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


fruit, gathered up n basketful oft 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 obdura-
cy. and the other with the tender fruit
OF repentance, but the center tree chow
will ever forget the day sat on the
exact place where it was plantedD-
the center tree of that orchard
yields the antidote for the poisoned
nations. There is in old England
the hollow OF tree where king hid
and there is in New England tree in
which document of national impor-
lance was kept inviolate; and there
have been trees of great girth and inn
mense shade and vast wealth of fruit
age, but no other tree had such value
of Renaissance, or 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 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 Heaven: II
believe in God, the Father Almighty,
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, suffered un-
der Pontius Plate. was crucitied. dead,
and buried. He descended into hell.
The third day He rose from the dead.
He assembled into Heaven, and stitch
on the right hand of God, the Father
Almighty. From thence He shall come
to judge the quick and the dead"
Now, in this discourse of the Pomol-
ogy Of the Bible, or God amid the
orchards, having shown you Adams
orchard, and Solomon's orchard, and
| Pilates orchard, now take you into
st. Johns orchard; and l will stop
there, for having seen that, you will
want to see nothing more. st. John
himself. having seen that orchard, dis
charged whole volume of Gomez
| Come. Come! and then pronounced
the benediction: "The grace OF
Our Lord Jesus Christ be with
you all. Amen" Then the banished
|
bic is done. The dear old book opened
with Adams orchard and closes with
! ST. Johns orchard. ST. John went
into this orchard through stone gate,
the black basalt of the Isle of Patmos
to which he had been exiled. That
orchard which he saw was and is in
Heaven. One person will err in speak
ing of Heaven as all material, and an
other person describes Heaven as all
! figurative and spiritual, and both
are wrong. Heaven is both ma
terial and spiritual, as we are
both material and spiritual. While
much of the Bible account of Heaven
is to be taken fguratively and spirit
ually, it is plain to me that Heaven has
also material existence. Christ said:
Il go to prepare place for YOU Is
not place material? God, who has
done all the world building, the statis-
tics of stars SO vast as to be a bewilder-
ment to telescopes, could have some
where in His astronomy piled up
tremendous world to make the Bible
HEAVIER true, both as q material
splendor and a spiritual domain.
While there is enough of the pomp
of the city about Heaven for those who
like the city best, l thank God there is
enough in the Bible about country
scenery in Heaven to please those of
us who were born in the country and
never got over it. Now, you may have
streets of gold in Heaven; give me the
orchards, with twelve manner of fruits,
and yielding their fruit every month,
and the leaves of the trees are for the
healing of the nations; and there shall
be no more curse, but the throne of
God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and
His servants shall serve Him; and they
shall see His face, and His name shall
be in their foreheads; and there shall
be no night there, and they need
no candle, neither light of the
4 sun, for the Lord God Siveth
them light; and they shall
reign for ever and ever" But just
think of place so brilliant that the
MONDAY sun shall be removed from
the mantle of the sky because it is too
feeble "a taper! Yet, most of all, am l
impressed with the fact that am not
yet fit for that place. nor you either.
BY the reconstructing and sanctifying
grace of Christ we need to be made all
over. And letus be getting our passports
ready If we want to get into that coun-
try. An earthly passport is a personal
matter, ling our height, our girth,
the color of our hair, our features, our
complexion(and our age. l can not get
into a foreign port on your passport,
nor can you get in on mine. Each one
of us for himself needs divine sigma
ture, written by the wounded hand of
the Son of God to get into the Heavenly
orchard, under the laden branches OF
which. in Gods good time, we may
meet the Adam of the first orchard,
and the Solomon of the second orch
ard, and the st. John of the last orch
ard, to sit down under the tree of which
the church in the Book OF CanticIes
speaks when it says: AS the apple tree
among the trees of the wood, SO is my
beloved among the sons. l sal
down under His shadow with
great delight and His fruit was