Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-09-19
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject Religion is Evergreen-The Olive
Branch of Peace. the Pine Branch of
Consolation, the Palm Branch of Use
fulness and VictOry-The Gospel ArbOr
Copyright 1901.

| Consolation, the Palm Branch OF USE
fulness and Victory-The Gospel Arbor
Copyright 1901.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-This discourse of
DR.. Talmage is full of the breath of the
hills and fields and is a summer sermon; ;
text, Nehemiah. viii, Is. ''Go forth unto
the mountain and fetch olive branches
and palm branches and branches of thick
trees to make booths"
1t seems as if Mount Oivet were un-
moored. The people have gone into the
mountain and have cut off tree branches
and put them on their shoulders and they
come forth now into the streets of Jeru-
salem and on the housetops and they
twist these tree branches into arbors or
booths. Then the people come forth from
their comfortable homes and dwell for
seven days in these booths or arbors.
Why do they do that? Well. it is a great
fastal time. 1t is the feast of tabernacles,
and these people are going to celebrate
the desert travel of their fathers and their
deliverance from their troubles. the expe-
rience of their fathers when, travelling in
the desert, they lived in booths on their
way to the land of Canaan. And so these
booths also became highly suggestve-of
our march toward heaven and of the fact
that we are only living temporarily here,
as it were, in booths or arbors, on our
way to the Canaan of eternal rest. And
what was said to the Jews literally may
be said fguratively to all this audience.
Go forth into the mountain and fetch
! olive branches and pine branches and
myrtle branches and palm branches and
branches of thick trees to make booths.
Yes, we are only here in temporary
residence. we are marching on; Inc
merchant princes VINO used TO i've IN
Bowling Green. New York, have passed
away, and their residences are now the
fields of cheap merchants. Where are
the men who fifty years ago owned Wash
!ngton and New Y 1ork! Passed on. There
Is no use IN our drlVlhg our STAKES TOO
deep INTO the earth; we are on the march.
Inc generations that nave preceded us
| nave gone so far on that we cannot even
near the SOUND OF their footsteps. 1hey
nave gone over the nils, ana we are TO
loloW tnem.
but, blessed be GOD, we are not IN TINS
world lett out OF doors ana unsheltered
| There are gospel booths or gospel arbors
IN winch our souls are to be comtorted.
10 forth unto the mountain and fetch
olve branches, ana pine branches, and
! myrtle brancnes, ana palm branches and
branches OF thick trees and build booths.
wen, now, we are to-day to construct
| gospel arbor or gospel booth, and how
shall we construct 1T! Wen, we must
get all the tree branches and build. Ac-
! cordlng TO my text, we must go up INTO
! the mount and bring olive branches. What
does that mean! lhe olive tree, grows IN
/ warm climates and 1t reaches the height
OF twenty or twenty-five feet' a straight
stem. and then an oftshoot from that stem;
ANA then people come and they strip oil
tnese nranches sometimes, ana When III
time OF war the general OF one army takes
! one OF these olive branches and goes out
! to the general OF another army, what does
that mean! why, 1T means unsaddle the
war chargers: 1t means hang up the war
| knapsacks. 1t Is but beautiful way OF
saying peace.
Now, II we are to-day going to succeed
IN building this gospel aroor we must go
INTO the mount OF Gods blessing and fetch
the olive branches, and whatever else we
: must have we must have at least two olive
branches.peaee with God and peace with
man. When / say peace with God, L do
not mean to represent God as an angry
ehleftaln having grudge against us, but
90 mean 10 aflrm that there Is no more
antagonsm between hound and hare,
between a hawk and puiIet, between .:l ele-
phant ana SWINE than there Is hostility
between holiness and SIN.
! Ana II God rs all holiness and we are all
s1n there must be readJustment, there
must be reconstruction, there must be
treaty, there must be stretching forth
OF olive branches.
There Is great lawsuit gong on now,
and 1t IS a lawsuit which man is bringing
| against ms Maker; that lawsuit Is now on
| the calendar 1t Is the human versus the
! divine; 1t Is inlquty versus the lmmacu-
late; 1t Is weakness versus omnlpotence.
Man began 1t; God did not begin the law
suit. we began 1t; we assaulted our Ma
ker, and the sooner we end this part of
| the struggle IN which the finite attempts
to overthrow the infinite and omnipotent
the sooner we end it the better. Tray
! elers tells us there Is no such place as
Mount calvary; that 1t Is only hill, only
an insignificant hull, but | persist in calling
| IT the mount of Gods divine mercy and
! love: far grander than any other place on
| earth, grander than the Alps or the Hi
maiayas, and there are no other hills as
compared with it; and | have noticed in
| every sect where the cross of Christ is set
| forth it is planted with olive branches
=, And all we have to do is to get rid of
! this war between God and ourselves, of
which we are all tired. We want to back
out Of the war; we want to get rid of this
! hostility. All we have to do is just to get
up on the mount of Gods blessing and
pluck these olive branches and wave them
before the throne. Peace through our
| Lord Jesus Christi
| Oh IL does nor mako much III