The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-07
THE KINGS GARDEN.
DR.. Talmage Discourses on Christ
and the Church.
The Most Beautiful Flowers and the
Best of Fruit-Why the Saw
iour Picks the Choice
est First.
copyright, 1900 by Louis Klopsch.1
Washington, Sept. .

IL seems TO nave been prepared dTnlu
the bloom and aroma of garden
midsummer. The text is Song OF
Solomon 5:1: 81 am come into my
garden"
The Bible is a great poem. We have
in il faultless rhythm and bold mag
cry and startling antithesis and rap
furious lyric and sweet pastoral and
obstructive narrative and devotional
psalm; thoughts expressed in style
more solemn than that of Montgom-
cry, more bold than that of Milton,
more terrible than that of Dante,
more natural than that of Words
worth, more imprisoned than that of
Pollok. more tender than that of
Cowper. more weird than that of
Spenser This great poem brings all
the gems of the earth into its coronet,
and il weayes the flames of judgment
into its garlands and pours eternal
harmonies in its rhythm. Everything
this Book touches it makes beautiful,
from the plain stones OF the summer
thrashing floor TO the daughters of
Major filing the troughs for the
camels. from the fish pools of Heshbon
up to the Psalmst praising God with
diapason of storm and whirlwind and
Jobs imagery of Orion, Arcturus and
the Pleiades.
My text leads MS into a scene of
summer redolence The world has had
great many beautiful gardens.
Charlemagne added to the glory of his
reign by decrecing that they he es-
AL Eel Il 41,s.gtrrrh 40 "a Inn, do
Gliding even the rames of the flowers
10 be planted there. Henry ". at
Montpelier established gardens of be-
witching beauty and Insurance, gath
ering into them Alpine. Pyrenean and
French plants. One of the sweetest
spots on earth was the garden of
Shenstone, the poet. His writings
have made but little impression on
the world, but his garden, the
"Leasowes." will he immortal. To the
natural advantages of that place was
brought the perfection of art. Arbor
and terrace and slope and rustic tenn
pie and reservoir and urn and fountain
here had their browning. Oak and
view and hazel put forth their richest
foliage. There was no life more dill.
gent, no soul more ingenious thar
that of Shenstone, and all that dill
gence and genius he brought to the
adornment of that one treasured spot
He gave e3cO for it. He sold it foi
several thousand. And vet | am tC
tell you to-day of a richer garden
than any have mentioned. 1t is the
garden spoken of in my teXt-th,
garden Of the church, which belongs
to Christ. for my test says so. III
bought IT, He planted il. He owns il
and He shall have IL. Walter Scott
in his outlay at Abootsford. ruined hi
fortune, and now. in the crimson flow
ers OF those gardens You can Amos
think or imagine that you see IN
blood OF that OLD mans broken heari
The payment OF the last FIOV0o
sacrlhced NM hut nave 10 tel yo
that Christ S NE ana IhrlstS deaf
were the outlay OF TINS beautiful gar
den OF the church. OF which my tex
speaks On now many sighS an
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