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another garden path, and he comes 10
svui III ,.oaDiu unu says: "Peacel All Is
we'll. l have seen thy tears. have heard
thy prayer. Tho sun shall not smite thee
by day nor the moon by night Tho Lord
shall preserve thee from all evil; he will
preserve thy soul. Courage, o troubled
spiritp'
Then see Jesus going up another gar
den path, and l SEQ great excitement
among the leaves and l hasten up that
garden path to SEQ what Jesus is doing
there, and, loi he Is breaking off flowers,
sharp and clean, from tho stem, and say
"Stop, Jesus; dent kill those beautiful
flowers He turns to me and says, II
have come into my garden to gather lilies
and l mean to take these up to higher
terrace, for the garden around my palace
and there will plant them, and in better
soil and in better air thoy shall put forth
brighter leaves and swooter redolence, and
no frost shall touch them forever" And
looked up into his face and said: "Woll,
1t is his garden, and no has right to do
what he will with It. Thy will be DONE
tho hardest prayer over man made
1t has seemed as II Jesus Christ took the
best. From many of your households the
best ono is gone. You know that she was
too good for this world; she was tho gen
tlest in her ways, the deepest in her affoc-
tions, and when at last tho sickness came
you had no faith in medicines. You knew
that tho hour Of parting had come, and
when, through tho rich grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ, you surrendered that treas
ure you said Lord Jesus, tako 1t. 1t is
the best we have; take 1t. Thou art wor-
thyi' The others in the household may
have been of grosser mold. She was of the
finest
Tho heaven Of your littlo ones will not
be fairly begun until you get there. All
the kipdnosses shown them by immortals
will not make them forget you. There
they are, tho radiant throngs that went
out from your homes. throw kiss to tho
sweet darlings. They ore all well now in
the palace. The crippled child has sound
foot now. little lame child says MIA,
will DO lame in heaven?' "No, my dar-
ling; you won't be lamo in heaven" A
little sick child says, MA, will l be sick
IN hcavenT mo, my dear; you won't
bo sick in heavon..' A little blind child
says, Ma, will / be blind in heavenf"
mo- my dear; you won't be blind in
heaven. They are all well there"
notice that the fine gardens sometimes
have high fences around them and you
cannot get in. 1t is so with a kings gar
den. The only glimpse you ever got Of
such garden is when the king rides out
In his splendid carriage. 1t is not 30 with
this garden, this Kings garden. l throw
wide open tho gate and tell you all to come
in. No mosupoly in religion. Whosoever
will, may. Choose now between desert
and garden. Many of you have tried the
garden of this worlds delight. You have
hp hpu ri ca
with Theodore Hook. He made all the
world laugh. He makes us laugh now
when we read his poems, but ho could not
make his own heart laugh While in the
midst of his festivities he confronted a
looking glass, and no saw himself and
said: There, that is truol I look just as
am-done up in body, mind and purse"
So IL was of Shenstono, of whose garden 1
told you at tho beginning of my sermon.
He sat down amid those bowers and said:
~ have lost my road to happiness. am
angry and envious and frantic and despise
everything around me, just as 1t becomes o
mailman to do"
Heartsease.
Oye weary souls, come into Christs
garden today and pluck a little heartseaso.
Christ Is the only rest and the only pardon
Il
your chance has almost come? You mon
and women who have been waiting year
after year for some good opportunity in
which to accept Christ, but have post
poned 1t 8, 10, 20, 30 years, do you not feel
as If now your hour OF deliverance and
| pardon and salvation had come? o man,
| what grudge hast thou against thy poor
soul that thou wilt not let 1t be saved? l
feel us IL salvation must come today in
| some Of your hearts.
Some years ago n vessel struck on the
rocks. They had only one lifeboat. In
that lifeboat the passengers and crow were
getting ashore. The vessel had foundered
and was sinking deeper and deeper, and
that one boat could not take the passengers
very swiftly. A little girl stood ON the
deck waiting for her turn to got into the
| boat. The boat came and went, came and
| went, but hr- turn did not seem to come.
| After awhile she could walt no longer, and
she leaped on the tatfrail and then sprang
into the sea- crying to the boatman: Save
Inc next Save mo nextP' Oh, how
many have Como ashore into Gods mercy,
and yet you are clinging to the wreck OF
SIM Others have accepted the pardon of
Christ, but you are in peril Why not
this moment make u rush for your i'm
mortal rescue, crying until Jesus shall
hear you and heaven and earth ring with
tho cry: Save mo next Save me next"
Now is the day Of salvation! Now! Now
This Sabbath is the last for some of you.
1t Is about to sail away forever Her bell
tolls. Tho planks thunder back in tho
gangway. She shoves OIL. She floats out
toward the great ocean Of eternity. Wave
farewell to your last chance for heaven.
"Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often
would have gathered thee as a hen gath
ereth her brood under her wings, and ye
would not Behold your house Is left unto
you desolate" Invited to revel in gar
den, yon die in q desertl May God AL
mighty, before it is too late, break that
infatuatior
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