls and Martin I.uthers. the Wyc
| IFS. the John knoXcs-i,iants of battle.
What in other men is spark in them is
a coniiagratiun. When they pray. their
I prayers take fire. when they suffer they
sweat great drops of blood: when they
/ preach, il Is pcntccost; when they fight
it is IA Thermopyl;r; when they die. it is
/ martyrtlom-gianis of battle. You say.
i Why have not more of them in the
church of Christ at this timer" answer
your question by asking another, Why
| have we not more Cromwells and Hum
bollts in the words" God wants only
/ few giants Of battle They do their work.
and they do il we'll
/ But find also in the church of God
plant that shall call the snowdrop. Very
beautiful. but cold Ii is very pure-pure
rs the snowtrop. beautiful as the snow
drop and ~ cold as the snowdrop. No spe-
cial sympathy That kind of man never
I loses his patience lie never wccps; ne
never nnshes with anger; he never utters -
rash word Always cold. always precise,
always passive-bcautiful snowdrop. But
| | don't like him would rather have one
Giant of Battle than :i.GO0 snowdrops.
Give me- IA man who may make some mis-
takes in his arlor for the Lords service
rather than that kind of nature which
/ spends its whole life doing but one thing.
aud that Is keeping equilibrium. There
are snowdroiis in all the churchcs-men
without any sympathy. Very good. They
are in the garden OF the Lord. therefore
know they ought to be there. but always
snowdrops
THE CENTURY PLANT
/ You have seen i'll some places perhaps a
century plant ! do not suppose there is
person in this house who has ever seen
more than one century plant in full bloom
and when you see the century plant youi
emotions are stirred You look mt il and
say. This flower has been gathering up it's
beauty for whole century, and it will not
I bloom again for another hundred years"
/ Well. have To tell you that in ;his garden
OF the church spoken of in my text there Is
a century plant
4 1t has gathered up its bloom from all the
/ ages .: eternity. and 10 centuries ago it put
forth its glory 1t i not only a century
plant. hut u passion ilower-thc passion
I flower OF Christ. a crimson flower. blood
at the root and blood on the leaves. the
! passion flower Of .IestiS. the century plant
of eternity Come. o winds from the north.
and winds from the south. and winds from
the east, and winds from the west. and
scatter the perfume of this flower through
all nations.
Ills worth. II all the nations knew.
| sure the whole earth would love him too.
/ Thou. the Christ of all the ages hast gar
menis smelling Of myrrh and aloes and Gas
sia out of the ivory palaces.
/ | 20 further and say the church of Christ
is appropriately compared to n garden be-
cause OF its thorough irrigation There car
he no luNurant garden without plenty of
water saw II garden in the midst Of the
desert amid the Rocky mountains | said.
How is it possible you have 50 many flow
ers. much rich fruit. in desert for miles
around:" ] suppose some of you have seen
those gardens Well. they told me they
ka.l
hills. and the SHOWS melted ON the Sierra
Nevada and the Rocky mountains and then
poured down in water to those aqucducts.
and il kept the fields in great luxuriance.
! And thought To myself-how like the gar
,!cn Of Christi All around it the barrenncss
of sin and the larrcnncss of the world. but
our eyes are unto the hills. from whence
comcth our help There is n river TIL.
streams whereof shall make glad the city of
our God-the fountain of gardens and
streams from Lebanon Water tn slake the
thirst. water to refresh the fainting. water
to wash the unclean. water to toss up in
fountains under the sun of righteousness
until Won can see the rainbow around the
thronc
THE STREAMS OF LEBANON.
| wandered in a garden of Brazilian ca
shcw nut. and saw the luxuriance of those
gardens was helped by the abundant sup
ply Of water ! came to it on u day when
strangers were not admitted. but by
striuge coincidence. at the moment got in.
the kings chariot passed. and the gardener
went up on the hill and turned ON the water.
and il came flashing down the broad stairs
Of stone until sunlight and wave in glec
some wrestlc tumbled ut my feet. And so
it i~ with this garden Of Christ Everything
peace from above. comfort from above. sane
tiicl ION from above Streams from Icba
non! oh, the consolation in this thought
Wouh; God that the gardeners turned on
the fountain of salvation until the place
where we sit and stand might become Film
with - wells of water and threescorc and
ten ,lilm trees But | hear his sound at
the garden gate. | hear the lifting of the
latch of the gate Who comes there. II is
the Gardener. who passes in through the
garden gate lie comes through this path
of the garden. and he comes to the agcl
man. and he says: Old man. come TO help
thee: come To strengthen thee Down Ia
hoary hairs will shelter thee; will give
thee strength at the time Of old age; will
not leave; will never forsakc thee. Peace,
broken hearted old man. will be thy con
ISOLATION forever.
/ And then Christ. the Gardener. comes Ip
another path of the garden. and he sees
soul III great trouble, and he says. Hush.
troubled spirit; the stan shall not sInitc 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
/ Gar,lcncr comes up another path of the gar
den, and he comes where there are some
beautiful bu,,> and | say. stop q Garden
or: do not break them OIL" But he breaks
them OH, the beautiful buds, and
great iutter among the leaves. and won
der what he j. doing, and he says: Il do not
:ome to destroy these flowers. | am only
going to plant them in higher terrace and
/ the garden around my palace. have
,omc into my garden 10 gather lilies. ]
must take back II whole cluster Of rose
,uds Peace. troubled soul; all shall he
we'll Suffer the little children To come I'm
% me and forbid them not. forof such is the
I e .rlor