The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-11-27


of quadrupeds and all kinds of winged
creatures passed before our progenitor
that He might announce a name, from
eagle to bat, and from lion to mole, &C
suppose there were in paradise speci'
mems of every kind of fruit tree. And
in that enormous orchard there was
not only enough for the original fam
lily of two, but enough fruit fell ripe
to the ground, and was never picked
up, to supply whole towns and viii
lagos, il they had existed. But the
infatuated couple turned away from
all these other trees and faced this
tree; and fruit of that they will have
though it cost them all paradise.
The story Of Eden is rejected by
some as an improbability, if not an I'M
possibility, but nothing on earth is
easier for me to believe than the truth
of this Edenic story, for 1 have seen
the same thing in this year of our
Lord, 1897. could call them by name,
il it were polite and righteous TO do
so, the men who have sacrificed para
disc on. earth and paradise in Heaven
for one sin. Their house went. Their
went. Their field of usefulness went.
Their health went. Their immor-
tai soul went. My friends! there is
just one sin that will turn you out of
paradise if you do not quit it. You
know what it is, and God knows, and
you had better drop the hand and arm
lifted toward that bending bough be-
fore you pluck your own ruin. When
Adam stood on tiptoe and took in his
right hand that one round peach, or
apricot, or applet Satan reached up
and pulled down the round, beau tiful
world of our present-residence. Over
worked artist, overweight merchant,
ambitious politician, avaricious specu-
lator, better take that warning from
Adams orchard and stop before you
put out for that one. thing more.
But turn from Adams orchard to
Solomon's orchard. With his own
hand he writes: Il made me gardens
and orchards" Not depending upon
the natural fall Of rain, he irrigated
those orchards. Pieces of the aque-
duct that watered those gardens have
seen, and the reservoirs are as perfect
as when thousands of years ago the
lnasons trowel smoothed the mortar
over their gray surfaces No orchard
of olden or modern time, probably,
ever had its thirst SO well slalSed. The
largest of these reservoirs is 5S2 feet
long, 207 feet wide and SO feet deep.
These reservoirs Solomon refers to
when he says: II made me pools of
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wood that bringeth forth trees"
Solomon used to ride out
to that orchard before break fast. 1t
gave him an appetite and something to
think about all the day, Josephns, the
historian, represented him as going
out early in the morning from Jeru-
salem to the famed rocks of Etam, a
| fertile region, delightful with para
discs and running springs. Thither
the king, in robes of white, rode in his
chariot escorted by u troop of mounted
archers, chosen for their youth and
statue, and clad in Tyrian purple,
whose long hair, powdered with gold
dust, sparlsled in the sun" After
Solomon had taken his morning ride
in these luxurious orchards he would
sit down and write those wonderful
things in the Bible, drawing his illus
tratiofs from the fruits he had that
very morning plucked or ridden
under. And, wishing to praise the
coming Christ he says: las the apple
tree among the trees of the wood, SO is
my beloved" And wishing to describe
tie love of the church for her Lord, he
writes: Comfort me with apples, for
l am sick of love-" and desiring to
make reference to the white hair OF
the octogenarian, and just before hav-
ing noticed that the blossoms OF the
almond trees we're white, he says OF
the aged man: THE almond tree shall
flourish" The walnuts and the pome-
granates, and the mandralies, and the
figs make Solomon's writings divine
ly arranged fruit basket.
An old and poor musician played SC
well one night before his king that the
next morning when the musician
awoke he found his table covered with
golden cups and plates, and princely
robe lying across the back of chair
and richly -caparisoned horses were
paving at the doorway to take him
through the street in imposing equip
page. 1t was only Il touch of wha'
comes to every man who makes til,
Lord his portion, for he has waiting
for him, direct from his King
robes, banquets. chariots, mansions,
triuDphs, aud it is only question of
time when he shall wear the IN, drinl
them, ride in them, live in them, anG
celebrate them.
But having introduced you to Adam.
orchard and carried you awhil,
through Solomon's orchard, l want t
take walk with you through Plate
orchard of three Trees on hill 20 fee
high, ten minutes walk from the gat
of Jerusalem. After i had read tina
our great-grandfathe and great-grand
mother had been driven out of TIN
first orchard, made up my mind tina
the Lord would not be defeated in tha
way. / said to myself that when the.
had been poisoned by the fruit Of thu
one tree, somewhere, somehow, Their
would be provided an lantidote for tn
poison. / said: Where is the othe