The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-09-08
THE KINGS GARDEN.
d.. Talmage Diseourses on Christ
and the Church.
Thr Oosi Beautiful Flowers and the
Best of Fruit-Nb. the saw
Tour Picks the ChoIc-
est First.
IcOpyrlght. lsO. BY Louis Klopseh,I

through the valleys Of Switzerland
il seems 10 have been prepared amid
the bloom and aroma Of "A garden
midsummer. The text is Song OF
Solomon 5:l: IL am come into my
garden"
The Bible is great poem. We have
In il faultless rhythm and bold mag
cry and startling antithesis and rap
furious lyric and sweet pastoral and
Instructive 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
barmODies in its rhythm. Everything
this Book touches il makes beautiful.
from the plain stones OF the summer
thrasbing floor to the daughters Of
Major filling the troughs for the
camels, from the fish pools of Iicshbon
up 10 the PSalmist prasing God with
diapa sOn Of storm and whirlwind and
Jobs imagery of Orion, Arcturus and
the Pleiades.
Ny text leads us into scene OF
summer redolencc. The world has had
"A great many beautiful gardens.
Charlemagne added to the glory of his
reign by dccrceing that they be es-
tablisbed All through the realm, de
Gliding even the names Of the flowers
To be- planted there. Henry ~. al
Montpelier established gardens Of be-
wi'rhiug beauty and luNuriauCe. gath.
eriug into them Alpine, Pyrcnean and
French plants. One of the sweetes,
spots on earth was the garden Of
Shenstpne, the poet. His writings
have made but little impress sion on
the world but his garden. the
'Lcasowes." will be- immortal To the
natural advantages Of that place was
brought the perfection of art. Arbor
and terrace and slope and rustic tenn
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 than
that Of Shenstone, and all that dill
pence and genius he brought TO the
adOrnment Of that one treasured spot
He gave E300 for il. He sold il for
several thousand. And yet am 10
tell you to-day Of richer garden
than any have mentioned. II is the
garden spoken Of in my TEXT the
garden Of the church which belongs
10 Christ, for my text says so. He
bought it, He planted it, He owns il.
and He shall have it. Walter Scott.
in his outlay at Abbotsford, ruined his
fortune. and now, in the crimson flow
crS of those gardens, you can almost
think or imagine that YOU see the
blood Of that old mans broken heart
The payment % The las- E:an.elc
sacrificed him. But have 20 lei. fo-
that Chri>t'S l..- AID ll-..-, t-s-h
were III" outlay ~ rhi. a-g,f13 oar
den 81 the Church 90 wru -F -r
tear and pancs AID asrT-s IT,
nv. We women who saw HIN .arE
me. We eNeCutiouers WHO lifted i Z.
and lc' Him down, Tel ne thou s-
that Gidst hide. We rocks that fer
"Christ loved the church and gay.
Himself for IT," II the garden of 'hr
church belongs 10 Christ certainly He
has right to walk in il. Come then.
q blessed Jesus. to-day Walk up and
down these nislcs and plsck what
ThOus wilt Of sweetness for Thy~elf.
The church in my text is appropri-
aicly compared to a garden. because
IL is a place of choice flowers. Of Sc
1rct fruits and OF thorough irrigation.
But | have not told you Of the
most beautiful flower in all this gar
den spoken of in the text. II YOU see
century plant, your emotions are
started. You say: why this flower
has been "A hundred years gathering
up for one bloom, and it will be a
hundred years more before other
petals will come out" But have 10
tell you of plant that was gather
ing up from all eternity and that
1900 years ago put forth its bloom
never 10 withcr. IL is the passion
plant Of the cross. Prophets fore.
told it, Bethlehem shepherds looked
upon IL in the bud. the rocks SHOOT;
nt, It's bursting and the dead got up
In their winding sheets TO see it's full
bloom. IL is "A crimson flower blood
NJ the roots, blood on the branches.
blood on the leaves. It's perfume is
fD fill all the nations. Its breath is
Heaven. Come, oh. winds from the
north and winds from the south and
winds from the east and winds from
the west. and bear to all the earth
the sweet smelling SAVIOR of Christ,
my Lord!
His worth II all the nations knew.
Sure the whole earth would love Him too
Again, the church may be appro.
priaiely compared 10 the garden. be-
cause il is place Of fruits That
would be a strange garden which had
In IL no berries. no plums or peaches
or opricots. The coarser fruits are
planted in the orchard or they are set
Out on the sunny hillside. But the