Kansas City daily journal., 1896-04-27
NEVER FEAR A DR0UTH.
"rHou SHALT BE LIKE A wArEREp
GARDEN"
That Il the Text From witch Dir.
TnimaEc Preached TO Wicked
Washington Ncstcrdny-Thc
Church n Place of Fruits.

/ la'i- NshfAl- MS NfNA was lCtAdH lFllt III
Thou shalt be like a watcred garden
The Bible is a great poem. We have in 81
faultless rhythm and bold imagery and
starting antithesis and rapturous lyric and
sweet pastoral ard instructive narrative
and devotional psalm; thoughts expressed
| in style more solemn than that OF Mont
geometry, more bold than that Of Milton
more terrible than that Of Dante, more
| natural than that Of Wordsworth, more
! imrassioned than that OF Pollock, more
tender than that Of Cowper, more weird
than that Of spenscr
This great poem brings all the gems OF
| the earth into its coronet. and it weaves
the flames Of judgment into its garlands
and pours eternal hdrmonies IN its rhythm
| Everything this Book touches II makes
beautiful from the plain stones OF tht
summer threshinC floor TO the daughters
from the fish pools Of Heshbon up TO th'
fsalmist praiSlug God with the d.Npason
of storm and whirlwlnd, and Jobs imagery
OF orion, Arcturus and the Ilciaaes.
My text leads us into scene OF summer
rcdolenpe. The world has had great
many beautiful gardens. Charlemaene adj
ded TO the glory Of his reign by decreeins
that they he established all through the
realm-deciding even the names ot the
flowers to be planted there; Henry ~. az
Montpelier, established gardens OF beWitch-
inC beauty and luNurianCe, gathering into
them Alpine, Pyrenean anu FRENCH plants.
one Of the sweetest spots on earth was the
garden OF Shenstone, the poet His writ
ings have made but little impression on
the world, but his Earden, The Leasowts,
Will be- immortal To the natural adNant-
age OF that place was brought the perfec-
tun Of art. Arbor and terrace aai slope
and rustic temple and reservoir and urn
and fountain here had their GROWING.
oak and yew and hazel put forth their
richest foliage. There was no life more
dillgent. no soul more ingenious. than that
OF Shenstone and all that diligence and
genius he brought to tho alornment of
that one treasured spot. He save 1850 for
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tell YOU to-day OF richer garden than
any | have mentioned. II is the garden
spoken of in my toNt. the garden of The
bought Il: lie planted it, He owns il, and
lie shall have IT, Walter scott. IN his out,
lay at Abbotsforl. ruined his fortune: and
now. in the crimson flowers OF those gar
dens, you can almost think or imagine
that YOU see the blood OF that old mans
fi,u.rO sacrificed him. But I have to tell
you that Christs lie and Christs death
were the outlay OF this beautiful garden Of
the church, of which my tcNt speaks. oh,
how many sighs and tears and pangs and
nEonies. Tcll me. - women who saw Him
Him and let linn down. Tell me thou sun
that dldst hide; ye rocks that fen christ
loved tho church and gave Himself for II.
Christ certainly He has right to walk
In IT, come. then. o. blessed Jesus, to-
uhNi Walk up anu loWn th'se AlsleS' anu
pluck what Thou wilt OF sweetness for Thy-
The church IN my text Is appropriately
compared to a garden. because Il IL the
OF thorough irrigation That would be a
strange garden In which there were no
along the borders or NJ the gateway. The
homcllcst taste VIII dictate something, II IL
dahli1. or dafrodil: mn n therc bo larger
means. then you Will nnl the Mexican cac-
tusi and blazing azalen. and clustering ole
den ana lie plants there some OF the bright
est spirits that ever lowered upon the
world. some Of them are vi1lets, incon-
to search and iui them. You do not see
them very often, perhaps, but you ma
face Of the invalid, and tho sprig OF gers-
mum on The stand, and the new window
curtains keeping out the glare of the sun
ranuneuus creeping swoctly along amid
the thorns and briars Of life giving kiss
in his Way some great black rock of troab. ii
IT,. has found that they have covered II
an over with nlwery Jasmine running in
N 'hrlsts garden an, not, ike the sun
Hover g5uIN zoo the light but wherever
be comiort"d there tbey stand. night.
blooming csreuses
But IN Chrisrs garden there are plants
that may be better compared to the 'MaNI-
san Cartus-thurus without l1velln,ss
within: men with sharp points OF Charac-
ter They wound almost everyone that
Men pronounce them nothing but ihorns.
but Christ loves thcm Notwithstanding all
their sharpuessr-. Many q man has had
very hard ground 90 cultivate. ana IL has
lnly been through severe trial h. has
raised even tho smallest crop OF grace. A
very harsh minister was talking 10 "A very
placid Elder aun the placid elder said 10
would control your temper" "Ah" saii |
he minister M the elder. II control more
temper In tive minutes than Won do in nye
years.
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