News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-07-05

logue OF the fruits growing in this great
garden Of Christ-love, joy, peace, pa
thence. charity brotherly kindness. gem
tleness, lnercy-glorious fruit. enough
10 Gil all the baskets of earth and
heaven.
/ have not told you Of the better tree
in this garden and of the better frnit
1t was planted just outside Jerusalem a
good while ago. When that tree was
planted, it was so split and bruised and
barled men said. nothing would ever
grow upon it, but no sooner had that
tree been planted than it budded and
blossomed and fruited, and the soldiers
spears were only the clubs that struck
down that fruit, and it fell into the lap
of the nations, and men began to pick
it up and eat it, and they found in it an
antidote TO all thirst, to all poison, to
all sin, TO all death-the smallest clus-
ter larger than the famous one of Esh-
col, which two men carried on a staff
between them. If the one apple in Eden
killed the race, this one cluster Of mercy
shall restore
water EOr the Narden.
Again, the church, in my text, is APP
propriately called a garden because it is
thoroughly irrigated. No garden could
prosper long without plenty of water. /
have seen a garden in the midst of
desert, yet blooming and luxuriant
All around were dearth and barrenness,
but there were pipes, aqueducts reach
ing from this garden up to the noun
tains, and through those aqueducts the
water came streaming down and tossing
up into beautiful fountains until every
root and leaf and flower was saturated.
That is like the church. The church is
a garden in the midst of a great desert
Of sin and suffering. 1t is well irrigat-
ed, for "our eyes are unto the hills, from
whence cometh our help. From the
mountains of Gods strength there flow
down rivers of gladness. There is
river the stream whereof shall make
glad the city of our God. Preaching
the gospel is one of these aqueducts.
The Bible is another. Baptism and the
Lords supper are aqueducts. Water
to Stake the thirst water to restore the
faint, water to wash the unclean, water
tossed high up in the light of the sun of
righteousness, showing us the rainbow
around the throne. Oh, was there ever
a garden so thoroughly irrigated? You
know the beauty of Versailles and
Chatsworth depends very much upon
the great supply of water. came to the
latter place (Chatsworth) one day when
strangers are not to be admitted, but
by an inducement, which always seemed
as applicable to an Englishman as an
American, l got in, and then the gar
dener went far up above the stairs of
stone and turned on the water. l saw it
cleaning on the dry pavement, coming
down from step to step, until 1t came so
near l could hear the musical rush, and
all over the high, broad stairs it came
foaming, flashing, roaring down until
sunlight and waye in gleesome wrestle
tumbled at my feet. So it is with the
church of God, Everything comes from
above-pardon from above, joy from
above, adoption from above, sanctifica-
ton from above. Oh, that now God
would turn on the waters of salvation,
that they might flow down through his
heritage, and that this day we might
each find our places to be ''Elims,
with IL wells of water and threescore
and ten palm trees.