The Penn's Grove record., 1894-07-06

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they go out into the kitchen to help Martha
in her work, that she may sit there too.
There Is a woman who has q drunken hus-
band, who has exhibited more faith and
patience and courage than Hugl Llti-
mer in the fire. He was consumed in twenty
minutes. Hers has been a twenty years
martyrdorn. Yonder is q man who has lain
fifteen years OF his back, unable even TO
feed himself, yet calm and peaceful as
though he lay on one of tho green banks OF
heaven watching tha oarsmen dip their pad
dies In the crystal riveri Why, it seeuaAto
mo this moment as IL Paul threw to us
a pomologist's catalogue Of the fruits grow.
ing in this great garden Of Christ love. Joy,
peace, patience, charity. brotherly kindness,
gentleness, mercy-glorious fruit, enough to
I'LL all the baskets OF earth AMI heaven.
/ have not told you Of the better tree in
this garden n OF the better fruit. 1t was
planted Just outside Jerusalem q good while
ago. When that tree was planted, 1t was so
split and bruised AMI barked men said moth
ing would ever grow upon 1t, but no sooner
had that tree been planted than 1t buideI
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 ma
ttons, 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 cluster larger than the ia
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op a staff between them. II the ono apple
In Eden killed tne race this one cluster OF
mercy shall restore.
Again, the church, in my text, Is appro-
priately called a garden because it is thor
oughly irrigated. No garden could prosper
long without plenty Of water. I have seen I
garden in the midst OF u desert. yet bloom
ing and 1uxuriant. All around were dearth
and barrepness, but there were pipes. aque-
| ducts reaching from this garden up to the
mountains, and through those aqueductsthe
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 aud suffering.
| It is well irrigated for 'our eyes are unto
the hills, from whence cometh our help"
From the mountains of Go Is strength there
flow down rivers OF gladnass. There is
n river the stream whereof shall make
| glad the city OF our God. Preaching the
gospel is one of these aqneducts. The Bible
| is another. Baptism AM tho Lords supper
are aqueducts. Water 10 slHkc the thirst,
water to restore the faint, w,ter to wash tho
u~nclean, water tosse 1 high up in the light OF
the sun of Righteousness, slowing us tine
rainbow around the throne. Oh, was there
ever a garden so thoroughly irrigated2 You
know the beauty of Versailles and Chats
worth depends very much upon the great
| supply OF water. / came to the latter place
(Ohatsworth) one day when strangers are not
to be admitted, but byan inducement, which
always seemed as applicable 10 an English
man as an American, | got in, and then the
gardener went far up above the stairs oil
stone and turned on the water. I saw it
] cleaning on the dry pavement, coming
down from step to step, until it came SO near
I could hear the musical rush, and all over
the high, broad stairs it came foaming, flash
ing, roaring down until sunlight and wave in
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is with the church OF God. Everything comes
from ~above-pardon from above, joy from
above, adoption from above, modification
from above. oh, hat 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 twelve wells Of water n
tbreescore and ten palm trees.
Harkl I hear the latch at the garden gn'n,
and I look to sec who Is coming. 1 hear 81.
voice OF Christ. ~ am come into My gar
den." Isay: "Come in, o Jesus we have
been waiting for Thee. Wax all through
these paths. Look ut the flowers. Look at
the fruit. Pluck that which Thou wilt for
Thyself." Jesus comes into the garden and
up to that old man and touches him and
says, 'Almost home, father not many more
aches for thee. 1 will never leave thes.
I will never forsake thee. Take courage
a little longer, and I will steady thy
tottering steps, and l will soothe thy
troubles and give thee rest. Courage, old
man." Then Christ goes up another garden
path, and He comes to n soul in trouble and
says 'Peace all is well. I have seen thy
tears I have heard thy prayer. The sun
shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon
by might. The Lord shall preserve thee
from all evil He will preserve thy soul.
Courage, o troubled spirit" Then I see
Jesus going up another garden path. and
/ see great excitement among the leaves,
anil I hasten up that garden path to
see what Jesus is doing there, and, 10
He is breaking off flowers, sharp and clean,
from he stem, and 1 say, ''stoP, Jesus. don't
kill those beautiful flowers" He turns
to me and says 81 have come into NV gar
den to gather lilies, andI mean to take these
up to a high terrace, and for the garden
around MY palace, and there / will plant
them, and in better soil, and in better air.
They shall put forth brighter leaves and
sweeter redolence, and no frost shall touch
them forever" And I looked up into His
has a right 10 do what He will with it. Thy
will be done'-the hardest prayer n man
ever made.
notice that the fine gardens sometimes
AVE high fences around them, and 1 cannot
got in. 1t is so with the kings garden. The
only glimpses you ever get Of such a garden
Is when the king rides out In his splendid
carriage. 1t is not so with this g~arden-the
Kings garden. throw wide open the gate
and tell YOU all to come in. No monopoly
in religion. Whosoever will, may. Choose
now between a desert and a garden. Many
Of you nave tried the garden of this worlds
delight. You have found 1t has been a cha
grin. So it was with Theodore Hook. He
made aIlthe worldlaugb. He makes us laugh
now when we read his POEMS, but he
could not make his own heart laugh. While
In the midst of his festivities he confronted
a lookingglass, and he saw himself and said
"rhere, that is true. l look up just as | am
done up in body, MIND and purse" So II
was with Shemstone, of whose garden l told
at the beginning of my sermon He sal
down amid those bowers and said 81 havt
lost my road to happiness. l am angry and
envious and frantic and desplse everything
around me, just as it becomes q mad
man to do" OBJ, ye weary souls, COM
into Christ's garden to-day am
pluck a little heartseasel Christ is the only
rest and the only pardon for q perturbet
spirit. Do you not think your chance has
almost come? You men and women who
! have been waiting year after year for some
good opportunity in which to accept Christ
but have postponed 1t 8, 10, 20, 80 years, dc
you not feel as If now your hour OF deliver
Hnce and pardon and salvation had Gomez
Oh, man, what grudge hast thou against thy
poor soul that thor wilt not let it be saveli
/ feel as If salvation must come now to SOM
uf your hearts.
Some years ago a vessel struck on the
rocks. They had only one lifeboat. II
Tint liteboat tho passengers and crew
wore getting ashore. Tho vessel ha.
~founlerei aud was sinking deeper an
deeper, and the one boat could not taS
the passengers very swiftly. A little CIR
siood on the. deck. waiting, for her tur'
to get into the boat. The boat came an
want - cam and went but her turi
did not seem to come. After awhii
she could wait no longer, and she leaps
on the taffrail and then sprang into IN
sea, crying to the boatman: "Save m
nextt save me next r. Oh, how many hay
gone ashore into Gods mercy, and yet yo'
are clinging to the wreck of SIM Other
have accepted the pardon OF Christ, but yo'
are In peril. Why not this morning make
rush for your immortal rescue, crying unit
Jesus shall hear you and heaven and cart
ring with the cry; Save me nexti Saw
me next ~ .
Waynesville, Pulaski County, No.
has only $50 people, but it is m of tb'
most intelligent and best read towns il
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