The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-08
DR. TALMAGE's' SERMON.

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 ,; Talmage Is full Of the breath of the
 ns and fields and Is a summef sermors fhe mosntain an and fetch siiyes S % srancass Sass v en9 pine branches and. myrtle sbfanches and palm branches and branches of thick trees to make booths" It seems as if Mount Oliver were un- pored The people have gone into the mountain end have cut on tree branches And put them on their shoulders, and gaey come forth now into the streets of jerusalem and on the housetops. and they swlst these tree branches into arbors or Rooths. Then the people come forth from seven days in these booths or arbors. Why do they do that? We'll, 1t is salgreat festal time. It Is the feast of taber-
 te he aao of s and their deliverance from their troubles. the experience of their fathers when Sooths on 't their ne way to the land sp of caa M paan. Ana so these booths alsas became Highly suggestive--I win not say they are
 r typssb Isb ss hshy beas Ss @ the fact that we are only living tenn poraIily here. as it were. in booths or arbors; on our way to the Canaan of Jews literally may be said figurativeiy to all this audience. Go forth into the smountain and fetch olive branches and palm branches and branches . of thick trees to make booths.
 Yes. we are only here in a temporary residence. We are marching on; The Bowling Green. New York, have passed away, and their residences are now the aelds of cheap merchants. Where are iaston and New YorkY Passed ofi. There n no use In our driving our stakes too 4eep into the earth: we are on the march. The generations that have preceded us have gone so far on that we cannot even hear the sound of their footsteps. They have gone over the hills, and we are to hot in this world left out of doors and pnsheltered. There are gospel booths or gospel arbors in which our souls are to tain and fetch olive branches. and zine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches and branches of thick trees and
 Wen, now. we are today. to construct q gospel arbor or gospel booth. and how sihar we construct ft2 Well, we must get all the tree branches and build , Az. the mount and bring eIive MSs d,Isn branches hes grows in warm climates and it reaches stem, and then an offshoot from that stem. And then people come and they strip of these branches sometimes. and
 
 Army takes one of these olive branches end goes out to the general of another , army, what does that mean? Why. it means unsaddlc the war; chargers: lt' means hang up the war knapsacks. It Is but beautiful way of saying. Peace! 9
 Peace with God, Peace with Man. q
 Now, if we are today going to succeed in building this gospel arbor we must 20 into the mount of Gods blessing and fetch the olive branches, and whatever VI have , two. olive branches-peace with God and peace with man. When l say peace with
 God do not to hs1ns ar1ds Against us. but do mean to affirm that there. is no more antagonism between 2 hound and q hare, between a hawk ano than there is hostility between holiness and sin And if God is all holiness and we are all sin there must be a readJust- fnent. there must be a reconstrucLion. there must be a treaty. there must be Stretching forth of olive branches.
 There Is a great lawsuit going on now. ing against his Maker; that lawsuit Is how on the calendar. It Is the human versus the divine: It Is iniquity versus cniSfpcftnce Man began it. God did not begin the law "uit. We began 1t; we as. Aaulttd our Maker, and the sooner we end thi: part Of the Sa strvSg,S m ihe ~ infinite q ssnds samnlpptent-the sooner we ienq U .il,s Lns sEketter Travellers tell us there fs no sucn place as Mount Calvary; that It IS only z hill only an ms ignificant hill. but l per p 1sst in calling 1t the mount ot Gods divine ii5ercv and love. far grander than any hother place on earth. grandsr .Lsn tnsn are are kno ether hills as compared with It; ana G have noticed fin every sect where ,;nS ;tns eroFs of chrtst is set forth 1t IS 3 ptaEhsso ,,o
 n do is to get rid of this war between si, Fscd and ourselves of which we are all ired. We want to back out ,tIitv oi the "s Ali Ne have to do Is just to get up on tne |%nount of Gods blessing ana ptuSsh pse .ehesS tto s0iive branches and wave them peIor9 .ne shrcne. Peace through our Loru 'es"S Rph, 1t does not make much difference what the world thinks of you; B11s come .nS kasrlastina relationship with the God Of EH6 whole universe: that is the lox lS tnat kaskes halleluiah seem sturid. MnE uo
 Tant sIH. tS ebrst haye vSy if hd we had gone 5n in 10000 years of war against goo we Eoud not have captured go nlucn 3s a
 CT oayslry SsH! of sfFnp tne chariot gr of his pmnipotence, but the moment we urns EhiB olive branch God and all heaven %ms 'orS Jesus ns S"t christ and no other kind Of EDeace is worth anything.
 # Gunpowder Christians. N But then we mus thave that other olive kbranch-peace with man: Now. 1t Is very Sowderv Christians all around us. and Bne match of provocation will set them ken It is easy enough to get up f,uarreL But, my brother, do you not khink you had better have your horns EAved of? Had not you better make an tapology? Had not you b, tier submit to kil that man takes the first step I will Eever be at peace with him! Nothing will