The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-09-06
|TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A TALK FULL OF THE SUMMER
SPIRIT.
nGo Forth Unto the Mount ana Fe'eh
olive Branches and Pine Branches an"
MYRTLE Branches and Palm branches

downright, 1901 by Louis Klopsch. N. VI
Washington, Sept. This discourse
of Dr.. Talmage is full OF the breath OF
the hills and fields and Is summer
sermon: text. Nehemiah viii, 10, go
forth unto the mount and fetch ollVe
branches and pine branches anu
MYRTLE branches and palm branches
and branches of thick trees to make
booths"
II seems as If Mount Olivet were I'M
moored. The people have gone INTO
the mountain and have cut OH tree
branches and put them on their shoui-
ders. and they come forth now INTO
the streets of Jerusalem and on the
house tops, and they twist these tree
branches into arbors or booths. linen
the people come forth from their COM
Portable homes and dwell for seven
DAYS in these booths or arbors. why
do they do that? Well, 1t is great
festal time. It is the feast OF taper-
nacles. and these people are going u
celebrate the desert travel OF their
fathers and their deliverance from
their troubles, the experience or thelr
fathers when, travelling in the DESERT
they lived in booths on their way u
the land of Canaan. And so these
booths also became highly suggestive
I will not say they are necessarily
typical, but highly suggestive-of our
march toward heaven and of the fac'
that we are only living Temporarily
here, as it were, in booths or arpors
on our way to the Canaan OF eternal
rest. And what was said to the jews
literally may be said figuratively u
all this audience. Go forth unto Tue
mountain and fetch olive branches anu
pine banches and myrtle branches
and palm branches and branches OF
thick trees to make booths.
We Need Olive branches.
Now. if we are today going to sue
coed in building this gospel arbor We
must go into the mount OF Goa
blessing and fetch the olive branches
and whatever else we must have We
must have at least two olive branches
neace with God and peace with man
When I say peace with God, l do no
mean to represent God as an angry
chieftain. having a grudge against us
but T do mean to affirm that there Il
no more antagonism between houn'
and a hare, between a hawk and
pullet, between elephant and swine
than there is hostility between holl
ness and sin. And if God is all holl
ness and we are all sin there must b
a treaty, there must be stretching
forth of olive branches.
There is a great lawsuit going o.
now. and it is lawsuit which man l
bringing against his Maker. That law
suit is now on the calendar. 1t is TN
human versus the divine, it is in1qult.
versus the imaculate, it is weakness
versus omnipotence. Man began 1t
God did not begin the lawsuit. We be
gan it. We assaulted our Maker. ant
the sooner we end this part of tn
struggle. in which the finite attempt
to overthrow the infinite and omnlpo
tent-the sooner we end it the better
Travellers tell us there is no such plac
as Mount Calvary, that 1t is only
hill. only an insignificant hill, but
persist in calling it the mount of God
divine mercy and love far grande
than any other place on earth, grande
than the Alps or the Himalayas, ant
there are no other hills as compared
with it. and / have noticed in ever.
sect where the cross of Christ is Sc
forth it is planted with olive branches
And all we have to do is to get rid o
this war between God and ourselves
of which we are all tired. We wan
TO back out of the war; we want t
get rid of this hostility. All we hav
to do is just to get up on the noun
of Gods blessing and pluck these div
branches and wave them before tn
throne. Peace through our Lord Jesu
Christ!
Health for Mind and Soul.
But my text goes further. 1t says
$50 up into the mountain and fetcl
olive branches and pine branches
Now, what is suggested by the pin
branch? The pine tree is healthy, /
is aromatic, it is evergreen. How
often the physician says to his invalid
patients: go and have breath o
the pines. That will invigorate you.
Why do such thousands of people g
south every year? 1t is not merely t.
go to a warmer climate, but to get tn
Influence of the pine. There is healtl
in it, and this pine branch of the tex
suggests the helpfulness of our hol,
religion. 1t is full of health-healtl
for all, health for the mind, health TO
the soul. l knew an aged man witt
had no capital of physical health. H
| had had all the diseases you could i'm
agine. He did not eat enough to keel
a child alive. He lived on a beverag
of hosannas. He lived high, for b.
dined every day with the King. H
was kept alive simply by the force o
our holy religion. It is healthy re
| ligion-healthy for the eye. health,