The Monitor-register., 1897-11-19

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ded profit.
! Mrs. Anna Ulrich, of Elm Greek, Buffalo
Co, Neb., writes 81 was under doctors care
for two years with uterine disease. l was so
weak that ] could sit up i'll bed only a few mo-
ments. I commenced taking DIR, Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription and when l had taken one
half dozen bottles I was up and going wherever
l pleased, and have been very strong ever since
that was two years and a half ago"
TIL only constipation that never
causes discomfort - DR.. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets. At all medicine stores.
passed into everlasting happiness, re-
ligion for this world is such a luxury
that no man or woman could afford to
do without it. Why was it that in the
parable Of the prodigal son the finger
ring was ordered put upon the returned
wanderers hand before the shoes were
ordered for his tired feet? Are not shoes
more important for u comfort than
finger rings? Oh, yes, but it was to i'm
press the world with the fact that reli-
gion is asluxury as we'll as a necessity.
"Put a ring on his hand and shoes on
his feet" Ii in sermonic or ex~hortatory
or social recommendations of religion
we put the chief emphasis on the fact
that for our safety we must have it
when the door of the next world is
opened, poor human nature will take
the risk and say. 81 will wait until the
door begins to open" But show them
the radiant truth, that the table of Gods
love and pardon is now laid with all
the fruits which the orchards of Gods
love and pardon and helpfulness can
supply. and they will come in and sit
down with all the other %banqueters,
| terrestrial and celestial. Oh, fetch on
the citrons, and the apples, and the
walnuts, and the p~omegranates of Solo,
mons orchard.
In Pilates b
But having introduced you to Adams
orchard and carried you awhile through
| Solomon's orchard, l want to take a
| walk with you through Pilates orchard
of three trees on a hill 20 feet high, ten
minutes walk from the gate of Jerusa-
lem. After | had read that our great
grandfather and great-grandmother had
been driven out of the first orchard, !
made up my mind that the Lord would
not be defeated in that way. | said to
myself that when they had been poi
soned by the fruit of that n tree,
where. somehow. there would be pro-
vided an antidote for the poison. ! said:
Where is the other tree that will undo
the work of that tree? Where is the
other orchard that will repair the dam
age received in the first orchard?' And
| read on Hntil | found the orchard and
its center tree as mighty for cure as this
u had been for ruin, n as the one
tree in Adam s orchard had its branches
laden with the red fruit of carnage, and
the pale fruit of suffering, aud the spot
ted fruit OF decay, and the bitter fruit
of disappointment. | found in Pilates
of all its leaves and struck through by
an iron bolt as long as your arm, never
theless bore the richest fruit that was
ever gathered. Like the trees of the first
orchard, this was planted, blossomed
and bore fruit all in one day.
Paul was impulsive and vehement of
nature, and he laid hold of that tree
with both arms and shook it till the
ground all round looked like an orchard
the morning after an autumnal equinox,
and, careful lest he step on some of the
fruit, gathered up a basketful of it for
the Galatians, crying out, "The fruit
of the Spirit is love. joy, peace, long
suffering, ~gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness, temperance. The other two
trees of Pilates orchard were loaded.
the one with the hard fruits of obduracy
and the other with the tender fruit of
repentance, but the center tree chow
will l ever forget the day 1 sat on the
exact place where it was planted)-the
center tree Of that orchard yields the
antidote for the poisoned nations. There
is in old England the hollow of a tree
where a king hid, and there is in New
England a tree in which a document of
national Importance was kept ~inviolate,
and there have been trees of great girth
and immense shade and vast wealth of
fruitage, but no other tree had such
value of Renaissance, OF depth of root,
or spread of branch, or infinitude of
fruitage as the center tree of Pilates
orchard. Before l pass this day from
under it l would like to drop on both
knees and with both hands outspread
and uplifted toward the heavens cry out
with all the nations of earth and heav-
en-: Il believe in God, the Father AL
mighty, Maker of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our
Lord, who was conceived by the Holy
Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffer-
/ p6 r1n6ar Pnnfiuc Di1afo xvac o1r1aifa1
dead and buried. He descended into
hell. The third day he rose from the
dead. He assembled into heaven and sit
teth on the right hand of God the Fa-
ther Almighty. From thence he shall
come to judge the quick and the dead
St. Johns Orchard.
Now, in this discourse of the pomolo
gy of the Bible, or God amid the or
chards, having shown you Adams or
chard and Solomon's orchard and Pi
late's orchard, 1 now take you into 81
Johns orchard, and / will stop there
for having seen that you will want Il
see nothing more. st. John himself
having seen that orchard, discharged E
whole volley of Comet Comet Come
and then pronounced the benediction
1.-THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be
with you all. Amen" Then the ban
ished evangelist closes the book, and
the Bible is done. The dear old book
opened with Adams orchard and clos,
with st. Johns orchard. st. John Went
into this orchard through a stone gate.
the black basalt of the isle of Patmos,
to which he had been exiled. That or
chard which he saw was and is in heav
en-.
One person will err in speaking of
heaven as all material, and another per
son describes heaven as all figuratlye
and spiritual, and both are wrong
Heaven is both material and spiritual.
as we are both material and spiritual
While much of the Bible account of
heaven is to be taken figuratiyely and
spiritually, it is plain to me that heaven
has also a material existence. Christ
said. II go to prepare a place for you