The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-06-20
CANAAN GRAPES
Uts THE SUTJACT or Dh' TAI
NiGE'S hERMOf sUNDAl
Tho End Of the Ioh@ ""
tren OF Israel Through '"e
TO the Promise Lad,

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-, ,,, nac,I-ariy suitable to thc sea !
..,, of frut. the title being: Grapes from !
c,,a,n" and the text, Numbers MIL 90
..,,j tho,- c,rnn INTO the brooks OF IIsciol,
aud r,,t down from thence brahch WIN
90, ,Iustnr of grapes, and they bare 1t be
tween two upon a stall.
Tn,. long trrdsa of the lsraei!tts across
the wilderness was almost ended lhey had
,,ma 10 t,n borders of the promised iaii'
f,f IN. six hundred thousand adults Who
.t,r-,I from Egypt for Canaan. how many
4, Won sunrosn got there? Five hundred
t,,,,,s,rdp Oh, no Not two hundred thou
s,pd not one hundred thousand, nor My,
mr. tyyrn:y. nor ten: but only two men. oh
i. Wy. n r,1;n0us march that God = people
,,,de: but their children were living ana
thcy wore on the march, and now tHilt
they had come up to the borders OF the
prom;sed land. they were very curious TO
know what kind Of place it was, ana
whether il would b. safe to go over. so
scoutiu., marty i; SAINT out to rcc0nuoitrc,
and they examine the land, and they come
back bringing specimens of its groWthS.
Inst >, Won canin back from California,
br.ngin. to your family basket OF pears
nr NUNS or apples. to show what inoii-
strous fruit they nave there. so TINS scout
NJ party cut off the biggest bunch OF grapes
tbny could find 1t was so large that one
nan could net carry it, and they thrust
pole through the cluster, ana there
WIS on. man at either end OF
the pole and So the bunch OF
Cranes was transported: | was some time
ago III IA iuAnTiaut vineyard. ihc Nihc
r,SSnr had done his work. The vinc hau
clantbrrrd up and spread lis wealth All
over tu,. aIbor. i he sun aud shower had
mixed Il CUP which the vine drank untll
with flushed cheril it lay slunib2rillg Ill The
light. Gus az against the check OF cluster
I lie iinIS Of toe grapes seemed almost
bursting with the juice in the warm lips
of the au;umnal day. and IL seemed as II
all YOU had IL do VAS to hit challco to-
warts the cluster and its life-blood would
begin t. drip away. But, my friends, III
these rigorous climes, we know nothing
about large grapes. StrabO states that III
Bible times and in Bible lands there were
gfHpevines 80 large that it took two men
WIN uutstrctcned arms TO reach r0H"i
them, ana he says there were clusters two
cubits i'll length. or twice the length from
the elbow 30 the tip of the long finger. And
ACd JUS. dN cling i'll those lands, tells us
that during the time he WAS Smittcn with
fever, oun grape would slakc his thirst for
the whole daE. No wonder. them i'll these
Bible times two men thought it worth
their while y PIT their strength together
To- carry down one cluster of grapes from
the promised land.
BUt this morning | bring you a larger
cluster from The heavenly ESchoi a clus,
ter of hopes. a cluster of prospects. n Clus-
ter of Christian consultations; and | am
expecting that one taste of it will rouse
up your appetite for the heavenly Canaan
During the past winter some Of this con
grcSation have gone away never to return
The aged have put down their staff and
taken up the >rpptcr. Men in mdifc cam,
home from office or shop. and did not &C
back again. and never will go back again
And the dear children. some of them hav,
been gathered in ChriSts arms. He found
n,F1amenT. and unless from the gospel OF
our Lord Jesus Christ there shall como ;,
consolation. there will be no cnnsolat;o,
al all Oh, that the God of all conf,rt
would help mo while | preach, and th.t
the God of all comfort woulJ holm y",,
while Won hear. UP w"
FIRST console You with the diyipoIv
s".'Vti'hpu liea mat Your departed friend,
arg as nlu"n yours now as they eyer wore
KNOW You sometimes get the iIr, il, ,,,,.
nllnd' whom you have this kind of trniihln
mat your friends are cut off from vo, ~,
th'y are no longer yours: but the desire ~
al our Ipvea ones in the same hot
-, 'ny tlhei'fE Is natural desire, a mi.
sSfSdi desire aud, therefore, a t,od-iu,-
planted desire, and is nightly surrest;ro
or the fact that death has no nowcr tn
preak up the family relations. If ON, IovrJ
ones go away from our possession. why
Iut a fence around oug lot in the GENE
terry: Why the gathering of four ar t;,,a
names Oh one f~mly monumcntp WI tho
painting OF one cypress-vine so that II Gov
erS all the clusters of graves? W'hv ma,
the husband beside the wife, and thr ,h;I-
1rIn At their feet: Why the bolt on ne
ehle o. cur io' and the charge to the kcrn-
erS of the ground to sen that The Grass i
cut. and The vine attended tn. AMI thn
hpwers planted? Why not put orr No.
parted friends III one common field Of
s sTn ,,'rs On i,,h i is because they
a'e ours. mat enid. o. stricken mother,
solemn hour Wben God put il against vour
heart. and said rs of old '"rako his ,biII
ana nurse II Tor me and | will give thrn
~! "dSeS 1t Is no mere whim. Ii is n
ItNIneF painted principle i'll the soul. and
God certainly would not plant y liz mi
he would not culture 4 lie, AhroI,nn, ,,.n,iiJ
Mt allow sarah to b. buried in n s,r,nrnr'.
grounds, although some very brauf;fui
ground was offered him free gift; hrt he
tph aSS iorr hundred Sbeh"ls for Machp,.Iah.
tne cave, and the trees oycrshadoyyin,, y
Inc Erav2 has been we'll kept, ana to,Iav
the Chrlstlan traveller stands in thou,rJ,tf,,I
and adnlrliS mood. gazing upon Varh'
Pe'aa. where Abraham and Sarah 1rn toii-
Sts ."t f long sleep OF four thousand vpars
your father mlv be- <lumbariur un,lnr thn
.ihhiihS o. the boil of the Scotch kirk yo,,r
brother may have gone down in The ,Litn
mat f9nndered off Cape Hatipras Yn,r
9ttle enid may be sleeping on the yprre If
the hoW}ring western prairie; vet ,,oI viii
gather them all up. however widely th" drnt
may he scattered. Nevertheless. il * nlnns,
ant 10 think that W. will he buri al tn-
gether hen my father died. and we tnoL
=. MN our ana put him down
III me graveyard of SomrrviIIn
u did not seem SO sad to leave him thern
because rignt beside him was nv Jn,r
sood. OLD. beautiful Christian mother. ana
Il seemed as if She said Il was tired. and
l | am to bed little early am glad you
nave GENE; 1t seems as of old" on il *
cphS0lation to feel that when mon como
anu with solemn tread carry Won out tn
your resting place. they will open the cato
tGro'Sh winch SOM If Your friends have
aifeadI gone, ard through which many of
your trends will follow Sleeping mndrr
the same root, ut last sleeping in,lrr thn
same SOD he autumnal leaves that dr;et
across your grave viii drift across theirs.
the bIi'l-Son@s that drop on their n,nnrJ
VIII drop on yours; and then. in starlr4s
winter nights, when the wind comes howI;nY
through the gorge, You will be company
Tor tacA other. I..p child clos, rrp 20 rh"
bosom of it's mother. The husband AMI