The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-09-13
"A SUMMER SERMON.
Discourse Full Of the Breath 81
Hills and Fields.
DR.. TaImage Applies His Text to the
World tn Which Wc Live--The
Need of Olive branches In
sN Every Day Lifc.

#M Every Dny Lifo. I3
Copyright. 1901, by Louis Illopsch, NJ XII
Washington, Sept. L.
IMs discourse Of DR.. Talmage In
1ull Of tho breath Of the hills and
Aelus ana Is summer sermon: text,
Nehemiah viii, It, $50 forth unto tlio
mount and fetch olive branches and
| plno branches and myrtle branches
and palm branches and branches Of
thick trees to mako booths"
1t seems as if Mount Oliyet were
unmoored. The people have gone in
TO the mountain and have cut of
tree branches and put them on their
shoulders, and they come forth now
into tho streets Of Jerusalem and Oh
the house tops, and they twist these
tree branches into arbors or booths.
Then the people como forth from
their comfortable homes and dwell
for seven days in these booths or
arbors. Why do they do that? Well,
| IT Is great festal time. 1t is tho
| feast of tabcrnaclcs, and these peo-
| plo are going to celebrate the desert
| travel Of their fathers and their de-
| live1anco from their troubles, tho cx-
| periencc Of their fathers when, travel
ing in the desert, they lived in booths
on their way. to tho land Of Canaan.
And SO these booths also became high
ly suggestiyo-I will not sny they are
necessarily typical, but highly sug-
| gestivc-of our march toward Heaven
and Of tho fact that we are only liv-
Ing temporarily here, as 1t wcro. in
booths or arbors, on our way to tho
Canaan Of eternal rest. And what
was said to the Jews literally may
be said ngurativcly to oil this au-
dlenco. Go forth unto tho mountain
and fetch olive branches and pino
branches and myrtle branches and
i palm branches and branches off thick
| trees to make booths. .
Yes, we arc only here In tenn
porary residence. We are marching
on. The merchant princes who used
| to live In Bowling Green, New York.
dences are now tho fields Of cheap
merchants. Where arc the mon who
80 years ego owned Washington and
New York? Passed on. There is no
use in our driving our stakes too
deep into the earth; we are on tho
march. The generations that have,
preceded us hago gone so far on thai
wo cannot oven hear tho sound o1
their footsteps. Thoy have gone
over the hill, and we are to follow
them. But, blessed be God, we are
not in this world left out Of doors
and unsheltered. There are Gospel
| booths or Gospel arbors in which our
souls are to be coinforted. Go forth
unto the mountain and fetch olive
branches and pine branches and
myrtle branches and palm branches
and branches Of thick trees and build
booths.
Well, now we al3, ready to construct
n Gospel arbor or Gospel booth, land
how shall we construct it2 NV ,agwe
must Get all tho tree branches end
build. According to my text Ewo
must GO up into the moupt and
bring olive branches as q los
that mean? Tho olive Stro Ss5 va
In warm yclim tes, Z and Is 4 Ne
height Of 20 4 or 90 a \ d 81
stem and thon an offsh otl fl on that
stem. And then people coms, Md
they strip or these branches "a ople-i
times, and when In time of war tie
general of one army takes one iof
these olive branches and goes out 20
the general Of another army, what
does that mean? Why, 1t means un-
saddle tho war chargers. It means
hang UP the war knapsaclss. IT is but
q beautiful way Of saying, Peacei
| Now. If we are to-day going to
succeed In building this Gospel arbor
we must go into the mount OF God's
blessing and fetch the olive branches,
and whatever olse we must have we
| must have at least two olive
branches. peace with God and peaoe
with man. When say pence with
God, do not mean to represent God
as on angry chieftain, having q
grudge against us. but do mean TO
nfarm that thero Is no moro antng-
onisn between q hound and hare,
between hawk and O pullot, be-
tween elephant and swine, than there
Us hostility between holiness and sin.
And II God 10 all holiness and we are
oil sin there must bo a treaty, there
must be stretching forth Of olive
| branches.
There Is q great lawsuit going ON
now, and It Is lawsuit which man is
bringing against his Maker. That
lawsuit is now on the calendar. TIL
the human versus the Divine, it Is ini.
quity versus the immaculate, 1t 10
weakness versus omnipotence. Man
began 1t. God did not begin the law
suit. We began it. We assaulted our
Maker, and the sooner we end this
part Of the struggle, in which tho
finite attempts to overthrow the in
finite and omnipotent--the sooner we
end It the better. Travellers tell Sus
there is no such place as Mount
Calvary, that it is only a hill, only an
insignificant hill, but I persist in
| ceUing 1t the mount Of Gods divine
mercy ana love, far grander than
any other place on earth, grander
than the Alps or the IIimalayas, and
there are no other hills MS compared
| with 1t, and ! have noticed in every
sect where tho GROSS Of Chriss Is set
forth it is planted with olive
branches. And MI wo have to do is
to get rid Of this. war between God
and ourselves, Of which we are all
tired. Wo want to back ont Of the
war, we want to got rid Of this hos.
tllity. All we hays to do is just to
| get up on the mount OF Gods bless
ing and pluck these olive branches
onoountoring 10 humsn being or eight.
ing sail.